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  • TW: The National Hurricane Center has new forecasters signing updates. It disconcerts me. #NHC #weathergeek
  • TW: This is the last time I will ever take boy child to school. I am threatening to take pictures. Real last day of school: Thurs.
    High school?
    from writingdianet on May 18, 2012 @ 7:15 am
     @writingdianet  Yes. His real last day of high school is Thursday but I will be out of town.
    from TW on May 18, 2012 @ 7:46 am
    Oh! My Gosh! I can't even imagine that day! I would be a bucketful of tears.
    from victorias_view on May 18, 2012 @ 8:16 am
  • TW: My mother is gushing about how wonderful the Internet is so she can see Johnny Mac Pippin right away. #grandma #greatgrandma
    Awww! It really is a great way to share with family so far away :)
    from victorias_view on May 17, 2012 @ 6:38 pm
  • TW: Everyone is asking about grandma names. I have no idea. I would love to know how grandma naming has worked in your family
    Charlie chose my dad's name. We kept saying Grandpa and he kept saying Poppa. So Poppa it is. On my side we had a Mama, Mamaw, and Meemaw. We're not very creative. Robert's side has Gummy, Nana, Oma, Grandma. My cousin's kids call their grandmother Kiki.
    from texasebeth on May 17, 2012 @ 7:51 am
    We were going to be grandma and grandpop but Quinn decided to name us Meemaw and PopPop.  So that's what it is!  :)
    from KarenLynnn on May 17, 2012 @ 9:20 am
    I'm pretty sure that whatever name you pick, JMP will come up with his own :)
    from @meganbroutian on May 17, 2012 @ 9:29 am
    In my family it was Grandma and Grandpa for my Mom's parents and I think the same for my Dad's parents. My Dad's parents both died before I turned 2 so I never met them.  So Grandma and Grandpa pretty much always referred to Mom's parents in my head.
    from cdrdash on May 17, 2012 @ 9:58 am
    In our family everyone just kind of picked what they wanted to be called.  We started using it as soon as the babies were born and the kids just picked up on it.  My mom is Granna.  The Man of the House's mom is Nana.  I'm Oma.
    from beckeyp on May 17, 2012 @ 10:45 am
    at 1st glance I thought you were asking abt giving babies grandma names... like Emma & Olivia & Abigail (all 3 made Top 10 baby girl names last year) 
    from the.me.i.be on May 17, 2012 @ 12:27 pm
    Thanks everyone! I still am stuck and part of me wants to wait for JMP to decide and part of me wants a name to refer to myself in 3rd person.
    from TW on May 17, 2012 @ 5:42 pm
     @the.me.i.be  Nope. I couldn't convince my kids father to give them the names of their grandmothers at all--pay back? They've all asked if they can use them for a girl.
    from TW on May 17, 2012 @ 5:43 pm
  • TW: Don't let someone else change out your summer clothes and believe that they choose your real clothes. Sigh.
    hee hee! Was it Denise or one of the kids?
    from texasebeth on May 17, 2012 @ 7:58 am
  • TW: How do you get beach ready skin and shaved? I have a Venus razor...but my skin is dry and pale and grandmotherly.
    Erm...  I use an old man razor – a short-handled Parker 96R butterfly safety razor, and occasionally my husband's ancient Sensor Excel for cleanup around the tricky bits.  Pale has never exactly been an issue for me, but it does seem to help with the dryness and the grandmotherliness... if by 'grandmotherly' you mean stubbly and disinclined to shave :-)
    from DesiValentine4 on May 16, 2012 @ 4:49 pm
    I could never shave without thorough exfoliation first (very sensitive skin). Luckily I lasered my legs so now I don't have to shave at all. Tada!
    from @meganbroutian on May 16, 2012 @ 5:57 pm
    You'll fit in with all the other tourists (assuming you mean Hawaii beaches) with dry, pale and grandmotherly skin. Or if you mean the lake beach in Chicago, then you'll fit in with the other people who haven't seen sun since last summer. LOL.  You can go and get a fake tan sprayed on if you want. Dry skin I can't help with much. We have so much humidity down here dry skin isn't much of an issue.
    from texasebeth on May 16, 2012 @ 6:04 pm
    I have a love for numbing cream and wax away ;)
    from victorias_view on May 16, 2012 @ 6:24 pm
  • TW: I am so making this for someone! Mushroom Fajitas http://www.singforyoursupperblog.com/2012/05/01/mushroom-fajitas/ from @sing4yoursupper
  • TW: So...there is a grandbaby here. @dtanton's grandbaby (and mine) And perfect. Of course. Because grandbabies are..
    They are indeed. Congratulations to all and welcome Johnny Mac Pippin! 
    from sassymonkey on May 15, 2012 @ 4:06 pm
    Yippeee!  Congratulations to everyone!
    from FatCat on May 15, 2012 @ 4:48 pm
    Hooray!  Congratulations to all of you!!!!!
    from DesiValentine4 on May 15, 2012 @ 4:57 pm
    Congrats to you all, aww you are gonna love being a grandma :)  What a perfect family!  
    from KarenLynnn on May 15, 2012 @ 5:19 pm
    Woohoo! Welcome Beautiful Baby!  Wishing you all the best :)
    from victorias_view on May 15, 2012 @ 6:06 pm
    Wonderful news!!!!!!  OMG Denise is a grandmother!!!
    from TruthsfromtheChaos on May 15, 2012 @ 9:56 pm
    A hearty CONGRATULATIONS! Enjoy the moments, they are the best!!
    from HomeRearedChef on May 16, 2012 @ 2:37 pm
  • TW: Very tired today. WHY?
    The excitement over the arrival of little Johnny MacPippin'!
    from victorias_view on May 11, 2012 @ 12:35 pm
  • TW: Yes, I am using Ani DiFranco lyrics for my words this morning. The Diner. Not Both Hands. Atypical. But I'm 32 flavors and then some.
    God help you if you are a phoenix. 
    from sassymonkey on May 11, 2012 @ 10:46 am

Tarrant aka TW aka Thatwoman

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Tarrant aka TW aka Thatwoman
Member Since
January 2006
About Me: 

I am an internet community zealot. I have worked online since 1995. I have several personal blogs, way too many feeds in my reader.

I am passionate about my family and online community.

I work as a Community Moderator for Mother Nature Network and also work for the BlogHer Publishing Network.

Something that may surprise you about me: I don't really like to cook. I love my hair. I want to be a college football coach.

 

I always wanted a home birth.  


Unsurprising to some but fascinating to others: My competitive streak landed me both of the people I have had long-term relationships with and their birthdays are a week apart.

Our home has pictures of our ex-es...and sometimes those have been on our bedside tables, entertainment center, and refrigerator. Neither of us thought this odd until there was a discussion online somewhere about someone who still had pictures of their ex sitting out.

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We have a blended family of six children--from all grown up and married down to middle school aged. My mother lives with us. We have three prairie dogs, a bird (my high school daughter's), a dog (my mother's).

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