Merry Christmas Vicky

I did know you’d gone around most loved time, but I had assumed there was a reason behind it and to give you time and space, just glad you’re okay

..I say the same about my children.../...I much prefer them as adults...as children, I wasn’t always so keen.....

...no I don’t recall that protection at all......we were a whole street of mainly boys...very few girls...so we had to adapt to being boys as well, to survive in a boys world...and I think that my brothers thought that it would do me no good to shield me from that...it was a life lesson that I had to learn...survive or be killed...and they would be fine, whichever way it went...they were brutal as children but they’re not too shabby at all as adults...

...ughhh, I so disliked my brothers when we were younger...and there were two of them so the6 always liked to show how easily they could take me down when they had a mind to...

...I guess that what it means is that there’s never ‘hatred’ or even any deep dislike...it’s annoyance to the point of pulling our hair out at times with frustration...but that’s as deep as it gets...because otherwise there wouldn’t be that sense of protection and of always feeling the sadnesses of others so deeply on here...as well as feeling their joys....I mean, there would be no conflict at all if others could just see and agree that we’re always right in every topic and stop questioning that to even be a thing of doubt...

Omg hey! Hope you’re okay icon

...yeah, I know what you mean...I’ve been on other forums as well and some great discussions and some great people etc....but they’re just not ‘home’, you know....?...and that’s just so hard to define because it’s something we feel and can’t unfeel...no matter how annoying at times....that really is the definition of a family type community though, isn’t it....we can scream and scream and scream at each other and vow never to speak to each other again and flounce out for a day or two...but if anyone or anything ever dares to harm a single hair on the head of any of us ...we’ll come out of our corners like tigers....

...it’s incredible that it’s been 8 years since we were all naming her on the forum...and that so highlights TiBB and its vibe, that we were all right there with you...like your extended/dysfunctional/looney family all waiting outside the delivery room......many of us drunk as well, I would think...great times, eh...(...well a bit painful for you in the delivery room obviously ...but fun for us...)...I think of all of us, it really feels as though your whole family has grown up around TiBB, you know...James and Skye and getting married and just all of life in between.......

......ughhhh, I missed you so much.....and how in the heck are you and that family of yours..?...