OFF TOPIC

[Guest guest]

The boys are nine, so this may change. We have always had just one party with all their friends.This question has absolutely nothing to do with Ds - but since all of us are parents of multiples the question still applies.How have you handled birthday party invitations for twins (or more) - do you send one invitation to a friend that says that you're celebrating both birthdays or do you let each child select a certain amount of friends to invite. Our girls will be turning five next month and this will be their first "friends" birthday party at a local Chuck E' Cheese.I know that our family and close friends will bring a gift of each daughter. But I just wasn't sure if it was "OK" to expect one child to bring two gifts to a party. Or if we should designate who is attending for who. Maybe I'm making much more of this than need be - but some of the children we just met since school started and I didn't want to offend anyone.I'd appreciate hearing your experience's .........Thanks!

[Guest guest]

I think it depends on what the invitation says. If one child wants to invite a special friend, he or she could send the invitation in her/his name only. The recipient would have the choice of making one or two gifts. It will take some clever wording to make it clear that dual gift-giving is optional. Perhaps: "Please come to celebrate my birthday (which I share with my sister)." Or leave out mention of the sister, and when parents call explain that Ermintrude will be Adelaide's guest, not Adelaide and Blanche's. I think two separate parties could be a disaster.

Oh, by the way, see that one or more guests can stay and play with the birthday celebrants while the family cleans up from the party. It can be an awful letdown if all the guests leave and the birthdayers are simply left to themselves during cleanup.

Al Veerhoff, Kensington, MD

Re: Off Topic

The boys are nine, so this may change. We have always had just one party with all their friends.

On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:10 PM, ljoconnell1comcast (DOT) net wrote:

This question has absolutely nothing to do with Ds - but since all of us are parents of multiples the question still applies.

How have you handled birthday party invitations for twins (or more) - do you send one invitation to a friend that says that you're celebrating both birthdays or do you let each child select a certain amount of friends to invite. Our girls will be turning five next month and this will be their first "friends" birthday party at a local Chuck E' Cheese.

I know that our family and close friends will bring a gift of each daughter. But I just wasn't sure if it was "OK" to expect one child to bring two gifts to a party. Or if we should designate who is attending for who. Maybe I'm making much more of this than need be - but some of the children we just met since school started and I didn't want to offend anyone.

I'd appreciate hearing your experience's .........

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

We have always had more kids from the CLS class than from ;s class come. We say that Davey has a fan club. We also have many college age kids come who are friends of the boys come since they are away from home (most of them) but have adopted the boys as their little brothers.I think anyway you do it is going to be fine. We have triplets and their olderbrother by 2 years has a bday 2 days later, so in the beginning it wa 1 big bash.At those parties it was more friends of the parents and neighbors. Then we agreedto split out the older brother and by 1st grade we were probably letting each child invitefriends without the invitation saying all 3 names to scare away anyone. Somechildren always bring for all (the dollar store permits that) with extra for the "real"friend and grown ups even it out. My son with ds has much fewer attendees buthe gets caught upin the whole party thing and doesn't care, we supplement w/cheapy extra toys.This year 11th bday was different we had 's girlfriends over Friday for a movieand girls night they left by noon and the boys for Zack and arrived around2 for a swimming water party. My older son doesn't want parties anymore so he getsto pick somewhere to go like fishing or camping with a friend or 2 and dad!Don't sweat it it will be a great time :)Irene Off Topic This question has absolutely nothing to do with Ds - but since all of us are parents of multiples the question still applies.How have you handled birthday party invitations for twins (or more) - do you send one invitation to a friend that says that you're celebrating both birthdays or do you let each child select a certain amount of friends to invite. Our girls will be turning five next month and this will be their first "friends" birthday party at a local Chuck E' Cheese.I know that our family and close friends will bring a gift of each daughter. But I just wasn't sure if it was "OK" to expect one child to bring two gifts to a party. Or if we should designate who is attending for who. Maybe I'm making much more of this than need be - but some of the children we just met since school started and I didn't want to offend anyone.I'd appreciate hearing your experience's .........Thanks!__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4507 (20091014) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.http://www.eset.com

[Guest guest]

:

Have you ever considered a career in event planning?

And thanks, , for the tip about college students. Most of Will and 's typical peers graduated this year.

Al Veerhoff, Kensington, MD, father of identicals and Will, 18, who always share their birthday party.

Off Topic

To: Multiples-DS

Received: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 3:10 PM

This question has absolutely nothing to do with Ds - but since all of us are parents of multiples the question still applies.

How have you handled birthday party invitations for twins (or more) - do you send one invitation to a friend that says that you're celebrating both birthdays or do you let each child select a certain amount of friends to invite. Our girls will be turning five next month and this will be their first "friends" birthday party at a local Chuck E' Cheese.

I know that our family and close friends will bring a gift of each daughter. But I just wasn't sure if it was "OK" to expect one child to bring two gifts to a party. Or if we should designate who is attending for who. Maybe I'm making much more of this than need be - but some of the children we just met since school started and I didn't want to offend anyone.

I'd appreciate hearing your experience's .........

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

OFF TOPIC

EVIDENCE OF HARM

BLEEDING HELL

An event in France approximately three years ago Period 2006 – 2008

Very many of my friends, all English, have reported problems similar to that of

Dr Wakefield with colitis and bleeding from the backside etc etc.

These conditions which are very wide and different but have similar adverse

effects to the lower end of the digestive system. They make a mess of it.

In one case cancer of the bowel was diagnosed and an operation performed.

Puissance of modern science to cure what would have been a certain and horrible

death.

In another, a simpler operation sufficed for a non-cancerous event. All power to

modern medicine. ALLELULAH!

A person I met for the first time yesterday reported at this time colitis and

was subjected to the same type of examination that Dr Wakefield or rather

his team, ie

Dr Simon Murch, performed when they found a series of autism children with other

medical problems than simple autism.

Knowing just one case of tetanus in my life and one recovered case of smallpox,

together with four cases of TB this finding amounts in my own frame as a

PANDEMIC of

serious and life-threatening harm, newly arising in a population, in a region of

North France, which may or may not reflect what is happening in the whole of

France, the

whole of Europe or the whole world.

The implication of a vaccine or drug is excluded in all cases leaving the air,

water and food as the only common denominator. Ie as found guilty for mad cow

disease –

the FOOD.

I mention this, as for most people, this harm although serious was or is self

limiting in that one person at least, the third mentioned who I met yesterday

was first put on

drugs which her doctor said would be for life. She is today no longer on any

drugs. Deciding her doctor might be WRONG! Her profession is or was the MEDICAL

PROFESSION.

The condition has not returned.

What could cause such conditions?

For me the overwhelming culprit could be GMO foodstuffs. We know it harms the

insects that fee on them so surely it is right to ask if that is true can the

same occur to

the people that then feed on food that is a KILLER food for other forms of life.

Although GMO food growing is banned in France there is evidence from prison

sentences to Bovey and others who have destroyed GMO crops that GMO IS

being

grown in many areas of the country. Even this year people were arrested with

threats of long term imprisonment and fines more than that necessary to buy a

small

house were threatened for just picking a single plant out of the ground. The

plant was the VINE and means in future drinking French wine will mean vine

killing some life

forms will be 100 per cent safe for drinking. How do they know this when the

trials are going on, no results have yet come through and natural gene transfer

to

surrounding vines will occur? The surrounding vines are in fact CHAMPAGNE and

the like.

The growing of GMO plants is increasing in Europe and the recent move of the

chief regulator to a GMO company in some European style revolving door syndrome

actually totally illegal but nevertheless in the all powerful world of Big

Pharma, the law is there to oppress others and not to prevent movement from

regulation to their pay

off for services rendered. Truly in GMO battles we see power is all powerful.

And like the ghettos of Europe the people rest for the most part compliant and

even willing

to hasten their own DESTRUCTION.

For the past few years GMO products have been passed as fit for planting by a

new regulator in chief with no known history to me of any expertise in Biology,

Chemistry, Food or any branch of science whatsover. He seems to have made a

fortune from his own business of which it is not clear to me in which area and

then

moved directly to that of the person with no known skills except of making money

and ignoring basic human rights to enable a population of 300 million to be

subjected to

foods which are patently BAD for our health and if fed to insects in the field

KILL them all with 100 per cent efficiency. How can any foodstuff with a 100 per

cent kill

rate be fit to eat by any creature without risk of adverse health effects.

The question I ask, is if we have food such as soya, a favourite in the past for

those not wanting the GMO hormones fed to animals and good for our health then

why is

it the FIRST target of GMO companies such as Monsanto to introduce genes that

kill every insect in some completely unknown manner? But magically be good in

every

known and unknown way for humans.

Will it not kill humans in likewise manner? It must harm any or everybody

without exception even if the result is sub-clinical.

After many years, scientists but not those involved in introducing the killer

genes have discovered the mechanism for its killer effect. The animal

effectively has its gut

system destroyed and the similar action in man would amount to damage to the gut

and blood leaking out of the body. A finding which I as a non medical person

find is

now over represented in my area.

In fact, soya does get imported into France on a weekly if not daily basis.

Ships come into Lorient here in Bretagne, France with thousands upon thousands

of tons of

GMO soya enough for the whole of France to have to consume directly or

indirectly one kilogram every week.

A product which in the field KILLS by destruction of the gut system and in

animals by allowing bleeding conditions which are not always fatal but can be.

Todays soya is present in chocolate, crisps, biscuits and in thousands of our

foodstuffs. Chocolate eaten by me today causes adverse effects which at one time

were

not there. As a child I loved and craved for chocolate. Today I find it causes

adverse effects either real or psychological for me. I truly believe GMO

chocolate is bad for

our health. Are there suppliers of GMO free choolate, I ask?

Are safety checks done on chocoate and animals or even humans? With the rapid

change to GMO food any health problems not picked up immediately will become

background noise. Cancer rates in China now for some ills are ten times less

than in the West. WHY?

A GMO product that KILLS with 100 per cent efficiency ALL that try to eat it in

the field but is transformed by regulators, government scientific bodies and the

100 per

cent guarantee of Big Pharma like Monsanto to be 100 per cent safe to eat by ALL

human beings no matter what gene variation they have. How can GMO be

substantially EQUIVALENT when it is clearly not substantially equivalent in the

fields where it is grown.

GMO Soya in 2010 known to be harmful in at least 24 different ways to human

beings but protected in law by the guarantees of the former paragraph to be just

fine for

us.

PROPAGANDA never bettered in our history.

ITS SAFE TO EAT

TRUST US

Meanwhile while the flood gates opened in 2005 for GMO food around Europe.

Animals have died mysteriously from BLEEDING DISORDERS in Europe since this

date..

My own private observation is that a large number of people are now or in the

very short past suffered from similar gut and bleeding problems being diagnosed

variously

as CANCER, COLITIS or just STRESS.

Even ORGANIC food now is being produced using NEW GMO strains.

The corruption of the food chain is near complete.

Fortunately while Big Pharma with government incompetence is trying to kill

everyone, Darwin and his theories of the Laws of Natural Selection are ensuring

that

tomorrows child will be resistant to chemically the worlds most toxic element in

their vaccines, alterations that destroy the gut system in all animal life

forms, together with

mass medication of fluoride a known carcinogen and various neurotoxic additions

to our clothes, bedding and furniture.

Tomorrows child may well be the electron, proton and neutron that is all but

indestructible even to the machinations of man and the protection of our

regulators and

government.

BLEEDING HELL

EVIDENCE OF HARM

OFF TOPIC