Starting with name, location

How did you find Minti?

1. What's your favorite thing or feature at Minti?
2. What's your favorite thing about being a parent?
3. What has been your biggest parenting challenge?
4. What worries you most about parenting? (education, health, mental development, physical development, teaching manners, etc)
5. What's the best parenting advice you've ever gotten from someone?
6. What were your babies first words?
7. What is your favorite song?
8. What is the funniest thing you or your child or significant other has done or said?
9. Using just one word sum up Minti.
10. What is the best piece of advice you have got from Minti?
11. How do you deal with your Minti addiction?
12. How does your family deal with your Minti addiction?

Well thanks for chosing me to be a featured minti member....  I have to answer the questions so I will write a little blog I suppose to answer them.... Here we go... 

1. Well my name is Angie short for Angelia ....I live in Toowoomba, Queensland...
2. My favourite thing on Minti would have to be reading the responses to anything....Seeing the different opinions and feelings and thoughts of others.....Seeing how similar they are to me I suppose...
3. My favourite thing about being a parent would have to be that I learn something from one of my kids a least once a day...they constantly show me how old I am and how much of my innocence I have lost lol...They see things so differently....Wonderfully really....
4. The biggest parenting challenge I have faced so far would have to be the constant battle with my eldest son and his illness...I knew parenting was hard but never in my wildest dreams...no nighmares did I ever expect the roller coaster ride I have happening with him on a regular basis...I really do not like Bipolar at all....
5. HAHAHA everything....Nah really probably the thing that worries me the most would have to be drugs and the lowering of the ages of kids experiementing with them....Followed closely by teenage sex and the age lowering with that tooo...So probably our kids are growing up way to quick...
6. The Best parenting advice I got from someone would have to be Raising teens is like trying to nail jelly to a tree hehehe...No really the best advice i got was from my mother and she told me never go to bed angry with your child or hubby always sort it before your head hits that pillow and never ever leave each others company without telling them you love them...Dont just say it every day but show it in everyday  too....
7. There is a lot of kids first words to come up with there....I only had 4 of the kids I have now as babies so Aidans was mum....then not much more till he said a sentence...Michaelas was dad...then once she said one she jsut would not stop talking even in her sleep lol....Nikitas was dad she would call me that till she was at least 1 year old hehe....Then Corrie he mainly screamed things but his first word believe it or not was FORD...Yes the kids were trying to teach him ford stinks....But he said just Ford ...Wasn't my ford man Ken proud....
8. Hmmmm I have heaps of favourite songs but one that we all seem to jump around to and sing word for word would be tainted love by soft cell....Or a wiggles song with the words mashed potato in it we all sing away to that one too....
9. When Aidan was little I worked in a pub and lived there also...There was a conversation that had gone on between some women in the kitchen including myself about something to do with how it was unfair about men having better paid jobs because they have a penis etc....I then asked Aidan if he would like to come to the shop with me or go to Nannas...He turned and said to me then...Mummy I will come with you but can I have so money so I can buy you a penis so you can get more money too.....Oh dear My home the vege shop LOL the corn does have ears.......
10. Ummm this is hard to expalin it in one world supersupportnetwork LOL Sanitylifesaver maybe LOL sorry....
11. There are too many to even name one because I have a few....But there was one written a while ago that is one of my favourites here it was written by the Mentormum and it was sooo wonderful as it really was what I needed right at that time...But there was a member called breannababy a while back who wrote the most wonderful and inspriational stuff and there is a member called Ozbinky to if you ever get a chance read her advice too....this is really putting me on the spot...Dam I just love all of the advice as they give me something else to try and think about...I think most articles I read give me bits of advice...
12. When I am dealing with my Minti addiction I just feed it LOL...I love this place and so many of the members on here they have all at some time helped me and I miss them when I am not on here so I can't starve it so i feed it....
13. Ummm hehehe sometimes my kids argue to get in the front to read an article i think might be of interest to them...Minti has bought me out of my shell alot...After i had my brain tumour I changed alot from a confident and shining person to a person who struggled daily with things....i think that Minti has helped me to be closer to the person I used to be sooo they deal with it....As long as I give them my attention when they need it when they come home from school they are happy...My husband but sometimes thinks I should marry Minti hehehe....Oh well he is cool about it but LOL
14. Oops I missed a question LOL I am not sure how I found Minti...I think I was looking for a new vacuum LOL but a new vacuum doesnt even cut it with what I found instead....A wondeful supportive community that welcomed me with open arms....

Well that is about it for the questions but I do want to add this...In the time I have been on Minti I have met the most inspiration and wonderful people I have ever met in my life...I will not mention names as I am sure to forget some and then may offend...I love all my mates and the friendships I have formed with them on and off Minti and soo Look forward to forming even more so if you want to be a mate with me and get to know me that little bit better drop me a mintimail with your messenger addy and we can chat there in group chat with other minti mums I already talk to...I have had times lately where Minti has been my saving grace in my mixed up life with Aidan and the support I recieve from all who give it is fantastic and compares to no other....The friends I have in my computer are wonderful...I luv yas all Mwa okay finished being soppy now LOL Thanks Rachael and Clay and Matthew and anyone else who had a hand in creating this wonderful site...I am sure you are loved by many for this...

Mwah

Angie