HELLO

Abbie wrote: WELL HELLO EVERYONE. I SEE YOU HAVE ALL HAD A BUSY DAY IN MY ABSENCE. I HOPE TO START AGAIN AND WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN.

ammommy replied: I'd be happy to start fresh, but would you please stop typing in all caps

mommy2owen replied: yes, could you please take caps lock off?

kit_kats_mom replied: Hi Abby. Welcome again.

FYI. Using all caps is considered shouting on message boards. You may want to turn caps lock off. It just makes your post easier to read and it helps to keep emotions down.

Also, in order to not be taken the wrong way (it happens to the best of us ) try using the smilies. They can help to convey whatever spirit you mean the post in.

It's really hard to decide if someone is being sarcastic or not when you are just going by the written word. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and I'm going to assume that you were just being sarcastic and not just caustic in your previous posts.

So I welcome you again, with a clean slate, and hope to hear more about your 4 year old daughter. It's nice to have moms on the board with older kids who have been through what we are going through now.

gr33n3y3z replied: You didnt offend me
So welcome back
But like everyone else said kill the caps its shouting on the boards

coasterqueen replied: Welcome back Abbie.

I'm glad you are back and hope that you can feel welcome here but I will have to agree with Cary that using all caps can be perceived as shouting. I hope we can all start the day off a bit brighter and I, too, am glad to have someone with older children on the board as my DD is still only 2 and well...I'll probably still need advice when she turns 4.

My2Beauties replied: Hi Abbie I have read some of yoru posts but we haven't been formally introduced I'm LeaAnn, mommy to Hanna Marie (15 months) and step-mommy to Desiree Ann (9 yrs)...well soon to be step-mommy, I'm engaged to Brian and we will be married on May 21 of this year!

ITA with the caps thing, that is perceived as shouting! Thanks.

kimberley replied: welcome back! a fresh start sounds great! hope you have a good day!

*seconds turning the caps off.*

mckayleesmom replied: Sorry, but I have some knowledge as to why I feel you are still here to cause trouble plain and simple. I would be suprised if you did actually have a child at all. ..so sorry if I don't jump on the welcome wagon, but I still think you comment rudely and mockingly towards certain people and I don't have anything to do with people like that....This has nothing to do with the capitalization of your wording either.

mckayleesmom replied:
This post was up all of 10 minutes and you got your slate dirty in 2 posts that I read...

Kaitlin'smom replied: Hi Abby nice to met you I have been absent a bit, hope to see you around.

and please turn the caps off

Mommy2BAK replied: Hi, I am Tamara, mother to Blakely (7 months old) and wife to John. I am 20 years old, and, yes, I too am a young mom, and I don't really care if you have a problem with that or not. We try not to judge around here. We make babies, not mistakes, so who cares if everyone's children were planned or not? Make love not war!

And please turn your caps lock off.

Josie83 replied: Hi Abbie. I'm not one to bear a grudge so will give you the benefit of the doubt. altho I will admit that it is against my better judgement. I'm happy for you to prove me wrong. You know my age and daughter I think . . . so good luck on your fresh start xx

Abbie replied: look everyone i turned the caps off. hope you are all happier now. will try and behave in future. looking forward to giving you all some advice

Abbie replied:
can you explain please.

TLCDad replied: Hi Abbie,

Thanks for no longer typing in all caps. That will definitely improve things.

Normally, I simply ban users when I get enough complaints... but I will see how this goes. Just please know, that everyone is right when they say we do not tolerate insults or name callling in the forums... this includes Private Messages and E-Mail. I do believe alot of your comments were considered more and some taken the wrong way due the "all caps" which is common on all message boards and websites.

moped replied: Hi

Welcome.........

Jen & Jack

iluvmysweetiepies replied: Welcome

mommy2owen replied: iluvmysweetiepies: did you get my pm?

loveydad replied: OMG no! I do not want to make a fresh start with you! I pmed her nicely to ask her why she was pitchin a fit about everyone and being so rude . She wrote back about how insulted she was and how we all worshipped Cassie and Josie and thought they were so great and then said at the end I QUOTE "have you ever tried using contraceptives? They're really all the rage" or something. OMG NO!

I agree with mckaylees mom. She doesnt' want to be nice she wants to cause trouble. I doubt she has a kid! If she does I feel sorry for the poor thing!

mckayleesmom replied:
Im talking about the fact that you posted a snooty remark about those red sheets again not 2 minutes after you wrote this starting over post. If you were sincere..you wouldn't have wrote it...THE END

Josie83 replied: Okay . . . I'm realy not sure what's going on here but I know I don't like it xx

Abbie replied:
actually i was wondering why you said you had authority why you think i don't have a kid and why you know why i am here. god the red sheets comment was a joke!

Boys r us replied: So was calling me a B*TCH and insinuating that I was a WH*RE a joke too in the PM you sent me? I have no desire for a fresh start with you Abbie. when I read your new post yesterday, I thought, Good..now maybe we can all get to know her.
But then I read your other posts made AFTER that and I read the nasty PM you sent me after your fresh slate post.. I think allowing people such as yourself here only lowers the standard of our whole board! How many chances do you need to be able to handle yourself like an adult? It really woudl seem to me,if not most of us, that you've had ample..but then I don't call the shots around here, so welcome to "The club"!