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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 10, 2012 0:40:02 GMT -5
^ I bet you it was inspired by Chaplin!
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Post by Honeybee on Jan 21, 2012 2:33:03 GMT -5
Plot: I will told Mrs. Cheplin off. do every chore on that list for two hours before Mrs. Cheplin comes home. (did they mention were Mrs. Cheplin went? Was it her job or something else.) I knew, that Dana was fixing a sickness when Mandy (I think that's her friends name) wanted played gold fish. Dana couldn't have her way. If, Dana kept that up No, wouldn't be her friend. Cause, they will catch on sooner or later. Adam is a brat. Whining all the time. He could help with Stacey. Isn't hard fold clothes & put them away. Pick up his toys, & other simple task. Also Dana could help too. To me, Dana & Adam will grow up. Don't want do any chores in their own household. To me Mrs Cheplin just want housekeeper instead of baby-sitter. When I was reading this book. Stacey had do chores after chores. Barely anytime watch the kids. Stacey didn't had no time for her mom, her friends, her boyfriend Robert, her homework & herself.
Sub-plot: I hate it, that the kids ruin Logan's surprise for Mary Anne. Becca & Char. should ask Jessi, why was Logan with Kristy @ the Claire's store (or whatever the store was called) Just because you see someone else doesn't mean, what you think it means. The poem was awful. Mary Anne thought it was sweet. When do kids 10 & under worried about 13 years old cheating on their lovers? (so unrealistic)
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Post by rachel817 on Jan 2, 2013 18:33:46 GMT -5
I just read this for the first time last night. - Why did Stacey want to take Robert to a Broadway musical so bad. "My boyfriend is a 13 year old jock (he is a jock right?) who JUST SAID he hates New York. Gee I bet he would love to go to a musical in the city for his birthday." I really thought there would be more of a negative reaction on his part about this. -Are 13 year olds regularly allowed to date? I mean these girls go on dates and kiss guys, and have them over when there are no other people in the house. This wouldn't have been okay with my family when I was a kid, and I certainly wouldn't think it was okay for my kids. -Why did she never say anything to Dana about the faking sickness thing? Not very BSC like. -Two hours is probably enough time to do all of those chores, but not if she wanted to spend any time with the kids or help them with homework. Plus Adam should have been cleaning his own room. Why didn't these kids have chores? -I don't see why Stacey didn't have time for homework or her mom. I am assuming that school starts around 7:30 (mine started at 8:30 but I think that is pretty late). She probably left for school around 7:15, and since she is sophisticated I am sure she had to get up at 6:15. I would guess she was in bed by 10 pm. But that still leaves 2-3 hours of free time every evening, depending on dinner, BSC meetings, and chores. I feel like she could have done homework and spent time with her mom. I didn't care much for the sub-plot, and I think Stacey should have just told Dana to stay home, instead of going to help. I am sure McDonald's would have been nicer than a dinner prepared and served by kids ranging from 4 to 13.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jan 17, 2013 21:22:05 GMT -5
^ Stacey probably just wanted Robert to learn to love something that she herself really enjoyed. But yeah....13 year old boys aren't really known for their love of musical theater!
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scrounge
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Post by scrounge on Jan 18, 2013 1:51:33 GMT -5
I bet it was difficult for Maureen to watch Stacey go through this. She'd divorced Ed because he worked too much, and then her daughter is doing the exact same thing.
The kids cooking dinner for Mary Anne and Logan was not cute at all to me, honestly. I usually like the food descriptions in these books, but hamburgers that were first microwaved and then pan fried, some onions, fruit punch with banana slices in it, and Jello topped with canned whipped cream? Not very appealing.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Oct 27, 2013 22:03:53 GMT -5
Isn't this book where Stacey rides her bike in February? uphill? I was thinking about this today while riding my book.
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Oct 27, 2013 22:48:31 GMT -5
I think it was. I remember thinking that was weird too.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Oct 27, 2013 23:33:32 GMT -5
Btw .. I was riding my bike, not my book (that would have been a funny sight to say the least!)
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 27, 2013 23:39:23 GMT -5
^You don't have a book-shaped bicycle?
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valuemeal2
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Post by valuemeal2 on Oct 28, 2013 4:20:31 GMT -5
It does mention that Stacey was nervous to ride her bike home in the snow, so I think maybe it hadn't snowed that day when she rode her bike up the hill? (I live in California, I don't know how snow works at all, haha.)
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Oct 28, 2013 15:56:31 GMT -5
Btw .. I was riding my bike, not my book (that would have been a funny sight to say the least!) That would have been a great image!
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 31, 2013 13:37:20 GMT -5
It does mention that Stacey was nervous to ride her bike home in the snow, so I think maybe it hadn't snowed that day when she rode her bike up the hill? (I live in California, I don't know how snow works at all, haha.) Your snow working comment made me laugh. If it was snowing while she was riding then the pavement was probably slippery. If it snowed the day before then the pavement may have been clear already. Maybe she was worried about riding in the cold?
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Post by virgoscorpio on Oct 31, 2013 13:44:43 GMT -5
Or possible ice, especially since she was going up and downhill. I have a road bike and I rode it in the rain today and I noticed that it slipped (I almost fell off) going around corners so I had to go extremely carefully. I know people here ride until December (January in some cases, if it doesn't snow already). But it's pretty ridiculous to expect to ride a bike in February in a New England state.
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celaeno
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Post by celaeno on Dec 5, 2013 21:22:48 GMT -5
Considering this was a baby-sitting centered book, I enjoyed this one surprisingly well. Suzanne Weyn is my favorite of the ghostwriters, and I liked her descriptions of the Cheplin family and their house (it's nice to see a normal sized in the books once in a while, instead of everyone seeming to live in houses with 5 bedrooms). But mainly I liked this one because I could totally relate to Stacey. When I was in high school, I tried to baby-sit as much as possible (and get extra hours at whatever other jobs I was working in high school and college) because I was very money hungry! I definitely would have been going through the same torn feelings as Stacey did. Of course there were a few things to get annoyed over in the book. I don't have a problem that the Cheplins are new clients, but what are the chances that Dana is suddenly friends with all the clients and hanging out with them (completely unprompted by the sitters) Also, in one scene Dana is hanging out with those kids after school, and then the next day she asks Stacey if she can go hang out with them again (to help make Logan and Mary Anne's Valentine's Day dinner) and Stacey asks questions like it had never happened before and won't let Dana go over alone - but Stacey would have been the one sitting the previous day anyway (and Dana had obviously gone without Stacey that day). It was also incredibly stupid that Kristy is getting upset that Stacey is missing baby-sitter club meetings to baby-sit, and then is mad that Stacey's baby-sitting too much...since that means she's not going to have time to take baby-sitting jobs. Seriously Kristy.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 5, 2013 22:26:49 GMT -5
I believe that this book mentions how a window in the Cheplin's house looks out onto a wooded area. The same with the family in Mary Anne and the Silent Witness. I always liked that and it stayed with me.
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