Please read each of these items, if one doesn't apply to you skip it and go to the next one :) I want to make sure that no matter where we move the family everyone who wants to be with us makes the move :)

1. I am having, just as many of you are, problems with Multiply.  I have transfered Smiling over but that does not mean we are staying there!!!  I have noticed that only 28 people have joined.  I knew when I did the transfer that we would not have 168 family members.  I got to say I am shocked if we really only have 28 family members.  If you have not joined Multiply but still want to be part of the family PLEASE post here.  I want to make sure that everyone is kept up with whatever new home we find.  We do have options, actually several so we are lucky!!! :) Multiply is pretty fancy, but very different from what we are used to.  I am learning the set up and trying to make it the same as MSN but it will always be different.
2. Please if you email is not listed either in MSN or Multiply I need you to email me.  We do not require you show your email within groups to be in Smiling Family but we do require I know your email address.  We also request that I have emergency contact information for you.  The reason for this is simple, if we need to get ahold of you for non-emergency reasons we need your email.  If we send an announcement through groups you will not receive it :(.  The emergency contacts are for the same reason.  We are family, if you are not online, we can not connect with you.  If you are gone a long time what can we do besides worry?  So please if you do not show your email or have not sent me your emergency contacts please do so [email protected].
3. We all need communication, contact with other people.  I have tried my best to use chatrooms and have paid for a few that we have tried.  Still there are several problems that have been mentioned to me and a few that I have so once again I am bringing up using IM for chat.  If we do this it will be a lot more private.  You will have control of who sees what you say after you leave the IM.  You can make the chat window full screen and do much more in IM then in any chatroom I can afford or that is free.  The one catch is we all need to have MSN Messenger.  Does anyone have a problem with using MSN Messenger?  If you do PLEASE tell me/us, in this post or email it to me if you do not want everyone to see it.  I am more than willing to help everyone to install, setup, and become comfortable with it.
4. I am trying very hard to keep this family together, I    know I was gone a long time but I am back.  I need you so much!!!!!!!!!  Please let me know you are still here and family is still strong.

Please comment, question, suggest, or ponder anything you want about these subjects.  It doesn't matter if you have been with Smiling from the very beginning or just joined today, what you say is important.

I am so very proud to be the Mother Hen here!!  It is a title and honor I have never taken lightly.

Thank you