I miss the white. ;-)

My not quite yet four year old and I are doing Paddington right now, and he's really liking it.

I like the white best :-)

Thank you! I'm not sure if they are the ones I was thinking of our not, but they are exactly what I needed. :-)

I thought I remembered someone here having made a video about using c-rods with litte ones. Can someone link me to it? Am I imagining things? :)

Oh my gosh, this sounds so amazing right now that I could cry. I cherish this time with my little ones, but gosh, I.am.never.alone.

My older one was a non sleeper, so you have my sincere sympathy. He sleeps quite well now, so there's hope. Here's what helped us: 1) He dropped his nap at 18 months. For the first time in his life, he was actually tired at bedtime. This helped the most. He went to bed at 6pm for about a year then gradually moved to his current 7:45. 2) Obnoxiously consistent bedtime routine. Seriously, it's obnoxiously consistent. Make sure key elements of the routine can be done anywhere for when you travel. 3) See the sun in the morning. Early outside time (or at least sun filled windows) help to set his biological clock. 4) Plenty of food and high calorie bedtime snack. 5) Boring food available at night. We use those veggie and fruit pouches because he can eat them in bed and I can keep them in his room. He likes them enough to eat them if he's really hungry, but they aren't worth waking up for. 6) Time Hugs.

Two sets of small group wooden rods it is! Thank you!

I've been looking around, but I'm hoping someone can just tell me what to buy. :) Do I want wood or plastic? We generally gravitate towards wood, but plastic would be fine if they're better. How many do I want? My first is almost four, so these will get lots of use over multiple children. Which do I want? Where do I buy from? I'm new to this buying homeschool supplies thing. :-)

Thank you!

This flexible metal turner is my most favorite thing. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000079XW3?vs=1

Do you have thermoses? (Wow, that word looks funny written out.)

They gave me a "gift" bag which was a cheap little diaper bag with the hospital logo, some diapers, lanolin cream, wipes, and a nasal aspirator. I thought it was nice until I looked at my detailed bill and saw they changed me $20 for it. :-\

I had it my sophomore year of high school. I got it in January. I had a full load of honors classes, and I probably pushed it too hard. I would rotate the classes I would go to, but it was all a blur. I remember very little from that time. I remember trying to read Wuthering Heights and falling asleep six times in the first chapter, lol. Thankfully, my teachers were mostly understanding. I ended up pushing myself too hard to get everything done by the end of the semester, and I relapsed a bit. After my last exam, I remember going home and sleeping for 20 out of 24 hours, and that was six months after I first got sick! It can really take some time.

My three year old has limitless energy. Tired isn't in his vocabulary. :-) I feel your pain. We moved from our house with a big, fenced in yard to a two bedroom apartment. It's going to be a long year.

I love a white kitchen. Love, love, love.

I've been there, done that, and got the t-shirt. I have no desire to do it again, but it looks like I will have to a couple times over the next few years. It really stinks. You have my sympathy.

I agree that Snape had a very sad and lonely life. I don't really *like* him, but I do think he's the best character. One of my favorite lines in the series is when Dumbledore says to Snape that sometimes he thinks they sort too soon. Snape came from a home where there doesn't seem to have been much love. He father seemed boarderline abusive, and he was desperate for friends. I agree that he attached himself to Lily in a creepy, boarderline stalkerish way, but he was starved for affection and lacking in good relationship role models. He came to school, damaged and desperate to be accepted, where he was then immediately placed among those that would become Death Eaters. His choice was to continue to live as an outcast for the next seven years or to join in with the future Death Eaters and have instant friends. It's the very rare 11-13 year old boy that would pick being an outcast. If he had been sorted into Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, his life could have taken such a different turn. The sorting hat caught him at a bad time in his life, and he paid the price for it. What if he had two years to mature and grow outside the shadow of his difficult home life before he was pigeon holed? Sometimes I think we sort too soon.

Do you have a neighbor you could borrow some graham crackers from?

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I had mine out in November (seven weeks post cesarean). I had a lot of trapped air from the surgery, and that was very painful for a couple of days, but after the air dissipated, I was pretty much pain free. I had been on a very low fat diet for about 10 months to avoid surgery while pregnant, so I added fat in quite gradually. I started at basically no fat and worked up to a healthy amount over a month our so. I have had no issues thus far, but I haven't been out eating bacon cheeseburgers either. ;-) My mom had her gallbladder out maybe ten years ago, and she has had a few issues, but she pushes her diet much further than I have tried. For the most part she gets along fine.

Perhaps someone should start a thread extolling the virtues of the Keurig. :-D

This.

I had mine removed in November (seven weeks after giving birth), and I don't regret it at all. I had a few gallbladder attacks over the years, but it really went kaput when I got pregnant. I was able to control it with diet throughout my pregnancy, but the diet I was on wasn't really sustainable. I was able to grow a healthy baby, but I had to constantly work to be sure I was timing meals and snacks properly. I would get up in the middle of the night twice to eat five almonds in order to get in enough fat for me/the baby. I still lost about twelve pounds while pregnant. There's was no way I could have taken in enough to breastfeed long term with how limited my diet became. I was very nervous to have it done for the same reasons you are, but I just didn't think a diet that low in fat was healthy long term, so I bit the bullet. I thought about trying to do something to break up the stones, but I plan to be breastfeeding or pregnant for the next five years or so, so I wouldn't have wanted to try anything until after that... I was also afraid I would get pregnant again and that would cause it to get so bad that I would need surgery while pregnant. I reintroduced fat very slowly after having it removed. I mean very slowly. I'm now up to a fairly normal diet, and I've had no issues. I haven't eaten a greasy burger and fries or anything like that, but now I can eat salmon and put olive oil on my salad. I would request a gallbladder function test. All the best in your decision making!

I just wanted to add that we really like Fluxx. :-)