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I had my kids at 33 (almost 34) and 35. In some ways, I wish I had started maybe 5 years earlier, then I might have had more. I did not have great pregnancies, either, and my bladder was in bad shape after the 2nd one, so I told dh I was done. He is also 10 years older than I am, so he was ready to stop, too. He would probably been okay with one more shortly after the other two. If I'd had easier pregnancies, I definitely would have had at least one more. If I had to give and arbitrary age that I would say is too old to start having babies, I'd say somewhere around 45, just because you start losing energy just when your kid starts gaining energy! I think if people are healthy and happy, having kids until menopause age is fine.
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I agree with maybe trying to approach it from a different angle. I'm the same way. One little cheat leads to a bigger cheat, then a bigger cheat. I can't be on a diet. I have to make a conscious decision to entirely change my eating as a way of life. I used to smoke, and when I stopped smoking, I replaced it with sugar laden foods. I can't just eat a handful of M&Ms. I won't stop obsessing over the M&Ms until the entire bag is gone. I can't eat one slice of banana bread, I eat the whole loaf. I can do great on a diet for awhile, then something happens to cause me to emotionally eat, and the whole thing is blown. I've had to approach it as sort of like an alcoholic. I can't have one sweet thing, or it throws me entirely off the wagon. I don't know if you are in as drastic of a position as I am, but if so, OA might be a good idea.
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I don't know any Decembers, but it does sound kind of nice for a girl's name. My uncle swears he knew triplets named April, May and June, but I think he was pulling our legs!
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:001_huh:? That is funny!
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We have new law in Ohio, too. 8 and 80 lbs. I'm very glad about this, because I was sick of nagging my sister-in-law about keeping my 5 y/o niece in a carseat. Now she realizes she has to do it.
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Some friends of ours named their daughters Carmen and Cameron. They are not even twins, but two years apart. I thought that was too similar of names. I would totally get them confused all the time. I bet they got mixed up at school, too.
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That is fantastic! I'm glad you had such a positive experience. I'm happy with one teacher and okay with the other so far this year.
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Both our boys were named after various family members and their first and middle names happen to be names of various kings and/or princes of England and France. People thought we did it intentionally, but we're not that clever.
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Hope you get to relax a little after all that! You really are the MOM!
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My mom used to make wreaths for craft fairs and people bought them like crazy. She just used a wire hanger and tied strips of fabric around. Very easy.
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I'm sorry it's such a rigamarole for you! Just don't ask them what curricula your son will be using. You should have seen the look on the principal's face when I asked her that about my entering 1st grader!
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K: I remember Doug throwing up all over the floor during circle time. I remember Tricia telling on me because I was copying her coloring, and the teacher giving us a K version of "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" speech. I remember copying out lists of rhyming words from Hop on Pop (I could already read) and giving them to my teacher, only to be totally devastated when I saw them in the trash can later that day.
1: The teacher told me that if I wanted to suck my thumb, I would have to go and stand in the cubicle in the back of the room. Not realizing this was a punishment, I thought, "Cool! I get to stand here and suck my thumb all day." Never received that punishment again.
2: Really nice teacher. Learned about Australia and Colonial Williamsburg, mostly through copius art projects.
3: "Mean" teacher. Would poke her finger into the shoulder of nearest kid when trying to get the attention of the class or chastise a group of kids. However, I distinctly remember her walking up and down the rows of desks reading novels aloud to us. She was into the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books, and Beverly Cleary books. I loved the Ralph Mouse books.
4: Vague memories of making a model of the island of Java out of salt dough. Realized I needed glasses when teacher moved me from front to back of room. Teacher always said, "People, stop talking" with a particular accompanying hand motion. First boyfriend, Chris, brought me flowers. Got to go to Maps and Compasses Class for "gifted" kids. I still remember the stuff I learned about maps, scale, direction, etc. Very cool class!
5: My grandma died the summer before and it was a sad year. Mom pulled me out of gifted program because she thought they were brainwashing us. We had to write an essay on who we were in a past life, and I wrote that I was Beethoven, and my teacher said I was wrong. Not kidding!
From then on, went to a various number of Christian schools, and things just got uglier and uglier!
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The sandbox has always been well used at our house.
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:scared: I do so many of these things! But I'll throw in my own. According to a friend of mine, this is an Ohio thing, but it probably spreads a bit further than that. I hate when "to be" is left out of a sentence.
"My car needs fixed."
"This bill needs paid."
Not much bothers me, but this makes my shoulders crawl up around my ears!
Oh yeah! I'm also in Ohio, and that one makes me nuts! Also, everyone around here says, "Where's it at?" I cringe when I hear it. My dh says it, too, but I've told him repeatedly to stop doing that, and sometimes he remembers to say, "Where is it?"
Expressions that bug me: "on the same page" and "bells and whistles"
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While I agree that the way schools are set up these days can be very limiting, I think I'd rather go to school than to prison. I think that we wouldn't need to homeschool or afterschool if school was approached in an entirely different manner. JMHO.
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I had to drop my idea of getting a teaching certificate along with my French degree in college because after 3 education classes, I couldn't take it anymore. I could not understand how any of the stuff I was supposedly learning was going to help me teach any students in any way. I actually quit a class mid-term when I was told to take individual 6th graders out in the hallway and write down my observations of them rolling clay into little balls. Idiotic!
Anyway, my kids' school's mission statement is "to create educational entrepreneurs with a social conscience". So, they spend a lot of time with guidance counseling (yeah, in kindergarten). They're given lectures on not being bullies and such. Then they spend about half the day lining up to go to various "specials" like music, art and gym. The whole morning seems to be dedicated to writing one sentence in their journals and drawing a picture to match. They use invented spelling, so anything goes. I have been a room parent and lunch helper and observed these things firsthand. They use Everyday Math, so they basically learn a lot about counting money, but nothing else. I'm so frustrated. The more time I spend on this board, the more I'm thinking of telling dh I don't care what he thinks about them needing to go to school, I'm not going to waste their time like that!
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I, too, know how you feel. Friends of ours 3 yo ds drowned in their pool in June. He was on Life support for 2 weeks and they finally let him go. It wracked my soul for June and July and I've just come to realize that although I can help them in any way possible, which for now, just seems to be acknowledging their pain and loss, I have to focus on the good things that resulted from his short life.
I'll be praying for you and that family.
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A pale blue or pale leafy green?
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I don't think it has been made an issue in our school district, but I think most people here voted for Obama and would not have any problems with it. I've never heard any politician make any speech that was not in some way politically motivated. I don't intend to shield my children from politics, so if they show it at school, I'm okay with it. If I don't agree with something being said, I can discuss it in an age appropriate manner with my kids.
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I sit at the pool and listen to these women go on and on about every little insipid thing under the sun, and they never stop talking! Makes me nuts!
I feel the same way about some groups of women, but I would not say I'm anti-social. I love getting together with my women friends and going to scrapbooking crops. I prefer not to talk much about "every little insipid thing under the sun", though. I do know what you mean because I am subjected to it at the pool, soccer games, pickup time at school, etc. I think there is a big difference between being anti-social and wanting your relations with other people to be meaningful rather than superficial.
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Awesome! That was a great composition, and it's fabulous that your dd is helping out so much!
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What a great video. Thanks for sharing. You've got me thinking about something lovely to do with my family this week.
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Dishwasher is loaded. Laundry load #1 is in the dryer.
Birthday girl, I still wouldn't clean on your birthday! Make someone else do it!
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I thought of another one. My goddaughter was really into the Three Musketeers for a while. They read the unabridged original (in translation) together as a family, and she read an abridged children's version herself. She told all her friends about it and forced them to play it with her. She was always D'Artagnan!
If your husband was ill and couldn't support your family...
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Well, dh is a lawyer, so we've had wills and living wills and directives for what to do with our kids and POAs for pretty much everything since we were married. We also have life insurance policies that should enable both of us to be okay if one of us were to die. I could never in a million years earn as much money as dh does without going back to school, so he does have disability insurance, too. With that, and my working, we should be all right if dh were disabled for a while. If he were permanently disabled and/or we lost insurance coverage for any reason, we would have to drastically change our lifestyle, which would be okay by me.