You can actually just toss your raw meatballs right into the crockpot to cook with diced tomatoes (peeled), a can (or two) of tomato sauce, basil, garlic and a touch of olive oil (NO WATER) - you'll have meatballs and sauce in a few hours. You can also toss in some raw sausage too if you wanted to add that in. I do a chicken (or turkey) chili that's pretty awesome.....you can do it all fresh or quick.....the quick is easy to at least try it - I have a large crockpot - so 1.5 pounds chicken meat diced up into bite size pieces (can be white or dark meat), 1 jar salsa (medium), 2 cans tomato sauce, 1 large peeled tomato diced, 1 clove garlic crushed (or jarred equivalent), 1 large onion chopped chunky, 1 red pepper chopped chunky, 1 yellow pepper chopped chunky, about 1 cup fresh green beans cleaned and tips cut off (cut in half if large).....add to taste - chili powder, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper, and jalepenos......cook for a few hours (until chicken is done), then add 1 large can of drained, rinsed red kidney beans, 1 small can of drained, rinsed pinto beans and 1 small can of tomato paste....stir and let simmer about 30 minutes more. Taste and add spices needed if needed to taste.

Silver outside, grey cloth interior - I prefer leather, but we bought this used and it came with cloth, so I live with it. The exterior rarely shows dirt - I know it's dirty though; interior also hides a lot if I didn't do it too. DH's is midnight blue with dark grey leather interior....exterior shows dirt more quickly than mine does, starts to look kind of dusty if he doesn't get it washed regularly.

Tanner Stages in puberty

Woman has a baby with her DH - both are rh-negative, so no problems; then the DH gets sick, it leaves him infertile, but they want another baby, they opt for donor sperm, they go to doc, get pregnant and she is refered to OB for pregnancy....she goes in to see doc/midwife and no one asks if her DH is the father, they assume he is - but he's not.....donor is rh-positive. Oops! Woman doesn't get the Rh immunoglobulin (RhIg) shot following the birth - baby and mom do well and she and the man want another, so they go back to donor and try again - now she repeatedly miscarries.....because she's rh sensitized and each pregnancy will create antibodies against the pregnancy, causing her to miscarry habitually. Does it make sense now why the question is asked? There are so many scenarios as to why a doctor/midwife should ask - the rh factor being only one reason.

Or that perhaps you and your DH had trouble conceiving and used donor sperm is also a valid reason to ask the question. Medical professionals (and midwives are included) need to know this type of information so they can know if they need to test for things like Rh-factor. And the reality is that some women do cheat - the question isn't meant to offend, but to inform where and when necessary between doctor/midwife and patient to provide the care needed.

Actually she's asking to know if she needs to take care of you after the birth for Rh-factor issues - she can't assume that because you're married that your DH is indeed the father - only you can answer the question when asked. it's not meant to offend, it's meant to make sure if your DH isn't the biological father and you do have an Rh-factor issue, you'll receive the shot and be able to have more children in the future.

For scouts it's Miss/Mr. First Name - that is for any den leader within the pack. For DS's friends, it's usually Mrs. Last Name (unless they're in his pack and over to play, then it's Miss. First Name). In some ways it feels odd to hear that, but at the same time, I do think it's a good thing to maintain that I'm not their friend, I'm DS's mother.....to this day, at 45, I still call my friends' parents, that I've known since childhood, Mr. or Mrs. Last Name, even when they say to call them by the first name - making the change is just so difficult because they've always been Mr/Mrs Last Name. They're okay with it sticking, but it's funny because it's hard to change!

The pharmacist should be able to tell you - but he'll likely tell you though that expired is expired, don't take it, even if it's safe to take, will work, and isn't going to be a problem.

DH's father recently recited the Declaration of Independence for DS - he was just amazed (we were too)....when we were discussing, he said when he was in school everyone learned it, along with the Gettysburg Address, Magna Carta, passages from the Bible, and a handful of other noteworthy historical documents and entire sections of plays and books (Shakespeare, Iliad, etc.). He's almost 80 and can pull them from memory still to this day!

It depends if it's a small molecule or not - the type matters and its effectiveness depends on how it degrades in time. Many medications really don't ever *expire,* while others will absolutely become useless with a couple of months of the expire date, and some may even become toxic with time. It really depends on the medication you're talking about!

I think it totally depends on a number of factors, including the current earnings of the spouse and your earning potential. For me, I already have max benefit with SS due to my own years of work and earning a high salary for almost two decades before staying home. We have factored in my earning potential and my social security and my future earnings potential and it still doesn't make any financial sense for us. The type of work I did and would do requires extensive travel, so we'd need a really good live-in nanny since basic daycare wouldn't meet our needs if I went back to work due to DH's insane work schedule....that's not cheap. And while my earning potential remains very strong (six figures) and I know for sure my being out of the workforce hasn't impacted that (had an offer of a very lucrative contract about a year ago and declined) - it isn't worth it to me or us - my level of earnings would take us into a higher tax bracket and since I've always been self-employed, a very high percentage would go to taxes (income, FICA, state and matching FICA) - once we add in the nanny, I'd take home less than minimum wage - less than what I'd be paying a nanny! Umm - no, that doesn't make sense. We're blessed - DH already earns well and I can stay home without worry about finances. I thank God for that.

I didn't toss or sell the Saxon math, so I have that even though we switched over a year ago to Singapore - so I have that too - and I supplement with Horizons workbooks, so I have those, but not the entire program. For the future I have on hand, Lial's Basic College Math, Duxbury's Intro to Statistical Methods and Data Analysis, a box of both DH and my college math books, and my old AP Calculus book - not sure if we'll use any of them, but we have them! Oh and in my dining room somewhere is a precalculus textbook DS picked up at the library book sale that he thought looked "neat".

Perhaps you/he can read The Two Income Trap: Why Middle Class Parents are Going Broke by Elizabeth Warren?

Me = two antibiotics, shellfish.....not cats DS = all fish, shellfish, cockroaches (no city college for him, 'eh?)....not cats DH = grass, trees, pollen, dust, thimerisol, powder in surgical gloves, two antibiotics, a handful of chemicals, dogs....and cats

My oldest just turned 7.