these books are NOT going to McKAys. They look so pathetic that I doubt they want them. Therefore, I am hoping to avoid the repeat scenario. Ironic that you posted that, cause I will likely be paying my favorite store a visit this afternoon, but I am not bringing anything....just looking for a few things for school next year.

:iagree: this is a great analogy, No I don't think that one has to be an educated scholar to understand the Bible, but I do think that one must read it and read all of it to understand some parts of it.

aside from the vision issues, I made my oldest who like your son did not like to read for about 30 minutes a day. After you get the eye thing straightened out that is what I would do. 30 minutes in a book of his choice. Many times I would make her read aloud to me for half that time. Now she really likes reading and she is nine, so it may end up that with practice he will enjoy it more and more. When reading is hard it is not fun but the practice will help it get easier.

I've changed the sheets on my bed, hung laundry on the clothesline, washed more dirty laundry, weeded out my kid's books by half (really there is no point to having so many books if we cannot find our favorites because there are too many that we don't really like all that much), sorted out dd2's clothing (she's away at camp this week. She took 9 outfits with her, so I emptied her drawers and took out almost everything else. No child needs more than 2 weeks worth of clothing crammed in her drawers, especially as often as I do laundry) I started the general declutter and clean up of the mess in dd and ds's room, but I started getting irritable. (that happens when I deep clean my kid's rooms. It is a combination of being overwhelmed and disgust. Why is it so hard to simply throw trash in the trash can? Why did I buy my dd new socks when I found a weeks worth crammed in various places all over the room) So instead of crabbing at my kids, I decided to take a break for a few minutes and destress here. So the mess will wait in there till I can :chillpill: Anyone else get stressed when cleaning?

when I lived in FL, we used very thin towels. It helped.

I baked cookies and packed enough for my dd to share....

my babies all dropped. I am fairly tall though, so there is plenty of space in my pelvis for that. It was amazing though that I could breathe more easily for the first time in weeks. I also walk around dilated to 2 and 3 cm in most of my last trimester.

do you have a crawl space? any possibility any vagrants could have holed up there?

45 acres. I consider it "large" :)

what about an experience gift...movie tickets, museum/zoo pass. etc.

this or chickens. I do think the granules do better than a spray. Fence your garden (even temporarily, w/step in posts and netting+zip ties) to keep the chickens out. Otherwise yo uwill never get a tomato.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! :willy_nilly::willy_nilly::willy_nilly:

my dd 13 shares with dd6. Not an ideal situation but there are no alternatives My dd 9 shares with her 3 yo brother. Again, not ideal as she is beginning to grow up and will likely need some privacy soon, but she is the only one who can sleep through his loudness. That is why he shares with her. She is the soundest sleeper. Would love to have enough room for eldest to have her own room, as she is in a different phase of life as the others, but this is what we've got. If we had the extra space, eldest would be alone, two middle dd's would share, and boy would have his own place. If the two littles have to share, would you be able to stagger bedtimes, so they could go to sleep w/out keeping one another awake? Or sometimes, when one kid got a late nap and was restless, I would let a child go to sleep in my room and daddy would move them later.

six people. farm. (my kids clothes are only clean enough to rewear their pjs. Even if they don't go outside, they are bad spillers ) 12-14 loads a week. No diapers.

we've had times like that too. just hunker down and wait for it to pass.

that really looks alot like my allergic to tick bite rash,. But if you need the test for your peace of mind and the antibiotics, then find anther dr. Especially given the flippant rude way that dr handled your concerns.

If one disappears and the chore is not done or is only halfway done, I assign an extra chore. And I will stand over them till both chores are completed to my satisfaction.

If one was a builder or had construction experience, I would think you could do quite a bit by sizing your house to standard lumber sizes (less waste) and I am sure there are other things someone experienced could do to cut construction costs.

I have allergic reactions to tick bites that sound exactly like what you are talking about. EVERY tick bite I have ever gotten looks like that. It may be Lyme or not.

I'd go stark raving mad especially in the winter. I need space. I need alone-ness. I LOVE my kitchen (that lady's house could almost fit in my kitchen) and I am not embarrassed that I have a huge eat in kitchen and I LOVE IT! Good for them... but it is not for me.

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at least you didn't accidentally send it to you parents or your mother in law or your pastor.

me neither... three days is my max.

I don't know that you would get enough $$$ to justify it.

hmmm...that is a thought. Perhaps everyone is thinking it's someone else and it's not.