Absolutely! Make sure to put your request in writing and with a "due date". Our former church didn't share financials publicly except once a year at the church's annual meeting. However, they would provide any financial information you requested as long as you did it in writing so everybody had documentation.

I am the same way. Still working on the effects of middle and high school girl bullies after all these years. Hugs to you.

Our oldest is 6. The kids all have an 9pm bedtime. If they don't wake up during the night, they will usually wake up by 5:30/6am every day. If they wake up during the night for various reasons (night terrors, potty, etc), they'll sometimes sleep until 6:30/7am. For the most part, they like to be up and snuggling with us by 5:30am.

This is me!!! I thought I needed a curriculum for everything. I am still coming to understand that *we* don't. Some things, yes we do need, somethings, no we don't. I am learning my children's abilities and adjusting as needed.

I was raised this very same way. When my mother was dx with Type II diabetes, she never changed her cooking. She always said it was part of who she was. She was on daily shots until she passed away. I am at a significantly higher risk for Type II. I had to make the choice to change my cooking from generations of heavy cooking. It's still a struggle some days. Especially pound cake :tongue_smilie:. I can see a distinct difference for the better in our lives because of these changes. I feel your pain and struggle right along with you.

And the shots.

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I don't know but I do know what all the above feels like. URGH..Today I seriously started looking into sending ds#1 to ps.

I hear ya! We're house-hunting now and I'm going crazy with all the perfect houses. I've got a great imagination so I can imagine what my life will look like in a particular house but seriously, having it smell like bleach and cleaning products all the time makes my head hurt. I can't imagine anything when I have a cleaning-products-induced migraine. We looked at one house this past week for the 2nd time. I asked our realtor to ask the family not to clean the house for our showing. If you lived nearby, I'd come look at your house and you wouldn't have to clean it.

My 4 year old won't sit still, either. But if he's coloring or playing with Legos while I'm reading, he can remember everything I've read. At dinner the other night, he rattled off the first 4 paragraphs of the chapter we read in "On the Banks of Plum Creek" that I read aloud to them at lunch. And that's another option...reading aloud at lunch. I do this about half the time and it works as well as having him occupied with coloring or Legos.

I've done both HWOT and Kumon with my 2 boys. Both my boys were trying to write letters by age 3. With my oldest, I used the HWOT orange book, slate, and practice sheets. We had a hard time. BUT when I started teaching my youngest son with the Kumon, I saw the value in the descriptions used in HWOT (dive down, etc). All that said, I will continue using Kumon. I liked the presentation better and it was easier for me to teach with having 2 students at the same table but different levels of learning. My youngest son finished the uppercase and lower case books in 2 months. He loved them. Then he went back and redid them in crayon (he did them originally in pencil).

Thanks for the recipe. I've been wanting to try to make my own but haven't had a chance to hunt down a recipe. :hurray:

It may be a bad batch of Stevia that has gotten progressively worse in whatever is wrong with it since you opened it. I'm also assuming you're not pregnant since early pregnancy sometimes can cause a similar reaction to previously tolerated foods. Like GailV mentioned, sometimes your body will have an immediate negative reaction to something that was fine before.

:iagree::iagree::iagree::iagree: And get permission from the police to close the street and have a MASSIVE party!

Thanks for the update. :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

My MIL thinks something is wrong if there is silence, as well. DH didn't believe me when I would come back from taking the kids to visit his parents and tell him I just wanted some quiet, no talking. Then he had to spend a week with them (first time since he left home in 1988) by himself when he took a new job in their town. He and his mom made the 5 hour drive back to our house at the end of that week. As soon as she left the next day, he looked at me and apologized for not believing me all those years about his parents' talking. Evidently his mom talked to him the entire 5 hour trip and every night while he was with them without ever letting him get a word in. Now if I could only get him to stop talking from the minute he walks in the door after work until he leaves the morning.......:D

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:grouphug: Oh no! So sorry to hear. Hope he gets better soon.

:iagree: And don't forget to make the "Serious Face" when you throw the signs.

Beyonce! Yes, I completely agree. My DH finds absolutely no humor in Beyonce so guess what he's getting for our 16th wedding anniversary, delivered to his work...*well, slightly smaller than 6' since shipping would probably be expensive*

:iagree:This is why I blog, as well. I use Blogger/Blogspot. All that said, I should probably update my blogs.

I get migraines and/or vertigo from artificial sweeteners. I was a Tab drinker, had a Nutrasweet gumball machine (with endless gumballs), and drank sacchrine-filled sweet tea as a kid. By my late teens, the migraines started. The vertigo kicked in by early 20's. It wasn't until I was living on my own and removed all sweeteners from my diet that I realized the artificial sweeteners were causing my migraines and vertigo. We're a pure- or no-sugar family.

Yep. And the Benadryl truly does make it worse, at least in my experience. Claritin helped me when I was fighting this same thing.

HA! :lol::lol::lol::lol: This is my take, as well. I love my DH but when he is sick, he's like a life-sucking, noisy alien that fell from his planet. I leave him ensconced in our room until my sweet DH that I adore emerges.

So very excited for you, Amy!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!