Wooohooo!!!!!!!!! Praying for your DH and you. So excited!!!

:iagree::iagree::iagree: Praying for you! Woohooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such great news~

:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: and prayers to you.

Very impressive.:lol:

Welcome! :seeya:

Urgh. I am so sorry. :grouphug: Praying the interview Friday goes well and the resumes he has sent out find favor with the hiring managers.

:iagree: I finally dumped our former math curriculum at the point as stated above. We were both banging our heads but I was the one avoiding it or pushing it back a day. Now we both love math, especially DS. He takes his workbook to bed with him at night to look at the work he did while DH reads to he and his brother. Quirky fun kid.

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:party::party::party: COngrats!!!!!!!

Our former church would throw church-wide showers for all babies. But, if it was not the first, they would always ask if you wanted a shower or a "sprinkle". A sprinkle was where a large box was set up in the church kitchen (we had a small Victorian house that was converted into our church) that people could drop gifts/necessaries into without feeling obligated to attend a shower or give a larger-than-they-could-afford gift. All 4 of my children were born while we were members of this church. I had 3 showers and 1 sprinkle. The second shower was a diaper shower since I was having another boy and the sprinkle was a diaper sprinkle since I was having another girl. I don't know how our current church handles these things since we've only been here 3 months. I think they have showers for first babies since we seem to be having an outbreak of first babies :tongue_smilie:.

I had the mold hallucinations as an adult due to extreme black mold in our apartment. It went on for 1 1/2 years. You can have a mold remediation company come do an inspection for free and also have your house tested for mold (but that's costly, around $375). Hugs to you and your family and many prayers.

While not that extreme, my children do have a strong reaction to MSG. I had cut it almost completely out of our diet until I gave in to Goldfish last week at the store. They were BOGO so I decided to let each kid get a bag. BIG MISTAKE. It took almost 2 days to get a 6 oz. snack out of their bodies. The change in the kids was within minutes. I felt like I was talking to highly mobile concrete walls who bounced off everything and each other. Even DH commented after putting them to bed that something was wrong with them. I'm glad your dd is recovering quickly. It's amazing to me what just a little bit of that stuff will do.

Check his ears. That's the easiest point of entry for overtaking human vessels. Especially when they are sleeping. Larger than normal amounts of earwax mean successful infiltration.

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I can't do my work because the little Legos are lonely and need me to help them. I can't do my work because the teeny tiny dog next door might come onto our porch and scare me. I must be prepared. I can't do my work because you haven't had your afternoon coffee yet. I can't do my work because this pencil isn't the right size for conducting my imaginary orchestra. I can't do my work because my brother won't stop doing his work to watch me. I can't do my work because my brother stopped doing his work to watch me. I can't do my work because this chair won't stay on the floor. I can't do my work because the ice is melting in my cup. Did you know it's turning into a liquid from a solid? I've got gas.

YES! Last weekend, my husband was snoring so loud I slept on the couch. Since we're in a small apartment, it didn't help much. I was awake so I went to sit on our microscopic porch. I could still hear him. With the door closed. And all the windows closed. DH sleeps so heavy that he never hears the kids, ever. Not even the ones that walk up to his side of the bed and hit him with their plastic hammer. Not fazed.

From her opinion piece: It's difficult to standardize something we can't properly keep tabs on. She refers to homeschoolers with this but having had many conversations with the Chinese and Hindi K teachers next door in our apt building who would have been my K'ers teachers had we put him in our zoned elementary school, this also applies to public school. Too funny. And she evidently hasn't dealt with a roommate, life in Cubeland, and a manipulative, vindictive boss. She's young. She'll get socialized eventually.

Can't. Too busy ruining my children's education because, while I do have a MFA, it's not in Education. I am so screwing them up........:lol:

:party: Woohoo!!!! He was just working in his plans for kiddie marathons..:tongue_smilie:

What we had in the backyard for our kids: Old pieces of hosepipe Broken Tupperware (some from Goodwill and some from a Tupperware sales lady in our area who had warranty items that couldn't be returned to the company) Sand toys, even though we didn't have a sand box Hubby built a swinging disk for the kids out of 4x4 posts, rope, and a wooden disk. Tonka trucks from Goodwill We had a very small backyard that was mostly dirt. At it's largest, it was 20x30 feet. But the kids would play in it for hours once we added the swing and the broken Tupperware. the boys loved to take turns pushing each other around in the Tonka trucks then dumping each onto the dirt.

My Dh and I have reversed roles after 15 years of marriage. I was the one who collected clutter and he was the purger. Now, I'm a minimalist and he's a hoarder. He has 7 computers that don't work but he'll work on them one day, 17 bikes that he found when he worked for our county parks and rec (they were left at the parks), and 9 of the 10x10 pop-up cabanas that don't work but will when he has the time to work on them. Granted, we moved all this stuff from the beach to our new location. Thankfully, when we moved, I had 3 weeks at our old house to myself to get everything packed up. I filled 3 12-yard construction dumpsters in the first 2 weeks. We could still fill another one with the above-mentioned stuff that is in storage at his parents house. With DH, it's genetic. His dad is the exact same way. He can't even drive down the road without stopping to see something that was on the side of the road. He's been known to pick that stuff up and take it home. He has a 1 1/2 acre yard that is 1 1/4 acres of stuff.

We school M-F but take all of hubby's work holidays off, unless we go hiking or some other outing that can count as a field trip. Then that day gets added to the week as well. Friday's are our days to do science, read-aloud practice for DS6, and catch-up stuff.

:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: Praying for MamaSheep and her flock.

My SIL in TN took her ceiling fans out about a year and half ago. Her design mags said the ceiling fan era was over. She took all of them out and replaced them with pretty nice, energy-efficient track lighting. But her power bill jumped $37 per month (averaged over 12 months) since her HVAC was almost constantly running (keeps her house at 72 degrees year round). She has put ceiling fans back in the upstairs bedrooms but refuses to put them in the downstairs, public rooms since they are out of style.

Our kids are 6, 4, 2, and 2 weeks away from 1. They all go to bed at 8pm. Depending on who had naps (the 2 youngest still nap every day), sometimes they will stay up reading until 8:30pm. But they all wake up between 5 and 5:30am every morning.