Cooking Pizza tonight and watching the game! Dh even said to let dd stay up to watch. We are on the east coast so she'll be up late. GO TIGERS!

Praying for your family Stacy

Now you have me curious, what are the topics that are that advanced? My dd is really young still so I am just going on my memory from school 25 or 30 years ago. I haven't decided over the long run what to do for grammar yet.

If you aren't going to put in anything larger than that it would be fine. I have often included full page pictures in my photobooks.

If you only want to make prints up to 8x10 inches, you only need enough pixels to make a sharp print at that size. The general rule for high quality sharp prints is 300 pixels per inch. So an 8x10 inch print needs 8x300x10x300 = 7.2 megapixels. ​This is just a basic rule of thumb. I didn't remember the numbers and just looked it up on line.

I voted no, I am in my 40's and female.

A lot would depend on the dog. We dog sat for friends of ours whose dog was the same age and size and basic temperment as ours was. We had a room that was fairly empty and had laminate flooring that we kept both of the in for the week. They were pretty playful and it kept us busy, but it worked out pretty well. I dog sat for my IL's little dog for a couple of days and she was much more spoiled than what we spoil our dogs. She wined a lot when I wouldn't let her sleep in the bed with me and she barked a lot more than our dog does. That was much more of a head ache and yes I would do it for them again if the need arose. Assuming the dog is house broken and isn't destructive and can get along with your cat or you an keep them separate and they were pretty good friends I would do it.

Will you meet me in Heaven Some Day by Johnny Cash

Rice will cook the same way. Use a meat thermometer and try it.

Uno mancala (Assuming the 2 year old is past putting stuff in their mouth) go fish old maid

There isn't a lot of real beach in the Keys and there is lots to do depending on how much you want to spend. Scuba, snorkeling, jet ski, flight seeing, Key deer, and then lots of stuff in Key West. There are lots of waterfront hotels in the Keys, just no real beaches. It is beautiful and a lot of fun. I've been to Disney and really don't like the heat or the crowds or the waiting in line. I don't know how the Keys are for college kids at that time of year.

Divorce sucks Parents getting involved with other people with or without kids sucked Parents blaming the child for where the child lives sucked Becoming the go to babysitter/caretaker of a younger sibling(s) sucked One parent being verbal about wishing the other parent would die and being graphic about how it should happen sucked Don't separate or divorce close to a holiday like Christmas or a kids birthday Pay your child support so you don't end up in jail and if you end up in jail because of it don't blame your kid Having mentors and productive activities outside of the home/family really helped It took me a long time to learn how to be a wife after getting married and to not take treat my dh badly because of experiences I had growing up. I am still insecure and deal with a sense of abandonment at times and it has been close to 30 years since my parents divorced. I didn't want kids for a long time because of having to care for my younger brother so much and it was so difficult. I would love to have more kids now, but having dd took a long time and I am now in my early 40's and dd is 6 and I figure I am not likely to get pregnant again.

Everyday Math...people shortened it after my original post.

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Is the ED math what is causing all the confusion for parents?

Just a curious question, Dh and I are engineers so pretty math intensive backgrounds. We learned the traditional algorithms for arithmetic and are will be using those to teach dd. I bought a book years ago on Mental Math because I saw a professor very quickly solve long arithmetic problems using mental math. It is something that I will probably go through with dd after she has the traditional method down cold. I've seen bits and pieces of the stuff that through people off that some of the schools are teaching now, apparently not directed by common core, but allowed by common core. Doing a little research it looks like it is called everyday math and was put together by the University of Chicago. I am also seeing some things say that it is how the Chinese and some other Asian countries learn, although I am not sure of that. I am not even sure if Everyday Math and Mental Math are different. Is my understanding of this correct? Can we have a discussion of what the differences are and if there is really the advantages that people are claiming?

Praying for Caden and your family. :grouphug:

I think I am going to ignore the Facebook request and just say we are home some of the time and are really busy with extended family when we are home.

Yeah, but she sent a message too asking if we were going to be home anytime soon. It wasn't just an invite.

How do you be kind when you really don't want to pursue a relationship from the past? Years ago I had a friend from college that was pretty flaky. The last straw was when she bailed on plans to get together in her home state when I was on vacation. My family made plans and I intentionally didn't go because I made plans with her and then tried calling and calling about the time we were talking about me heading her way. She was about 2 hours away. She never apologized and never even gave a reason, good bad or other. She found me on Facebook and we now live in the same state. She wants to be Facebook friends and to know when we are going to be home. (Dh contracts and we travel with him, so we are gone from home a lot.) I don't have the energy or desire to pursue any kind of relationship with this person. We are homeschooling, we spend time with family, we have activities that we enjoy doing. I've moved on, I don't want to hurt her or be mean, I just don't want to go back there.

I would not force them but do make sure you are getting enough calories. You can add a little fat to stuff to help. What you are talking about is a ketogenic diet. We have a doc that says you can't go to low on carbs. Most veggies do have some carbs in them so make sure you are counting those. If you do a very low carb diet make sure you take a multivitamin, magnesium, and potassium.

Dd was up about 6:30 which is about an hour early. She was very excited and funny thing is she was most excited to give her cousin a little toy that she specifically picked out for her. That is what she wanted to do first thing.

Mine is an IL complaint...It was discussed and we were to open gifts at our place and then we were going to do dinner with other people coming over at 5 is for dinner so a total of 13. IL's, including SIL and her dh and dd come over without any gifts. They had us go to the grandparents house to open the gifts from them after we handed out all our gifts to them at our house. It was really very weird and then it ended up making us late getting dinner ready and we ended up eating late. We rolled with it, but sheez, why couldn't it have been a little easier. If you really want to open presents at your house why don't you just say so. Lots of power struggles and lots of weird history with MIL in particular so this type of thing is not unusual.

Anna, Elsa, Sven and Kristoff Plush dolls were an immediate hit with dd(5)

Merry Christmas!