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  1. I am sooooo johnnyoffthespot here, since it seems to have started when I was in hospital.  We HS an only, she's awesome, the experience is awesome, and people say awesome too much anymore.  DW and I were both the eldest of 2, spaced about 2 years apart in both cases.   We didn't start out seeking an only per se, but after a miscarriage, the whole experience with DD has been so smooth from the get go that I find I'm sometimes an advocate for families of three.  None of that makes logical sense, but this is a heart vs head thing for me.

     

    I also had terrible rivalry with my sister and we're still estranged, so put that in your Freudian meat grinder as you wish.

     

    Oh, do I wish for more?  No.

     

    Is DD happy as an only?  She has said so on many occasions, yes.

  2. Summer of 1984.  We were 19.  The drum corps I just joined merged with the corps she had been a member of for years.

     

    She kept asking to borrow my sunscreen, and, me being a bit thick, it took until the end our tour in August for us to officially become a couple.  We went to separate schools about an hour apart, so it was a bum-a-ride affair for the first year, until I got a car on campus!  How we maintained our high grades after that point is still somewhat of a mystery.

  3. My husband just recently "converted" to atheism from Christianity, and he is a lot more accepting of things that he never was before (swearing with "g#d d###it in front of our children, not caring too much about the shows they watch, laughing at crude jokes, making fun of Christians, etc.).

     

    ... morality exists outside of Christianity- I just don't know how to teach it.

     

    With all due respect, your DH is behaving like an ass. Christian, Jew, Hindu, or other, you can be a responible parent...or not.

     

    As for mmorality and how to teach it...it's partly, maybe mostly a show-don't-tell thing, since kids are sponges who watch us way more than we think. If you need a dinner table conversation starter, that's where lliterature and current events can be great seed material.

  4. DD sings with the New Jersey Youth Chorus, and has sung at the Super Bowl, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in just the past 4 years - she has more performance opportunities now than she would ever have in school.

     

    Ask the music teachers in your local school. They'd know of the non-school-based ensembles around because some of their students probably play in those too.

  5. Five at once, no, but I just ordered a book from Amazon that I apparently checked out in....December???? There comes a point at which the fines surpass the cover price, so the library gets a new book from us. It's only gone to that extreme twice, and only after I've checked the library's shelves for possible mistakes. As for regular fines, those are just the cost of doing business as one of the system's super-users.

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