The day my neighbor brought it over I was licking the plate. Literally! Glad to share the joy!

Disclaimer: I am not dieting and haven't researched any of the different options. However, my neighbor is and I benefit from her creativity. She brought this over for my breakfast last week and I have eaten it 3 times since then. Absolutely delicious recipe and super, super easy! Bacon Avocado Cups with Balsamic Glaze

I clean as I go during the day. The kids clean the kitchen after every meal, we all tidy our places every evening. Laundry is Wed and Sat. Dh and the kids scrub the bathrooms, mop, and vacuum Sat morning and I sleep late. We're preparing for a move so I super clean/organize one area a day. Closets, drawers, pantry - hopefully I can get through everything before March.

I use TT and upgrade to the paid version. The amt you pay is deductible, so I figure its a wash and it males it easier on me.

I've had 4 and when dh and I started discussing another I called the ob who had delivered all of my kids to see if there were any problems with the idea of another. He said there should be no issues, my uterus looked great when I delivered ds. He's delivered thousands of babies and I trust him completely in his assessment.

I preserve figs when I can get them. Candied jalapenos are good, escabeche (pickled jalapenos, carrots, cauliflower and onions). Pumpkins at Halloween. Its fun and my neighbors love it!

It is a glorious, sunny, wonderful 80^ here. I sat on the porch reading, chatted with the neighbors, kids haven't been inside all day. Spring cannot get here soon enough.

I looked and looked but didn't find anything either. The one I'm using now is super easy though. I'm on my phone now, but if you want it I'll post it later

There is a lot of this line that is solid. From my grandmother back to colonial times is confirmed and well known in the family. Solid documentation. The only place I have any reservations is between England and here. It seems solid - immigration records, good marriage, birth, death information. And if that's solid then back in England it is super-well documented. I'm just having a hard time believing it - how could I not know this???? My poor husband is sick of me calling him with every new find - this is so fun!!!

My FIL started researching his family tree and added me on as editor for my family. I've gotten sucked in in a major way and am wondering about anyone else's experience using this website. It's pretty darn exciting - the family history I know I've been able to confirm. If you use the record available - birth, death, marriage, census - it should be pretty reliable, right? The line seems to be confirmed definitely, not just through other trees I'm building off of, but by all the records mentioned before. Am I deluding myself? Seriously - really exciting lines to follow (for a geek like me). {FOR SOME REASON I CANNOT USE THE ENTER KEY TO START NEW PARAGRAPHS - SO SPACING IS ALL MESSED UP WHEN I TYPE ON MY COMPUTER} I'm just doing a quick follow directly line, not looking at aunts and uncles - just child to parents as straight through as I can. {Now the font is messed up too, I wonder if it's a windows8 thing?} :cursing:

Just asked my 6th grader - she could do it.

This is what I use. At Costco the big jar is $8. It makes soup so much better!

Stop and think about the math. You've fed 4 people essentially 4 meals a day for 9 days. Even if you used all $400 for food - you're looking at about $2.75 person/meal. And not all of that was food, right? I agree you can find ways to streamline the cooking process, but financially you're way ahead. If you went to BK even 3xweek and bought two meals at $5/ meal you'd have spent about $60 just on those afternoon snacks. I get really tired of the cooking/planning/shopping but when I think about taking the 6 of us out and spending a minimum of $40 per meal I can't hardly justify it. Good luck!

I don't have any suggestions but just wanted to give this a bump. That's a fantastic idea!

This is like the one I use. I make a double whenever we have sleepovers and everyone makes their own pizza. Great fun and so cheap! Hmmm....we may be having pizza for dinner!

I voted other - there were definitely differences, but dh was deployed through the whole pg, I was exhausted the whole time trying to care for 3 little girls, start hsing, and just surviving. I think the differences were more because of the situation than because of the difference between boy and girl. I was significantly more nauseated - but I actually was the one cooking and cleaning EVERYTHING. There was no option to avoid the tomato soup (which was a big trigger for me) - the girls *loved* it, it was easy, but the smell made me want to die. In real life dh would have taken care of that and I probably wouldn't have noticed too much after the initial, "Whoa, that doesn't work for me." Kwim? Recovery after the C-section was significantly longer and harder, but again - dh left when ds was 2 weeks old and I'm relatively certain that was the reason for the difference.

Lavender is the thing that does it for me. Dr. Teal's Lavender Epsom Salts are a necessity in this house - I can feel my bp drop when I'm running the bath. Poor dh isn't a huge fan of the smell, but somedays (actually everyday, sometimes more than once a day) that is about all that keeps me from screaming my head off.

Just the thought of lima beans makes me gag. My mom thinks they're the greatest food on earth and we had them every Sunday growing up. I swore I would NEVER cook them, and so far I haven't.

We fry some bacon then halve the sprouts and fry them in the bacon grease til they're browned. Add about a cup of chicken broth and cook til tender. Crumble the bacon over them amd chow down. We literally fight over them. I never seem to make enough.

Does adding the cream make it thicker? I love the super thick Greek style yogurt and have tried many times to strain it so its thick, but I don't end up with a consistent product. I scrape the thick stuff off the cheesecloth and have lots of liquid left. Help?

Dh and 2 of the kids are pukers. I've pukes maybe 3 times in the last 18 years. Two of those times were medication induced when I had a herniated disc in my neck and was on a bunch of painkillers. Dd2 has always puked. She had reflux as a baby. She also has a super-sensitive gag reflex and would start puking if we let her cry for more than a few minutes. Now she pukes if she's excited, tired, hungry, too full - makes me feel like a terrible mom because she doesn't even wake me up anymore. I'd say she pukes at least twice a month not related to illness. DS pukes on car trips always. He'll be fine for hours (and our car trips always seem to be hours) then he falls asleep and wakes up heaving. At least we can plan for it.

My sister is newly single and she has started a girl's movie night at her house every few weeks. She's very quiet also so this gives her something where they CAN talk, but don't have to. Kwim? Good luck!

Just enjoying the Cottonbowl!

Other - I like my eggs fried halfway hard in bacon grease preferably with homemade biscuits and gravy on the side.

Dh explained to me exactly once that he couldn't do something because he was "on vacation". Exactly once. Of course, the ceiling was singed from my head exploding that once.....