If you think they have sociopathic tendencies, you should be getting them professional help.

I deleted some PMs and messaged you! It should work now.

And *hugs* to you.

I've done Mini omelettes in muffin tins, w/ bacon, green onions, red peppers, mushrooms and eggs. You can also do the mixture in a 9x13 in the oven and when it comes out, cut it into eight pieces. Put it on a toasted buttered bagel, wrap in plastic wrap and freeze. I've also made a big pot steel cut oats and had that through the week. I've also just done fried eggs on the toasted buttered bagel and put those in the freezer. I figure if Jimmy Dean can make and freeze breakfast sandwiches, so can I.

When Digby was that age, I got some balloons and filled them w/ squishy stuff (beans, sugar, rice, etc), some geoboards, some pom poms and tongs to sort into trays, a bunch of cut up pipe cleaners in a mason jar with a magnetic wand, 8.5x11 chalkboard and whiteboard. His favorite now is Start Write pages with outlines of letters. He likes to take a marker and "write"

Thanks, I've been watching many of the videos and am anxious to get started. I am drooling over her clean and super organized house.

Not everyone can afford it, even though we know it would help.

You know that meme that's been floating around FB, the one about "It shouldn't be 'slept like a baby.' It should be 'slept like a husband.'" Yeah, that describes my husband. He was in total denial about his snoring too. One day he fell asleep on the couch and I used his phone to record several minutes of it. GEEZ! A person should not have to try and sleep next to that. I used to use earplugs when Pigby was an only child. But then I had two more children who don't sleep through the night and a husband who wouldn't wake if a tank came through the house. I'm terrified of not hearing the fire alarm, so sleeping w/ the two quiet kids works best for us.

Lately I've taken to sleeping in the kids' room. I'll go get Digby out of bed and put him in w/ DH. Then I'll sleep in his bed. DH's snoring got so bad I wasn't sleeping at all. Took forever to fall asleep. This set up works because Digby and DH are both such heavy sleepers. Digby doesn't wake up when I move him and DH's snoring doesn't bother him. That leaves me, Pigby and Chuck. Pigby is somewhat annoying because he's my teeth grinder, but he hasn't done it in awhile. Chuck seems to think that she can wake up four times a night to nurse, but I'm putting a kabosh on that. Pigby can't sleep in there because 1) DH's snoring wakes him up and bothers him. 2) He sleeps on the top bunk and I can't get him off w/o waking him 3)Pigby's a thrasher in his sleep. People get beat up sleeping next to him. The only problem is that I have no idea when Digby wakes up and goes downstairs. Sometimes he sleeps in, sometimes he's up when it's dark. He's my destructive child, so I have to make sure he isn't ruining/destroying something/setting the house on fire. DH was against the sleeping separately. He's a snuggler and a cuddler. I am not. Geez, I am not. I can't sleep that way. So after too many miserable nights where I was thinking too many ill thoughts toward him, I went and did the Digby switcheroo. DH didn't even notice until he woke up.

Oh what to say, what to say. For some reason our ward thinks this child doesn't exist. He was always a surprise in nursery when he changed classes (they have the ages separated out into 3 or 4 classes). "Who is he? He's not on our list." Today was his first day of Primary. He was very grumpy at not being allowed to go to Nursery anymore. I can't say as I blame him, he seems so small to be going to Primary already. Anyway, I took him upstairs to the Primary room, sat him down in a chair. The presidency and other adults were in there, so I figured he'd be fine. I took Pigby to his new class, he's in Senior Primary now, so I wasn't sure where he started out at. When I went back, Digby was wandering the hall. Jiminy Crispies! I put him back in, next to a teacher. I took Chuck downstairs to nursery and came back up to check on Digby for awhile. He just sat there looking dazed and confused. Figuring he'd be fine, I went and sat in the foyer to read my Believing Christ book. I like to stay in sight in case nursery or primary workers need to find me. That and I hate going to SS and RS. After a bit, sometime in the third hour, one of the counselors from Primary came down and found me. Apparently she thought I wasn't sure how old he was because he wasn't on their list and I guess they all just thought I accidentally put him in a year early. Anyway, she said she saw him wandering the halls when Junior Primary left sharing time to go to their classes. So she took him and found his class. *bashes head on desk* There are two rows of Sunbeams. My visiting teachee and her DH are teachers of one class. When he first went in, he wasn't in their row. But at the end, he was in her class. I'm going to VT her later this week and I will ask if she could please make sure he's not wandering halls anymore. I'm already super paranoid about one of my children getting lost or kidnapped. I do not need this anxiety right now. It's not a plus on the "We really need to go to church" list. It's just one more thing that makes me want to stay in my house forever and never leave.

He doesn't anymore but only because I caught on to what was happening. It took me awhile though. I was wondering why he was stopping math and rubbing the heel of his hands into his eyes. Oh, it's because I kept nagging him to hurry up before the timer went off. Yeesh. So now I have to project calm. Any hint of tension from me and he freaks out again. He's a major perfectionist. I'm pretty sure he had a hard time thinking up a name for the girl in FLL too. I just gave it a few minutes and then offered a suggestion. At that age, it's easy for them to absorb information but I think it's harder to retrieve it. So while he knows many girl names, having to think of it on the spot is an exercise in frustration. I wouldn't consider something like that to be worth frustration. The grammar part is more of what's important.

We would like to join too! I have a 7 year old that would enjoy doing it!

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Oh Diane, I want to be like you when I grow up. You're always so happy and chipper. I want to be chipper, gosh darnit!

Ha ha ha, well this week has been interesting to say the least. Suffice it to say that after everyone in the house battled croup or the flu or something, Chuck started to get better. Then last night just started crying for no reason and would not be consoled. Cried the whole night, poor dear. Our car died (part of the interesting week) so my brother and SIL took us to the urgent care. Luckily/not luckily she does have an ear infection. Luckily because our $100 visit was not in vain. Not luckily because it cost $100 and ear infections are M.I.S.E.R.A.B.L.E. Anyway, got her going on some abx. Hopefully she'll sleep tonight. If not, I took a nap from 530-630pm just in case. Needless to say, we didn't make it to church. I am so sad. It was Digby's first day in Sunbeams. I'm sure he'll be one of those crazy little kids who runs around, but we'll see. He missed it all :(

Sports School Books she's read Movies she's seen Any apps she likes Teacher's she likes/dislikes

If you have a good bread, storebought or homemade, you can do chicken or egg salad. Those go pretty fast. I've also made nacho meat and frozen it ahead of time so heating it for lunch doesn't take too long

I lock myself in the bedroom w/ the laptop and watch Psych while DH puts the kids to bed. After they're in bed, he can't come in for three hours.

Oh yay!!! A place where I can whine about being sick! I've been whining on FB too much. The Saturday before Christmas, Pigby was up all night crying because his ear hurt. Due to the holidays and weird circumstances searching for an urgent care center that was open, it took awhile before he got to the doctor. Ear infection, on antibiotics. Three days ago, I started feeling icky. Two days ago, I was feeling really icky. Yesterday I was just plain miserable. Had a fever of 104, was so cold it took about five blankets to stop shaking, couldn't sleep, the two littles are sick, so they were up crying every two hours during the night. We're just not feeling well. DH had to take care of me last night, but complained that he wasn't feeling well either. I'm worried he's going to come down w/ the flu too.

Digby has had eczema since he was 4 months old. I wish I had heard that food allergies could trigger it. I heard a lot of things trigger it (vaccines, lack of Vitamin E, etc) but never food. Finally I had a friend who went gluten and dairy free and her lifelong eczema cleared up. We tried it w/ Digby for several months, I wasn't perfect at it, but 99% of it went away. He only flared when it was a regular part of his diet again. For the last two months we haven't really been doing GFDF and all the spots are back. We're doing it again in the new year. Also, homemade soap is really good for it. They don't take the glycerin out and it's very soothing and moisturizing. Store bought soap is made w/ harsh chemicals and they take the glycerin out. We had great success w/ goat milk soap bought at a farmer's market.

This is something I don't care about at all. When pregnant w/ Pigby, my SIL was also pregnant, due about 4 months after me. We had a hard time deciding on Pigby's name. When he was born, his middle name was "X." As SIL got closer to her due date, everyone asked if they had a name picked out. She said yes, but didn't want to say yet. Well, it turns out that the name they had decided on before Pigby was even born was "X." She was worried I would be upset for her trying to steal it. Bah, I don't care at all. She can name her kids whatever she wants. Someone who just had a baby shouldn't have to be worried about other people getting mad at "stolen" names.

Well, my son does have an earache and we're staying home from church. My husband works on Sundays so it's just me and the kids going to church. And so when one of us is sick, we all have to stay home. So we're all missing the Christmas service. Health comes first. I'm fairly certain my son has an ear infection though. He was up all night crying, very unlike him.

That's why she's recommending seeing a doctor about it and seeing if medication would help. It may be more than just trying to tell yourself to do it. Sometimes outside help is needed. There's nothing wrong with that.

I haven't done it w/ my kids yet, but growing up my dad was in the air force and then later a pilot. Sometimes we had Christmas early so we could have it when he was home, sometimes we had it w/o him on the 25th. I don't think it's weird to do it early. If your kids believe in Santa, we used to tell our little sister that we asked Santa to come early for us.

We are on break for Christmas. I have no idea what I'm doing today other than keeping children fed and clean :bored: I need to go buy stamps somewhere so we can mail the rest of our Christmas cards. DH needs to fax some papers in. We need to fill out some paper work that he got about benefits at work. I need to clean the kitchen and prepare for our anniversary and Christmas (tree not up yet, presents not wrapped, some not even bought). I also need to crochet three more headbands for a commission I took. Why, oh why did I take this commission?