Yes. The muscles are different, and being used in a different way.

I don't think it's fair to deny one child something because the other doesn't want it. That said, I wouldn't drop a lot of cash on gymnastics for a five year old. Aries is taking his first tumbling class tomorrow, at age 11, because I finally found a rec class that is a good time, nearby, affordable, and the right age group for him. Only took 7 years. We rotate activities. Gem and Taurus just finished baseball. Now the other three are each having a class. In the fall, we'll see what's available and who wants something that's on offer. If one kid can't seem to get interested in anything, I encourage short, one to five day sessions to introduce an activity. Eventually they find something they love. But it's silly and unfair to make everyone else wait because one kid doesn't feel like it.

They are cute! I have some of these put away, waiting for Luna to grow into them. Luna is the spakliest, glitteriest, tutu wearingest girl I've ever seen. I prefer more understated bottoms to go with super girly tops. They work better than the frilly, lacy, sky looking girly shorts.

I just laid it in our front entry. we haven't had it long enough to have much of an opinion beyond 1. dog pee cleans up very well from it. i was concerned because it is soft and it feels porous, but apparently it's not. 2. we got a light stone look. it hides dirt very well. we live in the desert and the front hall is always dusty. i haven't seen footprints on it yet. 3. it was so fast and easy. i finished the job in less than an hour. 4. ours is sticky, and i don't think it's sticking very well. now, D laid a few tiles, which I pulled up and rearranged. he didn't clean the floor first, so they aren't super sticky now. but that is user error. i'll pop a little epoxy under there and I think that will be fine. 5. it's inexpensive. we used two boxes at $20-$25 each (I didn't buy them, D did).

It seems from reading through that thread that a lot of people have experience teaching in a classroom. How many are you?

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Luna is sleeping and my window installer is going to be here any minute, so it looks like our afternoon plans might be off even though Aries' sunburn is pretty well healed :sad:

Luna is just starting to sleep all night. hallelujah. i feel like a human again. i'm not sure if we are going to start something new or not. we are scheduled to start summer fun, but Aries has his first ever sunburn. He's miserable. it really isn't bad. but i'm deciding if i should keep him home another day or two, buy him a swim shirt, or just slather him with sunblock. eh. we'll see. our plan for today include a visit from Luna's developmental therapist and speech therapist, picnic lunch and a visit tothis amazing pool but maybe i should plan something indoors instead. or gosh. i got a trendy undercut hairstyle yesterday. i wanted it to be subtle, but my stylist talked me into something more dramatic. it looks kind of like this. http://hairstylehub.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/111-1.jpg Not subtle. my hair is red (and blonde, blue and purple) so it looks much more bald. gem got an undercut style as well, like this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b0/33/02/b033025143ff74c3dcd95783f9aca4ae.jpg he is absolutely adorable. i bought him some Gorilla Snot styling gel. it is thick, gooey, and powerful. so now all of the boys are experimenting with spiking and styling their hair. Sagg and Aries are doing a swim team style class. Aries went to his first practice, but Sagg was on a field trip. Aries was wiped out. an hour of hard swimming did him in. he learned a lot and i love that. he loved it, it was fun, and it's great exercise. Sagg will start wednesday. No vacation this week. D has rescheduled his vacation 3 times, but he's in the inspection that never ends, so no one knows when we'll actually be able to go. we planned a staycation with a day trip up to Lake Pleasant http://www.arizona-leisure.com/lake-pleasant.html someday.

I'm out in the desert, so no water sports. Everything is pretty far away. I drive 20 minutes for groceries. There's a sky diving school in my neighbourhood. There are horses. Lots of horses. And golf. So many golf courses, I can't count. They are everywhere. We have state parks, but they are 20 minutes or more. Hiking, camping, picnicking.

Uncracked eggs last a long time. We have 4 dozen grocery store eggs on a shelf, unrefrigerated right now. I only shop once a month. We have only had an egg go once, because it was cracked and on the bottom of two cases. It took a while to find it. Had I known one was cracked, I would have removed it right away.

Eggs freeze very well. I have a frittata in my freezer right now. It makes an easy, quick breakfast. Quiches and breakfast burrito also freeze well. I did breakfast tacos with whole eggs baked notified tortillas. They froze very well.

Wow. No. I'm struggling with just regular shorts looking like cheekies. These are absurd. I have seen gym shorts with this cut. It looks like the poor girl lost half her pants. Edit: I've seen them online and in magazines, not in real life. But the ones I've seen were more generous than these.

1. Reconnect with my kids. Lots of fun, not too stressful stuff. Remember how to enjoy them with few expectations and no criticism. 2.Relax. Really and truly rest. Mornings are for reading. Laying on the couch with a book or three. 3. Recharge. Return to my faith. Rekindle my meditation practice. Recenter my life. 4. Fall in love with my husband. Remember why we chose each other. Bring love back into our home. 5. Simplify. Review what we have. Make a plan for its use. Eliminate anything we don't love or won't use. 6. Prepare. Plan the details. Allow for flexibility. Acquire what is needed. Tidy our spaces to make them useful. 7. Be productive. Finish major house projects. Plan and prepare simple, nourishing meals. Teach the children to feed themselves well. Make soap, bath bombs, and fairy garden houses. Improve our spaces.

We are more or less starting our lives over. everything is a new beginning. though we are starting to get settled in. i can see the light of actually having a comfortable life at the end of a very long tunnel. today we are starting summer classes in our town for the first time. aries is at swim class, sagg is heading off on a field trip to golfland, gem and taurus are finishing their last baseball game tonight-hallelujah. more stuff starts next week. we are almost 2 years in our town and 18 months in our house. D is installing a bathroom sink right now. we have new windows and a sliding glass door lined up, and solar panels in the next few weeks. i'm finishing the kitchen this week-sealing floors, back splash, final touches. this is surely a labor of love. then furniture-dinette, bed for us, possibly a new sofa. i can't say what we would do differently, as we are still in the throes of it. i am glad that we bought cheap and paid cash. 10/10 would do again.

ah, i see. it does seem to be geared toward troubled students and a high school diploma. there is a huge advertising push for this school. we are new here and i don't know much about our options. he does want to go to university. so there is that to consider. though he will go as a transfer student.

i actually didn't finish my degree in that field. i took a nontraditional route. for that i am grateful. it was easier to walk away at that point than to try to force myself into a field where i clearly did not belong. i went back to school for something i actually enjoyed, where i do belong. another helping field. i've been home full time with the kids though, so i've not used it at all. for me personally, college ended up being a very expensive hobby. one which we are still paying off. fully debt free except massive student loans.

for the op, i shop equally in juniors and ladies. the pieces -mostly active wear, but also cute, feminine dresses and tops- can be found on either side, depending on where the buyers think they should be. if both fits work for you, use both sides to meet your needs. as far as dressing "like a mom", no. I started dressing "older" when i started not wanting comments on my physique from strange men. if you are comfortable in what you are wearing, keep at it. if not, change it up a bit. at 32, i was still having babies. i was told when i joined a knitting group of older women that i looked like a pregnant teenager. they were confused that i seemed to have lived an awful lot of life for someone so young-military vet, lived over seas, college twice, 3 kids, travelled extensively, multiple careers, small businesses, etc. in their defense, i was wearing pigtails and striped knee socks. i was super cute, too :lol:

I'm having this problem right now. we have moved from a long-hair-and-long-skirts community to a much more progressive one. I'm 41 this month. I've always looked young, but not so much now. I'm quite overweight and i'm struggling with my identity. I just went through a shorts crisis. shorts are short now. My booty is large and round, but not so pert and cute as it once was. short shorts are not working for me. i did settle on some long shorts, which are comfy, but frankly feel like defeat. the yummy mummies are all wearing yoga pants and tanks. i feel like a grilled sausage in that ensemble. alas, i'm still wearing it. because i don't know what else to do.

what does that mean? would it be a bad source for freshman english? what would be a better option? we're in arizona. we don't want to enroll him in b&m school.

I pointed out that media platforms are changing with increasing frequency, and you tube may no longer be a thing by the time he's ready to be self-supporting. He did not like that conversation.

IME small household tasks fall to the wife, regardless of employment status. While men handle the larger tasks, the little tidies seem to fall on women. Including numerous sahd households. i know this wasn't a gender based question, but i see this as a heavily gender based issue.

Aries wants to be a you tuber. which is great. i set him up with cheap video equipment to help him get started. however, he needs to also learn a trade. i worked in childcare because i loved it so much. i worked a LOT. 3-4 jobs at a time. i didn't get paid much, but i also didn't have much time off to spend money, and i loved my job. i'd much rather work on the weekends than go out. for me, it was viable. i went to nursing school and HATED it. my first day on the ward, i came home, sat on my bathroom floor and wept because i had made a terrible mistake. but the pay was good. i'd much rather my children have a lower-paying job they love, than one that pays well and hurts their soul.

It really isn't the sport's fault. It's not a good fit for my kids. They would do much better in something else. I'm a finish what you start kind of parent. But I will be glad when the season is over. The team aspect stresses me out. Uniforms, needing a minimum number of kids, all of the other players depending on my kids. I think we'll just stick to individual sports. The older two are doing kickboxing and tumbling, and swimming. Much less stress.

my family is heavily into sports. i'm definitely the odd one for not putting all of my kids in baseball every season. i feel like sucha slacker when they don't play. i have learned my lesson. my little ones -who this is about-asked for karate this summer, but i can't do it. i need some recovery time. summer classes start next week. i just can't go back to back like that. my older two have classes scheduled. i hope it goes better. luna still has therapy through the summer. and we are swimming almost every day. and we have outings planned and summer clubs and library reading programs-three, because clearly i don't know my limits. no. i'm cutting it back to 2. i was considering a fourth, but that is stupid. i really wanted a nice, relaxing summer. i guess i don't know how to relax.

my kids are the lukewarmest of participants. They show up. they meander out onto the field. they half-heartedly swing the bat. one know where the bases are, one doesn't. Sometimes they get ready on time and we make it there for the first pitch, sometimes no. all the while, i'm dying inside because i am clearly far more invested in this than they are. Their league doesn't keep score or track wins and losses, which is good, because if they did, they would brag, brag, brag if their team won (from past years in another league). They were talking smack before the season even started, before they knew what team they were on, or that they don't keep score. after the game, they enthuisastically dive into their "snacks", which are typically bigger than their dinner. tonight's offering is a lunch bag of candy, chips, and a caprisun. then i get to listen to them bicker over who got what in their bag while my 2 year old freaks out because she doesn't have one. this is super ridiculous. yes, most of this is parenting stuff, and character issues that i need to work on with my kids. but this team sports thing just brings out the absolute worst in my kids. and probably me, too. try as i might, i can't just sit back and enjoy the game when they are behaving so poorly. one more game tomorrow, and then never again.