My son stopped wetting the bed right around the age of three. No accidents until he turned 6. I took him to the doctor to rule out diabetes and felt confident that emotional distress was not a reason. My doctor told me my son was probably going through a growth spurt, so I decided to be patient and hoped that the issue would resolve itself. I tried a few different approaches along the way, but the bed wetting went on for close to a year. I saw on another message board the book Dry All Night mentioned and bought it. It took two days of reading the book for my son to stop wetting the bed. I think he had fallen into a habit of wetting the bed and just needed a new mindset. The book worked for us and may or may not for you, but wanted to share our experience.

My first question is why your DH is in charge of deciding which type of invitation will be used? Have the other siblings handed the planning part over to him or is this a joint venture? I see nothing wrong if your Dh's sibling wants to contribute to the party by using his work connections to develop and mail out the invitations, but I am totally aware from a past 80th birthday party fiasco that many other factors may be at play here. I'm just amazed that your husband genuinely cares about the invitations because my husband would hand that assignment over to anyone that volunteered.

Okay, just reading your thread title gave me a great laugh for the day! I don't know if I should wish you luck in finding some good deals or encourage you to just stay home.

I just recently found out how our local district operates regarding textbooks and thought it sounded crazy, but now that I see how it's becoming more the norm, I realize our district doesn't sound so bad. About three weeks before the start of school our district has an orientation camp where all students are able to tour, ask questions, and pick up all their textbooks. This set of textbooks received at orientation stays at home. Each teacher has a full class set of whatever book from which they teach in the classroom, and these never leave the classroom. I heard the decision was implemented a few years ago because of kids having to lug around several heavy backpacks and to reduce/eliminate the number of kids coming to class unprepared and without their books.

Holly, I needed this advice. It's so simple, but I can see that if I followed the one hour rule I would stay on schedule and probably get even more done each day, without a lot of added stress.

My son just received the same letter last week. I did a quick google search using the organization's name followed by the word legitimate. I then threw the letter away. It sounds like nothing more than an expensive sight seeing tour, and if I really wanted that for my son, I think I could find a better deal. Just my thoughts.