My DD6, who is really getting excited about reading and spelling, came out of the bathroom super excited last week exclaiming, "I know how to spell toilet paper!" "S-C-O-T-T!"

Spaghetti, frozen corn, rolls. I want to eat at everyone else's house!

We start at age 8 with a special birthday dinner at a restaurant of their choice. They'll probably never want to go back to those restraunts again for the trauma! After that it's anytime anyplace.

We love our Fit! I can't think of any cons.

We've done that much driving with our four kids, and we all survived. This last summer we did 12 hours from AZ to Utah. Stayed for four days. Then 12 hours to South Dakota from Utah. Drove all over Mt. Rushmore/Badlands. Then drove over to the southeast corner of Idaho to meet up with family. Four hours back to Salt Lake, and then 12 hours home to Az the next day. All in about 2 weeks time. Some of the longer stretches we broke into two segments, but not all. Our kids are pretty good in the car. I think you could do it!

I thought AZ might stand a good chance, but nope 8/10 here.

I LOVE my 5:30 AM boot camp! I've been going three times a week since May. The trainer is awesome, the workouts are varied and fun, the people are so supportive, and the best part is that I get it all done while my family is sleeping. We are all night owls, so I never thought this would be sustainable, but I tried it once, and I'm hooked. Nothing to lose from giving it a try!

Yes, the tone of that article was icky to me, but man is she beautiful!!!

Glad you found your recipe. I buy my almond flour in bulk from Honeyville Grain. A 25 pound bag is a little over $6/ pound. Plus they often have sales. Only $4.99 to ship it to your house, too. http://shop.honeyville.com/products/flours/blanched-almond-flour.html/

My DD, almost 12, has been thriving with TT do far this year. She is a strong reader, but has really struggled with math over the years. She loves doing TT on the computer, and the instruction style is really working for her. Good luck deciding!

Ads for this were coming through my FB feed ad nauseum about this for a while. It was incredibly annoying, and sounded completely crazy to me.

My Kitchenaide has been a pretty good workhorse and wasn't crazy expensive. And I use it a lot.

My son has crazy feet. They are like blocks (wide and thick), and finding any kind of shoe to fit him is really hard. So I was shocked when my husband brought home a pair of Adidas cleats that he could actually get on. He'd gone for years without wearing cleats for soccer because we just couldn't find any. So I'd say the Adidas suggestion was a good one.

Yes! I got a fourth of the way in with my kids earlier this year, but we didn't finish. They lost interest, and it was creepier than I expected. Those lost boys kind of ended it for me. And I had hard time working past the whole dog as nanny concept. So weird.

All of this is so true! My aunt suffered from ALS for 15 LONG years, way longer than the average amount of time it takes to succumb to this disease. It was such a slow and painful decline that in the end she and her husband did choose euthanasia for her. I find all the videos in my feed to be mildly annoying, but I am incredibly grateful for the increased awareness and the stats a previous poster mentioned about the huge increase in donations.

My older two have done book recitals up to book 3 so far (on violin and cello) and have done it all from memory. But my DD, especially, has an amazing capacity for memory, and it comes very naturally to her. Your teacher should be able to help with specific problems in a piece. On a more general level, maybe you can work on finding some way of connecting each piece to something visual to help tell them apart better. For example, for one of my daughter's recitals she made a poster of a snowman (it was Dec) and cut out accessories to represent each song (hat, carrot, scarf, etc.) Members of the audience got to choose an accessory and tack it onto the poster to dictate the order. Connecting the piece to a specific image or picture might help him tell the pieces apart better. Another option..don't play all the pieces. I accompanied for a violin book 2 recital this afternoon. The student had chosen 6 pieces to perform and written up a little bio to share about each of the composers. It was very nice. She performed from memory, but had a few memory slips here and there. It wasn't a big deal, though. It was in her living room with relatives that love her no matter what. 😊 I hope everything comes together for your son!

My 9 year old son is obsessed with Stampy!!!! I'm ambivalent.

Wow. I have two little girls that LOVE to climb and sit on the scooter carts that are parked next to the check out at our favorite grocery store, and I am forever shuffling them off and reminding them they aren't toys, etc. I'm paranoid they'll push a button and run somebody over just while sitting there. I can't even imagine allowing a child of any age who did not actually have a physical need to use one of those to ride around the store attended or unattended. That is crazy! So crazy that my brain cannot compute what I would actually do in that situation. Waiting with baited breath for an update...

Everyone is always talking about stars, and I cannot see ANY anywhere? I'm totally out of the loop on stars. I'm always on my phone, though.

I'd love to try and arrange my schedule to make it!

My in-laws got a weird call like that once saying my husband's cousin was stuck overseas and needed some money transferred ASAP. It was definitely not the cousin and it really creeped us all out. The in laws would probably have fallen for it had we not intervened.

I don't remember why now, but years ago my sisters and I started leaving off the second half of the word welcome. So "you're welcome" became "you're well". Always. Glad we're not the only weird ones.

Somebody posted that link here last week or so, and I seriously could not tear my eyes away! I finally had to just knock down the window on my browser cold turkey and will myself to not go back. I was wasting too much time. It's mindblowing, really.

This is basically what we've done. We put a crib mattress on the floor right next our bed. I'd nurse the child to sleep for the night with promises that they could nurse again when the sun came up. I'd also give them a sippy cup of water that we call "cuddle water". When the child woke to nurse Daddy was in charge offering the "cuddle water" and comforting the child back to sleep. It can be pretty rough. Sometimes I'd be lying there with a crying baby on top of me repeating, "when the sun comes up, when the sun comes up" ad nauseum. Sometimes I've gone and slept on the couch. It will work out eventually. Good luck, and I hope you can get some sleep! (Sometimes my three year old sneaks in bed in the night and gets to nurse before I'm awake enough to figure it out. 😊)

I loved reading Barbara Kingsolver's book, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" about her experience with this. I could never do it, though.