Well, my oldest is just 10.5, but I enjoy them all more the older they get. Well, one is my least favorite year, so I like them better before and after that. I mean, it's one of the cutest ages, but it's so physically demanding and draining. They're mobile enough and dumb enough to be such a danger to themselves at age one. I do not do well with lack of sleep, and I don't sleep for the first couple of years. Not that I want my kids to grow up too fast, and I definitely savor the baby cuddles, but I'll be so glad to not have a baby/toddler. Anyway, I didn't vote, because for me so far, each time, the hardest has been up to age two.

It doesn't sound like she feels responsible, it sounds like she has a generous dose of empathy for the girl. I think your daughter sounds like a lovely person.

We did everything the first time through SSRW. With my second child, I didn't make him do the writing. He reads just as well as his brother did upon completing it.

Yeah, I'm gonna need a link to the clipboard that's $67 at 15% off!

What? That is bizarre! Why would he think that was what he should use to make things shine?

I have low BP in general and also diagnosed NMH. I eat a lot of salt. I was told to do sodium tablets also but they made me feel sick. I used to get dizzy and lose vision quite a lot upon standing.

How much is the mid-range top loader Speed Queen?

DS is so excited. He loves black holes.

Can the signal noises be turned off?

We don't use dryer sheets, so we're good there. While it kills me to not get a set, we cloth diaper and have a 10yo agitator-top loader that cleans great with lots of water so I don't want to replace until we're done diapering. But, we really need a dryer. We are having to dry three times just for a normal load of clothes. And this thing has spit lint all over the house since it was worked on several years ago.

We need a new dryer. Looking online, for the combination of narrower depth that we need for the space but also pretty good reviews, it looks like LG wins. But, I get so nervous about appliance buying. Does anyone here have (electric is what we need) LG dryer experience, good or bad? Or any suggestions for narrower depth electric dryers? The current one is 28" and has about half an inch of clearance to the laundry closet door.

In America, they can. The date is essentially meaningless. It's for your reference basically. At least that's how our bank explained it to us.

So I'm a member of this organization where we are going to choose what meat to have with dinner for the next long while. There are two different groups of choices and they have to be narrowed down to one choice per group and then we will choose out of those two. I can only help narrow down one group. So, group A, I have a favorite choice, but the other choices aren't all that far behind and I wouldn't mind terribly eating any of these meats. For group B though, I don't like any of them and there are some truly horrific choices and a lot of people seem like they're going to pick the horrific choices. There are some not quite so awful choices in group B, not ones I'd be happy with by any means, but wouldn't make me starve to death. So, if you can only help narrow down one group, which one, A or B? Do you pick your favorite from group A or do you pick your least disliked from group B? ***Any resemblance to any other sort of situation is purely coincidental, nothing political here at all***

I edited again. It looks like it's all together under "David the Gnome" also. There were 26 episodes and they're all there.

Well, it's been 21 months so far. I expect that I'll be done sometime this year.

*I* loved David the Gnome! Eta: it looks like it's on Amazon Prime!

We have the Beatrix Potter DVD! I got it for the kids for Easter one year. It is nice.

Does anyone know how long after weaning one should wait before measuring for new bras?

I will ashamedly admit that though I have heard the word "Wikileaks," I am so out of it on news items that disinterested me for years that I have no knowledge or opinion on whatever this guy is or is not wanted for in the US. All I know is what I read about the news that happened yesterday, but I did read about ten articles. It was my understanding that he had been questioned, arrested and released on bail and that's when he went to the embassy. Is that not accurate? I'm more than willing to change my opinion with new information.

And I have not seen in a while, but I'm thinking Maggie and the Ferocious Beast. And the old Franklin (there is a new one that I don't know about).

Oswald. Definitely Oswald. Available to buy on Amazon. Totally worth it.

You're right. I was thinking direct object and not predicate nominative.

I imagine the full sentences to be:Here is a picture of... It will be... and I'd therefore use me as an object pronoun in each. Eta- I can picture the second being a subject: ...will be attending. But I have a very hard time making the first one make sense.

Can we talk about this? I am just flabbergasted. How is his holing up in an embassy to avoid being arrested on rape charges "arbitrary detention?"

Let's just say, that general area.