How interesting!

I'd probably pick your top 2 or 3 and plunk them down in front of the girls and make them pick.

Yes, regardless of if you decide to try for another baby again, DO work on getting the thyroid under control. If left out of whack long-term, there can be heart and nerve damage.

This is how it has worked for us, but asthma isn't the issue here (migraines and the meds have aspirin). The other dc and I have the choice. My littlest went with the shot last year because the mist grossed her out so much the year before. My oldest can't seem to do the mist without blowing it all over the person giving it, so it's injection for him, too. I guess it really depends on just how severe the asthma is.

We have Europe and USA. That's enough for us here, but we also play other geography games like GeoBee Challenge, Global Pursuit, Empire Builder, Eurorails, Ticket To Ride, etc. ... we like the variety.

I'd probably call and get an idea of things to look for (other than the obvious breathing issues). I have one who has to have the injectible because of health issues and medication mixing (he's of course, the only one who I really want to make sure gets it every year).

I lived in #7 for close to 4 years, and didn't have migraine issues while there. My brother has migraines and lives in #4. Interesting that my migraines increased going from #21 to #65.

My ds's got a lot better when we moved from UT to TX, and I developed them. Environmental allergies definitely can be a trigger. Before moving to get rid of them, though, I'd likely go through extensive allergy testing to isolate them, and then study up on where you can go to get away from them. We moved here for work, so it wasn't something we were thinking of, just how it worked out.

In this case, where she had asked for a mailed form of payment, it seems logical that she'd email you to make sure that payment was, in fact, on its way before cancelling the sale. I'm more of an instant gratification gal, and want quick payment and to get the thing mailed out, but that's also why I do Paypal (also, it protects me more as a seller from bad money orders and bounced checks as well as giving the buyer some protection). I'll still bug the seller a couple of times by email and put a deadline on payment a few days out before I cancel the sale though.

Technically three share school space in our "schoolroom" and one has his desk in the spare bedroom/craft storage room. But lately, they've all been congregating in the family room, partly because it's Texas, it's summer, and even with a/c, it's hot upstairs. My separated one (not my oldest) has his own space more for introvert issues than distractability (that would be my youngest's issue, but she's also my raging extrovert, so isolation would be too hard on her, especially at her age). Older ds has started to go to the front room for some of his written work, mostly because baby sister does.not.shut.up.ever.

I went through 9 miscarriages in a row while hyperthyroid, one more just after I began treatment, and then had a successful pregnancy after the thyroid got under control.

I've learned never to say never, because some people are just put together weird, but usually the appendix is more in the upper to middle of the abdomen, not that low. In that area, it would most likely be a strained muscle, or possibly an ovarian cyst or a hernia (pretty slight possibility).

I grew up in a together at all costs Navy family. We often lived in the Navy Lodge for months at a time. Our support usually came from non-military families in the area -- usually met through church, scouts, school, -- my mother would work on setting these contacts up before we moved, which couldn't have been easy in the pre-Internet age. Other military families made up a very small part of our network. It was terribly hard on my mom, especially when we were young, but in retrospect, 20-35 years later, it was a great adventure and our family and my parents' marriage is stronger for it. I did have friends, sometimes ones that I knew at several duty stations through the years, whose moms would go back to extended family many times that their dad would deploy or go to a less than favorable duty station. Sadly, none of those friends' parents are still married. Just anecdotal, the divorce rate in the military is high anyway, but ties closer to extended family than nuclear family were factors in at least 15 divorces that I can think of off the top of my head. Not the answer you're looking for, I know. As a parent, it has to be difficult to be separated from a child and grandchildren, but I haven't seen more separation than the military already forces be good for marriages and parent/child relationships.

She has some big breakup song that is apparently directed at John Mayer out right now, so any info that she doesn't date must be a bit older. I've wondered about the age difference, too. If they were 10 years older, I wouldn't even notice, but there's a lot of growing done in those late teens/early twenties. I've seen it work out (one of my close friends from college started dating his wife when she was 17 and he was 24), but it was very difficult for them during the 5 or so years that they dated.

Raw (unpasteuried) milk is a hot commodity in many circles. Usually, if you get it straight from the farmer, from the same supply that he feeds his family, the risks involved are very low, and in fact, there are antibodies and nutrients that the heating kills off. I've seen it sold in health food stores before, and am not sure that I'd trust the whole supply chain involved to get it that way.

I'd back it up and do something like Letteroftheweek.com, just to keep the letter sounds fresh. They have many fun, hands-on ideas that are appealing to 5 year old boys. My dc were a little atypical with ages (they knew letters and letter sounds by age 2), but it took quite a while for those things to sit and stew and be ready to turn into words (several years in most cases). I've noticed the same thing with my niece. The rest will come ... sometimes the whole idea of letters and sounds just needs to cook a while before a child is ready to put them together into words. He's still young yet, he'll get there.

Definitely writing here, too. My oldest CAN write well, but tries to get away with doing as little as possible. My next one down likes to write, but her grammar and spelling are atrocious no matter what we do. My third is allergic to pencils (ok, not really, but he'd like you to believe that) ... we're still working on the mechanics of writing with him, which is complicated by dyslexia. My little one ... I think things will get better with her, she's just in a whiny phase right now.

I've lived at the beach and in the mountains. For the locals, the tourist season is always a lot busier -- not at all like the vacation experience our guests have. But in the off season, we could relax some, and things were slower and nice, and still with a great view, even if not in the season the tourists were used to seeing it.

Yes, you're delusional, but I remember having the same delusions. At 30-something weeks with my youngest, who has always been very active, I remember thinking that I couldn't wait to have the baby so I could get some sleep. Then I laughed at myself because I knew better. I could pass her off to dh for a few hours in the evening since we had to supplement with bottles anyway ... but she was a round the clock eater for the first 3 months, and didn't really sleep for the first 18 months (not through the night until 3, and she is still a night waker at 7 1/2), so it hasn't really been any easier than pregnancy, just different.

My teens read the books and are looking forward to the movie. But even so, this was a series we decided to read with them (dh took this one, I took Twilight, which teen dd wanted to read) . ait sounds like a good story, but not a movie to probably even show my 11 year old, especially without reading the books.

When it came time to pack up the last of the Little People (I left some out for my youngest until she was 7 because they still got played with), my 11 and 12 year olds had to play with them one last time -- for a week. A lot of the stuff that was out was from when they were 1-2, and they loved it then, too.

I've found that rules for virtual charters, even provided by the same company, vary widely by state. I've had friends with K12 and Connections who could make their own schedules as long as they got the work done, and others whose dc not only had to do school on certain days, but had to log on to virtual classes and were penalized for being late, even if it was 5 minutes and because of internet connection issues.

We are. We did a couple of weeks of school lite, but that dissolved and we've had a couple more weeks off. Tomorrow, it's back to everything. We'd gotten a head start on a lot of new stuff in the spring, so not much new, just back to what we were doing before we took a break. It is older dd's last school year at home probably, as she's interested in going out to high school. She's doing an 8th/9ht hybrid, her older brother is doing 10th, younger brother is 6th-ish (but an unschooler mostly), and baby sister will be in 3rd-ish grade this year.

I personally might mot eat that much, but I think that those portions sound completely reasonable for most people. Ignore her.

I'd take my elementary dc out without a doubt. Once they get to high school, I would likely weigh the benefits of the trip, discuss with teachers, work on makeup plans with the dc before making a final decision.