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I found this site: http://www.jototes.com/collections/alltoday and fell in love with the idea of having an easier way to carry my camera with me. I find I don't take my camera with me at all and I'd really like to. I almost bought one of the bags today and then thought I'd better shop around before spending that much money. Does anyone else have a non-camera-bag camera bag that they love? I'd like to be able to put my wallet, my iPad mini, and a few other purse things into the camera bag - maybe even enough room for a book.

I'm a big fan of moving. We've had four significant moves since being together and they have each brought their share of challenge, adventure, and joy. We were in our last city for 11 years and even though everything was as perfect as it could get, we both felt stagnant. This particular move has been the most challenging, but also very rewarding. You only live once.

Personally, I would get a realtor. Purchasing a home is a huge investment - why would you diy the biggest purchase you're ever going to make?

I read every homeschooling book I could get my hands on and found that there was always something I could take away from every book - no matter how far from my own comfort zone it was. The two that had the biggest impact - that I reread over and over - for years - were Educating the Whole-Hearted Child and The Well-Trained Mind.

Starbucks are always changing theirs up, but if you can find one that is made of metal and has a non-spill lid that clicks in tight then you're good. We have two of them right now. It doesn't matter if you drop them, nothing happens. Plus, the seal is so good I can put the coffee in my purse and it doesn't spill.

We had an old table that we picked up at a garage sale and we kept it mostly outdoors, but sometimes in our garage. It was great fun to have outside and was well used.

Ping pong and badminton are two things we had in our yard that got a lot of use. We also had a fire pit - good idea.

I think it's a worthwhile read. I read it for the first time last year with my 10 year old. We both loved it. But, it might not be what you're looking for right now. And, come to think of it, it was a gift from my sister who had read it in a children's literature class in university. She loved it so much she gave a copy to ds for Christmas.

Not a hugely large family - we only have three left at home. We have three bedrooms upstairs - master, spare room, and ds (10)'s room. Main floor has two offices - one is small, just big enough for a desk. The other is meant to be a formal living room with a door, but I claimed it as mine and I share it with the piano, the violins, and the cello. Then we have a main room: kitchen, dining, couch area. Downstairs is teen land. Two bedrooms, bathroom, gym area, living room area (tables with tons of lego plus a sectional and TV/games). I really like having the teens in the basement. They are up way later than I am and I don't have to hear it.

As a kid, I found the Jason movies really scary. I still have a hard time walking around a campsite at night because of that. Same with Jaws - I can't swim in really deep water. I get totally freaked out. Doesn't matter if it's a fresh water lake with no chance of sharks. The scariest movies I've seen as an adult are: 1. White Noise - dh and I were both totally freaked out by that one. 2. Taken - the original one. I didn't find the other ones as scary, but the first one was very scary. 3. Saw - I don't even know why I watched it but I avoided the sequels.

Here's some irony for you - my eldest was not great around the house. She was a fantastic cook, but I would sometimes rewash her dishes and my kitchen aid was always covered in whatever she had made in it. Her room was often scary messy. Sometimes dishes would disappear in there. She did have regular chores and was ok at completing them - I remember in particular that she was pretty good at bathrooms. She's been out on her own for a few years now. Her biggest complaint about her current roommates is how messy they are - they leave dishes in the sink! Sometimes, they leave dishes in their rooms! They leave their stuff out everywhere! She's in university and has just applied for a summer job - cleaning houses! Ha!

We have done it with our boys. It's dh's dad's name and dh's middle name and oldest ds' middle name and now it's also youngest ds' first name. No one thinks it's weird.

My thirteen year old son emptied all the garbages and cleaned the cat litter without being asked! It's his daily chore and *every* *single* *day* I have to remind him and bug him or he will forget. It's a minor miracle that he did it on his own yesterday.

I would definitely keep him off the strip - even in the daytime. We stopped in Vegas for a night and stayed at Circus Circus with our three boys. I think they were 13, 11, and 8 at the time. We walked from Circus Circus to Caesar's Palace for the buffet and it was traumatic for the kids. One of my kids said, "My eyes are burning." Another said he was going to tell all his friends never to go to Vegas. My poor littlest guy didn't know where to look. He kept his eyes on the traffic and then one of those trucks with the big billboards with girls on it went by, so he looked to the other side where there was a magazine stand with more girls and then he looked down at the ground and saw the cards with naked girls on them. He ended up closing his eyes and we led him down the sidewalk. We also saw a fight on a street corner. And some weird guy with a sign asking people to punch him in the nuts. It's funny, dh and I had gone to Vegas on our own about a year earlier and didn't think twice about bringing the kids. I guess we just didn't pay a lot of attention? Anyway, the kids still have negative memories of Vegas. We've been asked a number of times by them why we would have taken them there in the first place. That being said - I'm sure there are lots of things to do that don't involve walking on the strip.

Is anyone else having an issue with using Netflix on a device that has qustodio on it? Apparently because it uses VPN Netflix will not play. Does anyone know if Mobicip also uses a VPN or proxy or whatever it is Netflix doesn't like? I'd really like a good parental control app but we still want to be able to use Netflix.

How about Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty?

I choose a lot of books from the long and short lists of literary awards.

I'm a first generation SAHM as well. My grandmother on my mother's side had to work. Her husband left her when my mom was 5 so there was no choice. My mom stayed home with us for about seven years and absolutely loved it. She was wonderful. She sewed our Halloween costumes and took us to the zoo and the library and to different parks. She baked cookies. She had hot lunches waiting for us when we came home for lunch from school. Then my parents split up and my mom decided to go back to school to become a registered nurse. I remember babysitters and being dropped off at the day-home at 5 in the morning because my mom had training at the hospital. I remember her being busy with books and studying. She was still a great mother, she just didn't have the same time as before. As we got older, depending on her shifts, we'd come home to an empty house. I still remember a lot of home-cooked dinners. My mom is a great cook. I also remember "suffer supper", which meant my sister and I were on our own to open a can of Chunky soup or put a meat pie in the microwave. I know my mom wishes things had been different. She wanted to be home. I think that definitely factored into my decision to stay home with my kids. And, frankly, it was always comforting to know that my mother would rather have been home than at work. That if she could have chosen to be there everyday after school she would have.

Yes, female cats can spray, too, but only about 5% of them do so. It's much more common in male cats who reach sexual maturity before being neutered.

I am seeing the same things. I do think having a year of leave is helpful. It's a cultural value here - we value the role of parents in the lives of young children. And we back that up with laws that allow for a year of leave. My sister stayed home until her first child was in kindergarten. Her second one was three at the time. She happened to get a job in the government and it was too good to pass up - even though she would have rather stayed home until both kids were in K. But, her job allows for a ton of flexibility - she works extra time four days a week so that she has every Friday off. So, she works the same amount of hours in a week but only goes in for four days. Also, she's just applied for a parental leave program - she can ask for the summer off work while spreading her pay out over 12 months, so she'll still get a paycheque and benefits, but it will be less each month so she can take summers off to be with her kids. I had a friend, years ago, who also worked for the gov't and was able to take a 5 year leave of absence to take care of her young kids after her maternity leave ran out. She didn't get paid during that time, but she got to walk back into the same job when she was done. Anyway, all that to say that when it's clear that the society you live in values SAHP's I think it's not surprising to see an increase in parents staying home.

My kids have been in school for about a year and a half now and I'm still at home. I have zero desire to be employed outside the home.

Is he a young cat? If he's between 5 and 12 months old, then I think the most likely cause of the spraying is behavioural. He's sexually mature and marking his territory. The fact that he's fixed now should help. I think you got some fantastic behavioural advice above. I would try to work with him first before going to the vet again.

I know this likely isn't helpful because it's already too late, but for future cats - getting male cats fixed early is the best way to prevent this.

My dd is a youth care worker. She works in various houses across the city - kind of like group homes. She takes care babies right up to teens. Kind of like being a foster parent, except she works 12 hour shifts. Adding - she is a casual worker. She has asked to only have two shifts each week, which gives her 24 hours. She can say no to a shift if something has come up for school.