Whoever picks up their laundry first gets first pick of the clothes. That means that if they see something they like they get it;):D

Oh I love love love that idea. Must go steal now. I too am a bit of a compulsive list maker. Traveling I make a list when I pack of what I need to pack and have packed and keep one copy at home and one copy in the suitcase. Then when I re-pack to go home I can tick things off again so I know everything comes home with me. Love my lists.

Make a base stew on one of the free nights (or even during the day) freeze it in family size zip loc bags or containers. On the nights when you come home dump in some veg or what have you. Heat up. Serve with pasta or rice. I don't have my base recipe handy but if you want it let me know and I'll send it to you tomorrow. It is a firm favourite here as it is quick and easy when we are all busy.

You will have such a great time!!! I saw it in London and was blown away! Amazing!

Hehe...true...but I have been known on other boards to post things that didn't AT ALL turn out how I had planed so... :001_smile:

Thanks so much! I'll get onto it tomorrow. I'm glad I don't need a recipe.

Okay be kind this is my first thread. Our apple trees have been very good to us this year and I want to make apple sauce. Does anyone have a good recipes? Any tips and/or tricks I should think off? The apples are all excellent for cooking (made openface apple pie with them the other night)

:iagree::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: Ugh feel for you!

YAY!!!! for Babies!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!

It was a centre yes. It was a co-op and if I did the parents shift that is what they would pay me to. Basically I was babysitting when I worked for the parents and that is what I got paid then.

I don't think it really should but you could check out minimum wage laws in SC. I think it depends on what they are expecting you to be doing with the kids. If it is just feeding them and keeping them out of trouble then maybe going a bit lower is okay. If they are expecting you to help with school work keep them "entertained" etc then I would be asking for a bit more. But maybe that is just me.

I worked in childcare in NC all summer I was paid $7.25 an hour. I think that you are being very underpaid.

Sign next to the Guttenberg Bible at the Library of Congress. Yeah I know it is spelling but still :D

For writing topic ideas try SparkNotes. It is free and at the end they have study questions. You could modify them to suit your purpose.

I hadn't heard that BUT when Mitt R bowed out while he was still doing relatively well I did think that he had been promised something fairly big by McCain for "party unity" so it wouldn't come as a great surprise to me. I do think it would be a mistake for McCain.

I pour a few drops of olive oil into the water. Works every time.

I totally agree with you. Shakespeare is hard to read. In high school when we did Romeo and Juliet we saw the movie version (not the modern one) at the same time as we read the play. It made it so much easier to understand. I think one of the problems of showing movies in school is that you can rarely show the whole movie in one class. This makes the experience disjointed and not the way the director intended to show it. For my high school history class we were assigned to watch a movie at home for homework which we then discussed in class (the movie was shown on tv one night so no one had to rent it). I think that might be a better way around it, unless you have 90+ minutes of class a day, because I do think movies can be very educational. :lurk5:

Try this site: Healthy Living. They have both food and exercise. You don't have to use all the features but they have a lot of ideas and it is explained pretty well.

Congratulations!!! :grouphug::party:

The £ Sterling has "Pay the bearer on demand". Paper money in the UK isn't actually legal tender it is an IOU /more econ geek stuff

It sounds a bit odd, but if you have the settings to the highest I would put it down as a fluke and keep an eye on any other e-mails she gets. I am assuming your dd showed you the e-mail? I think that that shows a level of maturity and that she and you share a mutual trust over the internet. I would let her continue using it but emphasise that if there is anything she is worried about bring it straight to you. I have my facebook set to the highest privacy setting and I KNOW that other people can't find me, either through searches or through mutual friends. I just don't show up (I have tested this rather extensively for various reasons). Even if she saw your daughters name somewhere she shouldn't be able to see her e-mail address.

The tricky thing with Facebook is that THEY actually own your pictures once you have posted them there, so yes they could remove them if you ask. I would definitely ask (actually demand) she takes them down if they make you uncomfortable (and 60 plus pictures would certainly make me uncomfortable). I do have pictures of some of the kids I watched over the summer. They were taken at my going away party. But I would NEVER put them up online. They are for me to remember the kids by. That is all.

I haven't been a mothers helper or had one like you describe BUT I was once an au pair and for your daughters sake and the sake of the family I would say make it clear with the mother what she expects and also if the child (or children) have any special needs before the girls start. The family I worked for did not let me know that the little boy had ADHD before I got there. I would still have taken the job had I known but it left me wondering what else they had hidden from me. I think if there is a set of expectations laid clear from the start everyone will be happier. With regards to the watching of tv, I do this with the children I watch sometimes but then I watch with them. As in I discuss what we watch with them, emphasise what is going on. For example one little girl has a favourite show with very moral stories to it. I'll watch one 12 minute episode with her and discuss whatever the moral was. I wouldn't do it the whole time I watch them though. Hope that helps

I continued growing for more than 2 years. It slowed down but I still grew a bit more. If you are really concerned then have your pediatrician x-ray her wrists, that is the one place where they can see if a child is still growing or not. My sister had this done because my mum was concerned that she was so short (none of us are tall but my sister was very small). They realised that she still had a bit to go, but she did stop at 5"1/2' (the half inch is apparently very important)

I used to work with teenagers in my last job and my next job will hopefully be with them again. I find them to be inquisitive, engaging and often times very funny. I think their reputation has been pretty undeserved. On my last day in my last job they were driving me to distraction by never being where they were supposed to be. I kept telling them off, only to at the end of the evening find out that they had been signing a card for me. Something they had though of all by themselves.