My husband is not interested when he is sick or stressed out. Which I sometimes find rather frustrating, but I have to remember I'm about the same way, so we both get to take turns being frustrated. I do think it makes most days better, if I can get over the stress of lost time (either short on sleep or starting the day late)

Yeah, a lot of ppl are comparing this pic to Pertwee's look. Same age, I think.

yeah, not that simple in my relationship

My three were all so different! 1: induced at a small hospital and took 24 hours 2: home birth, took over 2 full days 3: fast! I didnt think it was really labor until i felt the urge to push. I was trying not to push the whole way there in the car, baby born less than 10 minutes after we arrived at the hospital. As I was being wheeled through the lobby, I guess I was loud, and a little boy yelled "That lady is having a baby RIGHT NOW!" But the nurses said "Climb up on the table" and turned away. I was baffled - i'm also only 5'2 - but somehow i managed to get up there - and on my knees! Oh - and the ob-gyn broke the bag just before she told me to push, it was still in tact. I was begging her to break it, though

I love the shoes. My 10 yo said "he looks rich, old and powerful, strong and fancy, which is awesome!" and my teen said he looks like Dracula A bit of an article; http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/01/doctor-whos-day-roundup-doctor-shoe/

I guess we're pretty simple here - cereal, whole peanuts with shells on (slows him down a bit), and big bags of baby carrots. We're trying to keep the weight down, though.

I'm struggling too - but my teen is bipolar and autistic and has processing issues and executive function issues. I feel like a total failure in so many ways. But we'll start visiting the community colleges next week and hopefully he'll be ok there. I feel very insecure about what we've done. I think if he didnt have such high anxiety and low motivation, I would have pushed him a lot harder, but he just isnt willing to work harder.

Hope everything is ok! I took my teen to his checkup today and left my 10 yo at home - the doctor was running late. When I came home my 10 yo told me excitedly that he'd added POTION effects to his FOOD! He said this and fiction reading (Harry Potter) are currently his two favorite subjects!

yeah, see, I need light. I think dark walls look cool, but I wouldnt want to be surrounded by them. My bedroom has a medium green below the chair rail, which is brown, and a pale yellow above, and i really love it. The tv room is a medium shade of green (chosen in large part because it compliments the wooden paneling). youngest son's room was red below the blue chair rail and white above. Poor dh . . .. he does the painting. He's totally anal about it, 2-3 layers of primer and 2-3 layers of paint.

Slowly baking can make it tougher, a frying pan would be a much better solution

I've had a fantasy of paining my laundry room sky blue and stenciling butterflies or flowers or something around the cieling and doors and window

Unfortunately, my daughter never turned back. At 11 she started being randomly mean to me. It only got worse. 10 years later she's living with my mom and occasionally her emails to me are civil instead of rude. She was the perfect child until then, bright, sweet, helpful, quiet.

I'm on my period, which means I HATE menu planning, HATE that I have to menu plan, and i'm not so sure about food in general :glare: :cursing: But the show must go on. Soon, not yet. My week has been going thursday - to -thursday, but they were out of ground turkey thigh again, so I was one meal short. I need to go shopping wed and have a plan for 7 or 8 days by then. wish me luck.

When I'd been trying to do gluten free baking and getting frustrated, I did an experiment - i mixed up eggs, milk and sugar like I was going to make a very small crepe recipe, and then I mixed a few tb of one flour in to it, cooked it, tasted it, and took notes - for all the kinds of flours I had. This helped me have an understanding for the ways the different flours work. But i use a lot of grains - corn flour and corn starch, millet flour. I have food allergies to work around, but i'm not grain free.

and making yeast bread is the hardest thing to do gluten free, I dont know that i've ever seen a paleo yeast bread.

You can not substitute non-wheat flours in your regular recipes. It will not work. Gluten free/grain free baking is COMPLETELY different. Go to a good grain free website (like paleomg?) and find recipes and start there. Most almond and coconut flour recipes use a LOT of eggs - i mean a LOT of eggs. Once you really learn how to bake without gluten, you can start to experiment, but its completely different chemistry.

I was at the ob-gyn 2 weeks ago and she didnt offer any tests. My periods have gotten closer together and heavier, my PMS has gotten worse. I'm confident i'm in process, but I think it will be a pretty long time still .

I went to be evaluated for a blood clot a few weeks after knee surgery. Everything on line said it would feel like a muscle cramp, and it did - and it turns out that was what it was. But the technician said that all the patients with clots say it feels like pressure. tylenol is not very good for muscle pain. You should be trying ibuprofen every 4 hours imo. It could be any number of things. I personally would probably wait until monday and go to the regular doctor, but idk. Without insurance it might not make any difference as far as cost, either way? hospitals might even have better services. I guess you didnt sign up for obamacare?

10 years ago I was madly in love with my new husband and my new baby, had taken what I expected to be 2 years off of work, and felt like everything was going to be perfect. Since then, my husband's green card fell through so I had to go back to work when the baby was 1; my middle child was diagnosed with aspergers, then anxiety, then bipolar and tourettes and went on heavy medication; my husband announced he didnt want to be married any more and he even moved out for a while before he finally made a real commitment to me 15 months later. My daughter then started failing out of high school and ended up hospitalized for being suicidal; my boys were both so miserable in school my husband grudgingly let me quit work and homeschool; my daughter moved out, came back, was hospitalized again and moved out again; She occasionally makes civil responses to my emails; I had a knee injury which took almost 2 years to really be resolved, and much of that time I was in extreme pain; and now i'm in perimenopause. I dont recognize myself at all, in so many ways. I was idealistic and hopeful. Now i'm more a survivor wondering what will hit next. I miss my sense of joy and wonder. I miss my belief that I could make everything work out. I miss my love of life.

frontline stopped working for us this year, we switched to comfortis. usually if you keep the animals dosed, they'll act as walking flea bombs and decimate the population eventually.

I got some glasses at amazon which were billed as being indestructible and they seem to be. They are bigger than what we had before, but SO sturdy. Not stackable, i dont think, but you can buy lids and use them for storage too (weird, i know) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B5TCWQA/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Strange - they were $22 when i bought them and now they are $40?

I use the 'animal' vacuum, and have to clean out the rollers regularly. its my hair . . .

That skirt would NOT help you fit in with the jumper crowd. Its too sexy. The jumper crowd is the crowd that thinks women must wear specific things in order to be modest, for the most part.

I was living on a commune when i had my first child, in the early 90s. I found a jumper of that same shape/style apparently made out of some sort of sack with printing on it. I LOVED that thing - it was very practical esp on the commune - where we had outhouses which were emptied twice a week, and we were encouraged to pee outside. Peeing outside is much easier when wearing a long skirt and going commando than it is when wearing pants or shorts. I could layer things under it in the winter, or not in the summer. i LOVED that thing. Then i left the commune, and recognized that it was just so far out of fashion that I got funny looks everywhere I went, so I sadly ditched it. I do still have a couple of drop-waist sundresses and sleeved dresses, because they are comfy - and my shape is hard to flatter anyways - very top-heavy and short . . . i cant wear empire dresses because the seam ends up across my chest.

The religious exemption is an exemption from compulsory education. You request the exemption and never have to talk to anyone again. The homeschool statute is an alternative way to comply with the compulsory education. You have to show that you are qualified to teach (a high school diploma, for example), you have to send a letter of intent every year listing your kids and the subjects you will teach, and you have to show 'proof of progress' every year, in the form of a standardized test or an evaluation done by a teacher or someone with an advanced degree. I think a big part of this is because a young man recently made a stink about being raised under the religious exemption and basically not being taught past middle school, begging to go to high school and being refused, and feeling the need to 'rescue' his siblings from a similar fate.