Haha, I know, right?!?! I'm the exact same way. I'm tired, but I'm avoiding going to bed, even though I should.

We made our son a GIR costume from the show Invader Zim a couple years ago. It turned out really well!! We used an old carseat box, and covered it with a lime green flat sheet. I sewed him a tank top out of the green fabric to go under the box, the zipper, and the tongue. We put screens over the eyes so he could see through it, and he wore a black sweat shirt and pants under neath. It was a HUGE hit!! The character it was modeled after, Gir:

I would do as a PP suggested and push them back to two feedings at this point, otherwise just keep doing what you are doing. Puppies are hard, and unfortunately when you agree to take on that responsibility it also come with some sleepless nights. :( Eventually they will get it and will potty train. With our dogs I went by the schedule of 1hr per month of age. Meaning, at 12 weeks old they can only hold it for 3 hours at a time, and each week you can add about 15 minutes. I had to set my alarm each night to get up to let them out when they were training. It was hard (and I didn't have little ones nor was I home schooling at the time), but it didn't last forever. We live very rural, and our grocery shopping trips last longer than 3 hours, so we just had to deal with accidents when they were younger, so I went through a lot of odor cleaner and wash cloths, and they got lots of baths at that age. lol Good luck! They'll get eventually!! I don't envy you, I hate that stage.

My DS likes Axe.

Absolutely!! I'm a night owl, I have been my whole life as long as I can remember, even as a little kid. It drives my husband nuts, and he just cannot understand it, and gets angry with me when I stay up late. I have tried everything I can to get on a "regular" schedule, but drugging myself up is the only thing that works, and even then once I stop the drugs I go RIGHT back to a night schedule. I also wake up exhausted if I sleep at night, I have no idea why. If I sleep during the day and wake up on my own (my natural sleep schedule is from 6am until 2pm). If I sleep the same amount of hours at night, I CANNOT get myself to wake up, and I have to sleep at least 10-12 hours in order to feel like I got a good amount of sleep, and even then I'm groggy when I wake up.

I hate my lazy susans b/c there is SO much wasted space!! At our last house we had corner cabinets on the top and bottom in the same corner, and neither of them had a lazy susan, and I could use SO much more of that cabinet. Now, I have top and bottom corner cabinets with lazy susans and I'm really restricted on what I can put in them and HOW I can put stuff in them. I would much rather just have a shelf. Btw - I never ONCE lost anything with just the shelves. It was actually easier to see things that way.

I have about 60 friends on Facebook. I used to have a lot more, but I went through and got rid of all of my "not really friends" friends. I only kept people that I frequently interacted with or talked to. I still do not have anyone, other than DH, that I can just call up and talk to.

I would just wait. I'm only 34, almost 35, and I think perimenopause is already starting with me, which means weird periods for what seems like no reason. Last month my period was 2.5 weeks late, and as soon as I bought tests it showed up like normal. That has been happening more and more lately, stretching out longer and longer.

I take hydrocortisone (which works the same way) every day and I am CONSTANTLY thirsty. Thankfully since I only take a small dose, I don't have to deal with the other symptoms, but I easily drink 3-4x more than my DH or DS do.

The best stuff I have ever found is only $.99 per bottle! V05, works the best on my hair, and I have tried just about everything. I use the tea therapy version.

Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Reba, Home Improvement, King of Queens, and Full House! (I keep remember more and adding them LOL!) We have the Friends board game, and we have played it so much that DH and I both know all of the answers by heart so it isn't fun anymore. LMAO!

Your daughter sounds EXACTLY like me...last weekend we were at the grocery store and I spoke to a stranger about a kind of tea that I like to drink, and it was such an uncommon occurrence that my husband praised me for it. According to the symptoms, I do believe that I have a form of Aspergers. I have a severe fear and anxiety of speaking (like my heart feels like it is going to beat out of my chest and I feel like vomiting) to people I'm not comfortable with. I'm talking I have to be around them all day long almost every day, unless that person is SO more outgoing than I am and they are willing to do most of the talking. LOL I like working b/c I'm around people enough that I open up to then eventually. Even just seeing someone once or twice a week isn't enough to make me feel comfortable around them. Even my own mother or my inlaws, who I have known my whole life and 15 years respectively, I have a hard time talking to them. Luckily my MIL is talkative, but my poor FIL has the symptoms of Aspergers and is quiet like me, so if it is just the two of us in the room, it is totally quiet. LOL I get most of my social interaction with my DH and DS, my MIL, BIL, and SIL when I'm around them (they all live 7 hours away), or online. I go to quite a few forums, and have met a lot of people online.

Not a woman, but my husband was adopted as a teenager and he moved his original last name to a middle name. Say his name was originally Bob James Jones (fictional name), and his adopted parents are the Frank and Judy Williams. His name is now Bob James Jones Willams, and he goes by Bob Williams.

I do the majority of the laundry, but DH will throw a load in or change it to the dryer if I ask him to. We share the cooking duties about 50/50. I do the majority of the dishes b/c he won't do them unless I go on strike and they are piled to the ceiling (for some reason he flat out refuses to just do a small load of dinner dishes *shrug*), and if the house needs to be picked up it is on me b/c he won't do it (again, unless I go on strike and the house is a disaster). Even if I'm sick or not feeling well and can't do the small load of dishes, he still won't stand up and do them. It irritates me to no end. He's also the same way when it comes to mowing the lawn. If I want it done, I need to do it. He grew up in a very bad household, and he and his siblings were in charge of doing EVERYTHING (cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc, etc, etc...EVERYTHING) from the time they were old enough to walk. I think that is the reason why he is so hesitant to do housework now, and I understand but it still stinks b/c he is an adult in a household now, and I'm sort of a feminist that doesn't think that it is 100% a woman's job to do everything in the house. I think it should be a partnership. I do understand that since he is the primary bread winner in the family that I should be responsible for most of the housework, but not all of it. He's made it clear in the past that he thinks I should do everything, and I don't think that is fair.

Thanks for taking the time to reply! About the part I bolded...his hearing loss is sensory-neural, and the nerves never developed in his one ear, so his hearing loss is fixed and permanent. It will never change, and is also why a hearing aid would never work for him. That's not to say that his hearing couldn't change in his good ear, but his good ear has remained stable thus far. He hears perfectly out of his good ear. The school district we used to be in insisted on a hearing test every year for his IEP, and his hearing specialist finally had to put his foot down and demanded that we not bring him back for at least 5 years. That was 2 years ago. lol He was tired of wasting our money and his time.

We have 5 acres, and we have zero restrictions for what we can do with our own property. We live VERY rural, though, and we are about 45 minutes to an hour from shopping. DH's work is 45 min away. If we could choose to do it over again (we moved here 18 months ago), though, we would probably prefer a property more around under 2 acres b/c we just don't use most of our property now and it feels like it is a waste. Kwim? We currently mow about 1.5 acres, and even that seems too big. The soil here is terrible for gardening, so growing a garden isn't really an option unless I want to spend a huge amount of money on fertilizer and such to keep it in good shape. I would have loved to eventually get a cow, but that would require cross fencing our pasture (it is fenced on 3 sides) and I don't see us ever being able to afford to do that.

This is exactly how it is here, word for word. It makes it REALLY hard to make friends b/c they have zero tolerance for new people here. I also wish we had never moved here. As for our church, they do have small groups. We started attending that church over a year ago, and we have asked multiple times from the very beginning to join a small group, and they keep just brushing us off. :( All of the people at DH's work are in their 60's and over, and we are in our mid 30's. His supervisor is really nice, he is actually the one that told us about our church b/c he goes there. We talk to him and his wife every week after service, but DH doesn't want to blur that work and personal life boundary since he is DH's supervisor. Kwim? As far as the possibility of not continuing homeschooling, we don't plan to do this until he graduates. We are doing it b/c we aren't happy with the public school he was in. We plan to be moved to a different state, in a more populated area, at least by the start of the next school year, so we will put him back in public school at that time. We only have to hold out until we move. ;) As far as getting help for my social anxiety, I have been working really hard at approaching strangers and/or talking to people more. Just this weekend, I spoke to a stranger about a product at the grocery store, and that is a BIG DEAL for me. I usually freeze around strangers, and I spoke to her first. Even my DH was impressed. I have found a couple homeschooling groups in the area on Facebook, but one of them doesn't really seem to meet at all (they are having a get together at a pumpkin patch next week, but we will be out of town *sigh*), and the other one is over an hour drive one way, and they require frequent participation to join and stay a member, and I can't commit to that. :(

I eat them peeled, cut in half length wise, sprinkled with salt, and I eat them with my hands. ;) Yum!! I love hard boiled eggs!

My parents took us on a special trip like that a couple days after getting my braces, and let me tell you honestly...I was miserable the ENTIRE time. I did not enjoy myself at all, even though I tried not to show it, and all we did was go out of town to see the Moscow Circus perform. I was in so much pain, and starving b/c I couldn't eat anything since it hurt too much. The last thing I would have wanted to do was go and be jostled around by going down water slides. This is also coming from someone who got their first pair of braces in 2nd grade (just on the 4 front teeth top and bottom) and had been dealing with retainers since then, and I'm talking about what happened in 7th grade when I got my full set of braces. Maybe things are done differently now, though. I have no idea. I hope she is able to have a good time!

I would go also. He was your son long before he was her boyfriend, and he wants you there. My husband had his knee rebuilt after he snapped his ACL, and my MIL was there with me. She also came with when I had surgery in order to keep DH company, so... lol

We moved from Omaha, NE to near Branson, MO about 18 months ago. We know zero people here. I am a SAHM, and we have only had one working vehicle since a month after moving in when our second vehicle died (we can't afford to buy a new one). My DH works about 45 minutes from here, so he uses the car since it would be a waste of gas for me to drive him to work and pick him up. Besides, even if I did that, the nearest place to go shopping or do anything is 45 minutes away. DH needs to be to work by 6am, so I couldn't just do stuff right after I drop him off, and we couldn't afford the extra money for gas anyway. DH has no problem with me borrowing the car if I really needed to, but it couldn't be a frequent thing. DH tries his best to get me out of the house. We have a date night in Branson every Wednesday evening from 6-8:30pm while DS is at youth group at church, and we are out doing our weekly shopping during most of the day on Saturdays, then church on Sunday morning. Even still, I get severely lonely during the week while DH is at work. The only people we have really met are one of our neighbors who lives 1/4 mile down our road (we live in a VERY rural area), and that is only b/c they came and introduced themselves the day we moved in. I have really bad social anxiety, though, almost paralyzingly, and it takes me a long time to get comfortable around most people. (Most of my socializing is done online b/c I have no problem with that, obviously. haha!!) It is especially bad around other shy people, although if someone is SUPER outgoing and willing to do most of the talking at least at first then I have no problem warming up. This neighbor woman is really quiet also, so most of the time we just sat there in silence. haha! She acted like I was being a snobby "city girl" and stopped asking me to do stuff with her. *sigh* Otherwise I don't know anyone else here. We do go to church. It is a 'low end of moderate' sized church, but they don't really have any social activities or groups for some reason. We really like it there, and have met a couple people, but only running into them once or twice a month is not conducive to me getting comfortable with them. I have no idea how to meet friends. I would be open to any suggestions. Since we started homeschooling this year my loneliness has been better b/c I have DS to talk to all day long, but I would still like some grown up interaction and talk every once in a while. I can only handle so much Pokemon. lol

I know we have a right to seek help in the public schools in regards to speech therapy. I just have no idea how to go about it. My DS is deaf in one ear, and when he was younger he had trouble pronouncing certain syllables. He took speech therapy which completely corrected it, and his speech was fine up until about 6 months ago. Now, though, he has a lisp again. It isn't the same as he had before, so DH doesn't think it is something that needs speech therapy, and he just points it out to DS every time he does it to try to get him to stop. For some reason, DH seems to think DS is just trying to be cute, and that he is doing it on purpose. DS doesn't do it EVERY time, but he does it often enough. I do think that it is something that we should at least ask a speech therapist about to see what they think. I have no idea if they can help, but I don't think it would hurt to ask, right? It is his "S", especially when it is at the end of a word, but sometimes at the beginning also. He slurs the sound out. Even when DH points it out, DS tries to correct himself but he can't get it to go away completely. We live in Missouri, and here we can choose for DS to attend any school that is inside the county we live in. Does anyone know if that means we can choose any school to seek help from, or are we forced to seek help from the school closest to us (the one DS used to attend)? What should I say when I call them?

It really varies, but I voted 8:00 or later b/c that is generally when we eat. Sometimes we eat earlier, and sometimes we eat later. It depends on what we are doing that day, what we are having for dinner, what time we ate lunch, how hungry we are, etc, etc. It was the same for me growing up also. We usually ate late. Dh works until 4:30, and his work is 45 min away, and depending on what he has to do after work (stopping by the grocery store, meeting someone, paying a bill, etc) he may not even get home until after 6:00. I don't start cooking until he gets home, b/c sometimes he isn't in the mood for what we have planned for dinner and we just pick through the house.

Cons: SO MUCH POOP! (mine free range, so they poop all over our front porch) Also, you can't really have any landscaping with chickens if you plan to free range them, b/c they eat just about everything. We have a couple large bushes in our yard, but other than that we have no other plants or flowers planted b/c they would just destroy them. Pros: Everything else. I seriously love my chickens to death!! They are like pets to us, but our first group of chicks were all roosters, so we butchered them. DS refused to eat them, so after the first one we cooked, we gave away the rest of the meat. We grew up eating store bought eggs until about a year ago, and we don't like the taste of our chicken's eggs, so we just sell them all. The people who buy them think they taste great, though.

Just like the other thread...proper is whatever you want to eat, within reason. We don't stick to stereotypical "breakfast" foods. You can have leftovers, pizza, cereal, vegetables, whatever. Breakfast doesn't have to just be cereal, pankcakes, eggs, etc. DH and I don't eat breakfast, though my DS does every day.