Yeah, the cough can linger for quite a while. We had it back during the week of Christmas, and I still have a bad cough each morning for the first few hours after I wake up. I think you could wait until you see the doctor on Wed.

At our last house the carpet was light beige and the walls were taupe, but more toward the grey end, and i think it looked great.

I will only everbuy New Balance shoes for walking or running, preferably from an actual NB store. I have a pair of each (walking and running) from them and they are very comfortable. Any other brand ihavetried hurt my feet a lot.

Oxiclean!! Well, I actually use the "Awesome" brand from Dollar Tree. It breaks down to oxygen and ash, so it is safe for septic tanks. My towels are always nice and white, and even my dish towels (which sit in a bucket until it is full) come out clean and smelling nice, no mildewy odors or anything.

All of our towels are white b/c I can bleach them. I can't remember what brand mine are or where I got them from, but DS uses ones that we bought at Sams, and they are really nice! Fluffy and soft. :)

If you get the plus membership or whatever it is called, you can get a significant discount on their pharmacy. Same for gas. Those two things were worth the cost of membership for us.

Gain Original or Era, b/c I love the smell of both of them the most out of all the detergents. I always use Gain on my towels and sheets, even when I'm using Era on everything else, as well as generic Oxiclean. I also use Era to mop my floors. When I worked at Wendy's in high school they used Tide to mop their floors b/c it cuts grease really well, so I have always used laundry detergent to mop. Plus, it makes my house smell SOOO good!! :)

We LOVE their 21 Seasoning Salute. It is a spice blend that is really good on chicken. We always keep a couple bottles on hand.

Exactly to the bolded. The same goes in our family. No money, rewards, or chore lists...he does whatever I ask him to, when I ask him to. I don't ask a lot of him, just to take the trash out when it is full, put the clean dishes away when the rack is full, pick up after himself, wash the dishes he uses, and do his own laundry. That's it. There are other little things here and there that I will ask him to do, but I'm OCD and do most the rest myself b/c in my mind he can't do it the way I can.

I love my suede Keen Newports, they are the.only shoe I will wear when we go on road trips, even in the winter (I just wear them over socks), b/c they are so comfortable and easy to slip on and off. I have had mine for many years and they look exactly the same as when I got them. I actually have a few different pairs of Keens, and I love them all. I have a pair of clogs that I wear CONSTANTLY, and a couple different pairs of really cute sneakers. I just love Keen anything. My husband also has a pair of Newports. He has extra wide feet, and he loves them b/c they are one of the only shoes that fit his feet properly other than New Balance. As for true flip flops, I will only wear Old Navy ones, the kind they sell for $1 a pair in the summer. Any others that I have tried have soles that are too hard. I like that the Old Navy ones have a bit of give and will mold to my feet. In the summer I basically live in flip flops, so I buy a bunch of them at the beginning of the summer.

Great, now that is stuck in my head. lol

Yes. We use the cable music channels a lot as well. I like to have music on when I'm cooking or cleaning b/c it keeps me motivated. When we did our homeschooling, I would turn on the new age channel for light music without words.

For me it is harder to get it clean once it gets messy b/c I easily get overwhelmed. It is so much easier for me to just keep it clean.

I didn't vote for anything b/c right now we have none, but DH used to have a pretty severe intolerance to chicken. It would make him really sick. He can eat it now, though. DS and I have no allergies or sensitivities.

This is what I struggle with in my situation. My sister and parents are this way, so I haven't spoken to my sister in almost 3 years, and have severe detachment from my parents. That is the best I can do at this point. I just can't bring myself to forgive them yet, and my situation happened 3 years ago. Even if I do get to the point of forgiveness, I don't think I can allow them back into our lives...at least to the point that they once were.

Man, this thread makes me miss my chickens SO much! I had a whole bunch of them, but we gave them away b/c we had to move away from our acreage and into a townhouse in a different state. I loved my chickens so much. :crying: I hope to be able to get more someday. Boy were they stupid, though. I could NOT convince them to sleep in the coop. They would lay in there, but would sleep on TOP of it. :cursing: No matter how many times I would go out there and put them into the coop at night, they wouldn't learn.

I understand. I hit that point a long time ago. We "tried" (not preventing) for quite a few years, but I couldn't go through any more interventions b/c it was just too hard being SO disappointed (way more disappointed than just letting nature take it's course).

I wash everything together, and have never really noticed any dinginess or anything like that. Our clothes also don't wear out any faster, either. I just gave away a TON that I have had for years that look brand new. I wash it all on warm, cold rinse. The only things I wash separately are dish towels, bath towels and sheets, which I wash on sanitize with generic Oxyclean (couldn't use bleach at our old house b/c of septic tank otherwise I would bleach them...but they seemed to stay nice and white and get pretty clean).

Like you, DS was VERY easy to conceive. We weren't even trying, he was an "accident". Then, when he was 18 months old we decided to start trying for another child. We did a ton of fertility stuff, short of IVF b/c we couldn't afford it. I did manage to get pregnant 5 times, but each ended in miscarriage...another reason why we didn't want to spend the money on IVF. We tried to do adoption, but for multiple reasons we were never able to finish the process. We tried becoming foster/adopt parents a few years ago when we lived in Nebraska but we never finished the process of becoming licensed. We tried again in Missouri last year, and although we finished the process, things kept going wrong so we quit when we decided to move. We took this all a sign that we aren't meant to have more children. We both figured that after everything we have been through and tried to have more children and nothing came from it, then it wasn't meant to be. About 5 months ago we gave up after 12 years of trying. I had a Mirena placed in December b/c of really bad periods. It was VERY hard for me to come to terms with my infertility, b/c for my whole life (literally...since I can remember) I have wanted nothing more than to be a mom to a bunch of kids. I certainly didn't want to be the parent to an only child. There were many years of personal grief that no one I knew understood. My DH honestly didn't care if we had more children or not, so he didn't go through the same thing I did. I honestly can't pinpoint or tell you what helped me get over it...I think just time. I'm not saying that I wouldn't be thrilled if we did manage to get pregnant at some point, and I am disappointed that we never were able to, but I really have come to a point where I am okay with the decision to stop trying. Our son just turned 14. DH and I both felt like we would be starting over again if we got pregnant at this point, especially since we are so close to our son going to college and having the house to ourselves. We are getting excited at the thought of being able to be able to just be us, to be able to travel together while we are still young (I just turned 35, DH will be turning 37 soon) and then enjoy our grandchildren. I wish I had some advice for you, but I don't. I just wanted to let you know that you aren't alone and I do know how you feel.

We moved away 22 months ago...and just moved back yesterday. We never got over it, and we were miserable there, especially since we moved to an extremely rural area (5 miles outside of a town of 80 people) and we were never accepted there. We were about 7-8 hours away from all of our family and where we both grew up.

I cut my sister (my only sibling) out completely around 3 years ago, the only contact with have with her is if we happen to be at the same family function and even then I avoid her, but we don't speak at all otherwise. In August we cut both of my parents out with VERY limited contact (I only speak to them when I HAVE to, and even then I keep it short and sweet and they know nothing about our lives), and we didn't see them for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year. We actually moved out of state to get away from all of them two years ago. The reasoning is kind of a long story, but a serious one (may be a trigger point for some people, so I don't want to say what...), but all were cut out for the same reason even though it took longer to cut out my parents. Our life has been nothing but better without them in it, and we appreciate the lack of drama and stress in our lives.

Yes, I would do every 3 hours. Like at 6, give tylenol, then at 9 give ibuprofen, then at 12 give tylenol again, etc, etc...

Tylenol - 4hrs Ibuprofen - 6hrs I hope they feel better soon!!

We have multiple skillets, but only one each of our pots and saucepans. I wish I had more than one of my small pots, b/c we use it with just about every meal and sometimes it would be nice to have extras.

Do you want something else similar to a non-stick, or do you not want non-stick anymore? We were gifted a ceramic coated non-stick skillet for Christmas, which doesn't have the nasty chemicals that traditional non-stick does, and it is GREAT! We love it, especially for eggs. :)