You should go hang out at Backyardchickens.com some. My son wanted chickens last year and even selling eggs, I don't think we have broken even yet. You need good fencing/run material to keep out predators, a co-op, feed, water (think bill).... If you want to start with chicks, you need lights, a brooder, special feed... That being said, we love our chickens. The eggs are amazing. It took me awhile to build up to eating them though. It just felt weird for some reason. We have not eaten any for meat yet, although we did help butcher one. That is the hard part, really for us. We don't have a processing plant here that will do it for us so we had to find someone that could teach us and help us. We need to cull off some of our flock right now but I don't want to butcher them and we can't find anyone who will let us pay them so we keep feeding some chickens who are not laying. The ducks have been a blast!

There was one where we played a game like Bunco, changing partners and tables all the time in some fast playing card game. It took more than 3 families though. I love playing cards, and other games so I loved this one. Charades can be funny as well.

Is it possible that there are holes in the plastic that are pinching his legs? Sometimes putting another thin piece of foam or filling those holes with something makes them more comfortable. I have heard of people putting folded towels under kids, but i know that effects how effective the car seat is. Around that age is when we let ours begin watching videos in the car.

My grandmother simply said once, "Everyone makes mistakes and choices that are not ideal. Some sins are more noticeable than others." It happens. How it is settled will be between GOd and the aunt on judgement. In the meantime, rejoice that she has found a good man and is going to have a treasured baby. Both are blessings.

Curiosity would kill me. I would open it.

My son receives $1 for every year of age as his weekly allowance. (I would only do $5 but his grandpa is providing this). In return he must do whatever is necessary and whatever I request of him each week. Some weeks it is just typical family household type stuff but other weeks it may include heavy outdoor work during all of his free time. Another friend of mine pays hourly. The kids can't be slackers. It starts at $1 an hour and includes everything from taking out the trash to making the bed to helping weed the garden. They also can't make a 10 second job last an hour, IYKWIM. As the child gets older and takes on more responsibility, the pay per hour increases. However, at certain ages, the pay becomes other things as well - like permission to use the family car, or more computer time, or whatever the child wants to negotiate.

:iagree: I do this as well. You can put dryer sheets in air vents so the air passes over them before entering the room. This helps put fresh scent in the room. In our last house I would buy those special fragrance things to attach to the filters in the air return. Some were pretty powerful but also helped spread scented air. My grandmother used to just spray her filters on occassion with air freshener or perfume if she felt her home needed some 'clean air'. Essential oils on light bulbs (put on cool bulbs, not hot ones) is something a friend swears by but I have never tried. In one house I wiped down every wall with something (vinegar and water???) and that removed lots of dust and odors as well.

My mom paints clear nail polish on the backs of any jeans buttons and the like. If she doesn't, she breaks out terribly as well.

My uncle grew 3 inches after he married my aunt when he was 19. My 12 year old is 5 ft 8 and is in puberty. Depends on the child.

Land's End is wonderful. We switched to them during the year my son was ultra skinny and tall. Customer service was great at helping me find the waist and inseam sizes I needed. Then, when he began to gain weight another year and needed husky sizes, the same style pants worked. We ordered the Climber pants until he grew too tall/big for them. We watched the sales pages religiously for them so that we could get them on sale. You also need to sign up for the emails because they are sending great deals on those pretty much daily right now. Sometimes LLBean has them as well.

:iagree:You send thank yous to people who sent flowers and gifts only.

:iagree: He won't answer if with a customer or on the business phone, but otherwise will return my call if he sees that I called him. Occassionally he isn't allowed to carry it for work, but I know in advance when those times are. But then we have the days where he leaves the phone at home, or in the car, or in his desk, or forgets to charge it....

I have only seen people pursue grandparents rights in situations where parties are not angry. For example, Joe just learned that he has a 9 year old daughter from his brief affair with Sue. Paternity tests prove it, he has visitation, Mom is ok with it, but the grandparents want to make sure they are in the picture in case the relationship between Joe and Sue does deteriorate. When Joe was working out custody and child support with his attorney, Grandparent rights were added to the paperwork and submitted to the courts at the same time.

5 is a tough age. My son was difficult, my dd is even more dramatic and difficult. I think lots of it is normal. Several years ago I read a study about fears of children in kindergarten - top 3 fears were going blind, mommy dying, and failing kindergarten.

I was not able to get a plate number, but I did call the police and give a description. My neighbors were home and didn't even know that they had people driving thru their yard. Ugh.

Last night someone broke into my car. My son's ds was stolen, but we haven't discovered anything else missing. Now, We just had someone pull thru the neighbor's driveway, across their yard into our yard to ask if we would sell them eggs. There is the equivalent of a large empty lot between us since we both have 3 acres and our houses are on the far boundaries from each other. My son came in the house and said there were people outside wanting to buy eggs or I would not have known they were in the yard. After I said no, they backed up across our yard, the neighbor's yard again and out the neighbor's driveway. If you know the person in the blue volvo that did this, well, remind them of polite manners I guess. I honestly don't have any to sell today, but if I did, I wouldn't want to sell to someone who thinks that they can drive across a stranger's yard into another stranger's yard to buy eggs because they can see chickens in my back yard. I don't know if I should be creeped out, or angry, or both.

Prayers from here as well. :grouphug::crying::sad:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Dr-Pepper-Cake/ is for a Dr Pepper cake but a friend has substituted it with root beer. It is incredibly sweet. Almost too sweet. If making something like this I would just leave the whipped cream plain for more balance. If you want more flavor, I would drizzle the icing with syrup made from rootbeer but not add it to the icing/whipped cream.

I agree and think that you should save samples to share with administrators.

I would mention it to the administration. Will they have one of those opportunities at the end to rate and comment on the class? I had a college professor once that drove me crazy with her incomplete handouts, errors, and strings of nonsense. Her excuse was always that she ran out of time and could never complete what she needed to complete to give us. I wrote a lengthy review, in a nice tone, at the end of the course and the next year the class changed dramatically.

I thought he lost his hearing?

I have seen him on old game shows and thought that might be true. I love the evolution of Margaret on the show. Father Mulchahy is also a favorite. Col. Potter because he is such a strong father to all those in his charge. I could (and sometimes do) watch it for hours on end. But I like each one because of the contrast to the other characters. I loved the psychologist, and that crazy intelligence office Flag. Ok, now I just want to go watch TV and not teach my kids LOL.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I made the mistake of talking to my mom about minor frustrations when I was a newly married person and 15 years later she still holds those things as a grude against my dh. I didn't realize until I married just how many grudges she could hold. Or how many wrong assumptions can be made off an innocent comment. If you are having a difficult time, you need to find a friend or better yet, a church leader you can go to. You also need to be as independent as possible, as soon as possible, from family. If you don't, then that creates other resentments and problems. I learned the hard way though that 'don't say anything unless you can say something nice' definately applies to how I speak about my dh around anyone else. I also like the holiday discussion. It wasn't a big deal until we had kids. Then, where we stayed for holidays became a big deal. When we decided that we wanted to spend Christmas morning just by ourselves with our kids, then visit family in the days before or after, it was crazy how upset extended family members became.

We try to do 2 deep in every class, but it doesn't always happen. We do have ushers who roam the halls during class time and if a teacher needs help, the usher will assist. Men start teaching classes around 5th grade. But we also attend a smaller congregation so none of this is in stone, and all teachers must be approved by church elders.