Oops I'm late to the thread. No pun intended lol

Well depending on when you ovulated it may not be a "long" cycle. You could still have the same length luteal phase but ovulation that occurred later in the month than usual. It's been 7 years so what did the doctors recommend you do after X number of "guaranteed" years of no pregnancies? Were you supposed to go back after so many? It's up to you. If you really think you are, I'd get a test. If you don't think you are, I might wait a day or so just because I'm cheap and I hate buying pregnancy tests. I know people say they sell them at the dollar stores, but I would assume they still cost more than $1?? Unless they mean Dollar Tree where everything is actually $1.

:grouphug: Could you change the punishment? Maybe the lack of friend time is exacerbating the behavior. Your son can't go somewhere but what about the other kids? Could they take a bus or something to school so you didn't have to drive? I am guessing maybe they would also be assigned to the school you lost faith in, though. I'm sorry times are so difficult right now.

Yes, it's been going on a long time. One of the first times I noticed it was with Kudos bars lol. Pretty sure last time we bought Pringles (which we don't do very often) I thought, "what?! Isn't it supposed to be full to the top?"

was that passive aggressive? I don't know how I'd take that. But maybe they just didn't want to talk about it so just wrote that to acknowledge you had messaged them.

Let me put this in perspective for you. Dd is approx 30 lbs now. She's 2. She hasn't been in her infant car seat in a while. She uses a convertible seat right now (rear facing). Your child will outgrow height long before weight more often than not. Our infant seat goes up to 35 lbs. but that is meaningless now. Also, the heavier they are, the less likely you will carry the seat into buildings. Maybe invest in a baby carrier/sling. Also better for head development I think (mine had torticollis and plagiocephaly. She appears fine now). Before reusing an old seat don't just look at the man. date. Ask yourself did you ever wash the straps? If so, you would want to replace those. They should not be submerged in water, it removes the fire retardant stuff. A friend of mine is a car seat tech. If you want I can probably get her to recommend some seats. Is your goal longevity? Because even the Graco 4 Ever and some others can backfire (I can't remember if it's that one or another where by the time the child is old enough for the no back booster the seat will look babyish).

Yeah it's like they're thinking, "well as long as you notice after you buy it.." lol You go to unwrap that breakfast bar and it's like a quarter is missing.

I fed dd a yogurt the other day. It was not very full! I wondered if they downsized or if it was a new brand. Dh bought them and I don't remember for sure what brand it was. Most of the yogurts we buy are (or were?) filled higher.

I think that's so special that you provided the music. :) Thanks for the update.

Sometimes people will see sequels without seeing the original. I wonder if in the case of the kid in the John Wick 2 showing the parent had never seen the first film.

I assumed deadpooling was a reference to parents that take kids to movies like Deadpool despite actors saying, "don't' take your kid to see this film." Wow this thread took a turn I was not expecting lol

A lot of people are posting, "what makes you scream 'no'?" and I'm over here like, "is it just me or is it odd to talk about adoption when someone is already a fully grown adult?" I don't mean that in a rude way. Just that when I hear adoption my mind goes to children or maybe young adults. If it's been 15 years I would have thought it would have been discussed earlier on, too. If someone were to go along with it I wouldn't think anything negative about it. I just mean I can see why you wouldn't necessarily feel the same as them. I would talk to my mom about it first I would imagine. Maybe that is cowardly. I don't have a step parent so I guess I can't really put myself in your shoes, either. It would just be easier to me to ask the whys indirectly.

That's so strange you mention this movie. I was just talking about John Wick last night. I didn't know they made a second. My 8 yr old can see certain things that other parents wouldn't allow. He handles violence better than me in a lot of ways. I wouldn't take him to see a John Wick movie personally. He did once access a Walking Dead episode I would never have permitted him to see once. It was an episode where I had to leave the room, but he apparently didn't have any nightmares or act fazed. I think most of the violent stuff he's seen in theaters was rated PG-13, though. Like one of the X-Men movies. I didn't realize it was going to be that violent. I was really upset we had taken him. He was fine. I was uncomfortable.

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You have to follow directions to a T. It has to be a fine mist or else the bugs or fleas will walk around it. And as far as fleas, you're supposed to put some DE inside the vacuum so if you vacuum up eggs and they hatch then the hatched fleas will bounce up and down on the DE inside the vacuum. DE does NOT kill eggs.

We didn't use it on the pet. I think you're not supposed to apply it to them. But using it around the home or outside the home is fine. You would want the food-grade version. We used it when I was pregnant and our cat got fleas. I absolutely did not want to bomb the inside of my home. Dh got a duster pistol thing and wore a mask. He left a fine mist all over right before we left town. I wasn't sure how fast/effective it was since we were gone for a bit and we treated the cat separately. But I think it must work because I don't remember flea issues when we returned. The cat got on some pill briefly... Comfortis I believe. I know your link says you can apply it directly to coat, but I thought I read somewhere else not to do that. Is your dog outdoors a lot? I guess the alternative would be to feed it some, but I'm not familiar with that method. I mean, I think farmers feed some to their livestock so it's probably a legit thing but I don't know too much about it. It's dusty and I don't know if it would scratch the inside of their throat but maybe not if mixed with food since it's called food-grade.

To some degree. There have been times he's done things where he acted the exact same regardless of gender. Like the time a female worker started a job in his dept. and didn't know anyone/anything in the area besides him. He took her shopping and I was irate about it. I told him give her an address and let her use a GPS lol. But then a male worker in his dept. started and he went as far as to buy him an air mattress because he was very broke and didn't even have a bed yet. He thought he'd get paid back for the air mattress but since there was a miscommunication we didn't feel right about asking for the money back. I was a bit upset about the money loss but oh well. It goes to show he does sometimes bend over backwards for both men and women.

We don't sit together in theaters because he needs the leg space and he's in real discomfort sitting in most rows. The row he likes is too close for me. It has a bar instead of seats in front of it and more room to stretch. I have sucked it up and sat there but it's not eye level and while it's not the front row, it's just way too close for me. And he has sucked it up and sat with me before but was in great pain not able to stretch his legs. He usually goes to movies with ds now though he would like us to go together. On a rare occasion I will go to the theater alone since no one in my family wants to sit where I do, anyway. And I don't sit in a weird place! I sit above middle but not in nosebleed. Yes I think the main pacing issue was exercise. When I brought up the topic this weekend he said that he didn't walk with her at her pace the entire time, just part of it. But still. Anyway, she's not one of the moms with a kid and he said he doesn't have to do the baby walking thing this summer. He said he didn't set anything in stone (which was not the impression I was under before). I really don't think there's anything going on there but he's always suggesting things that make me go, "??" like today saying he should invite the moms to ds' party this summer to be polite. They both have kids near dd's age. I was like so??? The party is for ds, you are under no obligation to invite them.

That's awful!! And we only have one car too so that would be really bad for me lol. I think I need to look at phones this week.

Mine is acting up. I don't like upgrading phones. It's a pain. I usually wait til I've had it long enough to qualify for something relatively cheap/free. I will probably have no choice but to upgrade soon. My screen will freeze sometimes. One time recently my texting wasn't working, but I didn't know it at least for the incoming ones. Then everything disappeared from my screen and I could receive a call but not access contacts/make a call. It was scary. It was in an area where my phone normally works fine so I didn't know how to explain it.

I love a good deal! Great finds! Nice find on the dress!

Maybe it's not so much the name as the association that makes it special. Might want to think of favorite characters or family members. I know you've looked at lists, but have you checked out any baby name books? Maybe the lists are different in a book than online. We have a baby name book here. I think it's this one: https://www.amazon.com/000-Baby-Names-Bruce-Lansky/dp/0684034506/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492902120&sr=8-1&keywords=25%2C000%2B+Baby+Names Sorry, not sure I can quite answer your actual question.

Do you have a "Once Upon a Child" store? They will give you cash on spot, but it's not much. I took some of ds' old clothes there once. A lot of consignment stores I have looked into have way too much red tape for me. "Bring only XYZ brands. Must be on a hanger. We sell at 50% retail and you keep even less than that." etc etc. My hangers are worth more to me than some of the items :laugh:

Yeah, don't think we have uber around here. Liking posts but not the circumstances behind some of them. I like the "spend more fun times together" advice. That makes total sense. With feedback from this thread I did talk to him more about my feelings. I basically told him even if it doesn't seem like a big deal to him, he should ask himself, "would this bother my wife?" and we had a chat about cell phone usage. He reads and responds to work related emails at night and on weekends and I said that they should get the hint if you don't reply during your off hours. He's in walking distance from home so the fact that he's not coming home for meals sometimes and eating with other people is extra offensive when it's happening so often. We do care about the students but sometimes those boundaries get blurry, too. Just now he asked if he should invite a female college student we know (she's tutored ds before) over for dinner because they lost power in their dorm room. I can see valid response to that on either end, but he needs to stop making everyone else's problems ours to fix. I don't think he's a bad guy, but I do think sometimes his priorities are way different than mine. We did agree we need to try a date night soon and hopefully make it a recurring thing. Also asked him to please find a counselor in his ins. network so we can figure out the sitter stuff for that, too.

Sometimes you can see what was purchased with a gift card. Not sure if you can view gift card history that far back. One possibility is you used it online for something that either was $5 even or you did a split payment and paid the remainder with your walmart gift card. Maybe the split payment was between two gift cards.