My daughter around 4 or 5 Got one for Christmas. The older boys fell in love with it. Finally last year for the 16!!!!! Year old's birthday, I bought him a pillow pet. He was excited and the other bummed because he still doesn't have one. LOL! I have one In the closet for his birthday next month. They just absolutely adore the things.

celiac biopsy. fibro protocol has recently been changed to include Celiac testing as one of main tests to run. Since she has a history of that and gallbladder issues are sometimes linked to Celiac and they are doing a scope, might as well grab some tissue samples and get the test done. hyplori test of the stomach as well as fructose, lactase samples. Might as well do all that you can while getting scoped.

Yep another one with a trip to ER with multiple layers of stitches and repaired tendon due to a run in with a can lid. I think I was around 25ish??? Stupid tin cans!!! They should have their own horror movie. :lol:

I think the diet itself requires way more than just skipping wheat, rye, barley and oats. I've helped a few people and I advise them to eat only whole foods type for the first few months. Plain meat, lightly seasoned plain veggies, . Don't do soy, don't have diary and avoid gluten free products to replace gluten products (your pastas, breads, cookies etc). Basically nothing processed. It helps the gut to heal faster and calm down and the liver and pancreas to heal and reduce the inflammation. You don't have to eat that way for eternity but just a few months. I also discovered through trail and error that it works better for some if you add in only one new thing at a time. So if you are dying for pancakes, Eat only that only once a day a couple of times a week. Slowly increase that food until you can have it every day or a couple of times a day without any adverse reactions. Then add in another new food. My daughter was so sick that we had a very limited diet for 2 months (when the diarrhea stopped and she had regular bowel movements) and then added in only one new food type each month. And then for awhile there we couldn't eat pancakes for breakfast, sandwich for lunch and floured fried type food for dinner. just way too many grains. It took well over a year before she was at a point where she could just anything in a day or a week and not have any adverse reactions. So many GI drs think the gut just magically heals because you removed the offending food. They don't always understand that similar foods will upset your intestines the same way, too much of a similar foods in a day can overload your system and a myriad of other little things. plus, while in theory, the gut heals rather quickly, reality is it doesn't. Sometimes it takes a while. Sometimes it needs way more babying than they like to admit. Sometimes you do discover new allergies, other times you are just in the healing stage and need to baby it. Much like a wound. It is still sensitive way after it looks healed. Any little thing can scrape it open again, agitate a spot or make it hurt. The gut is very similar in my eyes. ** just to clarify.... All of our food is gluten free. I didn't mean she could eat gluten. That even with gluten free, it was still hit and miss for many months until full healing took place but she still has to be gluten free.

For everyone saying the father should know, well in this stupid state, the father has NO RIGHTS. He can't get on a a paternity registry. There isn't one. He can't force anyone to list him on the birth certificate so he can't get listed that way. He can only be married to the mother AT THE TIME OF THE BIRTH to ENSURE he has paternal rights. For some reason being married gets you listed on the birth certificate and makes the claim that you are the father. copied from code of laws Unless the court orders otherwise, the custody of an illegitimate child is solely in the natural mother unless the mother has relinquished her rights to the child. If paternity has been acknowledged or adjudicated, the father may petition the court for rights of visitation or custody in a proceeding before the court apart from an action to establish paternity. Otherwise, it is a crap shoot because there aren't any spelled out laws determining legal custody.. it is entirely up to a judge as to whether the guy has any claim. And the adoption agencies are so big here in this state, that it is nearly guaranteed that a mother wanting to adopt her baby out will get the father's rights terminated by the court. The C's have political clout and money and are white. They use an adoption agency who has been cited in the past for illegal adoption and shady practices and even asked to cease and desist adoptions and been banned in other states from adopting. They are bottom of the barrel people hiding behind save the child from the evils and give them a Christian home and they do so to the ones who can pay the most. Fees through the adoption agency In general, the cost of an agency adoption through Nightlight will be approximately $18,000. You will also need to hire an attorney for the finalization of the adoption. In general, depending upon the individual characteristics of your adoption and the cost of obtaining an attorney in your state, your total cost may be approximately $20,000 – $25,000. See the “Agreement for Domestic Adoption Services†(part of the Domestic Adoption Information Packets for California and South Carolina) for more details. And the C's testified and it is in public records, the things they gave the birth mother and what all they did for her before the baby was born. They bought the child. Plain and simple. And they used SC laws to determine that the biological father had no rights. Why should somebody IN OK have any clue about that??? Trickery........ Sure maybe he did say he didn't want the child. Guess what...who cares!!!! The birth mother can adopt the child out, send the baby home from the hospital with the adoptive mother and GET THE BABY back months later. Why can't he???

some of you seem to have a grip on this insurance stuff...... If either of us (me and hubby) have the opportunity to get insurance through either of our employers, then we can NOT get insurance through the exchange?? yes ? No ? And only if you get insurance through the exchange do you get the subsidy? cause we can't afford the insurance through either without a subsidy..... Just wondering if I even have a chance at the exchange and the subsidy..... or we just have to continue to go without insurance and now get to pay for that privilege. If it is above 9% of our income though we can get a waiver, is that right and not have to have insurance or the fine?? how does it work when both spouses have jobs and have employer insurance offers? Do they combine our household income? Or take it at each individual ? So my hubby's plan might be 12% of his income and mine is say 8% of my income? How does that work?? Combine our totals and then pick an employer 's plan to get the percentage of income? I'm so confused. Our state isn't expanding medicaid and isn't even setting up the exchange. We are going through the federal exchange as a state.

Okay you win. there is no way I would have not puked right on the spot just looking at the jar much less the attempt to actually eat it!!!!!

Well that was depressing..... Hopefully , the real for sure info will be out soon so we will all know the details and can stop the guessing game.

Well that was depressing..... Hopefully , the real for sure info will be out soon so we will all know the details and can stop the guessing game.

My very first zombie thread!!!! And gosh , it is still just as funny if not more the second time around. And that spam story is hysterical. I can only imagine their faces the next day!

I hope that one does not take years. Hopefully they will move her this week!

Not to be snarky but if taking online classes from the public school charters at home is a form of homeschooling, then how does that apply to college? because most of my college experience just recently was done at home online, test included. If attending college online at home is still called college and still considered under the college's responsibility, then why is attending public school at home different? You register with a "place" and take classes at home in your pjs with your coffee at 10:00 am or midnight or whatever you decide. But i dont hear of people trying to change the staus of what it is. So I don't understand why k-12 is different? Classes at home given by the public school is still public school. Why do those in the public school or private school at home route care to be called homeschoolers? (Not being snarky, we have a debate here about it among some very opinionated people :) I have a few friends in our state's online public school charter and they get irrated when people label them as homeschoolers. My sister in point gets very defensive ( but of course it may more that it is considered a status symbol. "I have the time and money to stay home with my kids and keep them fromthe ole nasty B&m school without lowering myself to the whack a doodle homeschooler level" --- insert eye rolling smilie here as you can guess what she considers me LOL!). So there is a group in online public who don't want to be called homeschoolers. And they don't understand the group that insists on being labeled homeschoolers. And this old school homeschooler doesn't understand why everyone feels the need to change the labels. It is what it is, Own it and be happy everyone gets to make the choices that works for them and understand that legal differences may from time to time dictate how the groups interact related to academics and sports.

But in many states there is that distinction. In SC you can attend private school, public school, public charter school, public online at home charter school, homeschool 3 YES 3!!!! different ways which also can include the very same online charter schools that are used in the public system (just paid by you) and there is even a special program that is virtual classes for any student in Sc. So it can get very confusing very quickly around here. There are three very distinct classes of students here with separate laws and regulations for each group. You must know which you are. Your location has nothing to do with it. How your school is funded, by whom and which law you school under does. Reason why so many things point blank ask for which law you school under. Most of the time, it doesn't matter. But sometimes it does. How you are counted, the degree of info about you that is collected and which set of regulations you have to abide by. not knowing can cause issues. Like the official that wanted some extra paperwork from me one year because all the other homeschoolers had to do it. Well, they were under different regulations and half were school at home public schoolers. For those in states that make the distinction, it is one we have to keep making as too many people in charge can't keep it straight. Especially when in some things you can have a blend of all three types in your programs. If you can't say, I use this law number# You can find yourself in a pickle.

It matters on competition teams(some) and matters to honor societies. Online at home public schoolers can join Beta Club but can't join the homeschool honors (at least in my state because they say they are public students). So the technicality does raise its head.

Use it to clean the toilets and sinks

Here's what I don't understand...... How is it that both the C"s and the birth mother admit knowing that the paperwork to the Cherokee nation was incorrect - wrong spelling of the father's name and the wrong birth date- which led the CN to believe that the child was not Cherokee and not their concern as to her placement. Isn't that fraud? Lying? Disenfranchisement or something that makes the entire removal of the baby from OK to SC ILLEGAL in the first place? If the info had been correct, the CN would not have approved her adoption and would not have let her leave the state. So how can the C's claim their adoption was legal since their removal of her was illegal in the first place? Supply incorrect info to mislead people is not a wrong? why isn't' it just that simple? They gave the wrong info ( and admit it was wrong and admit they knew it would be trouble). Thus shouldn't the adoption in SC be null and void and the child really belongs to the CN and they decide her fate which is what would have happened had they told the truth at HER BIRTH. Or am i just wrong? Edited: Quite frankly, I hope the Cs never see her again. I hope the grandparents remain so deep in CN that nobody can actually enforce anything for years to come. She can grow up where she would have had the truth been told.

Second that SC is playing politics. The Cs are money and upper crust. Officials will bend over backwards and become pretezles to make sure these people get exactly what they want. The good ole boy system really does work here in this state. My daddy knows your daddy who happens to be the judge and both went to school with the lawyer and the decision is made before anyone goes to court. Court is normally just a formality for the sake of saying it was done according to the law. When in reality, the case was decided between friends at the golf course. The Cs mistake is they thought the bio father was someone they could just sweep under the carpet and that he didn't have the money to compete with them. And yea, the timing was done to make sure he couldn't do anything about the baby. Absolutely no accident that they waited until days before he deployed to inform him his kid was being adopted. He probably thought he would come back and she would be over her issues and they would get back together and get married. So while he appears he was being a deadbeat, he may have just been biding time to get back with the woman. Hormonal pregnant woman??? Most likely. He wouldn't be the first to ship out with plans to make things better when he got home and time had calmed everyone down. And in SC unless the father is listed on the birth certificate or married to the mother at the time of the birth, there aren't paternal rights as far as I know. So Sc doesn't consider him a parent. But since this all took place in OK, I don't get how SC laws can apply to him. And I think he still had time to register in OK so even that can't be held against him. Plus, I do feel that the Cs lawyers informed birth mom to not have any contact or accept anything from him or family to show he had not provided financially. I think they purposely constructed this whole mess to deceive him and make him legally look bad. And he just thinks he is dealing with another "off time" with a hormonal pregnant woman and that giving her some space will bring them back to another "on time". When In reality, she is selling his kid to the highest bidder.

SC is just a big ole good ole boy network. He's out of the network..... Non white, non old money, non proper social status, non historical SC roots......... he was screwed from the start and the adoptive couple are just a$$hats. They irk me everytime they pop up on my FB feed with the Save Veronica BS and on the news yet again. Baby buying and baby stealing is alive and well in this state. fathers have no rights and the courts barely recognize them. That is slowly changing but basically the woman controls everything and you are out of luck if you are on her bad side. Any couple who can pay medical and throw in some"extras "(20,000 seems to be a popular figure) can buy a newborn. It is disgusting. To the point that I wish they would make all adoptions illegal unless they are through DSS. not a better solution but at least birth moms wouldn't get to leave the father off the birth certificate and sell the baby before he knows one was born. baby selling would stop and adoptive parents would be forced to deal with the state.( who apparently take their sweet time and have one regulation after another after another after another- reason why private adoption is a quicker route, leave the father off the certificate, conceal the birth from him, and the baby can be adopted and out of the state before 48 hours old.). A high school friend did that. the birth father's mom threw a fit. She would have taken the child herself but didn't find out until a couple of weeks after the birth. Something needs to change.

Can you pick up really cheap sheets and drape everything as a cover before people come over? I would be very firm and make no bones about not touching my stuff but if it is at the front door and open to boot, that might be hard to understand BEFORE they are already into stuff. The sheet might give you enough time to redirect everyone as you state the rules.

Routine here for UTI and annual physical. Dr explains exactly what they are going to do and that no one else can do this and she is only because she is the doctor making sure they are okay and mom is right there. UTIs are often from bacteria and a quick peep may show if it is unusually red or irritated or sometimes the area sticks to itself and there may be infection under the skin that has grown up together. Double checking to make sure there isn't an obvious area of infection that could be causing the UTI only makes sense. Then you can treat the source and the UTI and knock them out the first time instead of growing some resistance bacteria.

For those of you inputting R&S into OneNote, could you tell how you are setting it up? I get bogged down in the set up and like to see how others do it. Thanks!

From our experience so far with this mindset, it is NOT about protecting their daughter. It is all about who is going to be boss dog. Caring about the daughter is just an veiled excuse to see who has the biggest balls. Not the man or family i want my sons to commit to forever. They will get enough of that stupidity in their careers. They don't need to be in a pissing contest until he is dead.

Regardless of what the dad said or did, the gun out was a threat and it was meant to be taken that way. I've seen all the date applications and gun things floating around FB and the only ones who seem to pass it around are the Ham and Gothard followers. My kids probably would have left or been asked to leave cause I can not imagine WTH "laying ground rules" means. And if it is what I think......they would not have taken kindly to a lecture from some dude being so disrespectful as to be busy with a chore the very first time they were being introduced like this. That is a lack of manners. Many times later, yeah..... certainly no problem to be doing something, guy walks in says Hi, maybe even pitches in, but the first time??? I can remember one time when my father was changing the oil in the car with my brother and had no clue (or had forgotten ) that my date was coming over. He was so mad at me for letting that guy meet him for the first time when he was dirty and couldn't even shake hands. He said to never let such a thing happen again as that was just rude. I cannot even wrap my head around the idea that you would be busy the first time you meet someone new who is purposefully on a set time coming over to your house. WTH???? You can't stop your life for 30 mins to hang around and wait on a person who is going to arrive at such a time to take your daughter out??? My dad always carried on with my dates, talked to them, asked them about their cars, the engines, the weather, college, jobs whatever. He treated them with respect and made them feel welcome, even the long haired punk rocker with a dog collar. ( my rocker phase :laugh: ) When a few became regular, they often would would arrive to find everyone busy doing something but everyone always stopped to shout out hey and make them feel welcome.... But "ground rules" :confused1: My parents would throw out a "be home around such and such and have fun" as we were leaving. What else is there to say??

thanks!

Do you have a link for this "As it happens, the data shows that healthy adults have a 90% reduced chance of getting the flu if they are vaccinated" I like to review such studies.