Tammy, tell us how you really feel, ok? :lol:

I just saw a post Jeff made on Facebook and thought of this thread. He just fixed Scholaric so that it does print the grid if you want it to now. You might want to play with it again to see if it looks the way you need it to.

Oh yes, this is the usual recommendation. Lots. (Thought it never made a difference for me :tongue_smilie:)

Thanks! One of the sellers has new copies for under $7 too, so I grabbed one of those. It will be interesting to see how quickly their inventory of 15 vanishes :tongue_smilie:

I'm another who had BH contractions from around 16 weeks through the end of my pregnancy. Once was born almost two weeks late, and one was born within a few days of her due date (in either direction depending on who you believe :D). I'd talk to the doc about it, but for me, they meant nothing but annoyance for months.

Do you require that they do it at a certain time? Do you let them do it when they want to, even if it means they end up staying up too late? My DD9 has a certain smallish percentage of her schoolwork as independent work--Singapore workbook exercise, Latin worksheet, a couple of geography questions, maybe something from a section of our MCT books. I tend to want to require her to do them before anything else fun gets done, but by the time I let her go from our work together, she's been at it for over 3 hours straight, so I feel like she could use a break. But then, that break turns into all day, and she's in her room at 11:00, trying to finish it all, which is obviously not ideal! She's not managing the time well on her own, but I'm not sure how much I should be "helping" her learn how to manage it, YK? And this is the end of her first year with any real independent work to speak of. Anyway, how do you handle this sort of thing? TIA! ETA a disclaimer that no one ever taught me how to manage my time and responsibilities at all, so everything I learned was on the fly, pretty much as an adult. I'm not sure how involved I'm supposed to be at this point! :tongue_smilie:

Huh. Sounds like they're either still monitoring and pruning the thread or there was some kind of glitchiness. I don't think you did anything wrong though, don't worry.

:iagree: And who CAN have it all, really? There are always choices to be made. Sometimes you don't want to have to make them, but they still have to be made, and something has to be sacrificed. That's life.

Oh! Or that :lol::lol::lol:

Are you sure you didn't quote one of the deleted posts? Posts get deleted for that too (not as a slap on the wrist, but just to clear the air of the offending posts). Otherwise, it was probably just a mistake.

:iagree: When my oldest was an infant, DH had to resort to a plastic Solo cup to get her to drink my pumped milk. Once she understood that the good stuff was coming from there, she gave in. After that first day or two, we got a sippy cup we could use with the valve removed, and she was fine. Hey, you want to amaze your friends and family? Show up with a 3-month-old who can (eagerly!) drink from a cup :lol:

Yes, the other deleted posts were responding to that snidely made comment (and I'd imagine any quoting it too).

Thanks for all the advice, everyone. I'll gladly start with the pinwheels and go up in intensity from there. It also never even occurred to me to call animal control once we trap it--I'll give them a call on Monday and see what they say.

Ugh, if you could see the size of the hole it made under my fence this morning, you'd know that chicken wire means nothing at all. Plus, they can climb--ever seen one scale a chain link fence? We have friends who have trapped and released 5 or 6 so far and are still trying to trap the last one. They have chain link around their own large garden, and still the groundhogs destroyed the majority of their spring plants :( My own petless kids are enchanted with this thing too, but thankfully, they know the garden matters more after the incredible amount of work and money my husband put into it this past spring (of course, they also know that I'll do my best not to kill it if I don't have to). I love to feed and enjoy nature's creatures as much as anyone, but feeding my own creatures comes first, unfortunately. ETA: I'm sorry, I realized that my tone here might have come across as snarky toward you, and I truly don't mean it to. I'm terribly frustrated by the whole situation, especially after watching my friend go through the wringer with her critters and thinking, "Thank goodness we only have those darn squirrels." Of course I jinxed myself with that one! I almost started crying when I saw it in the yard yesterday *sigh* Anyway, if there's any tone conveyed in my post, it's toward the critters and not you. Heck, if we didn't have a garden, I'd probably let it stay. Then again, if we didn't have a garden, it probably wouldn't be here :glare:

I have this problem off and on too. I've found that I've started to sleep with my hands under my rear (flat, plams down) more for some reason--I think sometimes it's because they're cold, but otherwise, I have no idea why. However, you mentioned tendinitis in your shoulder--that started up a few years ago for me too, in both shoulders, and my elbows and even my finger joints are achy and inflamed. Now, I've known for around two years that gluten gives me digestive issues, but it was only a few months ago that I discovered that when I stop eating all gluten (even the small amounts that don't give me raging heartburn), my joint pain goes away, and so does the tingling/numbness. So while you're looking for solutions, maybe give that one a go? Good luck in figuring it out (and losing weight--I need to do the same!).

:lurk5: I was just contemplating this very thing. DD9 really likes her assignments to be graded, so I was thinking I should start planning how to incorporate hours/grades/points for courses in some way.

If you've dealt with this, what has worked for you? One popped up in the yard yesterday and seems to be living under the shed. It must be new, because I haven't noticed any damage to the garden...yet. This morning I watched it meander around the middle of the yard, nibbling at the lawn, then it scurried off back to the shed. I really don't want to kill this thing. I don't want it to die under my shed if I poison it, and I don't have a gun to do the job quickly (plus, we're in the middle of the suburbs--I can just imagine the neighbors' reactions :lol:). I could get a humane trap, but then I worry that I'm leaving some family of groundhogs to die a slow death or that I'm dropping the thing off somewhere to be killed in some other groundhog's territory, etc. I've seen the liquid and granulated repellents (e.g., fox urine), but...ick! and they don't seem to work in general anyway. So if you've dealt with this, what worked for you? TIA!

You know, you really can find the answer to any question here :lol:

I really can't imagine either option! Once, when we were dating, DH booked a trip for us to Miami Beach in August. The heat and humidity were nothing to him, but I was queasy for almost every minute we spent outside the hotel :( He was not happy. Our next trip there was in February and I was happy as a clam :tongue_smilie:

:lol: This is us too. All winter long, people are constantly asking us, "Where are your coats?!" I bought both girls heavy PJs and big comforters for last winter because we were keeping the heat down pretty low. They were sweating and miserable at night. They kept the comforters and slept in light PJs, and most nights I found the comforters kicked off. I think we're all just wired oddly (except for my tropical DH, who loves heat and hates winter :lol:).

OK, thanks everyone. It looks like we're split kind of like our IRL group was! I think I'm looking at it from the perspective of someone who doesn't handle heat well either (and didn't even when I was thin :001_huh:). I try to be a good sport, but the reality is that I'm miserable in the heat, and my purple face tends to scare people! So the idea of a surprise 2-hour hike into the woods really threw me when we were all sort of expecting a modified program. Two kids made it through the hike but ended up going home early because they felt so sick afterward, and my oldest told me later that while she enjoyed what she learned, she wasn't feeling well on the trip but was embarrassed to ask to go back in front of her friends :( Ironically, my youngest, who normally gets nauseated when she can't cool down, did just fine. I may not believe her the next time she complains about it! Anyway, I think I'll just trust my instincts and research the trip better next time so I'm prepared. Thanks again!

I think this is true. :lol: OMW, she sounds like my DD9! We have what's called "the business wall" in our front hallway. It's filled with signs for DD9's various businesses--childcare/storytime, B's Back Massage Inc. (I actually had to purchase a coupon book for that one--she makes me use it too!), doll hair repair and care, etc. Of course DD6, who has no sense of the value of money yet, is constantly trying to spend money at one or the other, and I finally had to tell DD9 that she was not allowed to charge her sister money! Has she ever seen Willy Wonka? That might be where she got the idea for the indemnity/liability waiver. Mrs. Teevee: I assume there's an accident indemnity clause. Willy Wonka: Never between friends. :lol:

Someone may have mentioned this, but have you looked at what you're eating that might be getting through to her? My DD9 was so sensitive to caffeine as an infant that I couldn't even drink decaf--even the teeny chocolate chips I was eating in my breakfast granola bar were making her crazy. Once I quit all caffeine (that was a very hard year :banghead:), things smoothed out quite a bit. My second had no issues at all with caffeine, thank goodness! Maybe she has a problem with dairy that she's getting via your milk? Something like that? I think people need to do what works for them, but I'm not sure I think weaning will solve your problem. If no one else is around to help you give nighttime bottles, you're waking up anyway. I hope you find something that works for you :grouphug: ETA: I see Ottakee just mentioned the diet. I've heard so many people say they see miraculous changes in their kids when they make some changes (sometimes drastic, sometimes minimal) to diet. The key is having the patience to find the right thing. I have always thought of DD6 as a difficult kid--difficult pregnancy, difficult infancy, crazy toddler years etc. When she was 5, I discovered that food colors make her temper go wild. So who knows what keeping food colors out of her diet entirely might have done for her as a baby? (I carry lots of guilt about that one *sigh*) If you can manage it, experimenting with the big sensitivities (dairy, gluten, soy, food colors, MSG/sulfites) in both of your diets may yield some changes for all of you.

:iagree: About the second part, we've had conversations here about how many religious people believe that there is no such thing as luck--it is always the hand of God, and to believe in luck is akin to not having faith (or something to that effect, I think--that's what I took away from the discussion anyway). I even remember some anecdotes about very faithful people being offended by someone wishing them "good luck." Maybe that's what the second part means? I'm not of any faith, though, so it doesn't mean that to me :D

This thread is killing me! :lol::lol::lol: I always end up being the mean, evil stepmother :glare: My youngest is absolutely locked on playing a homeless waif. She'll show up at the kitchen door whenever I'm cooking, with a small bag packed with doll clothes, asking if I have a corner to spare for a poor orphan girl. The answer is always yes, I'll provide good food and clean lodgings in exchange for hard household work, but somehow the work part never materializes!