I'm so sorry to hear about your experience. Thank you for making the last 10 days of his life ones where he knew what it was like to be loved.

Aww, so sorry that you're sick, Bek! We've all got some junk here too, although it's not the flu. I hope you feel better soon!! And keep away from Jackson! Lily is always asking about him and if he still has his cast. :rofl: (Incidentally, we're planning a trip to your parts this spring if you're up for a get together. And we have more time to plan this time so we have no excuses, LOL!)

I finished Oryx and Crake. I didn't like the end. At all. Grrrr...... I'm reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe now to talk about it with Lily. It's her mom-daughter bookclub pick this month and I haven't read it so there ya go. :)

I refused the test with DS and DD2 because I was so sick from doing it with DD1. With DS, my OB told me to eat a normal breakfast (as much as my HG would allow) and get my blood drawn. With DD2 (different OB) , he had me eat a 3 Musketeer and a 1/2 c of apple juice and then take the test. I got so violently ill from the 3 Musketeers that I still can't look at one without feeling nauseous and DD2 is 15 months old. I don't think you ever fully get over HG.

I know you can start your own group, but I'm not sure how you go about that. I'd send them an email or post on their FB page and ask them! Worst they can do is say no, right? :)

Awww, I'm sorry that you had a bad experience. Our farmer's markets are considerably more expensive that BB...to the point where I simply can't afford to support them. I wish I could afford to do local and organic.

It's a co-op that's popping up around the country. We've been participating for a few months now and I wanted to encourage you to check it out and see if it's in your neighborhood! It's $15 bi-weekly in most areas. (Some areas have a weekly delivery, which is $15/week). You order Monday morning through Tuesday lunch. You pick up in most places on Saturday. You get a basket of fruits and a basket of veggies. You can get conventionally grown or 100% organic produce. They also have add-on packages that vary weekly - granola, bread, honey, special fruit/veggie packs. We've been very impressed with the quality and quantity of food that we've received. The URL is http://bountifulbaskets.org. Here is a blog post (NOT MINE - I just found it on the net) showing what was in a basket one week. Our experiences have been similar in what we get. You can also check out their FB page and people talk about what they get from week to week. NOTE: I'm not affiliated with them in any way, other than purchasing from them. I'm not getting a kick back or benefit for posting about them. :)

I'm a troop leader for a Brownie troop. Our troop minimum is 4 cases. That's 48 boxes. In our council, we take the cookies themselves door to door instead of pre-ordering with a form. Sounds like it should be better than pre-ordering from a form, but we get penalized BIG if we turn back in even 1 single box from our entire troop. You have to be really careful how many you cases you order. Lily ordered 10.5 cases. She wanted the incentive that came with 125 boxes. Cookie sales started on Wed and she just finished an hour ago. :) I always breathe a huge sigh of relief when she's done.

Mine is linked in my siggy! :)

I really enjoyed Confessions of a Prairie ..... So funny and witty, but it was really sad in parts too. :( The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was a great read as well, but it was so unbelievably sad.

I finished Dragon House this week. Excellent book! Loved loved loved it!!! Now I'm reading Oryx and Crake.

I always wear mine. It never comes off unless I'm putting on lotion or something. And then I put it right back on. :)

The flu has hit hard this year, but I certainly don't think it's "worst flu ever." It doesn't come close to comparing to the 1918 flu, for example. In our area, everyone is sick, but a lot of people have other illnesses - strep, stomach flu, regular colds, pneumonia, bronchitis...

I don't do character underwear past the first ones they get when they potty train (I only do them then as an incentive to potty train). Lily and John both trained shortly before they turned 2. So they were done with character underwear by the time they were 3ish.

Yep, me. I joined WW last week and I'm working on losing it slowly and so that it never comes back. :)

Puppies usually get their rabies shot at 16 weeks. The puppies we are currently fostering are 7.5 weeks old and won't get their rabies shots till they go to their new homes (they get to go next week after they are spayed) because they'll still be too young. Research shows that waiting till 18 weeks for a rabies shot makes it considerably more effective. 95% of dogs are covered by the shot when first given at 18 weeks, 60% when first given at 16 weeks, and a dismal 40% when first given at 9 weeks. I would think the puppy will recover fine. It wouldn't be any different than if they went out of town and boarded the puppy for 10 days. I'm so happy they got the puppy back. I would be very worried though about this giving the dog a "record" if something should happen again. Dogs who have a repeat history of biting are generally euthanized - at least around where I live.

My son had RSV at 11 months. He didn't look right so I called the pediatrician. They pushed me off and told me to bring him in that afternoon. I hung up, put him in the car, drove to the office, and insisted that he be seen. They took 1 look at him and got a nurse, who then got our doctor. A few minutes after we got to the office, John stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated. It was the scariest thing ever to see them hit the code button in the exam room, other nurses and doctors in the same practice come pouring in, and my limp, non-responsive, blue little baby grabbed from my arms so they could make him breathe again. The pediatrician said he would not have lived had he not been in the office. He got over the RSV, but needed a nebulizer for over a year every time he got sick. They said he ended up with long-term lung damage from the RSV and told us at the time it would take 3-5 years for his lungs to heal from it. Apparently that's a common side effect of RSV. He's 6 now and just fine. No allergies and no asthma and he's hardly ever sick.

I would be a Pharmacy tech or a Vet tech. Both in high demand here.

13 of the AG books are on sale today only for $1.99 each. Here's the link to them.

I finished The Wilder Life this week. I think I might have been expecting too much from it, but I wasn't impressed with it. I wanted to hear more about Laura and less about what she thought of everything. This week I'm hoping for Dragon House since it's for my book club next week. My Canada book is going to be Oryx and Crake.

Thanks!!!

Thanks for recommending these! I just added both of them to my to-read list!

Thinking of you...

Can you do WW if you make your own food? I'm thinking about joining, but we rarely eat out and I cook almost everything from scratch. Also, if you have any feedback on WW in general, please chime in! :D

It was my own idea and we are just starting so it may morph as we go. But my idea as I'm envisioning it is to pick a book together to read. This time I suggested a few books I think she might like and she picked. But I told her she's welcome to suggest something she wants as well, but I get veto power. I want veto power mostly because I 1) don't want to be reading an Ivy and Bean book in simplicity and 2) I don't want to be reading tween twaddle like Dork Diaries. :) A big part of my motivation is that she's scared of "big books." If I give her a book on the Kindle, it doesn't matter how long it is. But if I had her a 200 page book, she freaks because it's too long and doesn't even want to give it a chance. So I thought this would be a good way to help her get over the hump of being intimidated by the size of the book. So we pick a book to read, read it at the same time, and then once a month we go have a date and we discuss the book. My current plan is for us to go to Starbucks and get a hot chocolate while we discuss it because she thinks that Starbucks is a "big girl" thing.