Mine also started adrenarche (didn't know there was a term for it, thanks!) at that age and we're about two years in with no further developments...I have been wondering if everything else would follow early so good to know we may still have some time. We don't have any unusual height patterns in our family or family history though.

This made me laugh, partly just from relief-- from the thread title I was expecting news of a national ham or turkey or holiday-meal-related shortage...2021 reflexes are so fun

My daughter wrote to him when she was six as part of a letters to favorite authors project. Understandably she received a form postcard for a response, but it was still special. Some of the exhibits from the museum Pam mentioned came to our city's museum for a while, and it was so cool to see his stuff in embryo, photos of him standing on a big white sheet with a broom to scoot the paint around to get that brushy effect. 🙂 When I was growing up in the nineties, his work was so omnipresent that I figured he had always been around, a classic like Laura ingalls Wilder or something.

I was nervous ahead of my second dose, but all I had was a really sore arm for 2-3 days (less than with the first dose oddly), and about 12 hrs post-shot a flu-like achiness, fatigue, and fever. By the second full day after the shot, all was normal again.

Hi! I've noticed my three-year-olds will fixate on the "bad guy" in stories, no matter how comical or sweetly drawn. It's not a real anxiety, just curiosity, so I don't feel like I have to be particular about most of the fairy tale retellings -- ones clearly meant for the preschool set anyway, which are usually easy to distinguish from picture book fairytales written for school-age kids who can handle Baba Yaga in all her grotesqueness. 😉 Tomie de Paola did a little board book here with super short summaries of Rumpelstiltskin, Princess and the Pea, the Elves and the Shoemaker, and the Three Bears. He also has a bigger treasury (Favorite Nursery Tales) which are sweetly illustrated, tame retellings from what I remember. She might like The Knight and the Dragon, once she is familiar enough with the genre that she can enjoy it being turned upside down. The only other thing I can think of right now is Each Peach Pear Plum--not a fairytale collection, but an I-Spy picture book that features well-known characters and has been a huge hit with my newest 3-year-old for a few months now.

Huh. I've never sought an official diagnosis, but it has helped in various areas of life for me to operate under that assumption. I didn't know that was a correlation.

Thanks very much for helping brainstorm. Definitely there are times when I need the sleep, and needing to move back my bedtime requires better time management throughout the day/week. That's a weak point and a work in progress. But if I am getting better with that and can get to bed early enough to permit a 6 or 6:30 wake time (ugh, that used to be what I considered moderately late rising), the initial dilemma remains. How to wake myself consistently but not the rest of the family. I didn't know fitness bands had a vibrate alarm! That is a very promising option. Light of any kind would bother my husband. I'm okay with the division of labor here, really-- I get to hand off evening kid wrangling to him. I only do a bit of setting up homeschool work lists in the evening, except for Sunday nights to do the weekly planning. This is more about getting quiet time to gather my thoughts for whatever purpose the day requires before everyone else is up--and my relatively unique situation is the heavy sleeper + light/late sleeper combo I got myself into with this marriage, heh. Bulk cooking I would love to do and it would no doubt streamline weeknights. I really just need to buckle down and do it.

Posting here, because it's related to our homeschooling success... In short, I would like very much to get up earlier than my kids, who are early risers. Reasons are many, but a major one is so that I am not always preparing for the following day (too late) the night before. I have always been a morning person (I like going to bed/getting up early), but a very heavy sleeper. I will sleep through most anything, including alarm clocks of any reasonable type/volume. I am married to someone whose work hours do not require the use of an alarm clock, and who would very much not like to be the one turning off my alarm clock every morning as I sleep (unwillingly!) through it. I have a baby who weirdly enough, at the moment likes to sleep in, too. (She is right next to our bed, which is the only reason why I don't usually sleep through her waking/crying.) It puts a real damper on the days when I wake up at 8 and have to scramble to get our basic needs taken care of while still mentally waking up, making coffee, etc. If we didn't have regular outings/therapy appointments in the mornings, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but it is. I know I don't have to explain this to other moms of young children. Any ideas, short of sleeping in another room, and hoping that the vibrate feature + a fairly loud alarm might do the trick? Am I missing some obvious solution? Going to bed at 8:30 to trigger a helpful biological rhythm for waking up early. is, alas, untenable. I'm just sort of hoping for the baby to become a better alarm clock someday soon. 😆 Thanks for any ideas.

Hetty McKinnon's Family may be the sort of thing you're looking for. https://www.amazon.com/Family-Vegetarian-Comfort-Nourish-Every/dp/3791385429 I got it earlier this year and have barely cooked from it, but am planning to start soon--I like your idea of working through a cookbook one night a week. I tagged lots of recipes as potential wins for everyone, some I'm pretty sure only I would like and not my family... There are also tips for super fast pantry meals with a pantry staples list (why do I love those in cookbooks so much?).

My 6-yo boy (also a new reader, yay!) is surprising me with his enthusiasm for answering questions in complete sentences. He'll even correct himself mid-word and give a rather eloquent sounding answer....in his tiny 6-yo voice. After about five minutes of this he'll need to go jump/tumble/wrestle a stuffed animal with sound effects for a while...I find that juxtaposition adorable. My oldest is a girl and more academically "accelerated" so I was expecting it would be hard to maintain realistic expectations for him with schoolwork, or he would need more drawing out, but no. (He loved Bears on Hemlock Mountain too btw! The audiobook was an all-time favorite around here. That's a great idea for having him read independently in small chunks.)

I hope you do appreciate that like crazy. Seriously though, I wonder why is it not Humanity 101 to learn how to politely, calmly, and directly set boundaries--for our own good as well as for those closest to us? It seems like an inexplicably rare skill. 😕 Not close to menopause here but I have gone through periods of intense irritability I did not recognize as anxiety/depression till later... OP has to decide what she's willing to try in terms of medication or lifestyle changes, whatever the cause, but I think with respect to others in the house, it's more than enough to try to mitigate the effects on them exactly how OP described she's already doing---albeit maybe more directly, and *before* the irritability is triggered.

Following in hopes of hearing from more people... Not sure what OP wants to know specifically from such a huge area, but I am also interested in hearing from families who live in more isolated areas about what it's like to homeschool there. Are there pockets of homeschool communities even in smaller/more rural places? I am not really surprised that CO Springs would have that given its size and cultural/demographic reputation. Or are people living outside of big cities in this part of the country pretty much going it alone as a family...?

For me, that's just the first trimester experience. This current pregnancy, my fourth, I had the "worst" (for me, definitely not compared to many others' descriptions) and earliest nausea/food aversions thus far. I also always had this awful taste in my mouth no matter how recently I had brushed my teeth... Had to keep mints and hard candy (whatever kind that didn't gross me out that day!) especially when driving to take my mind off of it... My poor teeth. I'm about 20 wks now and no trace of that issue or nausea luckily. For the water aversion, have you tried ice cold water with a good squeeze of lemon juice? I've never been picky about water temp or asked for lemon with water at restaurants and such but for some reason that's my favorite drink right now and often took the edge off nausea in the first trimester. Don't torture yourself looking at the poll results and assuming you're in for months of eating nothing but what you listed! It's totally normal to not be able to eat your healthiest diet during the first trimester. If you're already noticing improvement I'm pretty sure you'll be doing fine given another couple weeks.

Following, in the same boat--- have sewed a couple but am no seamstress so it takes me forever and the pleats still don't look/fit right. I would love to find someone who is making good ones.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/clean-kill-coronavirus-covid19-safety-health/ This has a lot of answers to the questions we are asking...for peroxide, at 3% or diluted down to 0.5% one minute is sufficient to ...doesn't say sanitize or disinfect. And bleach is a good idea...I just had a doubt about that yesterday, since my mildew cleaner that is simply a bleach solution did not make any claims about viruses, so I was afraid it wouldn't work. That article says it's fine as long as it the bleach is properly diluted (1/4 c. to 1 gal water) and not expired.