Posts by VBMama

I appreciate all these thoughtful replies! We are going to tour the school next week and I will keep all this in mind when I am there. It's so interesting hearing everyone's priorities.

These are great ideas, thanks! We put ds1 in private school for kindy this year, but due to some changes at the school and budget issues, we are reconsidering the local private school for 1st grade in the fall. We went to round-up at the...

So I know that test scores are not always a great assessment tool, so tell me what sort of things you would look for in evaluating whether or not to send your child/ren to a particular school! If there are any public school teachers...

Sounds exactly like how we eat around here - 2yo, 3yo, 6yo, + me!

laohaire, will you be sure to come back and post about what it was like? We currently keep a laying flock and I would eventually like to raise meat chickens also, but I'm having trouble making the mental leap to killing & processing...

So what I'm thinking now is maybe I should try ~2yo dd RF in the Radian to see if there is more legroom for her than in the Marathon or Roundabout. She won't be able to see as much, but big brother is sitting right next to her now and...

My ds has only lost one tooth so far. I thought it was icky and tossed it. That kind of makes me feel like a bad mom, though.

Okay, for those of you who are encouraging me to put dd back in a RF position, at what age do you plan to turn your children FF? I am the only person I know IRL who has kept a child RF until 22 months, everyone I know turns at 12 months...

Thanks for the suggestions, I will take a look at those seats! I didn't know the Radians had a longer lifespan, that's great info for me, DahliaRW.

I've been out of the loop on carseats for a while but it just dawned on me that two of my seats are expiring soon or already expired and I probably should get something new! 6yo ds is in a new-ish high-backed CompassPoint (I think?)...