Posts by wagz

I'm not sure who came up with it - it was suggested to us by our kids' doctor.     There are only 3 Rules: (but they pretty much cover everything!) 1.  Obey all parent (or teacher) requests immediately and without...

Thanks for the leads.  I'll do some research.  And it honestly never occurred to me to ask ahead of time which meds would be used, but that makes an awful lot of sense.  Hard to give "informed consent" if you haven't had...

My 8 year old DS sounds so similar to what you all are describing!  Sometimes he is just the sweetest, most considerate and loving child on the planet and other times he's storming through the house screaming obscenities and...

I've been putting off having my wisdom teeth out for ages and it is feeling like the time to just get it done already.     I would probably do it sometime this summer when I'll have lots of family help on hand....

We recently resolved a heavy duty ammonia/funk problem with lots of boiling and stripping - yay!   But now, every time I take a wet diaper off the baby it smells like bleach.  BUT WE NEVER USE BLEACH!  What in the...

yep, American and Jewish!  And living in a small town in the Bible Belt on top of that.  I've had it up to HERE with Jesus!  

Ooops!  I think that's my paranoia showing through!  You said "missions trip of sorts" and I just assumed mission = Jesus.    My bad!  

We were in India for my husband's PhD research.  He had a fellowship that covered his expenses and part of the rest of ours.  Airfare was by far the biggest expense.  We rented apartments in normal, middle class sorts of...

Here's a kind of radical idea to give your family a jumpstart on living much more simply:  Go spend time in a developing country.     If you have the financial resources that allow semi-annual trips to Disney and...

DS is 13 months and really active - crawling, climbing, starting to walk.  Do you think just laying the prefold/flat in the cover would work for such a mobile babe?  I've been using snappis for fear the dipe would bunch up in...