Posts by SweetSilver

This area is highly dependent on income, whether you are renting or buying, and if, when you mean that you want to be close, you mean driving-close or if public transportation works.  The bus system is extensive and well-managed...

Tell me about rush hour... or...pm me if this is getting too OT.   I also liked watching different actors play the same character.  DD1 and I discussed the merits of Albert Finney's Poirot in Orient Express, vs. David...

Quote: Originally Posted by C is for Cookie   I am certainly plateauing at the moment. I just need to get over that little hump and I will be on my goal of 125. Plus, ahem, I got a boudoir photoshoot on the second...

Personally, we don't.  I incorporate the basics simply by bringing it into the house.  Phlllbbbbt!  That was a lame sentence, but I don't know how else to word it at the moment!  I do like making sure that kids this...

We have a ball with detective stories and mysteries.  I like that it keeps us guessing, and at dd1's age, we read them together and guess together.  It's loads of fun.  Or we watch mystery videos--Hercules Poirot is a...

I think sometimes putting a spotlight on thinking processes the way traditional teaching materials do, especially these days with an attempt to focus on the process as well as the outcome, can be off-putting. Kids might have a lot...

I spent most of the morning getting ready for their Girl Scout Investiture.  The girls wanted to do a "play", so we are doing the Brownie story.  I wrote the script and designed the play to be performed with zero rehearsals,...

It is OK, though it is a Mother's Secret,  I would never tell my daughter, not now, not as an adult, that it took me that long for her to win me over.  When she becomes a mother and if she agonizes over it, I might consider....

We are still with our girls, 6.5 and 8.  They would do fine, with a transition period, but we have 1 bedroom for right now, and mostly I like it.  What I don't like really has little to do with sharing the bed.  I know...

Count me in.  This has been enormously helpful to have the weigh-in to look forward to.  Hopefully I can up the exercise this round and keep the losses going!