Posts by Sugar Magnolia

Good luck with your move Ali! I am going to miss you and Bella. We need to hang out more before you go! (I would have choose #2 as well)

Right now we are right around the poverty line. Dh is a grad student and his family helps us out a lot. His parents are paying off our van for us (they just received a LARGE amount of money and want to help us) and dh's grandparents...

Congrats Meg! I am so happy for you guys. By the way, we used to know each other in Georgia. (Amy from the Cumming LLL/play group).

Thank you all for the advice. Dh is going to go to his meeting with financial aid ready to fight for a loan. We called the FAFSA people and they told us that the school makes the rules and the school can break the rules. I really...

Quote: Originally Posted by Finch Oh yeah. Totally. I even said if we came back from the eval and they said nothing was wrong that I'd fling myself into traffic. : I HAD to get validation that I wasn't a total...

Thanks everyone for the validation of my feelings. Karen-Thanks for the link. I think we will have a PDD-NOS dx. But that will hopefully help my mother understand that ds does not need more sleep (he gets 12 hours a night), he is...

I am in the midwest. We live in a college town and are lucky to have a good amount of resources. This evaluation is almost complete. They are waiting for ds's teacher to fill out some forms and they want to see these...

How's that for a thread title! I feel like I can't talk to my family about this and dh can only listen for so long before he looks at me like I have grown a second head. We are on a waiting list for a second evaluation for ASD. The...

Every school can make their own "rules" when it comes to financial aid apparently. Dh does have an appt. with them next week. Hopefully they will be able to help us. So, private loans are not a good idea then. Even a...

I am not a student, but dh is and I have some questions about loans, so I figured this was the right forum to post in! Dh is a grad student working on his PhD in Med Chem. He has a 4 year fellowship that pays this tuition and fees...