Posts by earthmama369

DH works full time, I was working PT and homeschooling the kids but am now disabled and not working or homeschooling. We have a joint account into which all income gets deposited and we each have our own personal account linked to the...

I've written to a number of companies to ask about non-specified ingredients because of my son's allergies. They won't provide lists of the ingredients in things like "spices" and "natural flavoring," but if you...

The lack of consistency can be so hard to deal with. I'd say, sensory issues aside, that's the biggest issue we've had with ds. He has such a hard time mentally dealing with changes in consistency between caregivers. It's never...

Personally, I'd turned them either into a black bean and sweet potato bisque or fluffy mashed sweet potatoes.   For the bisque, you'd scoop the sweet potatoes out of their skins into a saucepan, add a little milk (and ginger,...

DH either comes home around 5:30-6pm or the kids and I go pick him up for 5:30, depending on who has the car that day.   His job can be draining, but most of the time he puts on a really good happy face and jumps into time...

Whoa. I agree with the PP. That was waaaaaaay out of proportion.   We've participated in a very tight-knit group of families through a preschool co-op, and at various times, different families -- including ours -- haven't been...

I'm going in for a muscle biopsy in a couple of weeks, because a couple of my doctors feel that I have something going on in addition to fibromyalgia and they want to get a chemical analysis of my muscle tissue. (Fun, right??) I met...

Jenna Black does some fun stuff. Great characters, plenty of action but not too gory, humor, some well-written sex scenes, though not just one after the other like Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake) tends to do. (Though I like her, too,...

Yep. DS is 4.5 years old and among the spectrum of colors he likes, pink is one of them. I have no problem with this. Yesterday he wore hot pink socks to his first day of preschool, and a number of his clothes are "girly"...

Connecticut's very easy to homeschool in. Unless you've been enrolled in a CT public school system, you don't need to file anything. If you have, you send a withdrawal letter and that's it. You have the option of filing a Notice of...