Posts by AahRee

On the word count thing, I'm using Scrivener, which has a running tally. My OCD-nature likes that!

No editing at all? Ugh. My inner editor is going to hate that. I started something yesterday, but without much direction at all about what I wanted to do. I just started writing the first thing that came to mind. I don't have a genre...

In an older house, I'd suspect mold as well. If it is superficial, though, painting the walls and having the carpets cleaned should really help. If it's mold, you have a much bigger problem...

Tigerle, we could definitely look at doing a skip and the gifted program in combination. He's not really against either per se, he's just hesitant about everything. DD's current school district doesn't have much of a gifted program. It...

Quote: Originally Posted by frugalmama we're in south texas here, and so far haven't turned on the heat yet. It is starting to get a little chilly for us in the mornings - 60's in the house - 40's and 50's outside....

The fastest way to ruin a great picture of your newborn baby (or anyone else, for that matter) is to hit them with that red-eye inducing, face-flattening, direct-from-the-camera flash. One of the fastest ways to improve pictures of your...

Okay, I got the okay from the MDC mods and have started a thread over in Fine Arts: http://www.mothering.com/discussions...9#post14611589 I hope it's helpful!

A mama on here was expressing frustration at the really bad hospital pics she received of her newborn, and not being able to have more newborn portraits made before the baby is past the newborn stage, so I thought maybe a thread about...

DD (7) requested that we let grandpa take her ToTing this year in his new neighborhood (they moved Oct.1.) We let her, but she wound up getting sick (fever) and grandma brought her home last night. We didn't go out to any parties or have...

I don't wash my 7yo unless she specifically asks for my help. There is NO reason your DD's dad would need to wash her, let alone ask his GF, who your DD just met, to do so. That's pretty bad judgment on his part. I'd make it clear that...