I thought that today was the last day we could turn in our summer reading lists at the library, turns out it's the 24th. The program there has several rewards, for the first 10 books read (or read to for the littler ones) you get a ticket to go to the Wild Animal Show. No getting into the show without a ticket. For each 10 books after the 1st ( Read more... )

I'm doing the nursery during our church's VBS next week. The kids won't be an official part of the program beyond tshirts and a sing-along cd ( Read more... )

Can some of my friends with more experience with cloth diapers help me out here?

What exactly are you supposed to do when dirty diapers go from nice breastmilk poop to "dear God what was that?!?!?" poop?   Maddie is eating more solid foods now and we're getting into the latter world and it's almost enough to make me swap back to throw-aways.

Can one (or more) of my better educated friends explain to me what the difference between an AA degree and an AS degree is?  I'm trying to figure out which is better for me but the only difference I can see is that the AA requires a foreign language and the AS doesn't. 

I've been given a fairly creative mind.  If I can't find something to work odds are I can fiddle with it a bit and find a way to make it happen.

Often I find myself wanting something that I'm SURE exists somewhere but I cannot for the life of me find it.  Often these things involve the kids.  For example, the kick-proof blanket.  Lilly had just ( Read more... )

First is a question for you all ( Read more... )

I'm trying to get some early Christmas shopping done so I can get free shipping for Alta's birthday present... (makes sense in my head)

We grabbed Wal-Mart's toy catalog last week and Lilly zoomed in on this particular Barbie doll.  Well... I assume it was this one. When we talked about Good Dreams that night Lilly said she was going to dream that ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago we sat down with the Girls and let them know that there's a new baby coming.   Alta is thrilled and keeps asking when the baby will get here.  Lilly is less than thrilled.  I think we're having some issues relating to the new baby and I'm not quite sure what to do about it.  Maybe some of my super-awesome friends who've got more ( Read more... )

My mom is coming up for Thanksgiving, she'll be here late tonight sometime. She is bringing with her an early Christmas present of $500. And I've found myself in a bit of a rut with this. Not about accepting the money, that's about 3 weeks of work on my pay and it will be awesome to have some extra cash around so we can do some extra stuff (like ( Read more... )

To any parents out there who read this ( Read more... )