Change your cell phone number and make sure she never gets it. It worked for me.

My kids are the only grandkids(on both sidessince I'm an only child), but MIL was physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive to my husband and his brother and sister. My advice is to keep her as far away from your baby as you can for as long as you can, and NEVER leave her alone with your child(ren). There are very…

I had ignored all of the friend requests that my MIL sent me. But then SIL(who I usually get along with and lives out of state) started tagging MIL in all my pictures of my kids(even ones that had other peoples kids in the too from scouts, school, etc.). I got sick of untagging MIL(this was before you could approve…

Those would be the grad students that enter grad school straight out of college. It's not so easy to move for grad school when you're married with a 2 year-old and your husband's job is the one with all the health insurance and you own a house, and your dad is dying of colon cancer. I DID have to go to the grad school…

Honey on fries is yummy. Fries are also better dipped in chocolate shakes or malts.

While this may be true of a Catholic Univerity's undergraduate programs, it is not always true of their graduate and doctoral programs. Some graduate students have no choice but to go to a Catholic University because so few Universities offer their program. For Example: there are only 53(last time I looked) American…

Actually Roman Catholics teach evolution. They state that evolution does not contradict official church doctrine. Roman Catholics do not advocate a literal reading of the bible like a lot of other Christian sects.

I'll try. He hates it when I record him singing/reading to his sister though. He's at THAT age. He finishes 4th grade next week.

Hated that movie! Was never so disappointed in a movie in my life. No Eponine! I mean, WTF.

Cats was the first Broadway style show I saw in Chicago at 11. Same here about loving it forever.

My 8 year old does that all around the house. Now that he has a baby sister, he changes it it to she's poopy when he smells her first. She thinks its hysterical though.

I love my pillow top!

You're right about that. A school can fail under NCLB if only one subgroup of students fails to make adequate yearly progress enough years in a row. Look at the school's annual report card. That will list things like mobility rate and it will show what subgroups are actually failing under NCLB. More often than not it…

Parts of of my family might be just a little redneck. I have 2 2nd cousins(father/son) named Big John and Bubba. Yes I think they are actually John Sr. and John Jr., but Big John and Bubba? I'm a little ashamed to claim them as relatives.

I'm a theatre geek, so all I can think of when I hear the name Stella, is Stanley yelling Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire.

My 16 month old is an Audrey Frances. She'd fit right in. It actually was my grandmother's first name. (middle name was my great-grandmothers first, dad's middle)

And names you loved during a first pregnancy can suddenly seem awful during a second. My first was a boy. My second was a girl and I don't think we even considered any of the girl names that had been on our short list during the first pregnancy.

My actual children's names are Julien Fischer and Audrey Frances. We just liked the sound of Julien, different, but not weird, and Fischer was my MILs maiden name(we regret that now, but at least its the middle name not the first. Note to self: never name a kid after someone who is not yet dead). Audrey was my…

That's why we went with the French spelling of Julien for my son. I thought Julian looked too feminine.

My son is still safely in the 500's(Julien), Although the other spelling has cracked the top 50. My daughter's name(Audrey) has cracked the top 50 now, but it was my Grandma's name, so I doubt I would've changed my mind for anything except maybe top 5 or 10.