It was. And my son and his friends just adore my toddler daughter. I love whenever he has friends over, but that weekend really stood out. It was also the first really nice weekend of the spring, so that helped too. I'm not shy(anymore), I just have a tendency to give and give and give, and then I eventually snap…

I'm an only child whose father died when I was 29. I feel the same way. I'm not close to my cousins on my mom's side, and my cousins on my dad's side are at least 11 years younger than me. I now have 2 kids, but they are 7 and a half years apart. I want at least one more. I always wanted a houseful of kids though. The…

My kids are 7 and a half years apart. the youngest is only 17 months right now, so this could change, but my son and his friends adore my daughter. And the feeling is mutual. When he has friends over, she follows them around like a puppy and they don't even care. THe only thing that worries me right nowis, because of…

I'm an only child, and I started asking for a sibling when I was pretty young, and I never really stopped, until 11th or 12th grade. I don't resent my parents for not having more kids, but as a 32 year who has watched her dad die of colon cancer, and her mother care for 2 aging parents of her own, even with the help…

I agree with LarissaFae. I've also had a lot of deep and fulfilling text conversations. Sometimes I find myself brave enough to ask/say something, that I'm too embarrassed to say aloud also. Its also very helpful when you really need a shoulder to cry on, but everyone is at work. You can text a friend without bugging…

Did you have an epidural? I still have residual pain from my epidural site almost 9 years later. Needless to say, I opted for natural childbirth with my 2nd 17 months ago. I second Moo Juice. You should probably go see a doctor about that.

Yes! I just got professionally fitted at a local specialty shop, and I had been wearing way the wrong size since I had my daughter(she's 16 months). Before her, I had been a correctly fitted 42D. I only gained 12 pounds with her, and lost all of that before I left the hospital and am another 15 or so pounds down from…

Both of mine were on to sippy cups by 10 months. I haven't been able to feed my daughter anything since she was about 9 months old. Now at 17 months, she is right in the middle of the "Me Do It" stage!

I'm still getting it from when my mom kept renewing my subscription to it when my cousin's would hit her up for their school's magazine drive every year. I rarely read the articles, but the funny stuff kids say at the end and the readers' tips are usually worth a glance, and I'm a librarian so I check out the…

Whenever I take my daughter to my Community Theatre board meetings, everyone(guys included) go gaga over her. She gets passed around, and now that she's older(17 months), they all sneak her treats like cookies and chips. In fact the only person who doesn't interact with her at these meetings is a woman. I also love…

Recital tickets for my son's(8) this weekend are $9. What's pretty funny is that my mom is going to Monaco at the end of this month to see my cousin's last performance as a student at the Princess Grace Academy of Dance(professional Ballet school) and tickets for that performance are only 8 Euros(about $10 US).

At my son's studio, the 3 year-olds only perform in the big recitals that happen every other year. in the off years, they have a Christmas show that the 3 year old's don't perform in and only the older classes perform more than 1 number, so it's shorter. They also make no money off of the costumes. We buy them at…

They're old enough to take instruction. My son's been in dance since he was barely 4. The bitty pre-dance kids have fun and learn a lot. Its actually better to start teaching them proper technique and getting them used to memorizing simple choreography little. Not as many bad habits to break when they're older. THey…

When I was in the Nutcracker in high school, one of the rats/soldiers left a sword on stage. Our bad-ass snow queen saw it and kicked it off the stage and into the orchestra pit. It hit the conductor on the back of the head.

Flips-flops are fine. Just not onstage in a dance recital. The teachers at my school as a kid(now my son's school) always wore ballet or jazz shoes backstage during the recital.(tap or pointe if they were about to go on stage for their number since the assistant teachers were mostly high school students at the school)

The wrestling coach worked well for me. lol

The law in a lot of states now allows students to carry their rescue inhalers on their person at school. Same with Epipens.

In a lot of states now, The law allows students to carry their rescue inhalers on them while in school. The same with Epipens.

The distance should help(along with the time difference, convenient way to ignore phone calls). Good Luck.

It doesn't always work. My husband has an uncle who disowned 2 or 3 of his kids because they were gay, and threatened to not go to another child's wedding because she invited her gay brother to it. He also refused to come to our wedding because we were being married by a judge, with no plans of ever being married in a…