Well, my kids were both under 8 pounds when they were born, but have been on the tall side for their age since. My best friend's babies were all close to 9 pounds when they were born and are now very petite. My 2 year old and her 4 year old are both wearing 4t clothes, while her 2 year old is just now starting to wear…

In the US, bridesmaids do generally pay for their own dresses. I did the whole this is the fabric, choose your dress. There were some premade dresses available or they could get by the yard. All of my bridesmaids ended up having theirs made. I had 3 very different body types. Tall and skinny with curves, tallish and…

And I had a heck of time finding cat shirts for my son. We have 3 cats, and all he wanted was kitty shirts. He didn't like dogs. Almost all of the cat shirts were pink and glittery or had an obvious girl cut.

Most of my Facebook friends refer to each other's kids by first initial or things like "Great playdate with the Smith girls." That's works for pretty much everybody except my one friend who's kids names all start with the same letter. And I always ask my oldest before I tag him in a photo. I don't always ask before…

I post pictures of my son's friends to my feed because their parents request it. I'm pretty much the photographer of the group and almost always have my DSLR on me. But, I also have my Facebook locked down as tight as it will go. My sister-in-law is constantly tagging herself in photos of my kids. I have Facebook set…

Thanks. I think you're right about most friends when push comes to shove. I really lucked out with my BFF. I have PTSD from my first pregnancy and delivery. I would not be getting through this without her. She has talked me down from many a panic attack already, and I'm only 23 weeks right now.

My BFF is kind of like you, except she's a dog person, and I met her later in life, when I had a 10 year old and a 2 year old. She bonded with my 10 year old just fine, but he's closer to an actual person(her words). However it didn't take long for my curly blond daughter to win her over. When my grandmother died, my…

I have 2 kids and I'm unexpectedly pregnant with a 3rd and in the process of divorcing my verbally and emotionally abusive husband. My BFF has only been in my life for about a year, and she has been very upfront that I am the first person with kids that she has ever gotten close to. She never even spent any time with…

If he gets into IMSA, the transition to college shouldn't be too bad. IMSA is a publically funded magnet boarding school. I would think the transition from boarding school to college would be easier than living at home to college. Plus IMSA is a 10-12 grade school that accepts kids both at the end of 8th grade and the…

I did. I was barely 11. I was also taking ballet. There is no way to do ballet in a leotard and tights and a pad. Tampons it was, and I never looked back. The only time I've used pads is for the bleeding after childbirth, and they suck!!

Thanks! I've actually lost a friend over all of this(but I also made a new one). She and my son were good friends, but her son was special ed. She thought that there was no way things were anywhere near as difficult for me as they were for her. My new friend has an autistic son a year older than my son. She was the…

The high school isn't in my area. It is the only one like it in the state. It is a state funded, magnet, boarding school located about an hour and a half NorthEast of my town in a suburb of Chicago. It is competitive entry, so there are no guarantees. I was one of those unmotivated kids in high school. A B in an…

I've tried to be very careful about that with my son. He was the one who wanted to skip a grade. He was bored to tears, literally, in the lower grade, and had more friends in the grade above anyway. I just want him to be happy. Right now he enjoys music, theatre, and dance, just as much as he enjoys math, science, and…

It is very hard to deal with as a parent, and I was a gifted child myself. My 10 year old son was already one of the youngest in his class with a late July birthday(Sept. 1 cutoff for K in my state). By the start of second grade he was bored to tears, literally. He was coming home in tears 3 or more days a week. Math…

And contraception is not 100% effective. All 3 of my children were concieved while I was using contaception. I was on the pill when my oldest was conceived. My middle child was conceived when a condom came off during pull-out. My youngest(currently 22 weeks along) was conceived while using a condom that had no…

Good luck yourself. I wish I would have questioned my marriage sooner. I lived too long with the abuse. I don't regret my kids though. Never them. I'm 22 weeks now, and still very few people even know I'm pregnant, although most people know I'm getting a divorce. I'm starting to think people are blind, and I'm…

Awesome dads FTW! The kids all adored my dad. On game days he would wear red pants, a white shirt, red suspenders with school buttons all over them, a red blinking bowtie and a red 10 gallon hat. The school colors were red and white. He had a few other variations of the same outfit(white pants, red hat etc.). Every…

My dad was the 7th grade science teacher at my school(and had been tenured for ages by the time I got there). My 8th grade year a new, much disliked principal decided to abolish the 8th grade in school Halloween and Christmas dances. My class decided to launch a silent protest on Halloween. A handful of people brought…

I posted a pic of my daughter at 9 months earlier. She looked so much like her older brother she was frequently mistaken for a boy. Not so much now at 2 and a half.

Here is my cutie at about 9 months old. She's 2 and a half now.