The answer is: (Couch) 84. The question is...

Good parenting involves a lot of self-care. And you can't worry about every small thing.

A couple of weeks hopefully. I've had so many things fall through though - I'm afraid to get too excited.

Fingers crossed this works out for you.

Speaking of mice we have more babies on the way.what i f
Didnt realise was that my daughter put the female mouse into the male cage while she cleanedthe females cage. Quick workers these mice.

Count me in.

I am reading fun facts about 1985 when I should be scooping cat litter.

Is it bad that the only reason I miss the baby stage was that when they are hungry, I don't have to be creative, it's just breastmilk or formula?

Nah.

It's funny... I find the toddler stage easier for food. Sure she is picky as ****, but what she does like is easy to bring out.

Mixing bottles and feeding them in public is a pain. Handing my toddler a banana is easy.

I'm dreading starting solid food with my baby girl. Another 2.5 months before we start that. Very nervous.

My youngest just cracked me up. She was singing "hurry up" to the tune of Amy Stewarts Knock on Wood to make her friend get going. I don t know how she even heard the song.

Tag, you're it! (To name the new couch. Can you tell the crown weighs heavily on the hanksters head?)

I was just thinking recently, this was when my (only) (as far as i know but i have my suspicions) nephew was born. So he is almost as old as i was when he was born. Holy crap.

I am just so relieved and happy to see you here again. I was worried that something unpleasant had happened to you, health wise. And I have missed you. You cheered me on when I wanted to leave my old T and ask my pdoc if I could do therapy with him, back in 2012. That proved to be a very important thing for me. (I'm still seeing pdoc/T twice a week. Still speaking English with him.)

My son is 16 and does the same thing. He's such a good kid, is pleasant most of the time when he IS outside of his room, gets really good grades and is taking 3 AP classes this semester, he plays guitar/bass and is usually in there playing. I do check in on him from time to time just to make sure he's doing ok. Otherwise I wouldn't see him. Unless we're going out to dinner as a family or something. That's about the only time we see him.

7:25 seems too early to go to bed but is the easiest way to not
deal.

Thanks for all the reassuring words re my daughter, i was kind of feeling like a bad parent.

My D mentioned wanting pet rats. I would love to have pet rats, but we have a multitude of cats now that we kept three of the feral orphans in addition to the cats we had before. AND my dogs have been going through my barn and grainery killing rats, so now they are a danger to a pet rat as well.

My H has just been tremendous lately. I have been super stressed between trials I have and stuff with my extended family, and he has just been awesome about doing things around the house to make my life easier. My D mentioned the other day that over half of her friends' parents were divorced and that she admired how hard H and I had worked at resolving the issues we were having to get our relationship back on track. We tried to be upfront about the fact we were not getting along, but it was nothing the kids were doing, and just an issue for us to resolve. We were pretty sure at one point that we were getting divorced and we didn't want them to be shocked about it. So both kids were aware we were having huge issues, and both have commented on how they noticed how much effort we put into fixing things and how cool that was. At least one thing to feel good about when I am feeling overwhelmed and like I am doing everything wrong.

That sounds glorious. I love going to bed.

The post-seared chops won the day. The pre-seared were tasty too, but the post ones were moister and tenderer.

My pet rat was a great pet. Much better than the mice who, quite honestly, were a bit stupid. The rat knew his name and would get excited to see us and stuff.

Sorry if I sounded Braggy McBraggy. I have had so much going on, I am looking for positive stuff about myself and my life.

Wikid, SO happy to see you back!

Granite, I hope things settle down.

Ready, how is your weekend alone going? I hope you are doing nice stuff for you.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Nah... Not Braggy... It's nice to hear stories of people turning things around for the better. Gives a slight glimmer of hope...

Sounds yummy!!

I had a hamster once... And fish... But mostly cats.

Everybody should post all the positive stuff going on with their life. I bet everyone could fine one thing

I would play Uno but they always skip me.

I never think to post positive stuff and i dont know why. Ill post things like "had a shower" when i am depressed.
Ready i sometimes go to bed early, not so much now, but when my marriage was going down the drain, i did. I saw it as saving myself from unnecessary pain.

We had a couple of hamsters too as well as some fish and a cat. I did not get dogs until I was out of the house.

Ok i think i have finally found the right combination of meds. Usually i come out of a hypomanic state and fall straight into a depression. I feel like i'm kind of bunjeeing just above the threshold of depression. I shall try to find more positive thing and make myself a list.
I also have terrific kids who dont cause me too much drama.