Grilled Cheese fits more in the lunch group for me. I try to have all five food groups on the table, wether they see them all or not lol. I have done the chicken teriyaki....just last week actually lol. Thanks for help. :)

I made Make it yourself Tacos and Burritos tonight, and Im wracking my brain for meals that will please the kids. Their tastes range from Fruits and Veggie obsession down to a Meat n Potato kidlet. Any ideas?

Well, LKH kind of started it. I like the fact that theres action and always on the edge of something. There are a lot of Vampire books out, this is true. Anita Blake has vamps, werewolves, wereleopards...the works.

I had a "friend" like this once, and I've been in a very similar situation, only we started as friends and then he decided he wanted more later. There was no dating involved. But when he expressed his views about wanting more, I told him the truth, that I saw him as a friend and I wasn't interested in dating. One, dating friends can ruin the relationship, but when they put you on the spot like that, it can burn to ash anyways.

We kept hanging out and talking and such, and he acted like he had never said anything about it at all so I figured it was water under the bridge. He'd even dated a few girls. But he did play the pity party card, and was a downer so none of them lasted. And I told him that he needed to cheer up and start looking at the brighter colors instead of gray.

Then one day he pulled that card on me, and mind you I may have been a bit harsh, but I'm a speaker of the truth. I told him again, that his relationships don't last because no one wants to be around a mopey person all the time. It brings their moods down. I told him not to blame me for his solitude because I have tried my best to help and I was there as a friend and I was straight forward on that matter and that if he would grow up and stop burrying himself in self pity that he might actually find someone worth his time.

That was six months ago, and three girlfriends later and he's been with this one for three months, which is a record. He told me that it was a wake up call for him. Maybe your friend needs one too.

Well, see, that just doesn't work for me...one I keep falling over and two, I end up with a headache. Does it work for you?

I'm doing well thanks! I'm thinking about going to bed, but I just lie awake forever anyways lol. I'm hoping my brain will tire out soon tho. 6 comes way too early.

My daughter is the Queen of "kids say the darndest thing" I kid you not. One occassion, and this is just one of MANY, I had my three kids at a parade. I'm a single mother, so it was just us there, I had no help. My daughter was 5 at the time, and my youngest was just a few months old. I nursed all my kids, so naturally, when they got hungry, I had to hide. Now I always preferred to be alone somewhere with my baby, but in this situation, in the middle of watching a parade, I had no choice but to sit down and hide between these two chairs and covered with a throw blanket. It looked like I was just sitting down and snuggling under the blanket. A marching band had stopped in front of us and the drums were loud when my daughter turned around and yelled above the drums, "Mommy, where's the baby?" I said, "The baby is sleeping dear, watch the drums." In the same volume as before she said, "No he's not! He's eating your boob!" RIGHT as the drums quiet. The two ladies in the chair about fell out of them, and people across the street were looking towards my daughter. The lady to my right reassured me (yeah right) that she had no idea what I was doing and she doubts anyone else would have guessed either. Then I hear someone say a few yards down "Hey! Did you hear what that little girl said? I caught it on my camcorder!"

Time out is a good thing. It gives you and the child time to calm down and reflect on the situation. Kids literally strive for discipline and routine. Toddlers especially tend to have "bad behavior" or to act out when their schedules are out of whack.
It sounds like your kids are acting on each other's curiosity. Try games that will help fill that need. You don't have to spend a lot of money to do it either. You can take an empty wet-wipe container, the kind with the flip up lid, and stick a couple things in there. Have your child reach in without looking, and see if they can guess what it is before they pull it out. The looks on their face when they get it right is priceless. Other mind stimulating things like coloring, puzzles, books, building (and of course knocking it down) are all things that will help stear your child from doing the "bad stuff" to stimulate their minds. The talks as mentioned earlier are very important, but it's just as important to talk in a calm voice.

It can be very stressful, I know, my oldest was constantly into something. If you turned your back for 30 seconds he'd have done something, no joke. At the end of the day, reflect back on the GOOD parts, it will help you rest, warm your heart, and help prepare you for the next battle. lol

I just finished the Meredith Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. I'm also trying to speed read through the Harry Potter series again because my 9 yr old is reading them for this reading program at school and he likes to talk about them while he reads. So I have to freshen up. After that I think I'll re-read my Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton while waiting for her next book "Hit List" to be released in June 2011.

There's plenty of talk about Twilight, and I can understand why. I bought all four books, and have read them all more than once. It is a good old love story with a little twist...Prince Charming just happens to be a Vampire. But there is another series, well many, but the one I'm talking about is By Laurell K Hamilton, the Anita Blake series. LKH has had her series out since the 90's. Her first book got rejected tons of times, not because the publishers didn't think it was a good book, they all said it was amazing, they just didn't know what genre to put it in, Horror? Sci-Fi? Fantasy? They just didn't know.
Has anyone else read this series? If not, you really need to look it up!

Right now I'm thinking that this tea is not sweet enough, and even if it was, it's no replacement for my mountain dew....I'm having withdrawls.

If I stood in front of the mirror and flexed, it would just depress me lol. How is everyone tonight?

Thanks for the welcomes! I tried an advanced search but no, there is no option for recent activity. How do you talk to people if you don't search? I'm completely new to dating sites period. I thought it said something about phones, and IMs and such.

Obviously I'm new here. I've gone through searches with 400+ results but it seems a lot of the results "haven't been seen for over a month" lol. Who's still active? And any suggestions on finding someone to hang out with?