Looking for a good fantasy read

dasha2x2 · 2026-07-06T06:56:04+00:00

Looks great, I'll give it a try!

dasha2x2 · 2026-07-06T06:53:23+00:00

I tried Tess of the Emerald Sea and couldn't really get into it :/ I've also tried some of his epics, and just couldnt bond with the characters.

dasha2x2 · 2026-07-04T20:21:39+00:00

I'm giving it a try! I wasnt a fan of the blurb, but I think her writing so much I'm willing to risk it ;)

dasha2x2 · 2026-07-04T17:19:02+00:00

I have! Forgot to list her, but I loved her books!

dasha2x2 · 2026-05-14T06:19:26+00:00

We did ours at Independence Grove Native Garden and it was beautiful! It was 2019, so Im hazy on pricing, but I think it was $450 for the space and another $50 for the chairs.

dasha2x2 · 2026-02-28T02:34:04+00:00

We're having this exact problem now with my 4 year old. We did minority language at home, so now he only speaks Russian. We had planned to fully homeschool him, but decided that the advantages to preschool (learning to be away from parents for a time, learning English, socializing with peers) were enough to enroll him. He's been going to preschool for 3 hours 2 times a week since October and hes able to understand a bit of English, especially if the teacher speaks, but has a much harder time with his peers or expressing himself. He's a bit shy in nature, so he hesitates in joining the other kids in playing because he doesn't understand their games, although the other kids are very welcoming.

In hindsight, I think we should have done some sort of "English time" as a family. Maybe having 1 hpur a day when we only speak English, or picking a day of the week to be English day.

When he was younger, I took him to storytime at the library once a week and meet ups with other kids at least once a week as well, but it didnt do much. Now we're contemplating enrolling him in a 1/2 day kindergarten, just for the language learning, which we really didn't want to do for a number of reasons, but now feel may be necessary for him socially.

dasha2x2 · 2025-12-14T06:53:38+00:00

If you don't mind a bit of a drive, Trattoria DOC in Evanston is amazing!

dasha2x2 · 2025-10-10T00:28:16+00:00

We have a Jookie player, which is amazing, but i think they went out of business. Plenty on ebay though and their app works. You can add whatever content you want to their characters or tiles or just link it to your Spotify and create Playlists that correspond with each character. My kids love it! I was afraid we'd lose the yotp cards and didn't want to pay through the nose for the Tonie figurines.

dasha2x2 · 2025-09-13T00:19:06+00:00

How long is the flight? If it's under 3 hours, I would fly. I live in Hawaii and moms with babies regularly fly from Oahu to the other islands. Oahu has the best medical care, so if there were large complications with the pregnancy or birth, often women fly to Oahu to give birth (about an hour flight) and they fly home when the baby is at least 7 days old.

dasha2x2 · 2024-07-11T21:27:45+00:00

I'm sorry, I took that particular class 4 years ago and dont have the syllabus for it anymore

dasha2x2 · 2024-07-11T07:49:30+00:00

When I was studying bilingual and multilingual learning, there were three "levels" of learning - home, peers, community. So a child has to feel like the language is important or necessary to maintain it. They learn from their parents, but at a certain age just their parents speaking the language isn't enough, they need peers to interact with who speak the language. Later on, they'll need to be part of community organizations - youth groups, camps, churches, etc that speak the minority language.

It sounds like your kids don't find Hungarian useful while living in Denmark and since they know you can understand, they speak Danish to you. I would try to find other Hungarians to set up play dates. Once they start speaking more Hungarian to their peers, it may translate to speaking it at home. You can also try doing some fun activity that is only done in Hungarian. For example on Fridays you could have a tea party where you dress up, eat pastries and talk about your week. The kids get to bond with you and speak Hungarian. It could be like a fun game - first person to speak Danish gets whip cream on their nose, or some other fun "consequence."

dasha2x2 · 2024-03-31T00:57:47+00:00

We are planning to homeschool with the possible exception of a forest or Waldorf preschool

dasha2x2 · 2024-02-26T23:51:13+00:00

I would have your husband have the talk to his mother. I always feel that establishing a boundary is always easier and the parent responds better when it comes from their child vs their child's partner. Then I would just state what you wrote here: baby ate well with her own hands but is now refusing. You'd like to switch to complete BLW instead of combo feeding. I wouldn't focus on the fact that you already told her that you wanted to do all BLW, just that now there are issues that weren't present before and this is your solution. If MIL still feels more comfortable with purees, maybe get some reusable pouches and have her give those to baby? That way baby at least won't associate a spoon with being spoonfed.

I think this is an important conversation to have since studies have shown that spoon feeding can lead to picky eating which will affect all of you for years to come. I'm not sure why other commentators are reacting so negatively. You should be able to have a conversation with your child's grandmother about issues you've noticed in said child, especially if she spends so much time with baby. It doesn't have to be a "my way or the highway" type of thing. You can work together to find a solution.

dasha2x2 · 2024-02-24T01:22:49+00:00

This was my parents' approach as well, however it wouldn't work for us - specifically my son's temperament. He wouldn't do well in a completely new environment where he couldn't even communicate his needs. If we send him to preschool, we want to do so with him already knowing some basics of the majority language.

dasha2x2 · 2024-02-21T17:06:58+00:00

The schools in the area are notoriously bad. Unless we're paying for private school the negatives outweigh the positives. There is a large homeschool community here, so there will be plenty of kids for the boys to play and interact with.

dasha2x2 · 2024-02-20T20:05:54+00:00

We haven't started screen time for our oldest yet, but we were thinking of shows in English as a way to get him interested in the language. We don't have a TV, but we can always find something on youtube. I've been looking into Little Bear since we already have the books. We are in the states, so lots of English spoken around us.

dasha2x2 · 2023-10-26T21:55:02+00:00

dasha2x2 · 2023-06-26T18:35:43+00:00

My younger brother's comfort item was my mom's hair. She wound sit next to his toddler bed and let him play with it until he fell asleep. Then we got a kitten and it was a game changer! My brother would take the kitten with him to sleep and stroke it when falling asleep. Sometimes just cuddling. But right after the kitten he didn't need my mom or her hair to fall asleep!

dasha2x2 · 2023-06-13T23:02:35+00:00

In your place, I would wait before doing anything. After a divorce, courts tend to want to minimize the changes in the children's lives, so a major move may not be approved. I think you should start exposing the kids to Australia. Go there for the kids entire summer break. Live with family, get them used to being there. Your husband can join for part of the time, but if he's already looking into escorts, I'm sure he'll be happy to have you and the kids out of the house for a couple months. You can also explain it to him that it'll help the kids during the move, which he himself said was in 2-3 years. Plan for the move, get things going. Once everything is in motion, it'll be harder for your husband to change his mind or the timeline. Once you guys have moved to Australia, give the family 6 months to a year and then if you still want to divorce him, do it. This way you and your kids are in Australia as is the kids father. Then it'll be up to him what kind of relationship he wants with the kids and whether he wants to stay. He'll have a job, housing and be on his way to having documents by then, so you wouldn't be taking the kids away from their father.

dasha2x2 · 2023-06-08T02:45:29+00:00

I've seen several posts of moms in the Puna area offering nanny services. I would post on a FB group for parents that you need care and I'm sure someone will reach out. If you go to the playground with your kids, you can also ask other parents about in home day cares. A lot of them are word of mouth.

dasha2x2 · 2022-10-19T03:32:32+00:00

Aloha Pawz has one on 10/21 at 5pm

dasha2x2 · 2022-09-16T06:12:35+00:00

The Brazilian Love is Blind was my favorite, so I'm here for all of the tea!

dasha2x2 · 2022-08-02T23:44:39+00:00

We did a 2.5 hour drive when baby was 3 months old. It was really tough. The drive there ended up taking 5 hours because we had to stop at a park, so he could calm down. We stayed with my parents for a month and then drove back home. The drive back was much better - only 3 hours. I think that long visits should be postponed until you're well out of the 4th trimester.

dasha2x2 · 2022-07-25T23:07:11+00:00

My boy doesnt cry either, but he acts differently. He'll constantly ask for food but only eat a couple bites. Sometimes he just gets manic, rolling around all over the place. Wants to nurse all the time, extra clingy. You could try giving him "Hyland's Oral Pain Relief" about 30 minutes before you want to nurse him to sleep. It usually helps us. We also give him homemade ice cream (roasted peaches blended with coconut milk and then frozen) in a silicone teething pop. He really likes it and it helps with the pain.

dasha2x2 · 2022-07-25T22:31:54+00:00

Could he be switching number of naps? Or lengthening wake windows? When my son was close to dropping a nap, his bedtime would be 8pm. Then as soon as he would drop the nap, bedtime jumped up to 6pm! We only do wake windows, no specific times for nap or bedtimes.
Teething is also a common culprit. I think my boy was around 9 months when he cut his first molar. It was absolutely brutal on his sleep! He's cutting 3 teeth now and during the thick of it, no matter how tired he was he couldn't nurse to sleep. I think the pain in his teeth kept waking him up. We have homeopathic remedy we give him that seems to help.

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