Hi ladies. What you are experiencing is perfectly normal for women at our stage of life. It started for me over a year ago and it does help you to cope knowing that you aren't alone in this and you aren't losing your mind. I would suggest if you are a pop or coffee drinker to try to cut it out completely. The caffiene can play havoc on your body and heighten your feelings of anxiety and stress. I would suggest you begin an exercise routine if you don't exercise regularly now. If you eat alot of sugar, candy, pop, booze, to cut that out also. The sugar highs and lows are hard on your anxiety as well. With a year of perimenopause under my belt and altering what I eat, I'm better able to deal with the increased anxiety and stress that the hormone fluctuation's can cause. One thing though, I do find myself thinking an awful lot about the past and missing friends and family who have died. I think about my father daily and I don't know why but I can't seem to shake it. I think it's the general feeling of depression/sadness that the perimenopause has brought on and although I can control the symptoms with watching what I eat, exercising regularly, getting out of the house more ( I also work from home) I can't control my brain waves and I can't seem to 'turn off' this sense of missing people I have lost in my life. It's probably part feeling lonely because I don't have these people to talk to and there is so much I would like to talk about with them but of course I can't. And then there's those dang Humane Society commercials showing all those neglected cats and dogs...crimony I tear up everytime it's on TV! I absolutely can't watch sad movies or TV shows because I get too emotional and I never used to be that way. I try to keep my life as up-beat as I can to keep the depression/feelings of sadness at bay. I don't get involved in drama. I can't take it anymore. If I allow myself to get all worked up over something say with sports with one of my kids I'm capable of doing or saying anything and that is never a good outcome. Over the past year I have literally learned to make myself step back from all the drama that people will create in your life and just let it go. Your situation with your daughters dance studio...if it's more than you can tolerate that you're losing sleep thinking about it all night...you need to do something about it. You have two choices: 1) you pull her out of that studio and go somewhere else 2) you let the drama unfold and you stay out of it. Don't discuss it with other parents because you will only get involved again. If your daughter is unhappy there then change studios. If your daughter likes it there and the parents are creating all the drama then just back away. Goodluck!

Have you uploaded it to a site like Webshots?

Like I said I absolutely love them and want one but I don't need cuttings from anyone I just want to see everyone's progress and are they hard to root because I might get one from my teacher.

I have been a GW member since before the turn of the century!! (golly, that sounds really old, LOL!!) Posting hasn't changed a jot since then other than the presentation or look has altered slightly and all the forums that were present before the acquisition by Houzz are also still here. It just got a whole lot easier to post photos. Once you become familiar with the new "look" you shouldn't have any issues finding your way around or posting and responding. I will say I find the smartphone app difficult to use but easy-peasy on a laptop or tablet.