Welll....I've gotten the components for my next winter-sowing cold-frame setup: One great big translucent plastic storage box and a 50-lb. bag of sand. I still have to shift the first box I have like that (already full of this year's seedlings that need another year of growing-on/germination time) and put the sand in the second box. I also need to pour water on the sand until it's damp. Then I'll be ready to pot up the last of the perennial seeds I didn't get in this year. I already placed my Royal Horticultural Society seed exchange order, but that won't arrive until April. I'm impatiently awaiting the NARGS list, after which I'll get down to ordering whatever wasn't in that order. I start all the things needing cold stratification the same way. Okay, I start EVERYTHING except for tender annuals and perennials this way: Put damp jiffy-mix in a 4" plastic pot. Gently pack the seeds on top of the jiffy-mix. Cover with grit or sand, lightly or heavily depending on light requirements. Place the pots outside in the above-mentioned cheapie cold frame, and ignore them until they start to germinate.

We opted against ording from them and instead ordered from restoration hardware where we got a better deal with the recession sales. I did not find the sales associates to be very helpful in spite of the fact that we were the only ones there. Since it was raining when we visited the store, I went in alone and left my husband with the kids in the car - my husband called me that our newborn was crying and I mentioned to him that maybe the store had a bathroom I could use to feed him, and the salesperson rudely interruppted that I could not use their bathroom to nurse him since it was the only one in the store. I was the only person in the store! Needless to say, we didn't order from them!

The child can choose at 12 but you cannot force the parent to take him in. This happened to an adult friend of mine. Her parents split and when she turned 12 she wanted to live with her dad. THey had to go to court because it needs to be legalized. Well dad said no to the judge that he has no interest in his daughter living with him. So of course she was devastated. So sweeby, the child can choose but so can the parent. As for my sd , yes she wants to go to college, university. My husband believes that with all the poisoning BM has done saying where we live is dangerous and evil that she will still with mom for sure till18 and mostly likely wont move in after that. So he is in denial from my perspective. My SM said that most likely she will find a boyfriend and live with him. And with the value that bm has taught her....that sounds like more plausible outcome. And the home i will purchase will be outside of the city...so...will have to go to live with roommates or dormatory for university. That is anotehr option. There is nothing i can do until the moment comes except make it clear and remind my dh from time to time. I've also stated to him that when they come for an extented period of time, he loses his patience and the visit a few months ago ended badly with her and him fighting. Its not me who wotn get along with her...its my dh and i dont want to be stress because he is stressed. LH - you can't really iron it out. Because nothing has happened yet but the line was thrown from bm. I remember my Sd telling me it...and i said...what if you want to stay until you are ready to leave from moms? and i also told her that by the time i was 15 i had a fulltime job and a place of my own. The thing that disgusts me, is that this line just proves that all she wants is money....all that counts is money. Not her childs emotions, education , well being....all about the money and how much she can gouge out of my Dh. I'm just so disgusted with her and im happy i never deal with her. No communication what so ever hallaluya! Have i told you BM is a substance abuser? and has no job now? the substance she hides very well and so far the only thing we see and hear is she has mood swings...but apart from that, kids are fine. But they really do not say much about their household. Ours is very stable and its day and night between the two homes. Her new husband swears at the kids from time to time..yah we all lose our temper but even my sd friends do not like this guy. And if my husband ever told me to F off...oh nelly! Where is the shovel!?

Trying to decide between the Gia sectional from younger furniture and The gather sectional from Crate and barrel. Would love to hear thoughts on either! Thank you