New Morning, A New Day

Okay, so my lovely, wonderful 18 month old daughter has started biting. She bit her older brother (9 years old) earlier today on the face and she bit her Nana on the shoulder while being brought upstairs for her bath tonight. She tried biting me when we were playing during her bath time. What do I do to get her to stop? I don't want to shun my face or anything when she gives me a hug, but that's what she does right before biting. I don't want her to feel unloved. Any ideas on what I can do?

This is the the 2009 schedule for the Lakewood Symphony Orchestra, in Lakewood, Colorado. They've had wonderful concerts in the past and have only grown by leaps and bounds in the last ten years. Please show your support, and love, for music and music education (some good stuff performed). There is a special Children's Concert where they will perform "Peter and the Wolf."

I'm trying to figure out how I can do my daughter's hair. It's still baby fine and so cute and curly. My question is, what all can I do with it? Sometimes she'll sit there until I'm done trying to do something with it, other days, she won't sit still There's a family reunion in Virginia, Illinois (small town of about 1800 people; I think it's pretty much the intersecting point between Springfield and Jacksonville and is about 20 minutes from Beardstown) this July 4th. I'd like to try and keep her hair off her neck so she's comfortable. Here's a photo of her and her hair.. any ideas are VERY welcome!! Oh yeah, that's her [half] brother. These were taken May 17 (last Saturday).

Okay, so Patrick forfeiting his last two paychecks to cover a debt that would have gone to court otherwise, made shit really fucking tight this month. Even with my paycheck and using my PTO for the days I wasn't at work (today, Tuesday last week); thank gawd I get paid for Monday. We're paying the sitter the normal rate, minus three days; this will help out a little. I now have to do with another debt what I did with this last one. If they tell me I can settle, it's just under $500 (by a whole quarter). Now, we could forfeit his whole check again (which is just under $500), but that would leave us in a tight spot again and we need groceries and diapers. After this debt, I have three others similar to it; I haven't even contacted them about settlements. I know which one is next; I'm just hoping they allow me to settle. I haven't paid for school in at least two months; I hate that. It's worse that I'm not doing so well in one class; I haven't e

I forgot to post once or twice. I think once. She was out of town last week, so I skipped a week. That might be what screwed me up. Anyway... So it'd been about two weeks since I saw her. We didn't talk much about the move. I told her the two things my adoptive dad did that surprised the hell out of me (for when we move in August; he replaced the stove for one with the knobs on the top instead of protruding from the front as well as moving all of his computer stuff from the other bedroom so that Bella can have a room of her own to sleep in). The only thing I really remember touching on was our sex life. Putting it bluntly, we went through a 12 pack of condoms in about two weeks. I'm still not feeling "better" but I'm hoping it starts looking up soon.