http://mommysavers.com/boards Everything family: in-laws, divorce, single parenting, share your struggles and victories en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:51:42 GMT vBulletin 60 http://mommysavers.com/boards/images/mommy/misc/rss.jpg http://mommysavers.com/boards http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139967-frugal-family-gift-ideas.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:17:07 GMT One way to stretch your HOliday Budget is to buy one gift per family versus one for each membr of the family. Let's share some frugal Family gift ideas to help stretch the budget.

Give a game night gift: a board game the whole family can play we've already seen some great deals on board games! OR
a deck of fun cards with a notebook and fun pencil for keeping score
Give a jigsaw puzzle they can work together

Give a movie for them to watch together = you can even create a fun movie bowl by purhasing a large Christmas bowl at the dollar store and filling it with the movie, a couple of pkgs of microwave popcorn and some candy. DVDs come in a variey of price points, some as low as $1.

Give a family zoo membership (and, if there are little ones in the family you can pick up some kind of animal themed book or toy to go with it

Give a gift basket made up of items to complete a meal along with a recipe if needed.

Fix a basket with a holiday coffee mudg and cocoa for each member of the family. , mugs & baskets can often be found at thrift stores or dollar stores for cheap

Add your ideas to this thread. ]]> Family Matters AyeOhKay http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139967-frugal-family-gift-ideas.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139774-homeschool-how-convince-dh.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:24:55 GMT For those of you that homeschool was your dh always on board or did you have to convince him? I am absolutly fed up with our children's school and I would really like to homeschool. He thinks that I can't handle it, we have four kids. But the school they are at has me in tears at least once a week. Help? ]]> Family Matters writermommy4 http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139774-homeschool-how-convince-dh.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139729-do-your-kids-buy-gifts-each-other.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:52:29 GMT Doo your kids buy Christmas gifts for each other? Does it come out of your holiday budget or do they use their own money? Is there a price limit set? Doo your kids buy Christmas gifts for each other? Does it come out of your holiday budget or do they use their own money? Is there a price limit set? ]]> Family Matters AyeOhKay http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139729-do-your-kids-buy-gifts-each-other.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139607-does-anyone-not-use-pediatrician.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:23:58 GMT If so, do you use a general family physician, general practitioner, etc? We have a friend who is our family physician. We are considering moving DD to his practice. Not sure. :confused: If so, do you use a general family physician, general practitioner, etc?

We have a friend who is our family physician. We are considering moving DD to his practice.

Not sure. :confused: ]]> Family Matters Addimom http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139607-does-anyone-not-use-pediatrician.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139526-how-would-you-feel-about-situation.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:14:40 GMT My mother is getting a large disbursement from her disability. She somehow won her case and will be getting money from 2002-2009. The only disability she has is being lazy. She has no job (obviously) or retirement but has offered to "treat" us with some of the money. I told her to keep her money. I don't want her spending any of it on us.

Would you let her spend the money on your family? ]]> Family Matters skimommy http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139526-how-would-you-feel-about-situation.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139494-what-do-you-do-w-uninvited-guests.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:42:50 GMT Need some advice...

My DS b-day (3) is coming up next month. He only wanted his siblings there. So, I had planned on inviting just his grandparents and siblings. We are having it at home w/his food and games requests.

My MIL informed me that my BIL and family will be coming for DS b-day! :eek:

I am upset as they weren't invited! Plus, my BIL and I don't get along and there kids don't play with mine.

Last year, they invited us to their DD birthday and then after we said we would come, they told us NO BOYS were allowed! (We have 2 boys and 1 girl)! They wanted us to leave DD at there house and take our DS's elsewhere until the party was over! :eek: Anyway, after hearing that we didn't go.

So, how should I proceed with family that can't get along, whose kids don't play together, and please my kids who don't want them here???? :confused: ]]> Family Matters kferrell1 http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139494-what-do-you-do-w-uninvited-guests.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139051-finish-sentence.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:03:26 GMT Parenting is _________________________________________ Parenting is _________________________________________ ]]> Family Matters Christy http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/139051-finish-sentence.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138929-learning-walk.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:31:50 GMT My son just turned 14 months and even though he pulls himself up on everything, walks around chairs and tables and even pulls himself up on a bare wall, he's still not walking on his own or wants to hold my hand and walk. He walks behind his truck and loves that. Whenever I try to get him to walk on his own he's not interested. As an infant, he didn't tolerate tummy time or roll over for a long time. He did have to wear a helmet due to either sleeping and lying on his back, or how he was positioned in me. (BACK TO SLEEP AND TUMMY TO PLAY is a whole other can of worms) but
Any tips or thoughts on how I can encourage him. He started crawling end of Aug and turned 1 in Sept. He's developing normal in all other areas and the doc's aren't concerned. But if anyone has any great ideas to encourage him I would appreciate it! Thanks T ]]> Family Matters tcw http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138929-learning-walk.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138901-tombstones-were-torn-up-grave-yard.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:05:31 GMT I just got a phone call from the custodian of the graveyard, when my boys and my dad are buried.

The boys tombstone was turned over, and is broken. He said that him and several other guys, stood it back up, but that the top was broken pretty bad.

He said that it was several graves, and they also found several beer cans and pizza boxes around the graves that were damaged.

We pay a donation to maintain the graveyard during the year. And they do a good job, but they can't be there 24/7, and I don't expect them too. But it does have a fence and gate that could be locked.

I am just mad that people don't respect graves and grave yards. And feel like they have to tear up tombstones that people put on their loved ones graves.

The bad thing is that is not the first time this has happen:crying: ]]> Family Matters ruthie http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138901-tombstones-were-torn-up-grave-yard.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138803-feel-like-yelling-your-kids-yell-here-instead.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:48:32 GMT I know some on here are trying to yell less at their kids and with the holidays coming tension builds up, so let's yell here. Feel free to include your "big" child, too.


Here's mine-
DD- I know you like to help but mommy does not need you to help me in the bathroom. I really do not need any wiping assistance either.

Add yours ]]> Family Matters autismmom http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138803-feel-like-yelling-your-kids-yell-here-instead.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138784-where-spend-thanksgiving-need-advice.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:54:55 GMT Our family has been invited to two places for dinner on Thanksgiving. Both twoish hours in different directions, so not possible to do both. Neither people are able or willing to have their dinner on the weekend or to change the location or time. So our choices are...

place A....2 hour drive. Hosted at my brother's house. Very relaxed atmosphere, plenty of room, my brother, his wife and daughter will all be there... as well as my Mom and SIL's Mom(that we all can't stand) and a cousin I haven't seen in years. I see my brother frequently and my Mom actually lives across the street from me. We will be asked to bring a couple dishes to pass at this dinner.

place B....2 1/2 hour drive. Hosted at DH's Aunt's house. VERY cramped place to go. DH's parents, sister, Grandma(she does not travel anymore at all, so never comes to visit us), 2 Aunts, 2 Uncles and 4 cousin's with their spouses/SOs will all be there. We see DH's parents and sister every few months and the others every couple years. There will be no other kids besides ours and it is not a kid friendly environment and we would not be bringing any food.

One more thing. My oldest son from a previous marriage is with me for Thanksgiving this year. We trade off each year. We will not have him for Christmas this year. So wherever we DONT go for Thanksgiving those people will not have him around for either holiday this year (neither side is happy about this).

So....which place?:confused: ]]> Family Matters 3boysmommy http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138784-where-spend-thanksgiving-need-advice.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138768-9-active-wii-games.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:00:39 GMT 9 Active Wii Video Games – Parenting.com - Parenting.com]]> 9 Active Wii Video Games – Parenting.com - Parenting.com ]]> Family Matters team-edward http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138768-9-active-wii-games.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138709-thanksgiving-ex.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:34:26 GMT Would you even considered having Thansgiving dinner with your husband's ex and their son at your house? ]]> Family Matters ruthie http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138709-thanksgiving-ex.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138690-just-me.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:07:19 GMT Ok, I just need to vent so I hope it's ok to do it here but I wonder is it just me or do other people have this problem. My mother-in-law grrrr, drives me crazy. I have been married to my husband for 12 years and he is the greatest and I wonder sometimes how he ever came from a person like her. I hate talking bad about anyone but I am at the end of my rope with her. Here are a few examples of things that she has done over the years that I have found unbelievable. When I got pregnant with our first child I had never met his mother, the first time I spoke to her on the phone she called me and informed me of who she was and then asked me when my last period was, I was sooo shocked I couldn't talk I had never met this woman and here she was asking me a vry personal question, then when I was in the middle of labor in the hospital she decides she was going to bring her other son in the room who by the way was a teenage boy at the time, so I kindly asked him to step outside and she gets mad and leaves grrrr, at our wedding she took over everything and changed things behind my back when the doors opened and it was time for me to walk down the aisle I wanted to scream, she had changed everything from the pastor to the decorations. Everytime I got pregnant instead of saying congratulations her response was always "are you going to get fixed this time". She is one of those people whose lives revolve around money and what other people think and I am completely opposite from that, over the years we have had to struggle and right now we are struggling worse than ever, instead of saying is there anything I can do to help she looks down on us, she don't invite us over, she doesn't visit, she doesn't offer anything, she doea however call my husband when she buys something new like a tv and asks him to come hook it up, or put it together, whichever the case may be, she loves to rub in the fact that we have no money and she can buy whatever she wants. Every Sunday she invites her other son over and her him and her husband have lunch, to me this is a complete slap in the face for my husband, she says she don't invite us over because there's so many of us. She isn't involved with my kids and thyetry so hard with her, they call and ask if they can go to her house and it's either she's sick or she's busy. I said something to her one time and the entire side of that family got mad at me including my husband. It's like everyone is afraid to upset her because she puts on this crying act which is so obviously fake it drives me crazy! There is so much more but I think I have vented enough. Thank you all for listening. Sorry this is so long I just needed to get some of this out before I go crazy! ]]> Family Matters mommyofprecious4 http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138690-just-me.html http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138568-what-should-i-have-said.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:55:49 GMT a teenager i know in my family is pregnant with her second child. when she told me i said congratulations. but later on, i started to wonder if that was the right thing for my to say. i don't think i should encourage that, but any time i hear someone's pregnant, i automatically congratulate them. she nor the father have jobs, and their current child is cared for by government assistance and other family members.

dh said he would've asked how she could pay for the child. i guess i'm kind of afraid that his (it's a person on his side) family will hate me, and in general they're nice people.

so what should i have done? unfortunately, i'm sure this situation will come up again.

thanks for listening. ]]> Family Matters badbaby_87 http://mommysavers.com/boards/family-matters/138568-what-should-i-have-said.html