I have been trying to acces this website for a while. I was using Chrome then when I tried Firefox, it worked just great? Just wanted to bring this to your attention. This is really a greatwebsite. I have a few myself. I really admire your layout. I know this is off topic but,did you make this theme yourself,or purchase from somewhere?

 A:  This is a theme I made up myself.  As the mother of 6 and grandmother of 12, I have all kinds of people asking questions and decided maybe I could help online as well.  Sometimes I get questions through the comments and sometimes through the ‘ask mom’ icon.  I’ve been enjoying this and hope I have been helpful.

with ?we leave it to you to decide?.

A: Yes. You send me a question and I give you my opinion. You can take it or leave it. It’s up to you.

One of the joys of having adult sons who are smarter than you is that you can ask them questions and get really good answers.  If I ever make it on the  ’Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ show, they will definately be on my ‘phone a friend’ list.  One of my sons informs me that my information on the RSS feed is all wrong.  Not only did I not know what it was but I actually have an RSS feed.  Apparently some of my readers know what this is and know how to use it.  For the reader who had asked me for my RSS feed, I now have it.  It is http://advicefrommom.net/?feed=rss2.  I hope this is helpful to you.  I am sorry I had my information wrong earlier.

My brother-in-law and his wife just moved back home. Now he wants my husband and I to double date with him with his old high school girlfriend. I like his wife and don’t want to do this but my husband says we have to because he is family. What do you think?

A: I think you should trust your instincts and stay home. Your brother-in-law’s morals are less than sterling. You don’t have to sink to his level. Cheating on your wife is not an acceptable behavior. Your husband is letting the ‘family argument’ cloud his judgment. I think you should remind him of something his mother has told him at least 100 times. “If your brother jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?” It’s a little bit tough sometimes to take a stand but if I were you, I’d just say ‘no’!

Although I have just approved a comment from a reader asking for help for Haiti, I ask that all readers be sure to check out all agencies before contributing.

Apparently there is an email issue with the ‘contact Mom’ icon.  If you can’t get through that way, my email address is mom@advicefrommom.net.

Recently, I acquired a little Yorkie. He’s a cute little 4 pound bundle. But he’s a little weird. He spends his day running around my dining room table. I could use him to teach my four-year-old granddaughter to count except he doesn’t stop at 20, or 50 or even 100. Like the little energizer bunny, he just keeps on running. If I put an obstacle in his way he just detours around it and continues on his merry way. Every now and then he stops for a drink or a bite of food and then continues his laps around the table. Personally I thought he was either an idiot or he had mental health problems so I asked the breeder we got him from. She told me that, in the wild, this is the way a male dog protected his pack. That explanation just didn’t work for me. After all, he didn’t have a pack under my dining room table - and since I couldn’t imagine a Yorkie in the wild - I decided to look it up. Turns out I’m right. The darn fool dog might actually have mental health problems. Guess I’ll have to take him to a vet to find out for sure.  Regardless of what the vet has to say, I think I’ll keep him.  Even if he does have issues, in this house, a dog like that will fit right in. If you want to check some of the sites I read, here they are:

http://www.helium.com/items/992179-why-dogs-run-in-circles

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080213220924AAtkCp7

http://springthing.3.forumer.com/a/puppy-running-in-circles_post7964.html

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5731210_causes-dogs-running-circles_.html

I’m trying to get your RSS feed but I’m getting an error. Please let me know when it’s ready, I love the site. Thank you!

A: I understand that an RSS feed is only necessary when you are transferring money or identifying information over the internet. Since no money or identifying information is every used on this site, an RSS feed is unnecessary. To send a question to me, just press the ‘contact Mom’ icon and it will automatically email me. To send a comment, just do as you did and press any comment button. That, too, comes directly to my moderation folder where I can check for inappropriate comments. Once I am sure that your comment is family friendly (you don’t have to agree with me. You just can’t be vulgar about your disagreement.) I will press the approve button and your comment will post.

I read about an actuary who calculated that the odds of a man’s trousers falling down if he was wearing both a belt and suspenders was about 35,000 to one. What would be the odds of a man’s trousers falling down while wearing only a belt? What about only suspenders?

?A: Darned if I know. Does anyone else know? Send me a comment and I’ll post it.

Hello. This is kind of an “unconventional” question , but have other visitors asked you how get the menu bar to look like you’ve got it? I also have a blog and am really looking to alter around the theme, however am scared to death to mess with it for fear of the search engines punishing me. I am very new to all of this …so i am just not positive exactly how to try to to it all yet. I’ll just keep working on it one day at a time Thanks for any help you can offer here.

This was a question I had to ask my husband to answer. He is the one who set up my website. He tells me the menu bar was a part of the template provided by VodaHost for the Word Pro’s. It was written in PHP and was easily modified for our needs.