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So, while many people may not feel that it's "worth it" to mail cards to people with whom you correspond only once per year, I can tell you that, from my end, that gesture would mean the world to me. Please consider reaching out to your own once-a-year people. You never know which of them may be crying his or her way home from an empty mailbox this season.
Thanks for the reminder. I get frustrated because I send out cards, and don't get any. So the next year I don't send them out, and the people I sent them to the year before may send some. So the next year I send them, but don't get any.
I'm sure it wasn't that many, but it seemed like we got hundreds of cards when I was a kid. My mother decorated the house with them. They were so pretty.
I get so depressed this time of year, it's hard to get them done. I guess the thing to do is get them ready to go in October, before the Holiday Blues settle in. I'll put that into the calendar for next year!
I'm sorry you're hurting! Thank you for the help getting this figured out. :001_smile:
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I wanted the recipe you baked...didn't you write above, "That is the one"? I just don't see a recipe in the thread...
I forgot to add that it was at the link posted by Kalanamak -- that's why you didn't see a recipe in the thread. :001_smile:
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I wanted the recipe you baked...didn't you write above, "That is the one"? I just don't see a recipe in the thread...
OH! Doh! Sorry! :lol:
Here it is:
I forgot to mention in my previous post that I also didn't have the grated orange peel to put in them, either. So the ones I made really aren't much like the Drop Cookies in this recipe, I guess! :lol:Sugar Cookies2/3 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
4 teaspoons milk
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Thoroughly cream shortening, sugar, orange peel, and vanilla. Add egg; beat till light and fluffy. Stir in milk. Sift together dry ingredients; blend in creamed mixture. Divide dough in half. Chill 1 hour.
On lightly floured surface, roll to 1/8 inch. Cut in desired shapes with cutters. Bake on greased cooky sheet at 375º about 6 to 8 minutes. Cool slightly; remove from pan. Cool on rack. Decorate. Makes 2 dozen.
You can also use this recipe as a drop cookie. Here is the directions:
Use recipe for Sugar Cookies but omit 1/2 cup flour. Add 1 cup seedless raisins or 1/2 cup broken nuts, and 1/2 cup diced citron. Drop from spoon onto cookie sheet. Top with candied cherries. Bake at 375º for 10 to 12 minutes. Makes 4 dozen.
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Am I wrong to be only slightly appreciative? Should I be grateful that she even offered as many teens wouldn't give it a passing thought? How do I show genuine gratitude over a job that was volunteered but is only partially complete?
I'm dealing with this, too, and I've started using "now" instead of "but." I really think *he* thinks he's done a good job -- he doesn't seem to actually *see* the crumbs on the counter or the pan in the corner. And there *always* is one.
I just tell him thank you for the help! "Now" let me catch this one little thing. I don't make a big deal out of it -- I just wipe off the counter and give him a hug. Next time, the counter's wiped off! But now there are *two* pans in the corner. :lol:
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Am I the only one who thinks it's odd to commemorate it in some way? Like taking her out to lunch or dinner, buying her jewelry, giving her flowers, telling all and sundry, etc. I wouldn't have wanted my mom to do any of those things.
Actually, in some pagan groups it is quite common to have a ritual to celebrate a girl's transition to womanhood. *However* in those cases, the girls have been raised in that environment, they are familiar with the participants, etc.
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Daisy...I fear that what you say may be true. This dog has never bothered any of our livestock. But this past month, we have found him in the steer pen and in the hog pen, and now the chicken fiasco. I am scared to death that he may hurt the boys' show animals (expensive ones at that). I'm just not sure if we should get rid of this dog (we have two of them, so that would leave one alone) or keep him chained (which is may be too cruel since he is used to running in a fenced acre).
This is so difficult, but we've had to re-home many dogs who couldn't get along with our feathered friends.
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Ummm...which recipe is it?
Can someone write it down?
I am assuming that JOC = "Joy of Cooking" and, unfortunately, I don't have that book. I *did* Google :D but I didn't find one that said it was specifically from that book. So I did try! :001_smile:
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What an awful thing to come home to! I feel so bad for all of you -- and especially your son. It must be so hard to see him disappointed like that.
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I made JOC's molasses drop cookies. I had no cake flour, no ground clove, and only blackstrap molasses. I triple sifted and removed a teas for each cup, I used Penzey's Baking Spice (ohhh, I love that stuff) and mixed the BS mol half and half with light Karo.
Stupendous! Like little spice cakes. They, too, are gone.
Oooo! That sounds yummy! I'll have to try that -- but first I'm going to see how these mutant muffins turn out. :lol:
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Forgot that you have to add 7 minutes per day to that time. 7 minutes x 3 days = 21 extra minutes. So we rushed up the huge hill behind my house, got to the top, and then waited....and waited....and waited....in the FREEZING cold.
Oops! :D
The pic's didn't turn out as good as I hoped, but here the sun is cresting the cloud. . .It's a beautiful pic! Definitely worth waiting for. :001_smile:
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Well, I made my cookies last night. This is just too funny --
I didn't have shortening, so I substituted butter. I didn't have the candied cherries to put on top, but I did have the "fruit cake mix" -- and I love that stuff! Don't know why -- it really feels like sweet plastic -- but fruit cakes sent to *this* house don't get re-gifted, and they don't last long enough to use them for doorstops. :D
Anyway, I knew they'd be a little different, but they were *very* different! Going back over the recipe, I found that I had used baking SODA instead of baking POWDER. I could have *sworn* it said baking SODA! I checked it two or three times, but it didn't read "powder" until the fourth time. :lol: And I made them too big. It's supposed to make 48 cookies -- I didn't even get two dozen out of them.
Anyway, they were different, but they were still great! And they're gone!
I'd like to say I used my vast culinary knowledge and mad skills to create a great new -- "secret" ?? :D -- family recipe! In reality? As they say, eventually, even the blind rat finds the cheese. :lol:
Thanks so much for the help, Ladies. These cookies are awesome, despite my best efforts to totally mess them up.
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Actually, I completely understand why you are confused. We do live next door and you would think I would have left him there lots of times. Here is a short story to sorta explain it. I chose this house because my sil passed away 5 years ago. She was my best friend. I felt like I was sent here to live near her children. I did not have much of a relationship with her dh before she died. My dh is not super close with his family, but moved here because of what I wanted. I do not agree with many of my bil parenting choices. He is remarried and I don't really know her all that well. If my sil were alive, none of this would have happened... but she isn't. I have purposely chosen not to use them as babysitters because I know that my ds has meltdowns. My belief is to put him in a time out until he cools down and then we discuss it. My bil belief is to keep him in a chair and keep talking to him until he gets the last word. I do get the last word, just when ds has calmed down to listen. I am not even angry that he has a different method than me. I am angry because when we arrive, their job is done. I am angry because I told my sil to just call if there was a meltdown and we would head back. We were 5 minutes away. I knew a meltdown was possible because he had been playing with another family friend that is 4 - all day. They were both over there. When either of them get together all day, they get tired and the meltdowns happen. I specifically talked to my sil about it and she said she would call if anything happened. Ugh! I am so frustrated and we are supposed to go to a birthday party over there tonight. Thanks for listening to me!
Thank you, Kari, for figuring out what I was trying to say, for taking my question as it was intended, and for taking the time to try to explain it. That must have been pretty hard to do!
I understood why you were upset before, and even more now, now that you've mentioned that you "covered all the bases" and *that* didn't work, either! How frustrating! You are absolutely right -- once you arrived, their job was finished and it's too bad it got to that point in the first place, considering you had specifically asked them to call you if there was a problem!
I'm really sorry you and your family are having to go through this -- especially now.
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Yes -- several years late, but the day I have dreaded all this time has finally arrived. My son is acting like a TEENAGER! He has been a *total turd* for the past week or two. I knew it was coming. I knew I would not be spared. I've been walking on eggshells for the past three or four years, knowing one day, yes, one day it would happen!
He went to bed one night my funny, cool, neet, agreeable kid and woke up a stomping, eye-rolling, sighing, abused, put-upon, hormonal Drama -- King? Overnight, nothing I say is right. Nothing I do is good enough. Nothing I want done is reasonable. Every question I ask is an interrogation.
I am, basically, in the way, since I was stupid enough to teach him how to cook. :banghead:
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Bumping this. I'm sure somebody has answers to my questions, huh :huh: ?
I haven't had an American Express card in a long, long time. All I can tell you is what they used to do -- yes, you have to pay the balance off each month. *But* since I had one, they've come up with other plans, too, I think. Have you looked at their website? I think they have cards now that carry a balance like "normal" credit cards.
I can't tell you if they close the account if you don't pay the balance every month -- we always managed to pay it. I'm sorry I'm not much help! But at least "someone" answered you. :lol:
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I couldn't figure out why this whole thing sounded so familiar. Your BIL sounds just like my brother -- exactly. He would -- and has -- done the same kinds of things to his *own* kids, and wouldn't hesitate to try to take control of the parenting of someone else's child.
Yes, I'd be upset, and it sounds like you handled it pretty well, actually!
I'm really curious, though, and I've been editing and messing with this question for a long time, trying to figure out how to frame it. Because in *no* way am I second-guessing your decision to take your son over there while you ran an errand -- and no matter how I write it, it's probably going to come across that way. But you live next door to each other -- has he not had much contact with your son? His reaction -- saying you can't take him home right now, and then he can't go over there anymore -- just seems so strange if you guys live next door and would have, I'm thinking, a better relationship than that. I'm just curious and it just seems so odd that your BIL would do something like that. I'd find it very confusing!
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Anyway, I'm wondering if there is a general age range where most puppies start to settle down. I love Clever, but he is wearing me out! And he requires so much time and attention, I'm a bit concerned about how our school day is going to accomodate him when we get back into things in January.
Michelle T
Settle down? Hum -- let me ask --
"Hey, Guys! When are you going to settle down?"
They're laughing at me. They range in age from nine months to about fourteen years and show no signs as of yet. :willy_nilly:
Sorry 'bout that. I rarely get a chance to use that smiley. :D
The German Shepherd has been a real challenge "attention-wise." She always seems to want to play just as we're settling down to something. It's almost like she thinks it's too quiet. Of course, being an equal opportunity instigator, she gets everyone else worked up, too. I'm thinking her name should be "Chaos!"
After ten or fifteen minutes of good, hard playtime, all the dogs sleep like rocks and we get our work done. Probably not what you wanted to hear. :lol:
Good luck!
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Yes, I think it's dangerous and my guys, knowing that, would sneak out of the house to do it without involving me in the decision making process. :D
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I didn't send out *any* Christmas cards? Gasp! I seriously forgot all about it until last Sunday when I had a bunch of cards in my church mailbox. Now I'm thinking I'll just not do them this year.
Well, if you're a terrible person, can I grab the seat next to you? I didn't send out anything, either.
On the other hand, I didn't *receive* any cards this year, either -- so there must be a lot of "terrible persons" out there. ;)
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Is this a schooled thing? Is it an age thing? Is it a personality thing? Is it (as I suspect) a combination of those things? What have other people with schooled and homeschooled kids observed?
I know I wasn't bored on the weekends -- Way Back When. I always had homework on the weekends! :lol:
And I don't know if my son is bored -- if he is, he's not mentioning it. I have a habit of "helping" him find things to do. :D
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Oh, I'm sooo glad this is the correct one! My recipe is exactly as Julie in CA typed it, with the addition of the cherry on top! :)
I am too! I can't wait to make them -- and forgot about the nuts! :hurray:
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Honey, I'll google for you any time.
That is really sweet. Thanks for cutting me some slack. :001_smile:
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Have you encountered any substantial inconveniences by not having credit cards? Renting cars? Making hotel reservations? Getting major loans (mortgage)? Do you have a debit card with a credit card symbol on it?
TIA!
Well, for us, we don't travel much. We make one trip each summer where we need to stay in a motel, but they don't require a credit card to hold the reservation if we get there before 6:00 p.m. "Nicer" places would require a CC, but we can't afford to stay there anyway. :lol:
We don't have loans -- we pay cash for everything, including our land, house ands cars. If we don't have the cash we do without. And we do without a lot. But if we don't *have* the cash, we couldn't afford the payments anyway. So the upside is we get to keep our stuff, and when hard times hit, we still worry, but not about tow trucks or foreclosure -- and boy, have the hard times hit. Our income for the past two months is *one-third* of what it "should" be -- Ho Ho Ho! :lol:
It is an inconvenience. There are a lot of things you can't do without a credit card anymore. I think registering with eBay is one of them. But, just like with everything else, we just do without. I'm not going to get a credit card just so I can register with them and buy more stuff. :D
We don't use a debit card, either. Cash only really helps with the "Oh! That's so CUTE! I must have that NOW!" impulse buys. Go home, think about it, and the next week? Still gotta have it? Okie dokie. :001_smile:
Yes, it is inconvenient. But so is sleeping in the car. :D
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I'm tired of being ridiculed for teaching my dc Latin . . .
I just say "foreign language" but that isn't working, either. I was having a conversation with a couple of people last week -- not homeschoolers, though -- and I mentioned conjugating verbs. I thought everyone took at least a year of Spanish or French in high school and would know what that was. Um, no. We were discussing memorization and I was trying to describe a table and, of course, picked an example that no one could relate to. It was embarrassing, but they were nice about it -- no ridicule. :001_smile:
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That reminds me of a cartoon I saw just the other day.
Perfect! :iagree:
I don't know how to do a poll, but have a laundry question for you.
in General Education Discussion Board
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Actually, I'm the one who usually leaves things in my pockets -- mostly money. :lol: When we were on the truck, Sweetie usually did the laundry because I slept during the day. He said he didn't mind a bit because he always collected so much cash!
I don't check The Kid's pockets. I'm not sticking MY hand in there! And he mostly does his own laundry -- I throw a pair of his jeans in my load if it happens to be in the hamper. If I hear jingling, I'll look for it. Otherwise -- they just go in.
Sweetie, on the other hand, is very good about emptying his pockets when he changes his clothes and putting them in the hamper. He also picks up his socks!
If blame *must* be assigned, then I agree -- if he put his pants in the hamper to be washed, it's his fault. If you picked 'em off off the chair or the hook, it's your fault. :D