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We live in the suburbs here in CA and I love it. Our house is about 2400 square feet, and I honestly wouldn't mind living in half that size.
I love that we have so much within ten minutes of our house. Sports, classes, shopping, pretty much everything.
I just moved from 1300 to 2200 and it feels annoyingly big - it takes too long just to walk down the hallway, and there's so much to vacuum.
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My second baby was FTT until I switched him to formula. He's been chubby ever since. He has a dairy allergy that was part of that. Honestly, I would just switch to formula. It sounds like both of you would be better off. Is there a reason you don't want to?
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I think it's funny that 3000 sq ft is your downsize house too. :) We don't have basements where I live, and 1500-2000 is standard, more than 2500 is extra large, and 4000 is like an ooh and aah mansion.
What is your lifestyle? What activities do your kids enjoy? Do you spend a lot of time in the yard?
I would probably choose the suburb, but I have no knowledge of the area. I hate traffic and don't like to do big-city activities, but I also don't enjoy living so far out that a grocery store run takes most of an hour, and I don't want to take care of a big yard.
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I went to a small private high school. The teacher taught all the BC material and the students decided whether they wanted to take the AB or BC test at the end. I did BC and did well, but most of my classmates didn't. I got credit for Calc I and Calc II and went straight into Calc III in college (Notre Dame) which was quite challenging because the high school teacher wasn't very good, but I still got a good grade, and I certainly have all of those basic calculus concepts thoroughly mastered - in an engineering curriculum you keep using them in lots of different classes. I guess you could just start out at the BC pace, and if he gets stuck, slow down, and see which test he's ready for in the Spring? I think getting a 5 on AB Calc would probably look better for admissions than a 3 on BC, but a 5 on BC is better than a 5 on AB.
One possible problem is that if he does finish BC this year, and then doesn't go on to do further calculus next year, his skills might atrophy by the time he gets to college. Of course that's only relevant if he will potentially be a STEM major. He could continue to do sporadic review problems throughout the next year.
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This is where our current DRE falls on the spectrum.
The canon law quoted above seems to support that view imo.
That may be the requirement on paper, but they can't really enforce that. Parents are a child's first, most important teachers. Technically, parents can do all religious ed, including sacrament prep, at home. As far as I know, every case where a diocese has tried to say no to parent HS sacrament prep which has then been appealed all the way to the Vatican has been decided in favor of the parents. So, any child who enters a school in such a system shouldn't be denied a sacrament.
True, but when the parents aren't even Catholic, you shouldn't trust them for any part of his faith formation without a specific knowledge that they're using a CCD book or something. I suppose his teacher could just do an informal oral test to decide whether he understands the basics of the faith (who is Jesus? What is the Church?) and understands what holy communion is, and how one ought to receive it. She should probably do that for all the kids, regardless of who their parents are.
I just can't decide what I think about this. Can a child who is not living a Catholic life (no Sunday Mass means no Catholic life) and has no Catholic parents or relatives really be properly disposed to be further initiated into the Catholic Church? Children whose parents are not Catholic only receive the sacraments in exceptional situations. It seems like it might be better to wait a year or two until the whole family is prepared to actually join and participate in the Church, rather than rush things so that he's included with his class.
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This is my experience as the youngest after a gap.
I used to not mind but as I get older it bothers me. People my age have parents but I've lost mine already. I never had grandparents. My siblings and I don't have a shared experience/history. Being close didn't overcome that.
I'm glad I exist but i wouldn't chose being youngest by a lot.
(DH, also youngest by a lot, has had the same experience)
Most of that is more about the age of your parents at your birth than the age of your siblings, right? I'm hoping to have one or two more children once my current youngest starts school, but I'll be in my early 30's still, and my parents will still be in their 50's.
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White, gray, navy blue, yellow, rust red, pink, brown, purple, kelly green
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My BIL is 5 years and 9 years younger than his siblings. My husband is the oldest. They talk on the phone all the time. My husband is a great influence on his younger brother, who's only 22 and needs guidance. I've known a few families to say that a baby is just what their crazy, busy teenage family needed.
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Start an afternoon tea habit? You could have tea and one or two saltine crackers.
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Has anyone ever heard of a religious objection to pesticides before?
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The child will be in second grade next year.
I just think it is nuts to punish a young family with a checkered past who are doing the best they know how. They don't understand it yet. Telling them that they MUST go to Mass every Sunday is like me telling you you MUST wash your car at midnight every Thursday. Huh? Why?
Could they try harder to get to Mass? Sure.
I talked to one of our more well-to-do families after Easter last year. They had a great Easter! They went to the local mega church for "Mass" (she called it that) because they had a bounce castle for the kids. Not kidding!! No one batted an eye at her daughter making FHC.
It's insulting to compare the obligation of Sunday Mass to a car wash. Many Catholics know shockingly little. I'm sorry they've chosen the most good-intentioned family to be hard-noses with. This isn't bringing anyone closer to the Church.
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Here's the question: Does the child have a serious reason for not attending Mass? If he wants to go and nobody will take him, then it's not his sin and he ought to be admitted to communion. You cannot hold the sin of the parents against the child. If he has no desire to attend Mass regularly either, then he really is not in the correct mindset for communion. To be prepared properly for communion, at least the child ought to know that missing Sunday Mass without a grave reason is a mortal sin.
Canon 912: Any baptized person not prohibited by law can and must be admitted to holy communion.
914: It is for the pastor to exercise vigilance so that children whom he judges are not sufficiently disposed do not approach holy communion.
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I'm glad someone else is annoyed by blue shirt world.
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I have a question.
How do you all rinse after cleaning?
If I use a lot of soap on the floor or counters, I don't really know how to get it off. It always seems to end up having a smeared appearance, and sometimes even a tacky feel; so much so that I tend to clean with water more than I probably should I am embarrassed to admit that I don't know this, but I don't.
I use products that do not contain soap, because it's too hard to get off. Pinesol is my favorite. Just vinegar and water will work. These things evaporate. Soap doesn't.
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You can find some good master lists in Martha Stewart books and in her website. She suggests frequency too. Browse that section of your library? I do like the FlyLady system, and there's an app called Home Routines that's similar. In FlyLady you have a daily and weekly routine, and then spend 15-30 minutes every day doing a detail cleaning task, like baseboards, ceiling fans, grout, windows, etc. Or you could go with the spring cleaning/fall cleaning idea. Another system I like is deep cleaning one room every few weeks, behind everything, ceiling baseboard windows.
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Lol! No! That was for sanitary purposes as they had a hard time getting sheets disinfected hand-washing them.
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Be totally honest with the counselor at the college. If it says "no longer in high school," and he's still doing high school, that's obviously dishonest.
I would also talk to someone at a university on your list of realistic options and ask them how they assign freshman-sophomore status.
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I'd eat it and I'm very paranoid.
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You are not dying, but something is likely amiss anatomically, like an injury caused by the cup, or a prolapse. Repeat: you are not dying. Go to the gynecologist when she can get you in.
Don't start kegels without knowing what this is, they aren't recommended for prolapse.
These are NOT the symptoms of cancer of any kind.
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Yes. I read it. I have allergies in my family. When my baby was 4 months old I started putting my finger in his mouth after I'd eaten peanut butter, egg, dairy, and other allergic foods. I have no idea whether it "worked" or not because he's 8 months old and won't eat food yet, so I can't tell whether he will get eczema and diarrhea like his siblings do after eating certain foods. If any of my kids develops an anaphylaxis allergy I will definitely find someone to try the new acclimation methods of allergy reduction, where they give you a speck of peanut dust and gradually increase until you can eat a peanut every day.
My second son has severe eczema, but no anaphylaxis type allergies. My first has gastro allergy to dairy only.
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Community is important to me. My town is about 12,000 people. I never go anywhere without seeing people I know. I'm involved with the church and some other activities. I think if I wanted to meet any person who lives in town, it would take two degrees of connection at most. I know most of the people who write in to the newspaper. I love it.
I would not be unwilling to live in a big city where I wasn't a real contributor to the overall community, as long as I had my own sub-community, like my church or neighborhood.
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I kind of liked it. Well, a lot of people think that there is an innate conflict between women wanting to be an involved mother and wanting to have an involved career. I don't really agree with the author that this is difficult because of the different modes of being in having a career and loving children, which are not nearly as separate as she describes. I think the real issue is just time. To go to work, you leave your kids. Men don't have this issue because they expect the woman to be with them - even if she works, she's the one who has to wonder whether she's doing the right thing and evaluate the daycare options in most marriages. She's the working mom, he's not the working dad. And we can fantasize about alternative realities where kids go to work and work is at home and all of this is organically perfect, but right now few people have that reality. It's either have a professional raise your children or give up your career.
At least it's that way for me. I'm a mother of three little ones at home and my intellect is painfully bored and underutilized.
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Filling the Baby Break
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I have only preschoolers, no older kids, but my suggestion is structure. Kids go crazy after just a few days without structure. Maybe you could do something like this:
7-8:30 breakfast, hygiene
8:30-10, time for learning toys/drawing/writing/workbooks
10-11:30 outside. I enjoyed bringing my newborn to a playground with a shaded pavilion to let the other boys run off energy, and the sunshine cheers everyone up. Try to get a friend to meet you there.
11:30-12:30 lunch. Make the older kids make lunch for everyone and wash the dishes.
12-30-2:00 screen time
2-3:30 free reading
3:30-5:30 play time
5:30-6:30 dinner
After that, whatever Dad wants to do with them!
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