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  1. I've always colored mine at home with whatever looked good at the store. My natural hair color is a medium brown with a strong tendency for strawberry blonde highlights if I spend anytime in the sun. With serious streaks of white/grey now that I haven't colored in a while. Darker shades don't look good on me because I have a very fair complexion but as long as I stick to lighter shades of brown or auburn or go with something like purple, blue or red it comes out great. I've used just about every brand on the shelf of permanent and temporary hair color. I usually just pick whatever floats my boat, and suits my pocketbook, at the time. With all this talk about hair coloring on the board recently, I'm starting to get the itch to color my hair again lol.
  2. When I color my hair, I do so for me, not anyone else. When I was younger, coloring my hair was fun. Now that I have enough greys that one might want to hide them, I'm just too lazy and don't care what anyone else thinks. I come as I am, like it or not. My husband likes when I get the itch to dye my hair wild colors like purple. But he never says anything about my hair when I don't feel like dyeing. I do like pedicures and wish I could justify the cost to go more often. But again I'm doing it for me, not to fit in somewhere or impress anybody. I just like the way my feet feel and look after a pedicure. I can never do as good a job myself as they do at the nail salon.
  3. As long as you wait to add the cream or milk ingredients until you reheat it should come out fine. I just made a double batch of roasted red pepper spaghetti sauce and froze the other half. I also make BBQ sauce and freeze half. I double batch taco meat when I make tacos and put the other half in the fridge. Ds(10) likes to make himself tacos for lunch or as a substitute dinner when he doesn't like what I'm making lol. I have a cast iron skillet large enough to do two pounds of ground beef at a time. If I need more than that, I just make it in 2lb batches. I'm going to have to try @Ottakee's way with the oven though. Sounds much less stressful on my back lol. In the freezer, I double wrap raw meat, in plastic wrap or a plastic bag and then in heavy duty foil. It keeps for at least 3 - 4 months that way without freezer burn. I buy ground beef 10lbs at a time and I usually cook about half of it and then freeze the rest raw, double wrapped. I don't thaw it out when I cook the frozen raw ground beef. I cook it in my cast iron skillet from frozen. Just flipping it like a hamburger and scrapping the cooked bits off the frozen chunk over and over again. Then once it is all cooked, I let it cook just a few minutes longer to make sure there is no pink left anywhere. It only takes about 10 minutes to do 1lb this way.
  4. My experience is the same as @Pawz4me. The university teaching hospital where dh has had his major surgeries always allows me back when he is in the PACU. It's an L shaped room with rows of beds and curtain dividers just big enough for the bed and maybe 2 people to stand. They also send dh to the PACU after his spinal taps because he has to lay flat on his back for 2 or 3 hours after the procedure. I'm with him for the full time he's back there. When oldest ds had tubes put in his ears and youngest dd had eye surgery at 13 months, they brought me back to the PACU before they had woken up so a familiar face would be there when they woke up. This was back in the early 2000s though. Youngest ds(10) may need surgery soon so I guess we will find out if anything has changed about children and visitors in the PACU.
  5. Lots of great ideas! I'm going to have to sift through them all and come up with something. We aren't tied to any particular food on Christmas so that makes it easier.
  6. Ds would love Great Wolf Lodge, but staying there is not in the budget this year. Can you eat at the restaurants without being a guest? I've never actually been to one.
  7. That nothing will be open Christmas day. 🙃 Of course this occurs to me AFTER I've made the hotel reservations. So it's a 4 hour drive. We can have brunch at home Christmas day and then leave for our trip. But what about dinner when we get there in the early evening? I had planned on Chick-fil-a since that's one of ds's favorite restaurants and this trip is for him (and we don't have one locally). But I find it highly unlikely they will be open Christmas day, yeah? Nothing is open around here on Christmas day. Even Walmart is closed. So how can I find out what will be open on Christmas day in the Grapevine, TX area? Or what is a creative solution of something we can do for dinner? We will have a refrigerator and a microwave in the room. The most creative thing I can come up with right now is to bring leftovers from brunch, lol. Anyone have any better ideas?
  8. To me, and my opinion is colored by dealing with many manipulative people in my life, it almost seems like a manipulation tactic. It seems to me like she was trying to set up a situation where she could say, "You let so and so cousin in to see the baby but you wouldn't let me?!?" It's like she thought maybe if cousin just showed up they wouldn't turn them away for fear of seeming rude but it backfired on her because they did turn cousin away without any qualms about seeming rude. Like I said though, I'm a bit biased in my opinion having dealt with so much manipulation in my life but that's what it looks like to me from the outside looking in.
  9. This thread brought up a memory I had almost forgot about. When dh's grandma had double knee replacement surgery, we traveled with her to the hospital in a larger city about 90 minutes away from where we live. But ds was 3yo at the time and she (grandma) didn't want us to have to sit and entertain him in the waiting room so she gave us some money and told us to take him to the zoo while she was in surgery and when we got back she should be in a recovery room and ready for visitors. When we got back from the zoo, we went to the information desk in the surgery waiting area to find out what room she was in and the volunteers that work the desk kept giving us dirty looks. Apparently, we had not been there when they called out for Grandma's family to come to the desk and they assumed no one had shown up to "support" her. It was rather offputting and we didn't understand their gruff manner towards us at the time. But this thread has shed a little light on what their problem may have been.
  10. Unschooling is the exact opposite of institutional schooling. I suppose you could unschool in the afterschool hours by providing a learning rich environment at home but if he is already turned off to learning, it probably won't help. If he's back in school, let the school determine his learning issues and what needs to be done. If he is significantly behind, I imagine you will be called in for an IEP meeting soon. Late September and into October is when first IEP meetings typically occur. Once you know what the school considers to be his areas that need the most help, you can then decide if tutoring afterschool will help or hinder him. I put my youngest in school last year knowing full well he was significantly behind in reading. I tried my best but I just could not get this kid reading, after teaching all of his older siblings to read, and we were butting heads over it every. single. day. Putting him in public school has been the best decision for him. I have considered tutoring him in reading to help accelerate him but honestly, he hasn't needed it. He is making significant progress with what the school is doing with him in his IEP. I think tutoring him myself would just cause us to butt heads again. In your case, I would say what's done is done and wait to see what the school says before making any more decisions about his education.
  11. They wanted her in the delivery room with me and she was, though she was standing by my head the whole time so she didn't see more than either of us wanted lol. The odd thing was, she wanted to cut the cord and I didn't mind if she did, it didn't bother me. But the doctors said no because she wasn't the father? Umm, okay, lol. I have no idea who cut the cord, probably a doctor or one of the nurses.
  12. Lol, I have no idea what the "or what?" would have been. I do know that when I had my 6th child, they didn't believe me when I said I delivered quickly (my record is 90mins, first contraction to baby being born) and the nurses kept telling me not to push because the doctor was at the hospital just not in the maternity ward and they would get in trouble if the baby was born without the doctor in there. I told them they better tell him to run then because babies come when babies are ready to come, not on a time table convenient for the doctor. Ds was born without the doctor in the room. The nurses didn't even catch him, he landed on the bed. The doctor walked in the room about 10 minutes after he was born and the look on his face was priceless. I hated him anyways. I was quite glad he missed the delivery. 😛 I have no idea if the nurses got in trouble but the whole thing seemed silly to me. Really, what could they have done to stop a baby from being born?
  13. That wasn't my experience. My husband was deployed when my first dd (third child) was born and I figured I would just go it alone. The hospital said I had to have someone there with me in case I became incapacitated and someone needed to make a medical decision for me. I had a friend come with since no family was nearby and I had to sign paperwork and everything that said she could make decisions on my behalf if I became unable to do so myself. She knew my birth plan and my preferences beforehand but luckily, it didn't come to that but that was the hospital's policy back in 2001. ETA: This was in SC. I have no idea if this holds true in other places.
  14. I've colored my own hair since I was 12 years old, lol. The one time I had it professionally colored, they screwed it up big time and it's the only time I"ve ever hated it. It was supposed to be a light brown, close to my natural color but the salon colored it too dark and it was dark brown, almost black which looked horrible with my extremely fair skin. I've done everything from blonde to red/auburn to purple to brown and back again. I've been thinking about coloring my hair again, I haven't done it in a while. I have a lot more grey now but I've never colored my hair to hide greys, I've always just done it because changing my hair color was fun.
  15. I have never understood having 20+ people waiting in the waiting room for one person in surgery. The waiting room is only so big and having a crowd for each and every person makes for chaos in my experience. Especially today when details can be dispersed to family instantly by text or phone call. When my husband had brain surgery in 2019, we insisted that I was the only one who needed to be at the hospital. Not only because the waiting room was crowded to begin with but because neither I nor dh wanted a bunch of people there. Dh was recovering from having a hole drilled in his skull and I needed to focus on him. Dh's grandma was given the role of watching our then 6yo son for us while all this was going on but she insisted she could do so while being at the hospital in case I needed support. Seriously though, if something had gone wrong, I would have wanted some time to process it first by myself before having to deal with family and friends. Anyways, since I couldn't actually ban her from the hospital in this case, I just avoided the huge crowded waiting room. They text updates now to your phone when someone is in surgery (or at least they have for all the surgeries dh has had) so I found a nice quiet sitting area in a deserted hallway to wait in. When they texted me that he was now in the PACU, I went back to the surgery area nurses station and they took me right to him. When he got to his room, Grandma did bring ds into to see him but you could tell it wasn't ds who wanted to be there, it was grandma. Luckily, the nurses shooed her away after about 15 minutes. Grandma still doesn't understand how just watching ds for us IS helping and being supportive. I think it's just a generational thing that she will never understand. For my grown kids, if they want me at the hospital, I will be there. If not, I will offer my support from afar however they want to be supported. I will never assume one way or the other though. That's just rude. I never had an issue with visitors when I was in the hospital having kids. I was a military wife for the first 5 so we didn't live near enough to family for them to come to the hospital which suited me just fine. For #6, it was flu season when he was born so no visitors were allowed. and for my stillbirth/late miscarriage (we lost the baby at 18 weeks so the medical community calls it a late miscarriage but I had to be induced, push and give birth so to me, it was a stillbirth), we had not announced the pregnancy yet so we didn't have visitors which, again, suited me just fine.
  16. Younger dd got lice twice in first grade and after that I made sure her hair was styled with hairspray everyday. She never got them again. As far as getting rid of them, OTC lice treatments never worked for us. A mayonnaise hair mask overnight and then a vinegar rinse in the morning. Then daily combing with a nit comb and vinegar in a spray bottle. Once they were gone, I would do the combing with vinegar spray about once a week during the school year. For transporting things to the dryer with spreading the lice, use trash bags. Gather everything up in the trash bag and then carry it over to where the dryer is.
  17. Dh's grandma just retired this year as a rural letter carrier. She received gift cards of all kinds and denominations from her customers. She also got all kinds of baked goods (homemade and fancy store bought things), dozens and dozens of eggs from people's chickens, garden veggie surplus, handmade items, lotions and soaps and at Christmas some just gave her straight out cash.
  18. I would insist to whoever you go see that she's been on amoxicillin X number of days and you just aren't seeing any improvement. She's still feeling ill, still running fevers etc. Strep is nothing to mess with and changing the antibiotic to something stronger is not a huge ask. IMO, it should have been what they did yesterday rather than send her for all those tests. If the stronger antibiotic didn't work within a couple of days, then I would have been asking for testing.
  19. Ugh. Was it the receptionist that insisted amoxicillin was all she needed? If so, I would just ignore it as just her opinion. If it was the nurse or the doctor, I would go elsewhere and get a second opinion.
  20. I'd call them today and ask to change the antibiotic to something stronger. Tell them she's just not improving at all on the amoxicillin. We fought antibiotic resistant strep for a month this past May without any lasting effects from it so your dd will likely be fine but don't be afraid to push for new antibiotics if what she is on isn't working. I hope she starts feeling better soon.
  21. Is she on amoxicillin? It's the usual first choice antibiotic for strep. That's what they started ds on then they had to "bump him up" to cephalexin. A z-pack was also discussed. I'm surprised they did the bloodwork and ultrasound and all that before just changing the antibiotic. Resistant varieties of strep are not that uncommon anymore.
  22. Sounds like antibiotic resistant strep to me. I'd ask for a stronger antibiotic if it continues.
  23. Well, she's a marriage counselor, not an addiction counselor. She's helping them solve the problems in the marriage. The drinking problem is entirely something else that probably needs to be seen by a different counselor if he is willing.
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