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For everyday, around the house clothes this summer, each kid has had about 5 shorts. Ds has about the same number of shirts, though he usually doesn't wear one. Dd has probably 10 shirts, but only because they were hand-me-downs from a friend.
I've been washing everything except whites and dress clothes (which we've had none of since March) together for a while now. It makes it so much easier to do laundry, as I basically just put most stuff in the washer as it comes off our bodies. When the washer is full, wash and dry. This is particularly nice in the summer, as clothes are sweaty, stinky, or wet from play and don't really need to sit in the laundry a long time.
In a fascinating turn of events, since we've been home much more on weekends, dh has been rounding up any remaining laundry on Saturday. He and the kids wash, dry, and put it away. 🙉 There may be towels tucked in odd places in the bathroom, and weird stacks of clothing stuffed in their closets, but I'll take it!
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1 hour ago, BlsdMama said:
Funny story that.
We went to the local ER. I requested a surgeon. They said no. They said staples. I said no. They said stitches, PAC. I decided to leave, they said no. I called down to the University hospital - they have a surgeon on call. We did leave.
Get this:
While it was not "friendly," it was civil. I was just firm that I *would* have a surgeon repair this. They brought me a wheelchair and I was on my own - no help into the chair, no help out, nothing. I've NEVER experienced that kind of treatment. Kind of a, "Well, there's the door..."
We went to the university. They called a facial trama surgeon. He was great. They had to kind of undercut the wound to make sure it didn't pull taut. They said the same thing - vaseline is your friend. I was wondering about calendula oil or lavender on the surface once/day.
The second experience was great. The first was ridiculous. Who makes an ALS patient with a head wound get herself in a chair and out of the hospital? I had DH but just wow....That is crazy! I mean, our hospital is teeny, tiny, so it's understandable to me that a hospital wouldn't necessarily have a plastic surgeon available or on call. But I can't imagine them acting like that!
Speaking of facial scars, I've had a scar right in the middle of my forehead, about an inch long, since I was about two years old. My mom . . . I guess this was an old remedy thing to do? . . . packed it with flour to stop the bleeding. She then called the doctor, who told her to clean that flour out of it! 😂
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A plastic surgeon recommended silicone scar strips after a surgery. I began applying them after the wound was healed and they worked well. The stitches were done by the plastic surgeon, though, so were well done to begin with.
Honestly, for something that significant on my face, I'd want a plastic surgeon, not an er doc. I guess it's probably too late now for the fresh wound, but you might like to have a consult to see what options there are.
So sorry this happened! Head wounds bleed so much it makes them seem overly scary too.
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2 hours ago, Bagels McGruffikin said:
Because paying $30+ bucks per pair of undies always feels like highway robbery, even though I splurge on jeans and bras?
Totally. I don't even consider the bras a splurge, they are a necessity. But it doesn't feel like undies are as important - wearing cheap underwear doesn't pull ribs out of place or cause deep crevices on my shoulders - so, logically, they should not be so expensive. 😄
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2 hours ago, Moonhawk said:
Can we make it a thing that links are included?
Not that I'm going to buy any of this.... or anything ... just for research purposes of course....
eta: or brand names if you can recommend a certain one!
I ordered from Soma. Something like, "retro brief" in the "vanishing" line? They have silicone grippers around the bottom rear that keeps them in place. They are also thicker than cheap underwear.
Eta: I mean, for real. The support is so nice - not like girdle or anything, just enough I don't feel like I'm spilling out of anything, ya know?
And, though my husband and I joke about them being old-lady panties 😂 (it's all good-natured, he doesn't actually care what I wear), they are sooooo comfortable.
They have styles other than the retro, I just like the retro because they're high rise, so they're not cutting into me at all the wrong places!
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1 hour ago, PeterPan said:
Have you done a bra fitting yet?
Lol Bras are a totally different story. I've always been well-endowed, and have been buying good bras for years. Plus, I have a hiatal hernia and comfort around the band is a must. Why I never applied the same reasoning to underwear is beyond me! 😁
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Comfortable underwear. It was needed, but I didn't have to spend as much as I did. I've never had nice underwear. Now I don't think I can go back . . .
I also purchased a pair of cropped pajama pants that happened to be on sale, in the same order. Now, I *have* worn pajama pants before, but none this soft, and the last few years I've just been wearing odds and ends for sleepwear.
It really gives me great pleasure to wear these items. I did not realize how irritating my undergarments were previously! I plan to purhase more.
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1 hour ago, Ktgrok said:
Can I just say, I've never known anyone to use the word "dungarees" outside of a Trixie Belden novel? You just made my day 🙂
I thought the same thing!
Trixie was awesome. I'm pretty sure my books are still in my old room; I need to find them.
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At our local (very small) hospital, you may use only one entrance (the E.R. entrance). Your temp is checked and you answer a few screening questions. A sticker is put on your shirt saying you've been cleared. There are masks available if you want one.
Their mask policy has changed from time to time. For a long time, masks were not required at all. Right now, the receptionist wears a mask, as well as hcw's interacting with patients. They do not wear them (or they pull them down) in break rooms or when patients are not present. In an adjacent wing, the OT and PT do not wear masks. One of my children asked why they weren't wearing masks, and the response was, "they only have to do that around the E.R." I don't know what the official policy is right now, though.
As far as mask-wearing in general, I rarely see more than two or three other people masked when I run errands. Our county has had very low number of cases this whole time. Most people think it is way overblown.
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On 8/24/2020 at 12:19 PM, Slache said:
I don't do anything special. The upfront time investment is intense and by the time I had it down I didn't care to learn more. The time saved over time is worth it though. Maybe an hour a week. People definitely use them with VP/CC cards. I do use images, but that's drag and drop. If you search old threads there are amazing capabilities.
This is good to know. I recently took a look at it and was dismayed to find it will take a while to figure it out. Granted, it was late at night and I was tired, but it just looked like more than I want to tackle right now. I need to take another look.
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1 minute ago, Seasider too said:
I know on the surface it seems illogical! I think it’s about context, as Ausmom described it.
I probably have a memory that colors my opinion. An older dear lady once shared with me that when their children were little, she and her husband would go campground camping in a pop up trailer. Each side opened up for a sleeping wing. She told me that one night, she was awakened by a noise. When she got up to investigate, she found that the fabric wall at her children’s feet had been sliced open. She was very sure that someone intended to yank one of the kids out by his feet. I can no longer remember what made her so sure, but since then I have been a careful people watcher at campgrounds! And someone sitting around watching others come out of campground bathhouses is always in the back of my mind! I’d prefer them to see my kids fully clothed. On the beach or at the pool, they are in a crowd. In a campground, not so much, and may be easier to singularly observe and even trace back to a specific campsite.
Yes, I have a paranoid streak. My reasoning may still seem irrational to you, but there they are.
Thanks for explaining, that makes sense. That is a scary story! I've actually had similar thoughts before, I just didn't connect the dots. I think it's probably true for everyone -- there are some things we do or don't do simply for our own peace of mind, doesn't matter if it's perfectly rational or not. 😊
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2 hours ago, Ausmumof3 said:
I totally get it. There’s definitely a difference between beach towel over bathers versus white hotel style towel versus the old lady in the dressing gown with the faded pink towel wrapped round her hair. It’s the same thing as we don’t care about bikinis at the beach but we don’t go shopping in them.
Yeah, I do get the thought that certain attire may be appropriate for one venue but not to another. I agree (but the attire in question seems appropriate for a campground, at least the ones I have been to.)
The comment I quoted seemed to be saying (this is the part I was unclear what was meant) that the difference was that the person would have been naked in the shower and how that realization would affect others.
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15 hours ago, Seasider too said:
I wouldn’t think twice about someone covering with a towel like that at the beach or a pool dressing room. However, something about the shower house at a campground makes me think of cleaning up at the end of the day, ie, having been nekkid in the shower. While that still wouldn’t trouble me personally, I wouldn’t let my kids, or choose myself, to leave anyone sharing the campground with that kind of possible mental image.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Are you saying that you wouldn't wear skimpy (towel, underwear) clothing when coming out of a shower house because others would know you had just been showering and it could lead them to picture you naked in the shower? But that you would wrap a towel around you coming out of a pool dressing room or equivilant because that doesn't involve being naked, thus doesn't have the same effect on what people are imagining?
Eta: Well, wait a minute, a pool dressing room does involve being naked, at least to change. I think I'm just not understanding. Times like this I wish I drank coffee!
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I won't quote to save space, but @ieta_cassiopeia thank you, that was helpful. According to this I have not been using the term "masking" exactly right. What my dh would be advocating, then, is providing tools.
I want to reread, as I have other thoughts and need to revisit masking vs. providing tools, but have to get busy right now. In case I don't make it back before the conversation changes focus - thank you for taking the time to type all that out.
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11 hours ago, Storygirl said:
I think this is a great discussion.
First, about expected and unexpected behavior... DD15 used to go to a private dyslexia school, and they deliberately used this language to define problem behavior as "unexpected." I think it was their way of saying, "This is unacceptable" but substituting the word "unexpected" for "unacceptable." I can see how this attempt to phrase things in a way that seems more positive actually could create some confusion.
Also, I am extremely tired tonight and might need to reread the article another day, but my initial thought was to wonder what is the difference between teaching skills and teaching masking? Some of the things mentioned in there as masking, I would consider skills that can be beneficial to work on.
I agree.
My dh, who is on the spectrum, and I have talked about this at length, so I'm biased toward his opinion. He is adamant that dd will not have to spend the first 30+ years of her life first realizing there *are* hidden rules of social norms and then trying to figure them out through trial and error alone.
That doesn't mean that he always follows those rules, or that she is/will be expected to. It means that he (now) understands (many of) them, if not intuitively then intellectually, and has the choice and the ability to follow them or not depending on what he wants/needs to accomplish.
It's all well and good to wish for an ideal world where his "quirks" are valued by everyone, but for now he has to live in this one. He's going to mask or code switch or whatever the current word is, if that gets him where he wants to be, and he wishes he'd been explicitly taught how to do it.
I do understand that many, perhaps particularly girls, are more bothered by masking than he is.
ETA: I don't want to imply that he isn't bothered *at all*. He is.
I also think it has a bit of a puzzle or strategy game aspect to him. Like, aha! This explains that, and now I can do this to take advantage of it! (He hasn't said this part, it's just an impression I have.)
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I agree about her videos. They are extremely difficult to watch. I did download the free pdf, and I like having all the bullet points together. It will make a good jumping off point when I do more research.
I actually haven't gotten the impression that she is pushing her book. But that may be because I haven't watched many videos in their entirety. To me, it's had the feel of mostly informational. She seems to be pretty even-handed when it comes to comparing options and stresses that your choice will be dependent on your individual goals and concerns.
It doesn't bother me if there is a brief pitch along with free content, though, as long as the content is good. I wouldn't expect anyone would put forth time and effort to produce content with no return at all.
For some reason I was thinking that her first name is actually Barbie? Not sure where I got that.
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2 hours ago, happypamama said:
The Unit kept popping up for me, so I watched it. Liked it okay. I agree that I would have liked more of it. That last season was such a strange premise, though.
Yes. I always wonder where they were planning on going with it.
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1 hour ago, mom31257 said:
I've never heard of The Unit. Since two of mine are two of yours, I should check it out.
The Unit is the weakest of the four I mentioned. I don't really know exactly why I like it, but I recently rewatched it (I think it was on Prime for a short time) and, though it does reflect the style of the time, I still enjoyed it. Maybe I enjoy it *because* it reflects the time it was made, I could be heavily influenced by nostalgia. 😁 haha I'm not trying to dissuade you, really! Just don't expect Poldark level from it.
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Jericho, Poldark, and The Unit. I'd swap The Unit for Firefly depending on mood.
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We would normally be doing rec gymnastics. Everything seems to be open as normal here (there's not much even normally) although gymnastics is doing extra cleaning of surfaces and limiting number of classes. There is little to no distancing, no masks.
(Regarding masking, here's the policy: you can wear a mask if you choose and they will make sure no one is bullied for wearing a mask.)
They are touting the cleaning of surfaces (and, indeed, they do a great job of this even pre-covid) but the kids are following each other in close succession, breathing heavily. Unless you're always the first person on an apparatus the whole time, you're sucking in droplets from everyone who has been through there.
Sigh. We all really, really hate to miss it. The kids would prob be too hot in masks; it's very warm in there through November or so.
Numbers have remained low here this whole time, despite people carrying on as usual. Would we be just fine doing this activity? Likely yes. Things can change so quickly, though, and we are continuing to see my parents regularly - I would constantly be wondering if we were pre- or asymptomatic.
When the heat breaks (late Sept) we'll camp and other things.
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On 8/4/2020 at 8:17 AM, macmacmoo said:
Kids are 12, 9, 6 and 3.
I’m spent in the sense I’m not focused. I’m looking all around to get away but know I need to stay put.
It might be the change in levels. Or sitting still for too long.
I find the bolded to make a big difference. Sitting for a long time is horrible for my body, which makes me hurt worse, which makes me irritable and unfocused. I try to make myself get up and stretch between kids, do what teaching I can standing up, we dance for 5 min mid-morning, just break up the sitting.
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I would not wait until March. I vote go elsewhere.
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OneDrive and Google Drive. (I am in the process of switching from Dropbox to OneDrive.)
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8 hours ago, Meriwether said:
It seems that Ivy Kids would compliment FIAR style learning.
Yes. It is very like FIAR in a box for the younger set.
Dr hive is this something to worry about?
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Same.