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  1. I read this one. I wondered about the conflating of "cultish" things (i.e. MLMs and gyms, among other things) with actual religious cults. I understood her point but feel that it's a gloss of something that's quite important.
  2. I was going to wait and share this later in the month but decided to go ahead since I had snapped a picture to send to friends and family. This is the first installment of a stitch-a-long. I'm really enjoying this one!c
  3. I live in a huge football state and graduated from a big football school (Roll Tide! 🤣), but I care nothing at all about football and hence have never given any energy to learning it.
  4. My dh and I both have a pair. I'll confess I don't love mine. I have tremendous foot, ankle, and heel pain, and something about that amount of squishiness makes me feel off kilter. I prefer something with less give.
  5. My granny made this, too! So good! My granny made a lot of things I fondly remember, including what we called biscuit pudding. It was basically a bread pudding made from leftover homemade biscuits. It was not quite as moist as traditional bread pudding--more buttery and dry/crunchy. One of my maternal aunts (married to my mother's brother) was known for her yeast rolls. She was a working mother with a pretty high-up corporate job in a family of sahms and men who were also all great cooks, and she didn't do much domestic, so this was quite memorable. If I recall correctly, they were little folded-over rolls that positively melted in the mouth. My mother's sister was a great southern cook who also had a barbecue pit in her backyard. Her Boston butts and bbqed (smoked) chickens were legendary, not to mention her gallon jars of Alabama white sauce. I remember a paternal aunt (my daddy's brother's wife) for her faux-fruitcakes (made with crushed graham crackers). My cousin can make beautiful and delicious desserts of all kinds, including fancy cheesecakes. It gets to be an obsessive hobby for her and she perfects whatever she's learning. My mother is a good cook who is known to tinker with herbs and spices. 🤪 My most requested side dish for family meals is cauliflower salad (lettuce, cauliflower, bacon, shredded cheese, mayo, and powdered ranch mix--assemble just before eating!) Gosh, I love this thread! Thanks to OP for starting it!
  6. True story. My dad had a pet frog. Frog got out of its habitat. (You know where this is going. . . ) Dh's foot found pet frog. 😢
  7. I was going to recommend copper. Lol. We had a deep, hammered copper sink in a previous house and I loved it.
  8. Excepting the rainbow baby part, I could've written this. The part that has made ours doable is a 4.5 year gap between the first two and the last two. I will be old when the baby graduates, but I'm thankful for the gap.
  9. Age, mostly. Our youngest completed the matching sets of girls/boys in our family, so that felt like completion, too.
  10. This is all very true for me. My dh is definitely not attuned to it as much as I am! Love this!
  11. Good ideas, all. Thank you. Our home is completely safe--just worn, but also with a few structural things that need shoring. I think that's part of it, too--the behind-the-scenes stuff is the most important but also has the least aesthetic payoff, yet still must be prioritized.
  12. How do you mentally and emotionally balance being content while also making improvements? I'm thinking about this particularly in terms of my home. In so many ways we are so fortunate/blessed--we want for nothing, really, and we have a lot more than most of the world, etc. I get all that, recognize it, and am thankful for it. However, I also have a very idealistic personality who tends to see what needs improving, and there is a lot: our house is aging and needs a laundry list of updates and repairs, etc. My question is how to maintain the equilibrium of contentment and the peace it brings while ALSO recognizing the needs and working toward improvement. It's like I know how to be content and I know how to change, but I don't know how to practice both simultaneously. Is this possible? (I hope so!) I don't want contentment to be so comfortable that we don't work to make things better, but I don't want the desire to improve to make me bitter or angry about slow progress, etc.
  13. There are many variations of cross stitch and embroidery temperature designs.
  14. My sincere condolences ❤️
  15. I don't have a great recipe to share, but I just wanted to say that as a fellow public librarian, I love this idea!
  16. This is literally my worst nightmare. I hope they are all safe!
  17. Kidlit

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    Happy birthday! I have found I enjoy life more as I get older. May your day be all you desire!
  18. My middle school tennis player has a group lesson scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, but he looked at the weather last night and thought it might be best not to attend. I'm curious to see if it is cancelled.
  19. Yes! My adult nephew was a percussionist for the same high school band, and it was a huge positive part of his high school experience and helped him along his life path. His career involves music!
  20. I have no personal experience, but I'm pretty sure that's how it works here, too.
  21. Thanks for providing insight, @ScoutTN. I have boys who play sports but we have managed to keep football off the table by offering all the other choices. I appreciate your sharing your viewpoint.
  22. My thoughts exactly. We're in AL so it's never not humid. Band is THE ONLY reason I attend games.
  23. It often doesn't actually feel freezing here until Jan/Feb, so it's the spring sports that are miserably cold. Nobody in my house plays football, but we do play percussion in the band. None of my youngers is high school age yet, so we just have a couple of middle school pep band appearances, and hopefully the awful heat will have broken by then.
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