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    Anyone waiting for this docuseries? Shiny Happy People

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    46 minutes ago, Faith-manor said:

    The higher up the pace number, the worse it gets. High school American History might be the most effed up stuff ever that isn't in a Wisdom Booklet which is saying a lot considering the pro-slavery sentiment of Bob Jones and Veritas by Doug Wilson.

    This stuff in the paces is always in cartoon form so it looks innocent. Most parents do not take the time to read the cartoons or the content. They just look at the scores on self-tests and tests. There is an A.C.E. school around the corner from us. The parents have NO idea what that crap contains. 10th grade English, "Why did Susie and Roy (or whatever his name was) die in the car crash?" Because they were losers. Not joking. That is the correct answer in the answer key. If you wonder why they were losers, it was because they went to public school so naturally were always troublemakers in the cartoons. Brainwashing 101.

    I was in a school for 4th and part of 5th. I remember nothing about what I learned--I just remember the structure of the school and how our over all day went. It wasn't a bad experience for me.  I had come from public school in my home state, attended the private school while my dad was on a temporary transfer to the other state, and returned to my original public school system mid-year.  I was none the worse for wear. 

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    Anyone waiting for this docuseries? Shiny Happy People

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    9 hours ago, Faith-manor said:

     

    PACES went hand in hand with IBLP. It was the approved curriculum prior to the development of Wisdom Booklets, and because Wisdom Booklets didn't always keep kids busy enough, PACES were the add on "curriculum". Some of the egregiously awful stuff included the teaching on the Trail of Tears. That though it was sad (and really, they never once called it out as truly heinous and morally reprehensible), god used it for good and hundreds of thousands of Indians (yes, this is the term used so apparently they were not aware of the existence of the country of India 🙄), became saved due to the witness of good Christians along the way. This is the kind of horrific drivel and brain washing in A.C.E. it is deep, very deep. Leaving Fundamentalism has done a rather large deep dive into it since though A.C.E. is IBLP adjacent, they were two separate organizations.

    That said. Even PACES were not as far down the rabbit hole as Wisdom Booklets. Good grief. Paces did actually teach the humans were made of living cells. Wisdom Booklets teach that hands are made of non living atoms, and the body has three hearts. The crazy is so bad, it makes me sound like a delusional dingbat to even describe it.

    All that to say, the organization while not skinhead or anything like that really was aimed at preserving White Protestantism, fundamental, puritanical white protestant culture and return America to some sort of 1800's perceived glory land.

    What? I had no idea! I attended a tiny private school for a few years in elementary school that used Paces.  Mind blown.

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    S/o, what strange thing did you crave while pregnant?

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    @Eos on the sand thing--I have crunched ice so much at various stages of pregnancy and life in general that my husband researched it and discovered---a sign of anemia!  I wonder if your craving means the same thing since grape nuts--very crunchy--sated it.  (This May be common knowledge, but I was amazed to learn my extreme craving was driven by a deficit!)

    I don't remember tons of cravings besides the above, just things I could tolerate.  With my first I ate Cheezits and drank apple juice or Dr Pepper because it was what I could hold down. I was a school librarian at the time, and my principal would say that he could tell if it was going to be a good or bad day based on what I was carrying in my hand (a drink or nothing) when I walked through the door.  My library aide said my baby was going to be born "starched stiff" because I ate so many carbs in the form of Cheezits. 🤣
     

    It was the aversions for me. 🤢

     

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    Hats for women who don't wear hats

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    I'm considering a hat as a viable option for hiding second day hair on vacation.  (This is mostly due to the amount of time it takes for me to cajole my hair into passable shape these days.)  I am a regular sun hat wearer at the beach or pool, but I'd like something that's a little less large/sun hat-ish. I've never in my life worn a baseball cap, though I do think it's a cute look on some women (not sure I'm one of those women, though.).  My hair is a short angled bob that tends to be wavy, so no ponytail to contend with, though I think short hair poses its own hat problem. I'm also on the plump side and not as young as I used to be, though I still have young-ish kids (and I'm actually old enough to be my baby's grandma). 
     
    Ideas?  Bonus point for links. 

    Do y'all miss your little kids?

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    Lately the thing that is filling the hole for me (not completely but sort of) is Storytime at the library.  I'm the children's librarian so I do 2-3 storytimes a week and I started a weekly baby time shortly after I took the job.   It's not the the same as my own kids, of course, but it does give me a little, regular dose of all things baby/toddler/preschooler.  I love them so much, and it's nice to be a minor celebrity to my own little crowd.  🤣

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    Do y'all miss your little kids?

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    12 minutes ago, Momto6inIN said:

    I wouldn't necessarily want to go back and live through it all again, but I do sometimes long to visit those days again bringing along what nuggets of wisdom I've acquired since and knowing enough to savor it this time.

    I do think it's a physical longing because my memories are tied up with the feel of their firm little cheeks up against mine and the feel of the stickiness and softness of their little hands and the smell of them - baby breath and toddler sweat and milk and the wildness of outside air that clings to their hair but somehow doesn't stink like it does when they're older.

    But if I went back then I'd also miss hanging out with my adult kids and talking with them about God and politics late at night over a glass of wine and hearing my teens singing Disney songs around the piano together and ... and ... and ... and ...

    My memories with my older kids are maybe not quite so physical or primal as the ones when they're little, but they're still real and some day when they all have their own homes and families I wonder which days I'll miss most and I just don't know 🤷‍♀️

    This is beautiful!

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    Do y'all miss your little kids?

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    2 hours ago, Condessa said:

    Absolutely.  I am so, so grateful that I get to do it again.  

    I remember feeling exactly this way when my youngest was a baby.  There are almost 3 years between youngest and the next oldest sibling and almost 9 years from oldest to youngest.  The feeling of gratitude for *getting* to do it one more time would bring me to tears. 

    Do y'all miss your little kids?

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    5 minutes ago, Harriet Vane said:

    I miss them and that stage terribly. I rejoice in the awesome adults they are now and I enjoy time with them enormously, but the most fun I have ever had in my life was raising them. 

    This is exactly how I feel.  

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    Do y'all miss your little kids?

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    Dh was working on deleting files off an old computer tonight and found a treasure trove of videos from when my college kids were littles.  Oh my heart.  Can that sort of longing be physical?  I think mine is.  I miss them at that age SO much.  😭

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    May 2023: What are you reading?

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    1 hour ago, historically accurate said:

    That's super cool! Happy Anniversary, by the way. 

     

    I didn't discover Anne until I read it aloud to my girls. I did love LM Montgomery's Emily of New Moon series when I was a kid.

    Thank you!

    If you haven't read her other novels (The Blue Castle and A Tangled Web are my favorites), you have much to look forward to!

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    May 2023: What are you reading?

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    On 5/29/2023 at 8:46 AM, historically accurate said:

     

    Going to start book 3 in Anne of Green Gables and whatever random audiobook I find at the library next. 

    Anne/ LM Montgomery is my favorite of all time.  Fun fact: dh and I went to PEI on our honeymoon 24 years ago this summer!

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    May 2023: What are you reading?

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    17 minutes ago, 4kidlets4me said:

     

    I also finished Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I absolutely loved this book even though I cried through the entire thing. There is a cafe where you can time travel but there are several rules you have to follow. You can only visit someone who has been to the cafe, there is only one seat in the cafe from which you can travel and it's occupied by a ghost for most of the day ( she only gets up once per day to use the bathroom), you have to remain in that seat the entire time, no matter what you do nothing will change the present, and you can only stay until the coffee gets cold. So after all those rules I was thinking who would do this? It's told over 4 interconnecting stories that are so beautiful and heartbreaking I never wanted it to end. 5 stars.

    I listened to this one and enjoyed it.  I believe there is a sequel, correct?

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    What is for dinner this week?

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    Well, only some of this MIGHT be what you're after (or could be modified to be), but it's one of my favorite recipe sources.  I picked these partially for myself and partially because I THINK my picky boys will eat some of them. 
     

    Meals 5/29-6/2

    https://www.budgetbytes.com/15-minute-vegetable-curry/

    https://www.budgetbytes.com/chicken-nachos/

    https://www.budgetbytes.com/skillet-cheeseburger-pasta/

    https://www.budgetbytes.com/one-pot-teriyaki-chicken-and-rice/
     

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