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  1. I forgot to add--if you set up an amazon wish list---be sure to add cheap duffles or whatever you need for carrying, but set your limits on the number of items requested to what you think you'll be able to carry. If you know you can only take 3 bags, then you know you likely can't take 200 dolls, iykwim.
  2. Ds's laptop has died. 😞 We've had a pox of things breaking ever since dh was laid off and I'm so over it.
  3. Youngest placed foam valentine's day stickers in all of the hidden places in their shared room. Why? Where did they get the stickers from? I've given them a bottle of rubbing alcohol and tools from removal, but it's coming off one tiny flake at a time. Hopefully there will not be a repeat of this kind of behavior. I really had thought they'd grown past this.
  4. It's not you, it's them. You're in the worst intersection of people--a mix of the "Buy Nothing" crowd with the flakiness of Facebook Marketplace. People often view requests for aid for charitable organizations as an opportunity to rid themselves of the junk they don't want rather than an opportunity to meet the needs of the organization. If I were you, I'd set up an amazon wishlist, with it being delivered to your home, and you can take things across as you'd like. Request the specific socks, hats, dolls, etc. that you need. It's much easier to give in that way, and you'll get the items that you need. (And, as a giver, it's much easier to order a gross (144) of squishies or toothbrushes or whatever that way.)
  5. We are at the “hunt for all of the missing chargers” phase of room cleanup.
  6. ✅breakfast ✅dishes ✅finances ✅laundry ✅spring break tackle: girls’ room—wardrobe sort, deep cleaning ✅help younger ds with admin tasks + graduation checklist of projects ask older ds about his graduation tickets + job stuff ✅help kid4 prep laundry + daypack for next competition and price out plane tickets for if they qualify for world
  7. I was in Dollar Tree yesterday. Many things were still $1.25, but there were several that were higher…nearly all food items, and a lot of the cleaning stuff. Dollar Tree is a good deal here only for a limited number of things; price per ounce calculations show most things are more expensive than at regular grocery stores.
  8. Honestly, if he’s not cooperative at all and not moving much, embrace the hospital time because you have someone else to help with toileting and pain management and receiving the brunt on his grumpiness. Buy a treat for the nurse’s station, apologize that your dad is being a PITA, and ask for insight. He needs to get up and moving, the end. It’s going to hurt and he needs to embrace the suck if he wants to go home. I was blunt and said, “You can either choose to lie in bed and die, or you can get your (self) up and get moving again, but if you dont get up and going soon you are going to have more problems that you cant fix than you have now.” I do wonder about infection, depression, etc. but it sounds more like he is being stubborn.
  9. Ps—I am not so wild about the shot if you dont need it. It’s a higher dose of steroids and while it can be awesome at avoiding pneumonia, etc. it can really jack some people up emotionally. Try an inhaler first, iykwim.
  10. Yep, urgent care can prescribe inhalers and listen to her lungs. A wet junky cough sounds different than a crackly asthma cough in the lungs. It’s not always so obvious just hearing it from the outside.
  11. Have you ruled out allergy induced asthma? There are some people who have cough variant asthma who really only have flareups around illness or peak pollen times. The cough resolves if you give a bit of albuterol because the underlying problem is inflammation in the airways.
  12. 1 is actually where my endocrinologist tries to keep me....he would be thrilled with a 1.0-1.9 result for me. The "bad" number of thyroid is the higher that you go. Anything over 3 warrants treatment. You would be hyperthyroid (too much hormone) if your T4 was low and your T3 is high and you were losing weight, more depressed than your usual baseline, tremors, diarrhea, or certain eye issues. If you're feeling more tired than usual, I would be looking at your iron levels (including ferritin), your D3 levels, and your B levels...as well as your overall mental functioning level (more depressed = more tired for most).
  13. I wonder, @Kassia, if you might find it easier and helpful just to have a makeup artist do your makeup the day of the wedding. It’s quite affordable, especially as they provide most/all the products.
  14. Glad you got to heat up for a bit and run the dishwasher. When we had our big storm in January we continued to have trees come down and take out powerlines for several days.
  15. You can go crazy too—purple, navy, burgundy and green work also. Lean away from beige + beige. Bone can be lovely for a classy look—but embracing color usually looks better.
  16. Imo, I would assume that part of what you are seeing is some 2E jaggedness. Weird gaps kind of define 2E. It seems like part of your anxiety is around what happens if you exit the picture of his life. With regards to what educational notes to leave friends/family, I would just say “areas of concern in math—keep an eye on a possible dyscalculia diagnosis”. And then I’d let that particular concern go. My health has been tenuous for about a decade now, so please believe me that I very much understand the worry and the understanding that you are very uniquely qualified to help your kid in a way that most people cant…..but I will also share that I put my dyscalcic kid in school in 2018 precisely because my health was tenuous and wanted to do the transition then, just in case, and my kid has been surprisingly ok. He graduates this year. As to how to move forward in educating the kid in front of you, assume dyscalculia at this point. Keep things very concrete right now and as that becomes stronger, then work on building symbolic notation. The strength of singapore math compared to most US curricula is that it is very good at spending longer in concrete and building up to symbolic. Whether or not you use that program, I would be pulling out ten frame work, and I would be planning on using bar charts and all of those wonderful teaching constructs from the program in the future. Cuisenaire work is also fantastic. The Miquon workbooks are inexpensive. Look at the sample pages for more ideas on things you can do with rods. CSMP is another fantastic suggestion. (We used it as a supplement around other stuff.) My 2E kids were bored by MUS in early elementary, and MUS does not do enough with measures, money, or time. I found it helpful to do 3 short bursts of math (20 min) through the homeschool day with young kids. Two of those would be very hands on/active work. We swatted answers on index cards with a fly swatter, hopped on taped answers on the floor to skip count, built and measured all kinds of things, lugged around all kinds of quantities of things, snapped together linking cubes, and did a lot of chocolate chip math. I did a lot of practical world problems that needed solving that took concepts from the book and then became dinner (6 baby carrots per person x 6 people). The more that I could build connections for my dyscalcic kid, the better. I am fairly convinced he only eventually understood coins because he was highly motivated to buy treats from my homemade store. If patterns are currently hard, start with colors or shapes and then move to numbers. You may see a weird gap there.
  17. Try looking at ethnic foods—Indian food and Mexican food are two genres that dont use a lot of those allergy ingredients. I’d also take a peek at vegan cookbooks. I cant do soy either, but I find a lot of recipes that still work.
  18. Do you think the gap is in symbolic thinking? What happens if you go very concrete? If you put two cookies on one plate and three on another plate, can he tell you which has more cookies? My kid at 5-6 really needed hands on concrete things. The number symbol representation thing was shaky….but he could consistently do math with chocolate chips, lego toys, or other things he cared about and touched with his hands. Balance scales and abacuses were a stretch for him for a while.
  19. Easter week grocery sales are awesome this year. We bought a lot of favorite things at 50% off.
  20. I have some lifting restrictions, so I have to shop when dh or the kids can carry grocery bags for me. It’s been this way for about a decade now. Dh took shopping over entirely for a while during covid, but I like getting to go, so it’s a bit of time together. The stores we go to generally dont have stuff sold out anymore, but back when that was more of a problem, we’d go shopping early in the morning on a weekday. There’s a strong sleep in on weekends vibe here in the PNW—traffic is generally light on weekends until after lunch.
  21. I use my inner Crowley also. My tomato seedlings are doing well, and most of my others are well. Last year I was able to start a ton of zinnias indoors which gave us a jump start on pollination of my tomatoes, but this year I am really struggling to get my zinnias to germinate. I think my house may be too cold. We are starting to taper off on our rain, so hopefully we can start seeding directly soon. My blueberries, raspberries, gooseberries, apple trees, peach tree and cherry tree are all leafing out.
  22. We all slept in today. I need to go grocery shopping and do a bunch of food prep today.
  23. I think you’d be wise to rule out more serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular stuff—but, yeah, I went through a stint of dysautonomia for a while. It’s not uncommon if you have Sjogren’s or lupus or other AI disease. For me, I wear compression stuff on my legs when I am going through an unstable period, have given up caffeine, eat very clean (to keep blood sugars stable), get regular exercise, and do a few other things. Perimenopause has been terrible for me….hormonal instability in general tends to be a trigger.
  24. If you ever write a book, this story needs to make it in.
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