Fake, pre-lit (yeah it turned on again this year!) and a mishmash of ornaments collected/made over the years. Son with autism has his Darth Vader and Nightmare Before Christmas and Scooby Doo ornaments front and center. My folks always had fresh trees and Mom had color-coordinated ornaments to impress her lady's club. I prefer not worrying about a fire hazard, and having a mishmash tree that reflects all of our whims etc.

Christmas candy dish...and put chocolate in it :-) Amazon gift card.

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You fill it to the top of the crust, or as close as you can get without it spilling as you place in the oven. If the middle rises at all as it cooks, (it does puff a tad) it won't do so at sides, and will settle back down as it cools anyway. Libby can recipe fills a 9 inch pie pan lined with pie crust. I often find it easier to partially fill, then place pie in oven and then scrap the rest of the filling into it.

When we had twins and only hubby worked, a Mitsubishi Mirage. Then had another baby, and moved into a Dodge Caravan. After number four,and the van being totaled (hubby missed a stop sign, oops) got a longer Dodge minivan. Then added a second car - a sedan, for me. Meanwhile inherited one of my in-law's cars, a little old Ford Focus, after Mil passed. DS took it to college. Oldest DD drove longer minivan...until on a rainy day she went around a blind curve and could not stop in time to avoid hitting a car that had hit a stalled car. Then another car hit her, and sped off. Anyway, another totaled minivan. DD got her own car then, a Hyundai something or other sedan. Then FIl passes and hubby gets his old Ford Focus. So everyone who can drive has a car....until my sedan (hubby driving) is totaled (someone else ran a stop sign in front of us). Now I drive a Jeep Compass and hubby had a VW sedan. Note all these cars bought or inherited used. I like the Compass, I feel a bit higher up and safer than in a sedan, but it is less car than a minivan. So at most we had six people to transport, and had minivans. Now we no longer have all of us at once driving anywhere, so I can fit up to five in the Compass. Reading this, you'd think my family were Car Killers, we have totaled so many vehicles.

Got the tree up today (after finishing the dishes from yesterday). Oldest DD will met me at movie theratre tomorrow morning to get our Chris Hel..er, Thor fix since I have seen it and she hasn't. Then back here to put up more Xmas...and I need to get the turkey carcass cooking for broth.

probably a suit - he needs one, but won't spend money on himself. DDs agree, if I get him a suit then he HAS to either keep it or trade it in for one he does like (since he will wear it for years). Some of his suits are 30ish years old.

When I moved from S. Calif to Chicago for grad school, I erred on the side of too warm- sox liners, long underwear, most massive down coat Lands End carried. Now I have lived here over half my life. Haven't worn long underwear in years - jeans are fine as long as your feet and torso, head are covered and warm. Columbia has good fleece - go to the website, join (free) to get free shipping, and great GREAT discounts right NOW on quality warm stuff. I got myself more zip-up fleece "jackets" I wear inside this drafty old house - and any day 40 and up it is a jacket and all one needs outside, too. https://www.columbia.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Columbia_US-Site/en_US/Default-Start?did=columbia&ef_id=V@hRxgAAAClViTuM:20171124140346:s&eid=Google+Adwords+US&mid=paidsearch&nid=COL%7CBrand%7CBrand+Core%7CGoogle%7CExact%7CUS&oid=Brand+Core_General&s_kwcid=AL!3937!3!227526207825!e!!g!!columbia Lands End or LL Bean have good warm long coats - BUT most college kids do not dress as warm as, say, a commuter, so nothing too long. Packable down is far less bulky. Don't get too snug - she may want to fit a fleece jacket underneath on coldest days in January. She will need some sort of waterproof, warm boot with good tread for when it snows - my kids that age waterproof and run around in Uggs. Get a size larger than she usually wears - she wants to fit warm thick socks in there,m and have toe wiggle room. Helps keep toes warm. She may want to wait and see what roommate/other kids are wearing. Anything you get now that is judged by you as warm and good may not get worn if no one else there wears it too. Ask me how I learned this :-( She will most likely want texting gloves. She can pick up/order what else she needs once the first cold days hit. She needs to select her own hat(s) - and/or ear muffs. And scarves- soft wool or fleece. It can get cold running to class. Although odds are most kids will run around jackets open, no hat, etc. It is the age. I can't even get my kids to wear wool socks! But save money on long underwear unless she asks for it later. I wore long underwear my first winter here and was sweltering in class. She won't need it probably. Or have her pick out acceptable to her items on-line and save them in your cart to buy IF and WHEN she so requests them. Tell her to humor Mom and do so. Promise not to send the items unless she asks. And even then, tell her to tough it out a day or too to be sure she needs the items before you spend money on them. Believe me, she will pay attention to what the other students are wearing. If no one else is wearing a heavy coat or hat with ear flaps, she won't, either.

Dad passed on the Fourth of July and today I remember how he'd get up at the crack of dawn to get the huge turkey going in the electric oven (we ate at noon). He was also in charge of desserts, since he was a better baker than Mom ;-). I dedicate today's pumpkin pie (I cooked down real pie pumpkins for the filling, Dad!) to him.

Not my story, but SIL, and I can empathize. One year she was doing Thanksgiving for the entire extended family, and had procured a 25 lb bird. Frozen. She followed instructions to let it thaw in the fridge for several days....you know where this is going, don't you? Come Thanksgiving morning that bird was still rock hard frozen solid as a witch's cruel heart. SIl had to run out to the grocery store in a panic, praying there would be one fresh bird left in stock. There was - just not nearly big enough for the crowd gathering to eat that day. Oh well. I have NEVER attempted to fridge thaw a bird since her experience. Either buy fresh if I can, or stick the frozen bird in a cooler of water for 24 - 48 hours.

My bipolar kidlet was diagnosed as probable bipolar by the pediatric neurologist when child was about 4 or 5 and having rage attacks. He said bipolar was as common, in his experience, in kids as in adults, but often misdiagnosed or people don't want to "see it" in a child so young. Kid was on depakote for years as a mood stabilizer, until hair started to really curl - a sign that next it may fall out. Not a side effect we thought worth it. Anyway, kid later as an older teen went to another doc and went back on medication - friends had been telling them to do so.

I was going to post this, too. Great minds, etc. Definitely report this to the state licensing board. Unprofessional and unacceptable. Good Luck!

Thanksgiving and Easter are the only times I drag the boxes of my wedding china - it is really pretty! - up from the basement. Yes, I have to hand wash it and carefully get it put away but I love to see it. Creamy off-white with fine blue/gold trim. I used to get three uses a year out of it, but one year the girls bought me a full set of Christmas dishes from Target I now am obligated to use.

You could also cook some wild rice in the pot. Remove rice to cool. Rinse out liner pot. Then make white or brown rice. Use broth of your choice instead of water. Add some sauteed veggies/chopped pecans and favorite seasonings and the wild rice to the cooked brown or white rice and tada - pilaf. Do this today, nuke to reheat tomorrow. I'd do the cranberry sauce and pilaf. That, plus what you have and some green beans or broccoli, is a fine Thanksgiving meal.

I love doing mashed taters in my Pot. I also will do some rice (dd is bringing her insert pot over to use for the rice - yes, both my dds have Instant Pots now - since I do not want to mess with cleaning hot mashed taters out of the insert pot to reuse it for rice. I really need to get a second insert pot. I am making cranberry orange sauce today in the pot, too, as there are a lot of "how to" recipes on-line. Beats standing by the stove stirring for ten minutes.

They can know...but then also they need to know how much of that (to them) vast sum of money just waiting to be spent on fun and toys etc. has to go to housing costs, car upkeep and insurance, groceries, doctor bills (copays) and health insurance, clothing, etc.etc. Little kids I'd just say "enough to live on, take care of you, and save for vacation/old age etc.".

Why did they not have insurance? :-( That poor family!

Sweet taters are gross. Taters should not be sweet, precious. Cranberry sauce is gross. Eh, bleah. I only recently started eating stuffing. I can take or leave pumpkin pie. Picky me. But I do cook all the above for everyone else.

If you felt concerned enough to post here about it, that is your maternal instinct kicking in and reaching out. Do take it seriously. BTW has she been evaluated for possible bipolar? Yeah, I have one of those, too (not the same kid as depression kid).

Take it seriously - better to be safe than sorry (very sorry). One of mine at that age was put on antidepressants in part due to a couple failed attempts (!!!). You as a parent can feel deer in the headlights "this can't be happening" denial but so did the parents of kids who DID follow through and killed themselves. Get help from a mental help professional who deals with kids, not just the pediatrician.

This. First person to actually say they will BUY an item gets it. If they say this and do not come through with money within a few hours, I would ask if they still want it, if no response then let them know someone else is buying it if no response within whatever time frame you want.

Just have an alternative dessert, and warn the person that the one item was made with booze. Even if the alcohol is baked off, they may not wish to consume it. Err on the side of caution. I avoid even one rum ball at Christmas - so little alcohol, yet I can "feel" it and start getting sleepy. Sigh. Such a lightweight here.

If he enjoys beer, get a Mr. Beer beer-making kit. I did this over a decade ago for hubby, and he now is part of a local home brew club, makes his own beer/meads, and is far beyond Mr. Beer kit ;-) you never know what gift might become a life-long hobby. For his birthday this year I made him a binder with all his hand-written recipes gathered, placed in page protectors, and collated by types. I made a collage of various photos of him making beer over the years for the cover.

I agree with the above - quality tools (everyone needs the basics), kitchen wear, luggage. I'd hold off on electronics (tv etc) as stuff can go out of fashion/break after a couple years, and young adults may be particular (my 26-year-old never plugged in the flat screen in his room, he watches shows on his laptop, for example).

I think whatever device you get, use a engraving pen and write the person's name on it, maybe also with a Magic Marker, and if you can order it in a loud color, that helps too. Oh, and stickers of his/her fav characters. You are not only making sure the other residents know it is "Bill's" device, you are also making it look less enticing to any potentially sticky fingered aide. I have a bright blue Kindle Fire and nobody else here picks up Mom's Fire by accident. DS lives in a group home now (26-year-old with autism) and his iPad Air has his name engraved on it, also only I have the code to unlock restrictions and add/delete apps, also I preset the device to not allow porn etc. . He can't make any purchases since he doesn't have the passwords. I put all the icons for stuff that automatically came with the iPad that he won't use into a single small square on the first screen - all his apps are on the second screen and on. Now, the iPad is tied to the Cloud,and in Photos we both get copies of what the other has shot - I can see he likes to save images from the odd cakes and cookies he creates in certain kid baking apps, also he enjoys taking photos of himself and editing them to make him took like a pirate or monster etc. Plus he saves screenshots of Keira KNightly he finds on YouTube so I know who his crush is ;-) Now, Joe can handle his iPad fine. His XBox 360 and his one game he likes to play is more of a problem. While he was at home I could turn it on and get the game going for him, and peeking in his room periodically see if he was stuck and in need of help. Since I am half an hour away now, I have taken tons of photos (with my iPad) of all the screen images of turning on the game, saving, etc. I took photos of the controller, with little white arrows pointing to individual buttons, and made 4x6 photos at Walgreens. I cut and pasted photos, and wrote in large, simple words, how to turn the XBox on, how to load the game and what to do as each start screen came up, etc. Each page went into a plastic page sleeve and into a small binder. Joe now can flip through pages to SEE how to save the game, or select and load, etc. You could make a simple cheat sheet booklet like this to help your person know how to turn on, turn off, select, pause, etc. whatever you put on his device. I also wrote out a page of how to reboot Joe's iPad - in case his aides have to help him. But his iPad would be hard to "borrow" and use since I have the passcodes etc. When I ordered it (used, refurbished) from Apple I got it engraved "Joe's Precious" on the back. You could also look for refurbished older models of whatever device you get - less $ to lose should something happen to it, or the person simply be unable to use it. Good luck! Oh, and I almost got this for my Dad (but he passed from Alzheimers before I could manage it) look for this on Amazon. The Simple Music Player - MP3 music box for Alzheimer's and dementia. Joe is still able to access his watchlist of videos at Amazon and his shows/films under his profile at Netflix as I still have his iPad logged onto my account. How you manage this at your person's facility will depend on whether or not they even have internet wifi there for the residents. Not everyplace does. Find this out first!!!! What you load onto the device before handing it over depends on wifi there. You could preload a lot of simple fun games, puzzles, etc. but nothing that requires wifi if it won't be available. Then when there, make sure the device is logged on to the wifi. Otherwise you will need to periodically take the device elsewhere to update it, or add more apps, etc.