They cook it long enough that the fat dissolves, the way it does in a pot roast, and you just poke it with a fork and the meat falls off. They serve it on the bone and the consumer does the poking at the table. The meat comes apart and I stir it into the peas and rice with lots of gravy, and then eat it altogether. Then I fall into the most delightful food coma.

I eat it stewed with peas and rice, and veg from the Jamaican restaurant near my house. This recipe is highly rated and looks good, but I've never cooked it. https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails/

Your son was beautiful and your honored him so beautifully. Thank you for sharing.

I am so sorry you are dealing with this, but maybe it will lead to answers. I am praying you find them!

Just to be clear, I need to fit 3 passengers, and a driver and the bass. So 4 people. I'm going to stuff the bass gig bag with laundry and take that because I am having visions of some car salesman trying to force a door closed or something. I'm pretty sure it is the second most expensive thing our family owns, with our house as the first.

I have had success with setting a stop watch, and just starting it whenever the whining starts, and then stopping it when it stops. Sometimes the visual brings home how much time is being wasted, and is enough, and sometimes there needs to be a consequence tied to it. Being able to say "You spent 2 hours 13 minutes complaining today. If you hadn't complained, we would have finished at 1:27, instead of now at 3:40" can help kids see the problem.

I drive a Mazda 5. We can fit the bass, but not the bass and back seat passengers, and even without the bass, the backseat is a tight fit for my oldest, and will be soon for my youngest (the one whose pediatrician expects him to be like 6'6"). If I need to carry the bass and more than 2 people, or a person who can't sit in the front seat, then I borrow someone else's vehicle, but the vehicles I borrow are both bigger and more expensive than I want.

I do not know what we will end up with, but I can't imagine that rain and cold like that were good for his instrument. I think I will cross convertible off the list.

Yeah, I have to agree.

We will need to parallel park it frequently. I think trailers are for people with driveways.

Can your DS sit in the back of a Odyssey? It's hard to know how tall my kids will end up. My pediatrician says that my youngest will likely be around 6'6", but he has a lot of growing to do to get there. We keep our cars a long time, so this is almost certainly the car he'll learn to drive on. I think we need to be able to fit the bass with three passengers. I don't think a fencing bag is as long as a bass.

The name sounds so horrible, but it's just an inflammation of the growth plate in the heel, pretty common in kids who are having growth spurts and play jumping/running/high impact sport. I am trying to figure out what this looks like over time. How did you treat it? How much time off their sports did your kid need?

Able to carry a double bass, and backseat passengers at the same time Accommodates very tall drivers, and passengers, including backseat passengers. Not crazy expensive Not a Kia or a Hyundai, since in my area those get stolen all the frigging time. Not a plug in electric, because we have street parking. Suggestions? What should I look at?

I am so glad your little grandson is bring you joy. In my humble opinion, that toddling phase is the very cutest, although also one of the most exhausting phases of parenting. Hopefully your daughter finds it so exhausting she needs lots of babysitting help!!! In our extended family we have a 10 month old who has just learned to stand in her own feet and wiggle her bottom in time to music for a little while before plopping into her diaper, that is a close second to toddling for cuteness.

Not using a graphing calculator because you do the graphing by hand is very different from not using a graphing calculator because you uploaded a photo of the problem into Easymath or another math app. I am guessing you and your kids don’t do the latter.