My goldens would be miserable without a fenced yard. They seem to need a lot of outdoor time.

Several of my physician friends are very concerned about it and watching the European data closely.

Several of my physician friends are very concerned about it and watching the European data closely.

My kids wouldn’t understand this at all, but they are 11, 9 and 6. I turned 40 last fall and I get it, but my kids would never not celebrate it.

My grandfather always had hounds. It was the one thing my grandmother never forgave him for. She’d have much preferred a different(less attention needy) type of dog.

I suspect that is what is happening here too. At first the doctors kept saying it was just recirculating or the patient hadn’t really ever gotten over Covid; but a lot of people here test for work and other reasons, and many had negative Covid tests in between positive ones, and no symptoms those weeks. I am really hoping this last bout gives people some immunity for a while.

I want to believe that we aren’t having Covid relapses and that we can’t just catch it every couple weeks—but this scenario is minicking what’s coming into the ER right now.

I think that particular SIL in that particular situation is stirring the pot. I also would think a 14 year old and 7 year old cousins, especially being opposite gender, being that close is unusual and, yes, a little weird. It wouldn’t matter if the 7 year old was a boy and the 14 year old was a girl. I don’t think your son is inappropriate at all, but I can see where it might make someone uncomfortable and that it’s weird. My DD9 is spending the night at my parents house with my nephew who is 11. That’s a close enough age bracket and they play Minecraft together. If it was dear niece 13 wanting to always hang out with my 6 year old son, I’d think it was a little weird and be around to supervise. So I guess I kind of see where everyone is coming from in this situation.

I’m not a huge fan of TGTB for math or language arts, but I did like their science. In fact my kids are in public school now but we continue to do TGTB science for fun.

If they like virtual reality/3D/4D rides, then yes. DS11 adored the Transformers ride lol. We rode it like 8 times. There’s a lot that’s not Harry Potter.

You can also get one night at a premier hotel, whether you actually stay there or not, and get two days of express passes for both people. When I went in October those express passes made our trip. I am taking DS6 to Disneyworld in February. We are doing one day each at Magic kingdom, Epcot, then Hollywood Studios before heading to my sister’s house. I am debating on spending a day at Universal and flying back a day late. I have an annual pass now and so I’d just have to get him a ticket. I don’t know if it’s better to hold off though because Universal feels geared towards older kids to me.

If you can swing it, I’d stay at a premier Universal hotel just for the complimentary express passes at Universal. Those made our Universal trip last October amazing. We stayed at Hard Rock, but you can hotel hop. Your key cards work at all the universal hotel pools. Dockside and Cabana Bay both have amazing pool set ups. We spent an afternoon just hotel hopping. Our flight got delayed and it was cheaper to buy annual passes at that point than to add on another day. So now I’ve got annual passes and really want to go back. I really love Orlando. My sister’s husband PCS’s out of Florida in July and I literally don’t know how I’m going to manage, because I’ve been going down four or five times a year lol.

We have test to stay too. Except if the child is fully vaccinated. So my youngest could go to school all week even though he was in a household with 3 Covid positive people and no isolation measures being taken at home(Dad still has to work and the six year old can’t take care of himself, plus it’s a small house). With no testing. Masking is 100%. I tested him every morning anyway, but NYS, which I thought had been reasonably cautious the last two years, has given up.

I. Don’t. Care. About. Bruno. (I’ve had to limit viewings to twice a day during my kids’ quarantine the last week. I am losing my mind.)

https://fortune.com/2022/01/21/what-is-stealth-omicron-new-covid-variant-substrain-denmark/amp/ I’ve been watching this for a couple of days thanks to some doctor friends and one of my favorite doctors on Tiktok covered it today(tifftastic75). It is—very concerning as far as transmissibility. I know everyone talks about decreased hospitalizations and that’s great, but something mild that’s more transmissible than Omicron is serious stuff.

The same here, and the kids sit six feet apart at least to eat. But they ended contact tracing and insist there’s no school spread.

Yes, I was, and frankly I still am. I’m the first to say Covid sucks and we’re dealing with it right now. But my kids are 11, 9 and 6. The 6-year-old doesn’t remember prepandemic life. There are going to be more variants. Long lasting Immunity seems unlikely at this point. While I don’t live in the most Covid cautious place, masking is required indoors, school and church is 100% masked, and my kids are vaccinated—and they still caught it and it’s still swept through the area, even among all my HCW friends who mostly are boostered and everyone is vaxxed at the very least. Most of us had Covid in 2020. And we all still got it again. I’m not getting boosters every five months or isolating. Once we are done with Covid this time, we’re going back to life as it was and accepting that the Covid risk is always going to be there. In fact the two kids are that have been 48 hours symptom free and off quarantine are having a cousin overnight tonight. They haven’t seen each other physically more than a few minutes here and there, and both sets of cousins have had Covid in the last six weeks and my mom wants all of them for a night before she goes back to full time caregiving for my grandmother, so I’m allowing it(the third child has symptoms yesterday so he is staying home). Two years is going to just as easily stretch to 3 and 4. i get that this may be an unpopular opinion, but everyone has their own risk assessment and this is ours.

Anna Maria Island, Florida. It is my favorite place on earth. I’m trying to convince my investor dad to buy some condos on the island as a real estate investment and hire me as the property manager, but DH won’t move and Dad doesn’t want to invest in travel related industries until it’s clearer what long term impacts Covid will have. So here I am where it’s -22 degrees tonight.

Two of my dogs have been sneezing this week and sleeping more than normal. I wonder if we gave them Covid. Even if we pass it back and forth I’m not killing them, so maybe we’re just stuck with Covid now for a while.

I don’t really think it’s strep. My in laws with Covid have had bad sore throats too. I think it’s this stupid virus. I just wondered if people were seeing a similar increase of symptoms around the 9-10 day mark like we did with Delta.

Hive mind: I had Covid almost a week and a half ago. Other than enduring fatigue and short of breath on exertion I have felt fine for about a week now. I went back to work last night, had a fairly easy night(except for the unvaccinated elderly gentlemen who doesn’t believe in Covid even with an oxygen sat of 82 and a positive test), came home and immediately fell asleep. Woke up with a sore throat, 101.5 degree fever and body aches. DS1 has a positive test and maybe an hour of a sore throat on Saturday. He just came in and told me his throat is really sore, he hurts everywhere and just wants to go to bed. Anyone else hearing similar symptoms patterns? I am wondering if I somehow got reinfected or if it’s just kept percolating inside. I did test negative yesterday on a RAT before work.

They do count. I am tired of people in my life saying “but at least you’re not hospitalized.” Yes, I am thrilled that neither my children or I or any number of my friends and family who caught Covid in the last few weeks are hospitalized. But hospitalizations and deaths, while super important, are not the whole story. One of my healthy coworkers is still having severe fatigue and shortness of breath three weeks later. Vaxxed and boostered. My kids are out of school with Covid; my oldest is really struggling mental health wise between Covid anxiety and being out of routine. My friend has been out two weeks between her Covid quarantine and then her kids caught it—she’s a special education teacher and her students are also struggling with not having their regular teacher. My mother in law hasn’t been able to get out of bed in three days and can’t eat. Everyone of these cases is in a fully vaccinated person. Even mild cases have long lasting effects, physically, emotionally, financially, socially, and I think it’s perfectly okay to be angry about the situation. You can be grateful no one has a severe case due to the vaccination and angry that Covid is still circulating, still disruptive, and it’s looking more and more like we just learn to live with it. It’s okay to wish we were back in spring of 2021 when it really looked like we’d be able to halt the spread through vaccination.

I’m 40 and I fully admit to still hiding in the bathroom with a book. We also have a small house, five people, more books than square feet, and one bathroom, so I get it. I’d try really hard to get down to the matter of what’s going on. If it’s really work avoidance, I’d just add on more chores, like the drying dishes; if it’s teenage rebellion, I’d probably ignore it; if it’s unmet needs I’d try to figure those out and meet them. I was a homeschooled teen who read for hours and hours a day. I now realize I was lonely and used books to disassociate from my feelings, much as I use my phone now. It’s not healthy, but I had no one that would have realized what was going on. I don’t know if that might be happening, but I thought it might be worth mentioning.

My mom is not vaccinated and has had at least eight exposures that we know of. She has never gotten sick. I wish she’d get vaxxed, but I doubt she will until she actually catches Covid and believes she’s not actually immune. My kids spent all day Saturday at her house and then DD tested positive for Covid on Sunday, and all eight exposures have been similar, prolonged exposures. It wouldn’t surprise me if some people are just genetically predisposed to not get it.

I ordered, mostly because I expect the collapse of the website soon.