Clarita
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My friend had horrible nausea during all 9 months of all her pregnancies. She had the medications and would also suggest ginger soda - the fizzies help the nausea too. I've heard of the diarrhea thing can be normal too. There just isn't a lot of space left for "normal" digestion and bowel stuff. Just make sure to keep eating well and lots of small heathy snack/meals instead of the normal 3 big meals. This is TMI but on my last 2 months of pregnancy I just wore the heavy maxi pads to help contain all my toileting issues.
Also wear a mask if she can handle it (not for COVID necessarily), but just to tone down the smells around her. Or if it doesn't also make her gag menthol (like Vicks VapoRub) just sniff it when the nausea comes on - it's what my mom suggested for me, but for me it wasn't so much nausea and more like there is no place for my food to digest so it would come up without warning.
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I can't have cut flowers at my house because my cat decapitates them and it's a mess.
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8 hours ago, Servant4Christ said:
I looked at this and honestly that much color would be very distracting for my boys.
If you get a curriculum with no bells and whistles you can still buy the "storybooks" for AAR separately. For our family those stories are magic, my kid will read them on his own.
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5 hours ago, Arcadia said:
”SAN FRANCISCO & DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and General Motors (GM) today announced a breakthrough collaboration to pilot the use of GM electric vehicles (EVs) as on-demand power sources for homes in PG&E’s service area.
That would be helpful. We actually ended up getting Tesla power walls, after we dealt with one consecutive 4-day outage. It actually worked out really well for us because Tesla is trying to start a program where I can helps supply my neighbors during a power outage and "they" will pay me. Add it helps us reduce our electricity costs. We are so very lucky we have enough to be able to afford the up-front costs.
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I've seen people sell curriculum stuff on Facebook marketplace for local porch pick up only.
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Gosh I sure hope our fire department knows how to handle solar panels. They are all over my neighborhood, especially after the electric power company decided that instead of working harder to fix/provide maintenance to our power lines they will just shut off power when there is a risk of fires.
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I started making my Quinoa with chicken broth instead of water. Totally elevates the Quinoa, I totally overeat Quinoa now.
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2 hours ago, mommyoffive said:
But it only goes like 30 some miles on the battery right and then switches to gas for the rest of the ride correct?
Yes, it's usually about 30-35miles for me. That really gets me to all the places I need to go. I mean if you start going downhill for a while regenerative braking stuff can charge your batteries a bit.
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2 hours ago, katilac said:
Dang, my hypothetical grandbabies gonna be sleeping on the floor.
I saw a pinterest where people convert this thing into a book nook when the kids are toddlers. I mean I suppose you'd have to when you spend that much on a play/sleep thingy. It is cheaper than the bassinet that rocks your baby for you.
I ended up using a free Graco pack n play.
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3 hours ago, TravelingChris said:
It is for when my DIL visits with baby or both DS, DDIL and baby visit. I can't take care of the baby by myself because he is already too heavy for me to pick up as it is. Without my neck surgery, I am unable to pick up more than 10lbs,. and I don't think I can schedule my neck surgery until fall.
In this case I highly suggest the more like a play yard fence thing like @City Mouse suggested. For sleep (if money is no object, because you can probably find a Graco pack n play for free), Amazon.com : Lotus Travel Crib - Backpack Portable, Lightweight, Easy to Pack Play-Yard with Comfortable Mattress - Certified Baby Safe : Lotus Bed : Baby so you can just unzip the side and the baby can come out all by him/herself.
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You do lose the stow away seat capability for the middle row, and it can only be a 7-seater. I forgot if the pure gas Chrysler can be an 8-seater, but then that one can stow-away the middle row. Oh and they advertised that 3 car seats can fit in the back row, while that's technically true, I've tried it and it's not easy and you do have to have at least 2 skinnier car seats.
Sorry I looked at Toyota, Honda and Chrysler when we got out mini-van and some of the features that don't matter to me blended together. (8 vs 7 seats was one of those features)
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1 hour ago, mommyoffive said:
I thought the Chrysler was a full electric, but I just looked again and it is a plug in hybrid.
The Chrysler is a parallel hybrid (I'm not sure if that's the technical term). Meaning it can use solely the electric engine or the gas engine. The car will use only the electric engine until I run out of batteries or I need more power (rarely happens, usually I'm going up a steep hill and I'm low on batteries). However every few months it will run the gas engine for a bit for maintenance 1) to use up the gas in your tank and 2) to run the engine.
Other hybrids are serial. Meaning the gas engine charges the battery to power the electric engine, so the gas engine is nearly always on, unless the car is 100% charged I suppose.
Parallel type must be plug-in but the serial type can be either plug-in or not.
It's the car I have and yes I'm always a little bummed when it switches to the gas engine because the electric engine runs smoother and quieter.
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I had something like this for my kids and it worked fine. Amazon.com : Graco DuoDiner LX High Chair, Converts to Dining Booster Seat, Metropolis : Childrens Highchairs : Baby
At around 2 or so I converted them to a booster. Amazon.com : OXO Tot Nest Booster Seat with Removable Cushion, Gray : Baby
That is going to last my kids until they are ready to just be in a chair. (I let my kids choose so at around 4-5 ish they start choosing between chair and the booster.)
If I had to go back I could get Amazon.com : Tripp Trapp High Chair from Stokke, Storm Grey - Adjustable, Convertible Chair for Children & Adults - Includes Baby Set with Removable Harness for Ages 6-36 Months - Ergonomic & Classic Design : Baby instead of the Graco. My friend had one and I like that you could just use it with your dining table. I think her baby started that at around 6months.
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So the play yard/sleep yard thing is only useful for sleeping. It's way too small for playing except for a newborn.
Technically you shouldn't keep a baby in the carrier for long periods of time. It's not good for physical development. It's not going to kill the baby if you do it once in a while out of convenience, but if the baby stays with you routinely you do not want to be keeping the baby in the carrier for their nap times every time.
For playing I would consider using baby gates to either block places you don't want the baby to get to or to sort of corral the baby. FWIW though by 1 years old I had to remove the baby gate for my eldest. He was climbing them and figuring out how to dismantle them. I think I could have used the baby gate things for my youngest until she was 15-18months.
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2 hours ago, KSera said:
How is that?
No real reason. It's just a random statement that as of today it'n not a huge difference whether you choose to buy a new EV or a new ICE. Pick a car you like. In the future I have no idea where technology will be. Maybe those technologies will mean there's a huge difference then.
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1 hour ago, Pam in CT said:
I don't really understand this.
(Some) folks on WTM enthuse constantly about InstaPots or crock pots, or coupon apps, or Soda Streams or garden implements or etc. It is natural, for people who really appreciate an item they use frequently, to expound often about its merits.
Is that kind of enthusiasm "High Horse Look How Whole Foods Attentive I Am" or "High Horse Look How Frugally Clever I am"?
Or is the assessment that it's High Horse lookameeeee limited to environmental consciousness?
It's not just an "I love my car it's a great car enthusiasm". I have met people who spoke as if they were saving the world because they bought a new car. How dare someone else still be driving an old Civic that runs on gas. I guess it's just don't make environmental impact the reason you buy a gas car vs an electric vehicle. Pick a car that works for you. Maybe 100 years from now it will be an environmental impact change but not today.
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A lot of the things @matrips discussed is factors to consider before getting on the high horse of "I own an EV look how environmentally friendly I am".
1 hour ago, matrips said:Einstein's formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.
This part I disagree with. There is an efficiency difference between an electric engine vs. an internal combustion engine. Since internal combustion engine is less efficient than an electric engine, the actual energy it takes to really move a 5000 lb car is more for a gas car vs. an electric car. You can tell this because a gas powered vehicle is warmer than an electric vehicle. "Lost" energy is lost as heat.
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40 minutes ago, Tanaqui said:
Friendship is balanced, or at least has the potential to be. Friends meet your needs in some way. I can't ask that of my kids.
I think I like this explanation the best to describe the difference between being a true friend with your child vs. being a parent.
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2 hours ago, Catwoman said:
Why shouldn’t a parent try to be their kid’s friend? Why can’t you be both a parent and a friend?
You can be both but focus on being a parent first. My mom was my friend during my high school years, but she was always first and foremost my mom. And her being first and foremost my mom is what made us friends, not because she did fun teenage things with me.
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1 minute ago, TechWife said:
One safety tip - make sure to talk to the parents of kids living nearby- tell them they must watch for your car because it doesn’t make noise and the might not know it’s coming so they must look carefully.
I think the cars do emit some generated noise so animals know to avoid them but somehow people just don't avoid a giant vehicle if it's not emitting heat and much louder engine noise. I literally have people walk into my mini-van in broad daylight.
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In general, the answer is very complicated and even more so if you are talking about at the present. In the future, who knows where technology will be. All this and we wouldn't have even scratched the surface of the human sacrifice involved in the mining of materials, obtaining and distribution of materials for gas powered or electric vehicles.
The excitement of EV's come a lot from their potential.
1) Internal combustion engines are quite inefficient and has a low theoretical limit (I want to say somewhere < 50%). (I did not study combustion engines, so this is a statement I read in a textbook/lecture.). Electric motors theoretically can be much higher into the 90%+ (I mean if we were in a perfect world perhaps 100%). I tried to look this up but there is a lot of biased data out there so...
2) With an internal combustion engine, you are always going to have internal combustion pollution, no matter what technology you come up with on the mining, distribution, refining end to make it environment and humane. For an electric vehicle, the vehicle itself runs clean so theoretically if you can clean up the generation of electricity it could run pollution-free. So, there's a potential there.
We love our EV, and our hybrid vehicle. We love how they operate as cars. I did not think about their environmental impact, because I don't think the technologies are really in place that makes an electrical vehicle a hands-down winner in terms of positive environmental impact. When I'm talking to someone about why they may want an electric vehicle it's that you don't have to visit a gas station (or visit it much less in the case of the hybrid). In our day to day lives I come home with my car plug it in and the next day it's ready to take us where we need to go. For our hybrid mini-van, I have to visit the gas station every 2 months or so and I don't even fill it up all the way. (It cycles through the gas if I don't use the gas engine).
My expertise is I studied electrical engineering specifically power electronics and energy systems for my masters. Sometime in there I did learn how to make an electric vehicle go, but that's not what I ever did for work. I've worked with people who know how battery technology works but that person is really not me.
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Actually funny enough she ended up with big brother's hand me down work. Big brother realized she likes coloring so whenever his work has a coloring component he'd give that part to her and he would call it teamwork. She's thrilled and he's thrilled.
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36 minutes ago, cabercro said:
Singapore feels like what I think "good conceptual teaching" is supposed to look like, but is it mostly workbook based? Is there a script like in AAR?
I can only speak for kindergarten level of Singapore. Singapore has a much looser script than AAR. It just tells you key words and phrases to use. The hands on/games part is trickier in Singapore. It does give you hands on activities and games but those are in the home instructor's guide or in Earlybird kindergarten in a small box at the bottom of the textbook. Definitely, if you didn't look for it or didn't get the guide it would be purely workbook stuff and it wouldn't be as glaring that you totally missed a piece of it.
Unlike AAR you do have to get some extra manipulatives yourself for some of the hands on stuff. The hands on games stuff to me actually teach concepts and let kids explore the topic that we are doing. They aren't just a different way of doing flashcards. There isn't explicit review throughout the curriculum. There is only review in that you will use some concepts again in the next level of concept. Like to add you will review counting, or you review counting again because you are learning how to use a calendar. It isn't explicit though so for instance we went over shapes in one chapter and for the rest of kindergarten never mentioned them again.
I can't really compare to other math programs because we started with it and it absolutely jives with me and my kids. The lack of explicit review doesn't bother me because we are a STEM family and use a lot of math concepts in our daily life so my kids get review that way.
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6 hours ago, KrissiK said:
So…. here’s my question…. I need recs for open-and-go, minimal moving pieces and very easy to use phonics/reading curriculum. And it has to be secular. I have Explode the Code on my list. Anything else??
Our charter suggests AAR. The teacher's manual and the cards the school reuses, the letter tiles and the student activity book they treat as consumables. I'm not sure what would need to be laminated, nothing is laminated, nor have I laminated anything using that curriculum.
Based on the things they offered me in the beginning, I'd say choose curriculum where if they just flip to the next page and do it consistently, they'll get somewhere.
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Am I being unreasonable?
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Just reading the first post, I would suggest getting a quote. The contractor should be able to give you an estimate a time and cost (perhaps minus materials). Then, you both can be making an informed decision on this. In terms of an "outhouse" be sure to also check out "pre-fab" stuff like Tuff Shed or something; sometimes the way those work out it could be cheaper than DIY (for the same end product).
As a warning, when we've priced these projects out it has gone either way. There have been a few projects that after the quote we've decided to DIY. Other projects where after getting the money cost we discovered it was cheaper (even money-wise) to have a professional do it. And still other times where we've actually done "halfsies" we do some part and the contractor does some part.