Small glass mason jars with the plastic lids.

I honestly have no idea. I can only trace back to great great grandparents that were just poor farmers around 1900. I have 0 idea about family past that.

Having to watch adults make terrible decisions, over and over, is so hard, You can offer to make budgets, to teach low cost recipes, to physically hold the money for them each week so they don’t spend it, but you can’t make them do it. It’s a struggle and just the true definition of frustration.

I agree. Kids don’t understand things like different wages, job promotions or any of that. My kiddo keeps asking whyDad doesn’t get job where we are (we tried, there is nothing), why Daddy doesn’t just keep not working (because to her mind that’s been just fine for several months so why not forever), and why I don’t just work instead, (I wouldn’t make nearly as much as Daddy and wouldn’t be able to pay the bills).

My oldest and youngest are close. My older and middle were close when they were both younger but have grown apart recently. I’m guessing they’ll be close again once the oldest moves out and matures a bit.

My kids are each 6 years apart from one another. Not even once did I consider having another one quickly so they could have a close in age sibling. I just go out of my way to ensure time with similar age friends. A close in age sibling is no guarantee of friendship or a playmate or that they’ll even like each other.

100% this.

We’re in the middle of a move that no one wants because of an absolutely necessary job change that is not optional and the whole thing is really hard on my little Bluey fan in particular. Now I have to scramble to protect her from this episode because there will be no last minute reprieve and I can’t have her secretly dreaming of that possibility. I’m honestly pretty ticked about it because it’s so unnecessary. There are a million other story lines, why this one?

Yes! That’s what it was.

I grew up with Word and find the Google Office suite very similar. The Google Docs, sheets, slides, etc. are basically scaled down version of Word, Excel and Power Point. I used Google Docs easily all through finishing my degree a few years ago, every teacher was able to accept a .pdf version as easily as a .doc. Excel was needed for statistics and a couple of other statistics heavy classes, and it had to be Excel not Sheets, but it’s not hard to switch back and forth and Sheets works fine for basic tables or organizing information. I do think a lot of kids now use Canva now instead of PowerPoint but it’s all essentially the same. Google products have 2 benefits over Microsoft. 1) they auto save every change, so there’s no “I forgot to save!” panics and 2) they are always available online so there’s no keeping up with thumb drives, or leaving the assignment at home. There are tons of classes online, through Coursera or through the library if someone needs helps with the transition from Google to Microsoft. Does anyone remember trying to use the Correl program that competed with Word for awhile?

She can pay to store it and be given a list of campgrounds it could be hauled to if he needs to use it again in the future.

That sight seems to only show open waiting lists. An open waiting list just means you can get on the list, not that they have no waiting list or have vouchers immediately availability. You can get on an open list and wait on that list for years and years. I know someone who just got on an open list that shows as open and was told the wait is around 3 years.

Him leaving voluntarily rather than face your husband doesn’t surprise me.,,

It’s hard to follow. So she lives there but isn’t an owner?

The house resident isn’t the mother. The mother of the man lives elsewhere. One of the residents is the man’s grandmother.