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Lisa in SC

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  1. I am not even close to being done. Shopping up until Christmas Eve most likely. :)
  2. Charlotte's Web ... and I cried and cried. I can't remember how old I was, but I was very young and a sensitive little soul. :)
  3. Hi Joanne! My name is Lisa, and I, too, am a planner addict! My addiction goes deeper, though. I'm also addicted to planner pages. I prefer pages designed by other addicts over the more commercial pages. I could name the many that I'm drooling over at the moment, but I'm going to try to resist enabling fellow addicts. I will say that this is a fairly good addiction for me. I really do accomplish more and remember more with a well designed planner in my life.
  4. The menu has been decided, shopping is complete, linens/dishes/silverware are ready, and the house is clean. This year, it is solely because of dh and dc that we are prepared. I was hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia earlier this month, and am still recovering. I will be cooking on Wednesday evening and Thursday. Wednesday evening is when I prepare desserts. Everything else will be done on Thursday. Our extended family lives over 600 miles from us, so we try to invite friends. I'm used to cooking for 20-30 people, but this year it looks like it will be only the 8 of us. I will still have enough food for the usual crowd plus my usual overage. Fortunately, I have plenty of "use it up" recipes. I hope everyone who celebrates has a wonderful Thanksgiving! For those who don't celebrate, I hope your Thursday is exactly how you hoped it would be! :)
  5. I adore spending time with my mom...she is an amazing lady. She's turning 80 next month, and I'm planning a birthday party for her, although we live over 600 miles away. She has a crazy sense of humor, and can still bend at the waist and put her hands flat on the floor. She looks and acts as if she's 30 years younger. Love my mom! My father passed, and she is now remarried. I'm not a fan of the new husband, but my mom is fantastic when she isn't with him.
  6. QVEPI Queen Victoria eats purple iguanas. XCOLR
  7. The house is absolutely beautiful! I do wonder...could you trade the gardener for a maid? :D That is a ton of cleaning. As others have said, though, you only live once. I hope you get it, and enjoy it immensely!
  8. Oh my. Yes, that would probably give me a great deal of pause. On the bright side, at least they were closing the pool according to protocol...not that it helps much when it's your children who were in the water at the time. Hugs. We have about 1 hour left to get to the 48 hour mark.
  9. Yes, we have about 24 hours to go. Just to clarify, lest you all think I'm completely crazy (as opposed to just a tad crazy), I'm not a total germaphobe. Colds, flu, etc. don't faze me much, other than wanting my loved ones to feel better. It's just the vomit thing. I can't seem to shake it. Thanks again. :)
  10. Thank you for explaining it so pragmatically, for respecting my issues, and for the hugs. They all helped. :)
  11. Intellectually, I know this. My anxiety doesn't like to listen to my intellect, unfortunately. It does help to hear others rational advice. Thank you.
  12. Right about vomit itself not making him sick. I didn't explain myself very clearly. I apologize. I was thinking more along the lines of norovirus, which we had a nasty round of around Easter. I know it sort of becomes an aerosol when the person vomits, but I didn't know if it could be transmitted in the pool prior to vomiting. Kids get water in their mouths and all that. I know it's my issue, but anxiety and OCD can be difficult to overcome. I keep trying. :) On the bright side, we didn't use the locker room when we came to swim. He comes in his suit with a sweatshirt on & just rinses in the poolside shower which is automatic, so no need to touch anything. So, you provided me with some good news, and I'm grateful.
  13. Last night, youngest ds had his weekly swimming lesson. He attends a swimming school solely dedicated to lessons. We have been thrilled with the facility, the desk staff and his instructor. He has also made huge progress. All of this is to say that I have been very pleased with the entire experience. The following might be tmi, so I apologize. Don't read further if you're squeamish about GI stuff. There are several classes going on at any one time divided by lane markers. Last night, as ds was swimming, a child in the lane next to him vomited profusely just outside of the pool - into the little drain thing that catches overflow. It wasn't just pool water, it was dinner. Ds's instructor picked ds up and put him outside of the pool within 20 seconds of the incident. I have anxiety and some OCD. One of my triggers is vomit. I was up and moving to get ds out of the pool area completely. We left with ds in a towel, and changed him in the car. He scrubbed down as soon as we got home and everything went into the wash. Somehow I was able to remain calm in ds' presence, but I was on the verge of a full fledged panic attack. The pool is salt water, and I've read the CDC's recs regarding pool sanitation after an incident such as this. What I am wondering is this: 1. What are his chances of becoming ill? The boy who was I'll had been swimming next to ds for about 20 minutes prior to the incident. 2. Should I email the school and ask what measures were taken to sanitize the pool after the event? I don't want to be "that mom," but I do want to be sure that proper measures are always taken when something like this occurs. If I should email, would anyone be willing to help me with wording? Everything I come up with seems to sound snarky although that's not at all how I feel. I just want to be certain that they follow protocol. When we left the parking lot, we could see almost all of the students standing around the pool with their instructors, so I can't even be sure they cancelled the rest of the lesson. Talk me down? :)
  14. I really don't have a list. If I think about it, there would be some things I would hope my daughters will find in a partner. Two things I don't think have been mentioned are: * Not struggling with addiction(s). One of my children tends toward addiction, and she struggles to avoid temptation. I would hope that she wouldn't choose a partner who might, however inadvertently, tip her into a life involving that. * An encourager. I hope that my daughter find partners who encourage them in whatever endeavors they decide to try. My dh is an encourager of the highest degree. I love learning new things, and am always dabbling in this, that, or the other. He never sighs, or gives any indication that my newest endeavor is irritating to him. I mean, maybe they never are irritating. Perhaps he really does believe that I can do absolutely anything. Lol. Regardless, this is something I really value in dh, and I hope my daughters find someone who will do the same for them
  15. I have a Classic KitchenAid and a Bosch. The KitchenAid is my mixer that gets near daily use, and the Bosch is the one I use for high volume recipes. I use the Bosch mainly when I'm batch cooking or baking for the holidays. I've burned out the motor in the KitchenAid kneading bread, and the KitchenAid company was wonderful about replacing it at no charge, but I learned my lesson. My bread machine will knead dough, of course, but only enough for one loaf. I think if I had a Pro, it would do most of what I want. Personally, I would still keep the Bosch, because there are times when I want to make multiples of a cookie recipe or knead seven loaves' worth of dough. However, if I had a Pro and had never owned a Bosch, I probably would never miss the Bosch.
  16. Because appliances just know how to pick the worst possible times to break down. I'm convinced mine check our calendar as well as our financial situation. Seriously, I'm so sorry you're stuck in this situation. How frustrating! I don't have a front load machine, so I'm no practical help, but I wanted to commiserate anyway. Hugs!
  17. I think Starr's gift suggestion is excellent. I hope your mom makes a complete recovery very soon! I also hope you feel better quickly. GI stuff is no fun.
  18. Thanks for sharing your stories, everyone! It's been fun to see all of the ways people meet. :)
  19. Ottakee, I just wanted to clarify that when I "liked" your post, I was liking the rest of the story. I wasn't liking the part where your dh lost a friend. I'm very sorry about that.
  20. I agree. We eat dinner even earlier on Halloween. Here, trick-or-treating starts at 6 p.m. We eat at 4 or 4:30, so we can finish, clean up the kitchen, and still get me and our youngest into our costumes and get our trick-or-treat table ready to go. Dh or older ds walks younger ds from house to house. What about letting ds open one gift at some point in the evening, but then hold the bulk of the celebration until the following day? Oh! If he's into this sort of thing, you could have him wear an "It's my birthday!" button or ribbon on his costume.
  21. This has probably been discussed before, but I haven't seen it, and so I thought it would be fun. I'll go first, although it's not particularly flattering to either dh or myself. I was moving into a condo complex my sophomore year in college. I was 5' 5" and weighed somewhere around 100 lbs (sigh...those were the days). I also had a fiery temper. I was wrestling a tv out of my car and upstairs to the second floor. I spied dh sitting on the couch on his condo watching me with an amused expression. After I moved the heavy tv, I went back outside and fired a snarky comment his way about chivalry being dead. He answered that it seemed as if I had everything under control. Grrr... Later that night, he and his roommates showed up to our unit with bottles in tow and suggested playing a drinking game. I wasn't much of a drinker, but reluctantly agreed with everyone else. Shortly into the game, dh offered to take my drinks. I asked why somewhat sharply. He answered that chivalry wasn't completely dead. After a while, he disappeared. I later discovered he had overdone it with his "chivalrous" consumption. He never said a word. His roommates squealed. Not long after that, we had our first date, and the rest is history. In dh's defense, I should clarify that he is not a heavy drinker, nor am I. The drinking game was a one time thing that the guys dreamed up as an excuse to get to know their neighbors. I guess it turned out well for the two of us, because we're happily married 25 years later (married for the last 23 of them). :)
  22. Happy birthday! I'm "only" 44, but have always welcomed each birthday. I think I was brainwashed during childhood because whenever Mom would complain about her age, Dad would always playfully say, "It's better than the alternative." It sounds like you will be enjoying this one...probably more so when you're feeling better. Give yourself permission to celebrate again once you've recovered. You deserve it! Wishing you a heartfelt "get well soon!" :)
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