I’d probably make something that’s not sweet or super carby. Breakfast casserole or crustless quiche in muffin tins or breakfast pizza or something. Nice that your pta is doing that!

My Florida grandkids don’t even own pants. Shorts for everyday wear, dresses for Sunday. Usually one hoodie to use if they get cold. But living a few blocks from the beach and going multiple times a week, they each have at least two bathing suits. It’s pretty casual where they live.

The most difficult part for me is that dh Will Not part with anything. It has taken me a long time to accept that I can only control my own possessions and that being upset about dh’s stuff just isn’t helping anything. For the most part I’m able to keep my mouth shut, but we’re packing things for storage so we can sell the house and relocate and there have been times it’s been hard to keep my cool. I have 5 boxes of books. Dh has 85. He has probably 20 boxes of ‘stuff’ from his office or past jobs that he wants to keep. Complete collections of Reason magazine and three car magazine subscriptions. We’re on the same page about most of the important things in life but ‘stuff’ ain’t one of them.

I would buy enough items to get started and then a little every month or two. That way hopefully she won’t outgrow/wear out everything at the same time. If you give her a budget she might learn how to find bargains or learn to shop at thrift stores sometimes. At 11 she might want to stay a little fashionable in order to fit in with peers, but it’s also a good age for her to find her own style.

I remember that and I’m glad you’re not letting it stop you this year. have a great time and I hope you meet some new friends!

Mostly it’s decorated cars, though I prefer those to be tasteful. I wasn’t happy that son in law’s brother wrote ‘get ‘er done’ on dd’s side of the car after they married. He wrote a few more obnoxious comments on the car, which ruined the wedding pics taken of them driving away. (Though the close up pics were fine) Son in law is a pastor and his brother intentionally did it to embarrass him. Pranksters need to know their target- some take it well and others not so much.

PEX is the bomb-diggety!

With a hot market like that, I’d totally try a FSBO. Even if you don’t get top dollar you’ll save a bundle. What would the benefit be of getting your own license? ‘What happens if the buyer has an agent? Here the agent charges a 6% commission which is split w a buyer’s agent if there is one.

My box spring does not get covered by the bedding. The top sheet barely comes down to the top of the box springs and I make the bed quilts and only make the queen sized ones 85-95 inches square and that doesn’t come close to covering the box springs.

I’ve never heard of this but thanks for the idea! We have beautiful hardwood and I really don’t want a dust ruffle but the box springs just look tacky with nothing on them I’m going to add a fitted sheet! Thanks so much for mentioning that.

That’s the way it is everywhere I’ve lived, though many people go to the funeral but not cemetery. For instance, we’ve been to funerals for work friends but we leave after that and let those closer to the deceased do the graveside part. Dh’s uncle planned his route from the church to the cemetery. The regular route was about 3 miles. He designed a route of about 30 miles and we traveled past his job, his farm, favorite restaurant, and other places that meant something to him. His wife and kids knew about this detour but nobody else did. He wanted it to be a surprise. Yeah, it was. I’m sure we disrupted traffic all over town.

GFS is nice. I buy parchment sheets there- 50 full sheets for like $4 and I cut them in half to fit my cookie sheets. The quality of their food seems pretty good, too.

Glad the painting is done and looks nice. Hope whoever is irritated gets over it quickly and you can move forward. What a way to put a damper on your project!

You’re right. Change isn’t bad, it just takes a little time to embrace.

In 1980 when I got married, we were really blessed by the modest gifts. Still using the pots and pans we received, and some of the Tupperware. And now I’m really close to my nephew and his wife and they have given us a couple of gifts that every time we use I think of them. Stuff we’d never buy ourselves....a Yeti and instant read thermometer. Do monetary gifts have that same long term warm feeling? Maybe. I used birthday money from inlaws to buy a beautiful handmade bedside table and I do think of my inlaws often when I look at it. But I still have a bias toward actual gifts, whether it’s rational or not.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen them painted. Or wait....maybe that’s the point. When painted wall color you don’t notice them.

I’m sorry. He knows and is still doing it. That’s so wrong. Nobody in our house even bothers to lock bathroom doors because a closed door means don’t enter without permission. Like others have said above- if he doesn’t have a hang up about it that’s fine, but YOU get to make the rules about your own privacy. Have you tried asking him to leave every single time he does it? Shouldn’t be necessary but maybe a consistent message might help. Please do NOT believe him that it’s selfish to want privacy in the bathroom. Gosh I was 100% prepared to read about it being little kids and I was planning to offer encouragement that it really does get better as kids grow up and want their own privacy. I was not prepared for it to be your dh.

Been married for decades and having dh in the potty with me is a hard line I drew from the beginning. I don’t care if he comes in when I shower. he occasionally snickers about my rule since I am generally not a prude, but he respects it. Is there a lock on the door? If so, I’d start using it.

The person not painting has no right to criticize. Hope your painting goes smoothly, and since you did excellent prep, I’m sure it will.

We dropped out after several years. We started a homeschool 4H group because we had a lot of interest. But the other group leaders had a ton of experience and were cliquish and didn’t want to help us get started. I’d attend leader meetings every month and ask questions but nobody was helpful. It was so frustrating. And even though we had 20+ kids, none of their parents wanted to help beyond bringing a snack. So I burned out super fast, like 3 or 4 years. It’s such a good program and I would hope our local leaders aren’t still cliquish (it’s been 15 years).

Do people really not remove outlet and switch covers? That’s nuts. It takes like 20 seconds.

Dd was at Woodfield Mall today and the line was crazy. She felt so bad for one little girl- her family drove 2 hours to get to the mall for her birthday surprise and they were turned away. They didn’t know about the promo.

I know it was available before ‘06 because ds made some and forgot to put water in and The smoke it created ruined our microwave. In ‘06 he was 12 and I know he was younger than that by at least a couple of years. I wonder if it was released in limited markets before then and ‘06 was the national roll out.

Dh and I have different approaches- he likes to tape, I like to use a cut in brush. In the end both of us do excellent work so we have agreed that whoever is doing the painting gets to choose the method. If we do it together one does trim and the other walls so our methods don’t collide.

You might test the product on one spot before you do all of them. Some can leave grease like spots on certain surfaces. We have old plaster and it was fine but I’ve seen it leave a spot on newer plaster. You don’t want to remove the adhesive only to have to cover up grease spots!