MrsBasil
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I should have worded that better. Are KimDavis's actions different than Gavin Newsom's. And you and I agree that from a legal standpoint, they aren't.
I am pretty sure Newsom stopped allowing license issuing once the Supreme Court ruled the marriages were invalid.
Morally, I think the difference is that Davis is using her job to deny rights that have already been granted by the Supreme Court to a minority group and Newsom was using his job to grant rights to a minority group. That these rights don't effect anyone who is not wanting to use them (no one has to have a same sex marriage and no religious institution is forced to participate) leads me to stand with Newsom, but not Davis.
If Newsom continued to issue licenses after the Supreme Court ruling that annulled the marriages and was jailed in contempt of court for continuing them, then yes, that would have been correct from a legal standpoint-I think. I don't think I would have considered him jailed based on his moral beliefs but on his contempt of court.
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How much money should the tax payers spend to keep one woman out of jail?
Particularly a woman who has been given a generous compromise in being told her deputies can handle the licensing?
She's not trying to keep herself out of jail or work with the judge in any way that shows a willingness to do her job, so I don't know why the state or county would spend a bunch more tax money to do so.
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We are combining households now, my parents are in their mid 50s but my father has mild to moderate Alzheimers. We are hoping having a shared financial burden will help them enjoy their "retirement" and allow me to work part time to not at all in order to help with dad's caregiving. My dad is excited, because our family likes to hike, visit places, and be active. My mom mainly wants to not be on the go. She is not as excited about it, but we bought a duplex style house with shared yard. She also doesn't have lunch dates, volunteer commitments, a job, or friends. Attempts to teach her how to use the bank, keep an eye on the bank balance, pay bills, send an email, and so on have been....difficult. She does not want to learn, wants me to handle their bills, appointments, and such, and give her an allowance. So, I will. But they need to live close so I can also manage my dad's issues and safety.
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Also, I will say this: it's a crappy arrangement, even if the LL is a totally reasonable person. In the worst scenario, one tenant uses and/or wastes a ton of electricity and the other barely uses it. There is no way to parse this out from the bill or the electric meter. That is why we went with the arrangement we did. In our case, though, the utilities are in the company name. The tenants reimburse us for the bill at the percentage just described. I would never try to have the remaining tenant pay the lost tenant's portion, BUT I do see where your sister is responsible for all of the bill in the period *since* the other tenant left. She is the only one using electricity and water.
I agree that your sister must examine what is in the Lease.
That's how ours was too, payable to the company. In our case we got a monthly breakdown taped to our doors each month with a total due to the rental company which included the static rental payment and the variable payment for electricity and water and it was due with our rent.
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We rented in an apartment building that was old and everyone who lived there paid a percentage of the electricity bill based on the size of the apartment and (I think) number of occupants. If a bunch of people left one month, the percentages for the remaining tenants went up to cover the cost of the bill. It was spelled out right in the lease.
It wasn't the greatest set up, but the rent was cheaper and the apartments smaller than other nearby buildings.
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I'm going to give you a big hug and agree that it sounds like an impossible situation. Someone is going to be unhappy. :grouphug:
I hope you can find a solution that doesn't include you paying to be harassed/abused and I am so sorry you are having to deal with this.
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That's helpful to think about regarding the loft beds. Thank you.
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You are all on my husband's wavelength. He's wanting to get rid of over half of our possessions. The kids primarily play indoors with Legos, wooden blocks, a marble run, a small amount of action figures for DS, an Easter basket filled with hand sized dolls/figures for DD, puzzles, boards games, and art supplies. He thinks we could easily get rid of everything else and they would be fine. Outdoors they mostly like sticks, rocks, water, binoculars/magnifying glasses, bikes, scooters, more water, and nets.
I've already culled half off our books. We've just always had a place I could send them when I needed to make a phone call or there was a play room for when friends were over. I've always had space to leave art projects out to dry or to be finished.
There are so many benefits to moving though. We'll be cutting our bills by about 65% and will be debt free very shortly after the move. This is worth the loss of space, right?
There's not really much free wall space to add in bookshelves, but I think I'll find ways around that. There are two walls in the living room and one is mostly windows and the other is a fireplace surrounded by existing built in cabinetry. The kitchen is wall to wall cabinet space in the two walls it has. The dining room has two walls, but again, one wall is mostly windows.
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Yes, our dining room is a library. If the dining room is not the only eating area, it could make a good schoolroom. Also, underbed storage for toys, like long plastic bins. Coffee table and enertainment center with baskets for living room toys are so helpful. We now have a schoolroom/playroom, but we still have 5 baskets of toys in the living room. They like to be where I am.
Will you have an attic or big garage? Keeping out a small amount of toys and rotating frequently would make space. We also have an old wardrobe in the garage, just outside the kitchen, full of craft supplies.
We'll have a 2 car garage and one good sized outdoor shed. We will have 3 cars though. I could probably put some of the things in the garage on a shelf. I like the idea of rotating toys.
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Your kids are the same age as mine.. minus the baby!
We have only a family room - no living room, dining room, or basement. Under 1200 square feet.
All of DS6 and DD3 toys are kept in their rooms. The baby's toys are in the family room. The older kids are allowed to bring their things out to play with, but are put away every night. Also, the keep small thins like Legos in their room always, on account of the baby.
With a big kitchen, you might dedicate a couple cabinets to kid type things, like crafts or board games - things usually done at a table or with others.
ETA, DS has a loft bed which helps with space. We plan on building one for DD before the new baby gets here.
I love the idea of loft beds! We've been thinking about those for our kids. One of the bedrooms is 16x10 and the other is 13x11. The smaller room is currently set up as an office with beautiful built in desks and cabinets. We may have the kids share the larger room for a couple years with loft beds and use the smaller room as a den/school space. I think a boy and girl could share a room for a few years??
Carving some cabinets from the kitchen is a good idea! Or maybe the laundry room? It's got built in cabinets on the upper and lower part of the walls and its own sink, that might be good for paints, clay, glue.
Legos. Hmm. DS and DH love to play with Legos together. Maybe I could find a nice bin for them in the living room. There's no more babies in my future.
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The kitchen is not set up as an eat in. It's got a large island with seating like a breakfast bar and a lot of cabinet and counter space, but no place for table. Otherwise, I think that would be a great solution!
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We are looking to move in the next few months so that we can combine households with my parents.
The homes we are looking at tend to be ranches with walkout basements, so we'd live up and my parents would live down. Most of the places we've seen have a kitchen, living, and dining room in a large open great room concept and then 3 bed/2bath in around 2,000 sq ft.
There are a lot of benefits to this arrangement for us, but I'm a little iffy on how to downsize. We currently have a living room, family room/school room, and a finished basement. My husband is apparently a minimalist at heart and looking forward to a different layout, less stuff, and less space to spread out.
We will be doubling(at least) our kitchen space and gaining a nice sized covered deck with built in retractable shades, lighting, and a ceiling fan.
If you have a similar layout/space, how do you keep toys and school stuff from over taking the living room?
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I third Snap Circuits. My son is 6 and loves them. I bought a Let's Read and Find Out book about electricity to go along with it.
We raised butterflies and attempted a Praying Mantis and that was a huge, huge hit this summer.
I second No Stress Chess, Castle Logix, and Rat a Tat Cat. We also play addition or subtraction War, Memory 10's,(or 9's, 8's, or even a quick 7-this s just memory but matching pairs that make 10 or whatever.
He also likes the math activities in Time Life's I Love Math book. Some require more knowledge than he has, so I explain or we just move on.
Cooking? My son loves to help cook, so I try to schedule in a cooking project once a week.
Poetry tea, building domino tracks to knock over, Legos, puzzles, chess apps, Catan Jr, a nature walk at the same place a couple times a month and talking about changes in the different seasons or months, mazes, color sudoku or junior sudoku puzzles, watching Bill Nye, Fetch Ruffman, documentaries, Ocean Mysteries, Reading Rainbow, and Odd Squad, making very, very basic stop motion Lego movies, fiddling around on our keyboard, getting air dry clay and painting models of animals or characters he likes(and no, they aren't terribly recognizable to other people but he loves it), and like JudoMom- just giving him "stuff to mix" has been a hit.
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My son is 6 and our budget is tight, but I've found high school plays and a local theater troupe that gives $5 homeschool performances. I've also taken him to see a couple of magicians that were part of a cheap/free summer kids program. I started with that and worked our way up to more sedate shows. Both kids want to see The Nutcracker this year, but I'm not sure it will be affordable or that they are ready for a ballet yet.
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I am so grateful for the love, support, and wisdom that I received from Helen Hegener, Linda Dobson, Shay Seabourne, Heart (Cheryl Lindsey-Seelhoff) and so many others of that generation that it was only human nature to want pass along the torch.
I will try to remember Hunter's picture of the NA guy in the tophat the next time I am ignored or ridiculed by the Pinterest generation, who are undoubtedly saying, "Helen who? Linda what? What could old ladies named Helen and Linda POSSIBLY know about how to decorate a homeschool room?"
I think it's called "life".
Completely off topic, but!
Heh, my oldest is 6. I love Linda Dobson's books and I think Helen Helen was involved with home educations that had some handy archives a few years ago.
Oddly, when I first started researching homeschooling my local library had a Day by Day book, several by Rebecca Rupp, David Albert, Linda Dobson, For the Children's Sake, two books on unschooling, and a few others but they were all written in the late 90's early, early aughts by people who homeschooled in the 89's and 90's. I was so baffled the first time I found Internet message boards and the conversation was almost exclusively curriculum.
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My father was recently diagnosed. He is 57. He hiked 3-7 miles several times per week, took one long hike per week, ate mostly low carb, skied regularly all season, swam, stayed very active, was social, active in family life, didn't smoke, drank rarely, and had a good, but mentally demanding job that he's no longer able to do.
From where I am sitting....it looks likes crapshoot. Oh, and genetics since he was young to be diagnosed. Yay.
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Margaret, is that specific to your county? Out here we have private gyms with pools and county rec centers with gyms and pools. Not to mention all the privately run neighborhood pool that do offer memberships for purchase to people outside the neighborhood.
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I used to put ketchup on my corn on the cob and dip Ruffles potato chips into it. My mother was fine with it at home, but I was never, ever to do that in public or at someone else's home. Looking back, I was a weird kid.
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Public school costs between $6,500 and almost $20,000 per student/per year depending on where you live. Where does all the money go?
Salaries, retirement contributions, building costs, utilities, books, computers, software, busses....
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Have you seen the Dougal Dixon Prehistoric World books? It's a series and each one covers a different time, such as The Age of Mammals or Cretaceous Life. The books survey the different animals found in each time period. They are probably a little younger than you are looking for, but they are the only book I found like it, and it might make a handy overview if your boys are interested.
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When I attended an Orthodox Church, Father Evan was the priest at the church I attended. I found most of his podcasts to be helpful and informative when I was exploring.
http://stspyridon.dreamhosters.com/archives/category/classes/introduction-to-orthodoxy
This one, in particular, was helpful to me.
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It might be too location specific or not enough about the animals themselves but just in case they find themselves on a rabbit trail, the Denver Museum has a timeline of the discovery of what ended up being a huge collection of bones of Ice Age animals in Snowmass. There were mammoths, mastodons, sloths, camels, horses There's some things for families, which might skew too young on the site as well.
http://www.dmns.org/science/the-snowmastodon-project/
The two lead scientists also wrote a book about the discovery, dig, and the science of it all. http://www.amazon.com/Digging-Snowmastodon-Discovering-Colorado-Rockies/dp/193690506X
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I moved from a large suburb of Kansas City(on the Kansas side) to a small town in northern Colorado. I have met people who have insisted that I must have loved moving to a place with more civilization than Kansas!
I've had arguments about the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals too, apparently they are the football and baseball team of the state of KANSAS and no amount of discussion can change this person's mind.
On the flip side, I have had visitors from sea level fly into Denver and want to go straight up to Estes Park/Rocky Mountain National Park and don't believe me when I urge and beg them to drink a ton of water on the plane and drive up. They insist they don't need it. Long drawn out arguments have ensued. So far, I have been right 100% of the time....
Along the same lines, the entire state is not mountains and it's not snowy here all the time.
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KY clerk refuses to issue marriage licenses
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PS: if it's uncomfortable, don't read. :). As an overweight woman I do not read threads about weight loss or weight issues here due to many people's comments. They hurt and I feel uncomfortable, so not reading them makes visiting here a more pleasant experience.