Do most people eat hot dogs? We don’t so the Sunday lunch stood out to me because it would leave me eating salad only. Also as others have said, I think the first breakfast needs more protein. Maybe some cheese cubes?

Since it’s in good condition, I would leave it for now unless you really hate it. I think it’s better to live in a house for a bit and see how it feels and how it wants to be. I know my thoughts on colors and materials in our new home have changed a lot over the months of being here and I’m glad now I didn’t go with my first inclinations which would have been a mistake.

It seems I’m not a forever home kind of person. We haven’t even been here a year yet and I’m talking of the next place and looking forward to it.

That flight only takes an hour and the Boeing 717 is not a jumbo jet. You won’t be that far away. Maybe that helps.

I think gender neutral cowboy is cowhand. Sorry I have nothing to offer about jeans except my commiseration since I hate them, too.

Grr. Grr. Grr. My daughter is refusing to look at hers until after the camp she’s at finishes on Friday.

I’ve never before seen horizontal deck rails so my brain things they both look weird. But I would like the second one best if the bottom rail was brought up about six inches and then the middle rail split the distance, if that makes sense.

Early on in our homeschool life I learned my lesson about loaning things I care about. Awkward situation. Now I don’t follow up on things I lend out because I only lend things I’m prepared to never see again but for whatever reason am not quite ready to get rid of entirely. Both times I lent whole curriculums they came back at the end of the year. One of the gals I loaned to insisted on making a detailed list of every book I had loaned her so I knew those were coming back. The other person apparently lost one of our books and bought a replacement copy which was very nice, but unnecessary, and I wished she had said something to me.

My girl refuses to consider it now after her friend had such a horrible time finding her people there that she became very depressed and had to leave the school. She’s such a friendly young woman, too. We didn’t really understand it.

My guess would be it’s the close-minded parents who are instigating the roommate change.

Thinking of it as bragging wouldn’t have occurred to me. We don’t buy them because I have an aversion to owning lots of stuff and don’t really like t-shirts, especially if they have writing on them.

This is not uncommon where I grew up. The church would always host a shower without any expectation of invites to the wedding. It was the same for my workplace. They surprised me with a small shower. They didn’t expect wedding invites. I didn’t even know a couple of them very well.

Grrr. I was also looking at them for the computer science intro. Thanks for the heads up.

My girls will have five years of a foreign language by the time they’re done. They lived a lot of years overseas and see proficiency in another language as a possible door to getting back out of the USA.

I’m with you OP. It’s crazy. And it’s not just one job ad. I’m astounded by the long list of skills and experience wanted for jobs that pay peanuts.

This is our experience as well. Our girl came to us when she was four. In our pre-adoption classes, we were told that many times an issue is a kid issue, not an adoption issue. That wasn’t to say adoption doesn’t come with issues, but to remind us not to close our minds to exploring other possibilities just to make sure we weren’t missing something.

The airline can tell you if that meets their minimum time for connections. You can also get a map of the airport online. I don’t think it’s hard one to navigate. I wouldn’t worry about it for domestic flights, but I did have to run through it once for international to domestic.

It’s not rose-colored glasses for me. I really did not hear bad language anywhere in my lost on the plains location until high school from some more colorful older boys who didn’t realize they could be overheard or they wouldn’t have talked that way. Then I went to a Baptist university where I didn’t hear that language. And then my working environments were very Christian. I had such a shock when I married a military guy and lived on a base in my early 30s. I had no idea there were bad words I had never heard before and they were used so freely in general conversation.

I like Iceland and saw some really good deals on tickets recently. Very tempted. I would pick Japan over China hands down. I find Japan to be friendlier and much easier to navigate independently. Also, crowds in Japan and crowds in China are two very different things. The Forbidden City and Great Wall will be swarming with people and you will have to run a gauntlet of pushy hawkers. The pandas were sad. See pandas somewhere where they have a better habitat. Possibly I still haven’t recovered from being pushef up against a barrier when the crowd surged forward at the Forbidden City the first time we were there.

I don’t know, but I’m finding it very hard to live with. In fact, at the moment it’s making me want to scream. So much talent and creativity, but so much disarray. I’m actually a bit in mourning because a lot of promise and potential is drowning under the inability to be orderly. I honestly thought organizational skills could be learned but I’ve been teaching them since this person was three and well over a decade later have conceded defeat.

Nearly 15 hours a couple of times now in economy. Hate it. I’ve learned that nine hours is pretty much the end of my tolerance. After that I catch myself rocking back and forth and humming and fighting the urge to bang my head against the seat in front of me.

We currently have an exchange student from China and amongst our extended family this is our fifth experience with a high school student from China. Some observations: I am amazed at how long they can spend in our country and absorb very few Western ideas. And once they get to university they tend to stay in a Chinese clique. This has been our experience. The students with our program have to demonstrate that they have enough financially to support their school plans but they don’t have to be wealthy, although some of them are so I now know that Prada shoes come in a very lovely box. Our current student has a taxi driver father and editor mother. I suspect grandparents are contributing but I know they’re not wealthy. The students we’ve met have issues either academically or socially and would have problems getting into a university in their country. Our current one has said that she’s here because the academics are easier. My sisters kid has anxiety and my other sisters former kid we think had untreated bipolar. My cynical self says that being full pay gets them in to nicer universities here. Also given China’s huge, huge population they are still just a drop in the bucket when they go back home.

You might take a look at Human Geography if she’s wanting a break from history. We did that for ninth grade and really enjoyed.

We do the same thing although I was bummed it wasn't possible with the mortgage and a couple of utilities. Apparently you can't do it for tuition at most schools either because the fee makes it not worth it. We are able to do our church tithe on the card now. The cash back bonus funds our Amazon habit.

I don't think it's a bad thing to cover the severity of the flu. There seem to be an awful lot of people who, never having experienced it, don't get what a big deal it can be, and there are those who still go out and expose others when they know they have it.