I'd do the bbq and silently grumble the whole time. Then, the boy would get his rank and quit.

((hugs)) I hope you find shoes soon. It's always something small that throws me over the edge. I guess we work so hard maintaining composure for the big stuff, there's nothing left for things that seem minor (minor compared to the big stuff, I don't consider shoes minor. Not finding shoes is big too actually).

DD will be home for spring break tomorrow (had to delay her drive by a day due to storm). I think she will make dent in the problem.

Ganache. Whipping cream expired and I needed to use it. Now I have ganache I need to use. Suggestions? These are good problems.

I was supposed to go into one of my jobs this morning, but was just texted not to come. I'm supposed to go to another job this afternoon, but probably won't get an announcement until this afternoon. Besides the wind downing trees, closing roads, etc one minor issue is it's trash day on my street. People put out trash and recycling the night before. Trash cans rolling everywhere.

Wind is blowing here. We told dd to wait to drive home because her route is the same as the storm path and her planned time put her traveling with the worst of it for 5 hours. I'm a little bummed. I wanted to see her tonight. But it was easy to tell to wait until tomorrow.

My DD as well. It was hard to get tested because the symptoms DD had were considered rare.

Praying. ((Hugs))

My street makes a half mile loop. It works well to start the day in fresh air for a quick loop or two. If I'm short at the end of the day I can make it up. I do work at a place that has me moving. I have friends in the neighborhood I've told I would like to walk and vowed that I won't turn down a walking invite. I park further away. I move while doing chores (March while folding laundry). Move while brushing teeth. I've been trying to help my intellectually disabled DS improve his fitness, so when possible we walk together to do stuff. I embrace vacuuming, because that's more steps. Etc. Start lower than 10k as a goal and build up.

This is my experience. Most stuff is not public until after death, even if a charity knows that the commitment was made. Sometimes it's not made public. There are wealthy people who give away a lot of money even though they aren't dying, such as Bill and Melinda Gates.

Absolutely. We all make choices. But there was a post that inaccurately said becoming a doctor and becoming a mother were incompatible. You have to choose the path. If you don't want to mix being a new parent and attending school then don't, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. You do have to accept yourself and your path in the end.

Yay! Hope the rest of the trip is great!

I'm ok with cursing in general. However, I'm NOT OK with school professional cursing in the school environment. There should be no question that cursing at students is wrong.

I think swearing in the presence of high school kids is OK. if what you described were a community theater thing where the participants were usually adults and was really an adult thing, I'd be OK with it. I would avoid that director in the future maybe by looking at a different local program. school program, NO

One of my college classmates married her high school sweetheart at 19, graduated pregnant a year early, followed her dh while he attended law school, had another child and finished a master's in math, then the little family relocated to her med school. She had another child during med school and one during residency and I think two more after. So some people don't give up kids for med school. Also egg freezing sounds great and all, but I've been seeing a lot in recent news that it's not turning out all that successful. People who did it to put off babies are often not successful in the end. Some eggs don't make it through the whole process and implantation is not successful on others.

Is your DC still getting something out of coop. Does co-op prevent DC from doing other things more closely related to his/her goals/interests/needs. If DC is happily able to get his education goals completed through online/DE/self study and is satisfied with his social schedule, I wouldn't force participation. Last thing you want is to have coop on the schedule, say the schedule us full so can't do electronics or judo and have DC realize that coop really doesn't fit him anymore, but get goes so mom can hang with Mrs. Jones. I'm assuming your DC is older and does stuff on his own sometimes. One thing you could do to maintain your co-op friendships is look at the co-op calendar and contact one of your friends and ask if you can come to something a bunch of the moms work on together to catch up. Does your co-op have activities that require behind the scenes mom sessions? Like a group pow wow putting together new family pics, or setting up a full dance/spring carnival, seeing costumes/assembling props. So you drop by and visit while getting work done.

I took the first step in a hostile work environment complaint yesterday. That sucked. Things should be really stressful after today when the person I complained about is spoken to. I talked to my old boss last week about the situation and went through all my notes on incidents. That made me feel better in that he assured me I wasn't crazy and the stuff I noted was really problematic. So yesterday I sat down with the manager of my site with my list and reference to legal definitions. He was nice too. I meet with him again at then of the week. I'm waiting on a job offer too. They said it will take a couple more weeks to finish background checks. It's not the job I want, but it is an escape. I work for a governmental organization. I probably wouldn't have said anything if I was in a private company. I saw some studies and in private companies the complainant is usually fired.

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No. Adolescence was known to span to between age 21 and 25 when I was in grad school 30 years ago. This understanding is not a new development in neuroscience. And I don't believe adolescence is an artificial extension of childhood. It is a different developmental period. However we go through other periods while we are adults, so there is no reason to say we need all adolescence to be within the legally determined ages of a minor. There is fluidity in development. Some people are on their own and fine at 18. No reason to stop that. Some people, like my 2e DS need guidance to get their footing longer. No reason to say it's wrong for a family to assist a child past 18 either. Even within a family the needs of each child are different so the parental support may need to be different. We don't need an additional government control over this fluidity towards independence.

I think it would be difficult to make any campus safe from a mass shooting. I think these things refer to more individual crimes like assault. And to safety precautions available like call boxes, night services to escort an individual from the library to dorm in the dark, other crime prevention efforts.

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I don't think it's typical to have a rehearsal dinner or as formal as the wedding reception. My friend had an Italian buffet set up in her MIL's nicely finished basement. People were spread through the main floor too, but the food was in the basement. My sister's rehearsal dinner was at a Greek family restaurant. Mine was at an Italian family restaurant. My brother's was all over my mom's house (literally tables and chairs anywhere they'd fit, I helped prepare and plate the food). All of these had formal receptions at a local country club.

way back when (haven't been involved in a wedding in a few years) wedding party, dates and spouses, immediate family, close relatives coming in from out of town (I include grandparents in this group). This was how my family did it. This is how my friends' families did it. If you have a lot of family from out of town, I probably would not include everyone in the rehearsal dinner. Grandparents is probably a good place to make the cut. Unless there's something huge to distinguish Aunt Mary from Aunt Sue choosing between them could be unpleasant. One trend I've seen is having a very casual brunch the day after the wedding to allow more family visiting with family who traveled far and aren't seen often.

When you get a chance get an eye appointment that looks at how her eyes track and whether they work together. A general appointment is just going to assess how well each eye can see, not whether they work together. If her eyes are not working together she will gave tracking issues and headaches and difficulty copying assignments.

If you will have a car, I'd stash an umbrella stroller just in case. Natural History might also be a good one at this age. Walk though the sculpture garden next to Natural History. It's not big, but I think it's always fun to look at. It has a nice ride somewhat circular path.