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Crying here. I can't imagine the pain. I don't know if this would be a comfort to her, but when I miscarried (much earlier--13 weeks), I got a small cedar chest with the baby's name on it where I keep mementos such as congratulatory cards, ultrasound, a stuffed animal, booties, etc. It might be too early for this as it might feel too much like moving on right now, but it's a thought for later. It helps for me to have something tangible to take out and hold when I'm having a rough moment.
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Folkmanis it is! Those are gorgeous! I'm pretty sure these are the ones I used to drool over at the hobby store when I was a young teen.
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We would like to get some nice quality puppets for our family to use for years to come. We want them to have movable mouths and be large enough for an adult to use. What is your favorite source for good quality puppets like this?
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This is a smoothie recipe, but it can be frozen too. I haven't managed to freeze them yet, because my tiny little freezer seems to always be too full.
Blend together and serve in a tall glass:
3/4 cup cooked or canned pumpkin
1 cup low fat milk
1 cup low fat vanilla yogurt
A dash of pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon
*Note that I use the PLAIN not vanilla yogurt. I'm so used to low or no sugar treats that I don't notice. I just add a few drops of vanilla extract.
This sounds wonderful--I am going to whip up a batch tonight!
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I made popsicles for my baby by mixing pureed mango or blueberries with unsweetened applesauce and they were so good that I eat them too! Also, pureed watermelon by itself is yummy.
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I'm bumping just in case there are actually extroverts on the board right now who just didn't see this poll. I'm really shocked at how many responses the introvert poll has in comparison!
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Hmm, I wonder if we will have more introverts on this board than extroverts. So far Mrs. Mungo and I are the only extroverts who've responded. Or maybe the extroverts are all still out celebrating while the introverts recover :D.
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I've seen a number of threads regarding Myers-Briggs personality profiles, and was wondering if people would respond to a public poll? When I first heard about this (on this board, of course :D) I looked it up and was very impressed with how well it explains me, my husband, my sister, other family members, etc. I've seen people reveal their type in threads, but if we did it in public poll form, we could have an easy reference of others with our personality type or maybe better understand where others are coming from. Since there are 16 types, I'm going to make two polls with 8 types each split by extroverts and introverts. I'm hoping others will respond!
If you don't know your type, you can read about it here http://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html
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I've seen a number of threads regarding Myers-Briggs personality profiles, and was wondering if people would respond to a public poll? When I first heard about this (on this board, of course :D) I looked it up and was very impressed with how well it explains me, my husband, my sister, other family members, etc. I've seen people reveal their type in threads, but if we did it in public poll form, we could have an easy reference of others with our personality type or maybe better understand where others are coming from. Since there are 16 types, I'm going to make two polls with 8 types each split by extroverts and introverts. I'm hoping others will respond!
If you don't know your type, you can read about it here http://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html
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I didn't cry. I have no emotional attachment to objects, so I'm the wrong demographic for the movie. I'm not generally a symbolic person by nature, so stuff is just stuff to me, it doesn't represent relationships or trigger memories for me.
I got a little choked up when the mom and the son were standing in the empty room. If they had interacted much with each other, I probably would have teared up. If there had been a significant good-bye moment between mom and son when he drove away, I probably would have cried then too.
I have three brothers and just had a hard time buying into them getting misty-eyed at 17 years old over toys they hadn't played with in years.
Lisa
Homeschooling 3 girls from the beginning14, 12, and 5.
My 12 year old got a little misty eyed, but neither of the other girls did.
Well, I cried not over "emotional attachment to objects" as you put it, but the idea of Andy growing up and passing the legacy of his imaginative games to the little girl as he left his boyhood playthings behind. I didn't cry because he left his beloved toys, but because I remember tearing up as I left my home behind for college as a new chapter of my life unfolded. I cried because in about 17 years my little boy will be grown up, and the time is already flying by!
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I would strongly recommend The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. I picked up her more recent book Dragonhaven as well, but haven't read it yet. I also enjoyed Beauty and Spindle's End, which are retellings of Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty.
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Yep, I cried too. I warn all of my friends to bring tissues.
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Dh grew up without television and I grew up with a Dad who watched too much television, so we planned to never have it ourselves. We've been married 7 years, and only had cable for 2 years because it was only $5 over our Internet cost. We still only watched 3 TV series, but we taped about 200 movies during those 2 years! We haven't had TV for 3 years now and love it. If we find out about a TV series we want to watch, we either watch it online or wait until it is on DVD and buy it. We are planning to get Netflix soon, as both of our local video stores just went out of business.
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I'm not fond of November as a name, though I have recently heard of several people using it! Somehow April, May, and June work, but not November in my opinion.
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Most recently heard unusual girl's name - Alaythia - a Greek derivation of the word for "truth".
I know a 28-year-old woman with this name, though she spells it Alethia and always has to explain how to pronounce it.
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I babysat from approximately 1992-2000 and usually made $1-$3 per hour per kid and welcomed it. Minimum wage was just over $5/hr in my state. My sister and I babysat for one family that paid us $10/hr for 2 kids, which completely blew us away! We always cleaned up while babysitting if possible, and her kids were good at playing together, so we were able to do more cleaning at her house. She was so thrilled that she upped the pay to $12 an hour! This was totally unheard of in that time and place. Sure, we loved the money, but it didn't make us resent any of the other families for which we worked.
I have a 13-year-old babysitter now, and I pay her $4 an hour without feeling guilty that I'm not paying minimum wage. In my opinion, periodic babysitting by a teen is not the same as a regular job and shouldn't have to conform to the standards of a "regular" job.
1. The average teen babysitter is not supporting a family on this income.
2. There is not the same level of "work" or "skill" involved in playing with kids for a few hours that there is in most jobs, even fast food at minimum wage.
3. They can say "no" to the job if they don't like the pay.
4. I know at least 3 teens who would jump at the chance to babysit and probably would do it for less! I know that the money was almost a side benefit for me, sometimes--I just loved playing with the kids.
5. Many teens either can't get a "regular" job because of the market or don't want one because of sports, summer activities, being tied to a job each day, etc. so babysitting (even if it pays less) gives them some income with a flexible schedule.
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Perhaps PBS should have a system where you classify yourself as a Type A personality or a Type B personality. Then, Type A's can only order from each other.
:lol: What's funny to me is that I'm a Type A personality generally but I'm very unconcerned with the condition of Paperbackswap books I receive as long as they're intact! Now if you mistreat a book I that is now mine (leaving it open face down, leaving food/drink near it, dropping or shoving it wherever), watch out!:D
I am pleasantly surprised when requests are accepted immediately, books arrive quickly, and they are in like-new condition. This has been true of most of the 103 books I've received so it could be easy to think of this as the norm, but I try to maintain my surprised pleasure when they are great so that I am not disappointed when they are just ok.
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2. Drive up to Las Vegas, then up to Salt Lake City and up through Ogden, Twin Falls, Nampa.
This would be a lot shorter than the first option, and probably my preferred way. I did this trip with my kids last month (round trip: northern Arizona to SLC, Boise, and then up to Oregon). You could stop in Las Vegas for a day, and spend a day or two in Salt Lake City (my kids were enchanted with SLC - we went to the zoo, an aquarium, so many things to do). It is just a 5.5 hour drive from Salt Lake City to Nampa, a hop and a skip after all the driving you just did.
One thing I would absolutely never try to do is to go up straight north through Nevada (we did this once - never again) - there are very few services, nothing to look at, a ton of bugs (stop to wipe your windshield every few miles) and you can't even go very fast on the smaller highways.
If you take the route Las Vegas to Salt Lake there are big stretches of highway where you can go 80 mph (yes that is the speed limit!) and you can make very good time while enjoying mountain scenery.
:iagree:We've driven his route about a dozen times. We did the NV route once too-NEVER AGAIN!
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Oh, I'm homesick now! I'm going to that area for a visit in mid-July and can't wait!
The World Center for Birds of Prey is very cool with live, up close viewing.
http://www.peregrinefund.org/world_center.asp
If you are going up through Twin Falls, Shoshone Falls http://www.visitidaho.org/thingstodo/view-attraction.aspx?id=30839 is lovely and a great place to pinic and run around.
Banbury Hot Springs is a lot of fun, especially if a hot spring pool is a new concept to your kids. http://www.visitidaho.org/thingstodo/hot-springs/banbury-hot-springs.aspx
Bruneau Sand Dunes near my home (Mountain Home) are a great experience. Snow saucers or cheap snowboards sprayed with Pledge are great for sledding, though just climbing, running, and rolling is great too. The view is great and you get quite a workout. We always see a variety of wildlife there. http://parksandrecreation.idaho.gov/parks/bruneaudunesstatepark.aspx
Craters of the Moon National Monument is AWESOME so I have to mention it, but it's probably too far depending on your route. I love exploring the cool, icy caves when it's 100 degrees outside!
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All I'm going to say is that Doug Wilson does NOT represent what we believe. :glare:
Our church does not give altar calls, but we most certainly ARE evangelistic. We evangelize through prison ministry, military chaplaincy, supporting overseas missionaries, and other means. There may be some "hyper-Calvinists" out there who don't evangelize, but that's not us. :)
:iagree: My Reformed Baptist church is the same. I actually lived in Moscow, Idaho for 3 years so I got an up-close introduction to Doug Wilson. His church is definitely its own "flavor", kind of cult-like in some ways, and not representative of other Reformed churches I've attended.
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I am very allergic to grass and have not outgrown it. In group settings like camp or VBS adults were sometimes dismissive of my allergy and made me sit on grass anyway, causing me hours of misery. If my little guy has the same problem I will make sure I explain it to the leaders and send him with a towel or "Tot Spot" chair.
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;) I thought you said you DO watch your children every minute. :D
From her comments above she was referencing the little ones.:001_smile:
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Freedom of speech means that you can say your mind without being jailed. It doesn't mean that there won't be any social consequences. I would consider the reaction of the private school that he went to as a social consequence. This is also factoring in what was said earlier about being warned etc.
:iagree:He has the freedom to speak, they have the freedom to respond as they see fit.
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7 happy years for us on the 14th. I blogged about 7 things that have helped our marriage be great so far.
wacky question of the day
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grass clippings with a hint of vanilla