Pretty sure it will just be plug and play if it works at all.

I remember your story and I'm so happy to hear that you have found happiness after everything you've been through!

You can declare it a medically necessary liquid at TSA. Keep it in the bottle with the Rx label.

@TrulySusan I was thinking about this thread today. Did your kids make their trip yet?

You can buy crockpot car adapters. If this is a yearly event, it might be worth the small investment!

I'm so very sorry. Wishing you peace and strength.

Yes! And do all the shopping and wrapping!

My SIL makes something similar to this, but she adds broken up graham crackers to it. It's really good: https://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/four-ingredient-raspberry-cheesecake-fluff/

I checked some of the video comments. There are 800 so it wasn’t feasible to read them all 🤪

Ohhh I didn’t watch the whole video. I didn’t realize he used it on the stovetop.

This one looks similar

Seems like I’ve heard a solution of liquid fabric softener and water can loosen wallpaper glue and make it easier to remove the wallpaper.

I’m so sorry. That is terrible.

Hot fudge. I give it away in the little half-pint mason jars.

My daughter has a brûlée torch that runs on butane. It is designed to brown/caramelize food.

Yeah my kids wear them well outside of the Christmas season

Oh I see. I’d consider pendant lights then. It might be cute to paint the recesses a color up inside.

So if you pulled those boxes out, the area underneath is finished? I love your granite.

These are fun! How do the shirts run size-wise? Do they shrink?

I've done them for the kids for years, and they get them on Christmas eve. Some years they were all different, some years they were matching, some years it was 50/50 (I have two boys and two girls, so often they were split along those lines). Sometimes they're a surprise, sometimes I let them pick (especially when they grew out of kid sizes and I needed them to try things on). I was toying with the idea of ditching this tradition this year, but my 10 yo (youngest) still wanted to do it. He then promptly went and selected a print that his college-age brother 1000% would not wear, LOL. Older brother is almost 21 and I think he's kind of over it. He said he could just go without this year, but I managed to find him a plaid he'll wear in coordinating colors. I usually get them at Old Navy. I've gotten them at Target before, and even Lands End and LL Bean have had some really cute things over the years. Some years when I was super ambitious I sewed them.

Ugh I’m sorry. There’s a teenage girl in my neighborhood that speeds and tailgates. I may have experienced a bit of schadenfreude when she got pulled over near the high school last week.

I’ve grabbed an empty cart that seems to be abandoned in the middle of the store before, but I can’t fathom stealing someone’s full cart, dumping the items and going on my way. How strange.

Does he have a nice case or strap for his guitar?

Mine always turn out tough if I used the food processor. I switched back to using a pastry blender I found I was much happier with how it turned out. I roll my pie dough out on plastic wrap (wipe the countertop down first so it’ll stick and not slide around while you roll). Then you can lift up the plastic wrap by the edges and flip the crust over into the pie plate. Work your crust into place and then peel the plastic wrap off the back. It is so much easier than trying to lift the dough itself and it keeps your warm hands off the dough.

I have three gifts for my 10 yo (he also has a birthday right after Christmas to add to the fun), who will be fairly easy this year. The trouble is my older kids. They are 15, 18, and 20. 15 yo will almost certainly provide with some ideas of things she'd like. 18 yo and 20 yo will both say, repeatedly, "I don't know, there's really nothing I want or need." I'm thisclose to declaring that anyone over 18 from now on gets a flat cash gift and maybe a few fun/edible things and that's it. Honestly, they'd probably be fine with it, but it feels kind of scroogy to me to do that before they've fully moved out/gone independent. DH and I stopped exchanging gifts with each other and with my family several years ago, and that has been great. We can just enjoy each other's company at the holidays. DH's extended family, however, is hanging on to the annual gift exchange with a death grip and every year our family gets some version of either (a) a blanket or (b) a board game and maybe some chocolate/edible stuff to go with, and we in turn give another family unit (a) a blanket or (b) a board game and some yummy edible stuff. Neither DH nor I wish to participate anymore, but he's been reluctant to be the first one to drop out. We are all in our 40s or older and comfortable financially and it's just getting so old to try to come up with novel (or not) gifts every year.