For AHG drive time does not count. Unless its an integral part of the service (you pick up backpacks and deliver to the schools. Drive time home to pick up point does not count. Drive time to the school to deliver does count. ANd between schools.)

This. I don't want to "natural consequence" someone else's kids.

I went to a church like this. It started with her teaching all of us how to quilt (She loved quilting) and turned into a hang out and craft together day. And some people did more chatting than crafting.

I am in a book club (though I rarely get to it now because it is on Mondays and my daughter's AHG meeting is Mondays. And I'm a leader so expected to be there!) But half the book club is for getting together and socializing and they encourage people to come even if they do not finish the book. We DO end up discussing the book -- but only like half the time.

I would love B. There is something different about sharing in the reading of a book versus listening to it on a recording. That's one reason we keep trying to do read alouds as a family despite the fact I could just turn on a audiobook (There are plenty of audiobooks as well)

I love cinnamon in my hamburgers. My daddy did that and I thought it made them fantastic!

All of the people I've seen commenting this seem to be men living in foreign countries. Frankly, if you have to address me on someone else's comment thread asking for a friend request -- maybe just don't.

So. after reading everything here, I realized we have a few glass bowls that are very underutilized (I usually use them for brownies/casseroles) that could be repurposed for spaghetti. Including lids (one has a plastic lid and one has a glass lid) And I went out to Walmart last night and got a colander so I could make the spaghetti today and not wait for an Amazon order to come.

Here is Amazon's web page. Looks like there are some limitations when shipping to Alaska and Hawaii. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GZXW7X6AKTHNUP6H

IF you find what you want at a store the first day you look. Something obscure. Or when you want something different than what is popular in today's culture (longer lengths on shorts, flowing skirts, etc) it might take several days of looking to find what you are looking for AND that is time lost doing anything else.

Yes. This. We went looking the other night for something for my husband to protect an arm that was getting chafed against the desk and was able to find several choices on Amazon, select one and have it delivered to us. MUCH worth it versus going out shopping multiple stores and maybe finding something/maybe not. I make an effort to get books locally first. But I always have Amazon as a backup if they don't have it in stock. (And frankly a large portion of the books I want are not stocked at mainstream bookstores. In addition to those by independent authors in the first place)

I'm also in the Austin area. We have a warehouse in our city and yeah -- we always get our Prime Super quick. ETA: My parents, OTOH, live rurally outside the Bryan'College Station area. Their packages take longer to arrive but they STILL prefer Amazon because it prevents them having to drive in to BCS to do that shopping. It's worth the time to have it delivered to their door and easy returns (though they do have to drive in for that, they tend to combine it with a trip for a church event/to get groceries)

I'd like a good bowl for storing Spaghetti in that will not stain. A lid would be preferred instead of needing to mess with cling wrap. ETA: cooked spaghetti. Complete with spaghetti sauce and meatballs. We usually only make 1 lb of spaghetti at a time. Does not even need to be microwaveavle because we serve onto plates before microwaving. ETA2: My previous dishes for straining the spaghetti and storing it got used to clean out the worms from their substrate (which we feed to our bearded dragon) and since its all plastic I have NO Desire to trust it with food ever again. It is now pet ware.

I would not bother texting. It's not your problem if people do not check their email. Maybe have posted at the location the volunteers of the day so someone can check it at the site.

I paid $22 per lesson for a weekly 30 minute -- which in actuality was about 25 minutes since it happened at school and thus is bounded by school schedules -- flute lesson last year and I believe her rates are increasing this year. (I have not seen an invoice yet for September)

I love our new fridge. (Well. its about a year old now) It has water in the door (ice is in a drawer) French doors on top. TONS of fridge space. The bottom freezer drawer does mean freezer space is a little limited. But we love having the two drawers on bottom -- putting convenience stuff in the top drawer (with the ice) and the meat and such in the lesser used drawer below. (I have noticed the auto ice maker seems to die really fast so was really not interested in having it in the door but my husband wanted water in the door. I am hoping that not trying to keep frozen water in the refrigerated compartment will make the water maker work longer before it has issues)

It gets copied so often for so many things that I am not sure I'd think to object. If you don't like it, I'd look for another place to park your car.

Newer allergy medicines that could turn out to have similar problems in the future? Is there any reason to think these different allergy medicines actually do not have the same problem? Because Benadryl is a two purpose drug in our house -- not just cat allergies, etc. But stopping rashes/more active allergies (we are not at the stage of needing an epi pen. But I don't know of any other OTC drug that does this)

Interesting. When we bought this house, the seller was overseas but at least the realtor was local!

The point of homework is the practice it gives you I graded homework for a calculus teacher in HS my senior year (I'd run out of math offered by the school and my family could not afford to send me to the community college). She had me chose 2 or 3 random problems and then grade only those in every homework in the stack.

To get all the kids through the cafeteria, they have a wide range of times eaten. When you are eating lunch at 10:30, that snack in the afternoon can help get you through. When you have to wait until nearly 1p to eat lunch, a snack in the morning helps.

Does your son need a snack? We started sending a snack for "just in case" and my kids would not eat it if not hungry but it was there if so. (and we often sent the dry cereal/fruit bars in a package) My daughter is dairy sensitive so all the cheese stuff was out. Nuts were not allowed. Oh also bananas. My son would take an apple sometimes. But often they were not really hungry at snack time and would just drink their water.

Wow. Here in Texas we only need 1 credit of PE to graduate. When I was in HS it was 2 credits (So half a year of marching band for 4 years covered it)

My husband does not work retail but works with newborn data -- and babies are born year round and fairly indifferent to holidays. So while they get Thanksgiving/Christmas off -- they have to go in either Friday or Saturday of Thanksgiving week and one Saturday near Christmas as well to make sure the work gets done. You ask for time off for travel well ahead of time and they approve for X amount of people to be off so the work still gets done -- and prioritize people who did NOT take off a holiday time the year before. So new employees can rarely get these holidays off.

It might be state dependent. I grew up in one part of Texas (though where I started to play and where I actually went to HS were two different cities entirely) and my kids are in a different part -- but I totally never realized that there were places that did not count it. But my mom was in Ohiol And started playing the flute for the same reason.