YES. I love loom knitting. My daughter made a bunch of hats I made doll blankets and stuffed cats. Somehow my hats never seemed to come out right.

Ah. I am in a system so that any doctor in that system has access to my health records -- so my system does not have that downside. I would definitely want all my health records in one place because I don't remember what happened when!

I have lost several doctors who left the practice. I don't go to meet and greet appointments. The next time I need an doctor, I find one open and in the course of the appointment see if I like them enough to remember their name and deliberately schedule or not. OTOH I don't have a complicated health history.

Agreed. I'm not sure I'd take that as mean. I would not do everything they asked or agree to be best friends. (My answer there would have been *shrug* "Maybe. We'll see how it goes") I'd have taken the girls as trying to be nice but fairly socially awkward and decided for myself which questions I was comfortable answering and which not. I have not yet figured out a good way of teaching my daughter (particularly) though to do this -- to be comfortable in their own skin enough to not care if someone else does not like you because they want something out of you you are unwilling to give. So I tend to take people at face value and not look for unkindness. Yes these girls would not be buddy-buddies. Because that behavior is just downright odd. But if we could be friendly in class? That'd be nice.

I never got any comments when I took my son (Because of how large and crowded Buc-ee's is it was one of the places DS went with me to the restroom for older than what is usually considered normal)

Buc-ee's is known for their GREAT bathrooms. And honestly -- with the really open entrance, the completely enclosed toilet and the general busyness, I don't think I'd be at all bothered by a man being in the women's side -- maybe at night if I got there and for some reason no one else was there -- but I'd figure with the open entrance if I screamed for help someone would hear and come so probably even then too.

It is not concocted fuss. These types of individual restrooms with open to the public sinks are much safer.

I was at a restaurant like this. A toilet only restroom (Room) on both sides with a sink area in between that was in the open

These books are set at a hotel on Mackinac Island! It sounds like a small place. If you end up there I'd love to know how much matches (though note these two books were set in 1979 and 1980. The next two are 1981 and 1982 nad she's writing a 5th now! So a lot may have changed)

Mackinac Island is in Michigan and I know an EXCELLENT series set there. I've read the first two so far Being Ethel (in a world that loves Lucy) by Michelle Olson and Being Dorothy: In a world longing for home

Operation Christmas Child Pioneer/Patriots -- the 7th grade and older group in AHG (American Heritage Girls). BLAST is a girl leadership conference here in Texas geared to that age group run annually by volunteers

I don't know for sure. I think so so I did not allow my kids to.

My kids probably know how to pump gas intellectually but have never done it because my oldest just turned 16 last week. I remember driving through Oregon and having to wait for them to pump the gas. At some of the stations, they would do minimum necessary (put the pump in the hole and walk away). At some they'd also wash your windows, let you pay at the car, etc.

If they are good enough quality you could put them in OCC boxes. Maybe there is a school nearby where teachers would like such things for their grab boxes (or your church could use items) The Pi/Pa BLAST group through AHG is also usually looking for donations they could use as door prizes for the teens. A friend of mine makes the crochetted animals and posts them on Facebook. Occasionally she'll make one for a friend. And they look adorable. Makes me wish I could crochet instead of knit! 🙂

We love their backpacks. I've been able to get good swimsuits there I LOVE the "swim shorts" I bought. Good for camping as well and dry out fast. I did NOT love the Merrell Moc look alikes I bought from them. They did not fit as well and fell apart fast.

It does. But evidently they see different things through the two different methods. I am taking my doctor's advice.

The last time we went to the eye doctor, my son decided NOT to get anti-glare at all to save us money. The first time he put on the glasses, there was SO MUCH glare he couldn't even read a book (Inside the house) So we went back and had them remade with anti-glare. I have always gotten the anti-glare as a matter of course (Didn't know there were different versions) but had not realized it made THAT much of a difference. Now I know not to try that experiment.

I get the Optomap every other year (our insurance does not cover it but I do prefer it) My eyesight is bad enough my doctor has recommended I do dilation half the time to be able to view the optic nerve and the Optomap the other times to get a different view. So that is what I do. Both my kids get dilated.

I would say I disagree with policing food at the government level A summer camp we go to keeps the camp store closed most of the week to prevent kids buys lots of soda and sugar and getting sick (And thus having to leave camp). Usually it is open at the end of the week. This year it was not open at all. Given that this was done after having a couple of years they had to send kids home due to overdosing on sugar and getting sick, this does not bother me. They are also VERY good at making sure they have a variety of food available frequently (Always have fruit out, take various carby snacks around twice a day and good full meals three times a day including dessert choice after lunch and dinner -- I'm sure people would decry some of the stuff they have as unhealthy but they are balancing what kids will eat, what fits the budget, what they can actually get delivered (even at a camp, sometimes not all the food you ordered is actually delivered! Imagine!) and being nutritionally balanced.

Most of my kids' schools to this point have not served peanut butter sandwiches at all -- even to kids who forgot their lunch. Due to peanut butter allergy and the airborne nature. My daughter would have LOVED this meal. Though she would have eaten the peanut butter sandwich and thrown the rest away. They serve cheese sandwiches (which my daughter cannot have due to a dairy allergy).

Me too -- I was in Supers by high school due to flow and not wanting to leak out. I preferred OBs. Though I find them VERY hard to find now 😞

My son is 16. At 14 we got him his own kindle account so he could start buying his own books. Eventually he'll need his own audible but for now we still share.

This is what my daughter chose to keep on hand, though she is wanting to start with pads only and see how far that takes her. For pads she also likes the One by One Poise Pads with wings.

We went to the store to show her the different options for products to use and she could get exactly what she wanted to try. And while there we picked up a Squishmallow buddy to mark the occasion.

I wonder why anyone uses Well Fargo as a bank anymore.