Yanny. I keep trying to hear Laurel. The Yanny voice apparently sounds higher and more robotic than the Laurel voice. I said something about "that robot" and the Laurel hearers in my house said, "Huh? What robot? You mean that dude saying Laurel?"

This might not be the thread for it but I thought I'd throw this question out there. At what age do you do more than one class per week? I have a four year old who adores dance. She had the opportunity to try out for the competition team for next year and I kinda passed on it. She probably would have made it because there aren't many kids her age trying out. Competition at her age is really low pressure. Only one event next spring. But it would have meant switching to a different class away from the friends she's made this year. I could have done both classes (competition class and class with friends in it) but I didn't want to do two hours a week at such a young age. I don't want to burn her out on an activity she loves even though she's never not wanted to go to dance. We might do competition next year when she's five. Either switching to the competition class or doing both, I'm not sure. I have no doubt we'll increase the amount of dance she does in the future, but I'm just not sure when. I don't want to kill her love of dance.

My SIL almost died last year. She hemorrhaged and ended up needing an emergency hysterectomy. She spent the first day of her son's life in the ICU. I suspect everyone here either almost died or knows someone who did.

My mother does the same thing. She's gone through periods of time where I would have bet lots of money she had BPD. But she's been doing so much better that I'm not so sure. But yeah, something minor will happen, and suddenly, it all blows up. And I can't tell her, "You're acting kinda borderliney, call me up when you get over it."

That part is worth being sad about. Not remembering his schedule seems minor in comparison. But I guess you see it as a symptom of his lack of involvement. Which isn't unfair of you.

Eh. My husband can barely keep track of my schedule. I think he just compartmentalizes. "This is a thing Mimm handles. That means it's information I don't need to hold on to." He's a wonderful, involved father.

A few of them are definitely effective. But they are overused and their benefits are overstated. In my experience.

Last year for the first time, my sister and I went out together and treated ourselves to mother's day. We had mani/pedis, went to dinner, and out to a movie. It completely took the pressure off our children and husbands to do anything for us. And believe me, my expectations for mother's day were already incredibly low, but apparently, simply not being a jerk for THAT day was too much to ask. Every year. ? If you find yourself disappointed year after year, I highly recommend freeing your family and yourself from these expectations and take a day to indulge yourself. ?

Can I be invited? I am a Christian but if I find that "Bible believing" doesn't fit me, I'll quietly step out.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/sbc-patterson/559532/ I hadn't heard about this guy before this thread, but I think I'm learning all I need to know about him...

A hurtful comment was politely disagreeing? And for that, you went on the attack? Charming. I don't know if you know what it's like to have a mentally ill child. But if you do or you don't, your accusation that Stella thinks mentally ill children don't deserve supportive parenting is WAY out of line and downright nasty.

Really? I figure most of my decisions are "less than ideal." I'm just a person doing the best I can. *shrug* Like we all are. How about instead of pretending everyone's decisions are somehow ideal (even when they aren't) we give grace to everyone for being human?

Yes. My question mark was supposed to be a smile.

Read the text conversation. Goodness, that's some mild disapproval. She certain is very sensitive. I don't really have suggestions there. You should be allowed to have your own opinions after all. Other than keeping them to yourself, what is she expecting? That you agree with absolutely everything she does? Parenting teens has not be easy for me, but I'm not at all convinced parenting children in their early 20s is any easier. ?

I haven't read any of the replies, but I think one of the most important skills parents of adult children have is biting their tongue. I have a mother who took a long time to develop this skill and a MIL who mastered it early in my husband's adulthood and guess who had an easier time getting along with their adult children? I have a 17 year old and I keep my opinions to myself the vast majority of the time.

Refill for my Canon Selphy photo printer (I print a lot of pictures for my planner), laundry detergent, a new copy of Watership Down because apparently ours just vanished into thin air, and this cute little watercolor book I'm painting in.

This. We use our Amazon card as our main card and pay it off every month. $20 isn't even close to the amount of points I've saved up just since Christmas.

She couldn't possibly do worse than the current Powers That Be. ;)

I plan to make an art room when I have an extra room. :)

In my state (MO) we must do 1000 hours. You are not required to show your log to anyone unless you are under investigation and then only to the judge I think? So, not a school official or social worker or anything like that. I've never known anyone to be investigated and have to show their log to anyone. But still, it's the law and you should comply with the law. I'm sure it does happen and you want to be prepared just on the off chance something weird happens. Our state law is a little vague about what this log should look like. Some years, I just added up all the hours we did in every subject and kept work samples, book lists, etc. Some years I kept a much more detailed log showing how much time we spent in each subject each day, and still kept work samples and so on. I took pictures of field trips and art projects and sometimes made a list of goals, or wrote out a list of what I felt we accomplished that year. I did it differently each year.

Same thing happened to me! That light blue was driving me nuts. :) So glad to know how to fix it.

I am so sorry. :( I can't imagine dealing with all this. I believe his face will go back to normal. People recover from that kind of thing. I hope you and your husband can get to a place of mutual support again. It sounds like you desperately need to lean on each other.

How strange. I'm out with my brothers frequently enough but the only time I clarified our relationship is if someone assumed we were together. Otherwise, what do I care what they think?

Yes.

Wow. I'd never heard of them but if I had, I would have thought they were a nice wholesome family. (Just spent a bunch of time reading and watching a couple videos from before all this came out.) I hesitate to look up to anyone these days. So many horrible secrets. :(