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  1. I'm attempting to give all the grandparents/aunts/uncles all the schedules for all the things that are beginning soon. Soccer, volleyball, dance lessons, karate etc. It used to be that I would always be given a printable schedule or list by all of these activities and make copies for everyone. Now, some still do that, but others use apps like Heja or FB to organize. Last year, when I typed up a master list for everyone, I made some transcription mistakes and it took quite a bit of time. Other than giving a copy of my personal calendar that I have synced everything to, has anyone figured out an easy way to do this? I would prefer not to do this because it has a lot of details they don't need. And yes, I want them to know everything from practice times to games and locations because not only to they come to cheer the kids on, but several of them help provide transportation where they can.
  2. I am also a big fan of Walmart's pick-up system. I just started using it 2 months ago. I do NOT like shopping AT Walmart. The pick-up is a completely different experience. Also, even though overall the prices are a bit higher than Aldi, I find it's worth it. I have an easier time sticking to my grocery budget with it because I don't even go in the store. Their website and the app are extremely user-friendly. Instead of making a list through the week I just add things to my cart in the app. It also made grocery shopping while on vacation so easy! I set it all up three days before we left and my groceries were ready for pick-up our first morning there. Counting travel time, I was there and back with $200 worth of groceries in 15 minutes. I don't like the single-use plastic bags. I have thought about asking them to just bring things out in the crates but I could see how that would make loading my car take quite a bit longer.
  3. I have tried heating vinegar water in there and then wiping it down three times now. There was not a fire (thank goodness!) but it does seem that the interior is permanently discolored. Has anyone experienced the smell eventually going away? For reference, she put it in for 11:45 instead of 1:45. She turned it off when she noticed smoke.
  4. The US Air Force Museum in Dayton is free, if that plays in to your decision at all. You can walk through several old Air Force One planes. While obviously military it's also a lot of information on the history of flight. All the other things mentioned are great as well. Columbus is a fun city, the City Museum in St. Louis is amazing and the Indianapolis Children's Museum is fun, but more for younger kids in my opinion. Not sure what ages you have but my 12 year old mainly enjoys watching her youngest siblings have fun there now more than enjoying it herself. Obviously this will be different with every 12 year old 🙂 If the weather is good and you want something other than a museum experience, Young's is a cute stop. Play put-put, eat delicious ice cream, pet a goat and watch them milk the cows. https://youngsdairy.com/hours-directions/
  5. We just built two raised beds that are 4x8. I'm hoping they help me have a more successful gardening year. I basically tilled up a part of the yard to make a garden the last time and it was a disaster with weeds - obviously. 🙂 I was a little overexcited. So now I'm on the hunt for various compost sources to fill them up while planning it all out. I'm loosely following the tenants of Square Foot Gardening. I also keep thinking about landscaping the house, which only has a few overgrown shrubs that were planted over 30 years ago. DH wants to pay someone for a plan, which I'm not opposed to, but I also kind of want to plan it myself. We need to get that figured out so we have a master plan to work on. I doubt we would be able to do it all in one year but it's we can't do anything without a plan.
  6. We have the Ikea Hemnes Daybed for my 4 year old. It has drawers so you could even put her clothes in there. I love it because on nights when DH is really snoring I am able to pull it out larger and throw the second mattress on it for myself. My 4yo sleeps through anything thankfully. That makes it as wide as a King size, just not as long. Love it! https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30349329/
  7. That's not normal. I installed detectors at my parents house and replace the batteries every 6 months. They have never had one start beeping - which is good because my dad would probably just throw the whole thing away.
  8. I completely get this! We finished up every little last minute project, we cleaned like we had never cleaned before and got rid of boxes and boxes of clutter. When we finally listed our house I wasn't sure I really wanted to. It finally looked the way I always hoped it would!
  9. Long story short, I verbally committed to something about a month ago. Now the time has come to sign contracts and pay registration fees etc and I Just. Don't Want. To. I'm full of anxiety over how to word the change in my decision while keeping it concise and avoiding rambling on and on. I don't want to give openings for debate or to an attempt to change my mind. The longer story is that I agonized over this decision and kind of talked myself into saying yes. As soon as I made this verbal commitment my stomach sank. I have been thinking about all that it entails ever since and I have been DREADING it. Not in a lazy, I'm-just-not-in-the-mood way. Really dreading it. It's something I have done in the past and took a year off from, I know exactly what is in involved. I think I felt obligated in some way because I'm friends with this person. I feel so shady like a flake about the whole thing but after sharing my feelings my husband is strongly urging me to apologize, but immediately let them know that it's not going to work. Especially before paying deposits to register my kids. I think I need help wording it in a way that lets her know it has nothing to do with the people, it's just not the right thing for our family and that's it. No reasons to give openings to a debate. No way for her to jump in with how it IS right. Does that make sense? I know her well and if I give any reasons for my decision she'll jump in with a counter-argument. It's about teaching a class at a co-op as well as having my kids take classes there. I don't know why I was so vague in the beginning. I thought once I agreed to it that I would begin to be excited about planning for the new year. Unfortunately, I'm just so burnt out. Even with this past year off its not enough. Honestly, I don't know that it's something I'll ever want to do again. We've missed seeing our friends there every week but we've had a great year and have I have felt so much more relaxed and at peace.
  10. You want the 6qt. It doesn't cost much more and will be so much more versatile.
  11. Are you often all in the car together or just a couple of times a week? We have an Odyssey, but only 4 children. We sit two in each row and I appreciate having a bit of room between them for a basket of car activities, wipes etc. However, we have taken several vacations with my in-laws and they have said the back was comfortable to sit in. Not as much as being in the front seat or in a 12 passenger van, but they did fine on the various trips ranging from 3-12 hours. My FIL is 6'2" and my MIL is 6'. I also have my two oldest in the third row, they're both 5'6" at ages 12 and 11. So all that to say if the only time everyone is in the car together is to go to church on Sunday, a few little trips here and there and the yearly family vacation - the Odyssey may work. However, if you're often all together and your drives are more like 20-30 minutes I wouldn't recommend it.
  12. I love the porch! And the rest of it! Especially the 2.5 baths!
  13. Yes to the above. People bid more when it's not just for a piece of paper, even if the other items don't add much value. Packages always seem to go higher at the event my mom hosts. That may mean combining a few gift certificates to make a great "Night on the Town" basket, putting the movie tickets in with a few inexpensive boxes of theater candy, a bottle of wine or sparkling grape juice with the hotel gift certificate, the oil change gift certificate in with a few car care items like interior wipes etc. Hers is for a school so they also do things where you can bid on naming the drive for a year (they do purchase a sign, so there is a cost involved in this) and each class makes a craft that is donated - sometimes a quilt sometimes a painted ceramic cookie tray. Those types of things always go for ridiculous prices ETA: Also yes to the consumables! Instead of a $20 gift certificate to the grocery store ask if they'll donate ingredients for a themed dinner, like pasta with higher end sauces etc. Those are often bid to a higher amount than their actual worth.
  14. Around me (rural, town populations ranging from 800-8000, anything larger more than an hour away) home health workers earn around $10/hr. If they are an STNA (state licensed aid) they earn an additional $1-2/hr.
  15. Just did the school room this weekend. Oh my. It took me one weekend to do my entire basement. One weekend to do all the bedrooms. And one weekend for this little school room!!! So many things crammed in here. I made the get rid of pile and kept glancing at it second-guessing myself, so I had my daughter run it out to my van instead of doing it myself. It's not really curriculum, more books and activities and art supplies - the list is endless. Due to us recently getting a new desk and filing cabinet and having DRAWERS for the first time ever, there were also quite a few storage and organizing containers. Some of them I feel bad about just giving away but I don't want to have a yard sale or sell things on FB etc. and no one else in the house has a use for them. This is where I think the Konmari idea of thanking items works for me. I'm not so much thanking the item, but acknowledging that it's not wasteful to get rid of it because it has served the purpose I had for it. This will be my 5th trip to the thrift store and my van has been packed every single time. I think we're at 24 kitchen trash bags. I think the worst part is that my house didn't appear cluttered. It's amazing what all those cupboards, closets and bookshelves can hide! I haven't done the kitchen yet and I don't know that I'll get to it. I had a lot of energy and steam in the beginning of the month for this but it's running out. About half-way through I had made a mental promise to be done by the end of January, whether was I was finished with the whole house or not. I would really like a lazy weekend 😃
  16. I haven't tried cancelling entirely, but I have cancelled or postponed my shipments right at the very last minute and have had no issues with them. So far some of our favorite things from them are their private brand, especially their hydrating bar soap. I generally get a shipment every 3 months or so, but get larger ones when I do. I had one item arrive leaking and they replaced it without a hassle.
  17. Dr. Carine in Columbus, OH http://www.drcarine.com/
  18. If you want to keep the furniture I think it's perfectly fine to have empty bins on them. Maybe the furniture isn't serving a storage purpose but it is contributing aesthetically, which you seem to want. While I am purging this month I am embracing the idea of empty cupboards and closets and cabinets. Just because I have space doesn't mean I have to fill it up. The closet in DD's room is 12 feet long. She's using about 3 feet of it and that's ok 😃 If you don't want to spend a lot on baskets and cubes, then simple cardboard magazine holders may fill in nicely. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50022354/?query=FLYT&icid=iba|us|unbxdsuggestion|201811132211556208_1
  19. I am doing my house this month, partly because of the series and partly because I'm just tired of picking up the same things over and over. We moved here two years ago and haven't done much of a purge since then. Prior to moving, while I did get rid of some things, I didn't get rid of much because we doubled our square-footage so I wasn't worried much about everything fitting. I love that I am intentionally touching every single item in our home, and being honest about it. I am almost done helping DD10 with her room and for the first time ever I have not made her keep anything that I think she might use someday. She really struggles with keeping her room tidy and the number of things in there that I thought she should have but that she's not at all attached to or won't use was ridiculous. Why keep 7 dresses when she's only worn 2 of them and doesn't really care for the other 5? On the other side is DD12, who wants to keep EVERYTHING! We're about half-way done with her room and then I'll determine just how big her treasure box needs to be 🙂 I love the progress we're making but overall, in the middle of all of this, my house is a disaster! That's why I have decided this is only for the month. What's done then is what's done. I still have my room(other than clothes), my kitchen and my laundry room (lots of storage in there) to go through. After clothes we did our basement next and went from 6 4' storage shelves to 3! It took an entire weekend but I love how empty it is!
  20. Lanolin. I like that it's natural and if my lips are really chapped in never, ever burns at all.
  21. Midwest, it's really low lately. Yesterday was $1.85.
  22. I don't think it's too long, but for you it is. That's understandable. I do think it will be easier to go later than it will be to leave earlier, especially if your kids will be enjoying themselves.
  23. My mom and both of my sisters are nurses. They strongly, strongly STRONGLY urge friends and family to never leave someone alone. They are not able to say that to their patients, but that's what they say to everyone else they know. It's not that they're not working hard and trying to give amazing care to every patient they have. It's that every facility is understaffed and skimps on hiring for the bottom line. My sisters have twice as many patients to care for as my mom did when she first became a nurse. The care your MIL receives will be of a much higher quality if she has family there.
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