Rebecca in GA
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We have them from Payless and Target and like them equally.
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Thanks! Virginia Dawn, I appreciate the specifics and will take your advice about the foods.
Stacey, I assume once the bacteria is out of my system I'll be okay. I'll have to stay on Prevacid and I still have to schedule an upper GI in a couple of weeks, so I guess I'll find out the next step then.
I guess I'm sort of reeling because I really don't feel like I had any symptoms of reflux until the sinus infection "unmasked" (as my doctor put it) it. I just thought I had bronchitis or something.
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I fell ill with a virus/sinus infection over the weekend, and in the process developed some symptoms my doctor attributed to acid reflux. He ordered a blood test for H. pylori, a stomach bacteria which can cause peptic ulcers and reflux, and sometimes ulcerative colitis and diverticulitis/osis.
I have the bacteria and now am on Prilosec and two antibiotics for the next two weeks. I just wondered if anyone else had any experience with this that they are willing to share.
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Our DD misses the PS grade cutoff by 17 days. We were thrilled when Georgia Virtual Academy decided to accept her as a fourth-grader for the upcoming year because she did sufficiently well on her placement tests and because she's never been enrolled in a public school.
For her, that's the best placement. But it's a combination of maturity, academic ability and readiness in other areas. Our eldest son would have been a different story, but he has a spring birthday. For us, as for some other posters, it would depend on the child.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan... both dh & I loved his music, still do! I had just seen him a few months before. I'm sure there were others that effected me at one point, but his death still bothers me to this day.
Me, too. Did you see him in Atlanta at the Blues Fest, with BB King? I'm still kicking myself about missing that one.
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You've gotten some great advice and I agree with most. I would add these two things:
1. What happens if she meets this man outside of the gym? I would talk seriously to my daughter about his behavior and why it makes you uncomfortable. If he is grooming her, she'll be in less danger if she ever sees him again.
2. I'd leave the gym right away and I'd be asking a whole lot of questions. There is nothing that breaks the trust (and heart) of a child who has been molested than to know someone, especially a parent, suspected all was not right and did not try to protect him/her.
This would be very hard for me because I hate conflict and worry way too much about what other people think of me. But my children are worth it and so are yours, so I'm going to keep you in my prayers.
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How about The Shack? I'm reading it now. It's Christian fiction, if that matters.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle?
Something by Jane Austen or Louisa May Alcott?
Middlemarch?
To Kill a Mockingbird?
Tom Sawyer, or some other wanderlust kind of adventure novel?
Two Christian NF books I've liked recently are Where's Mom? The High Calling of Wives and Mothers and Biblical Womanhood in the Home.
Oh, and I really like Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie mysteries. :)
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I have three and won't give birth to anymore. My youngest is 11 1/2 and I owe it to my current children to be there for their growing up. I couldn't have anymore without risking my life and my baby's, so no more. I am fine with that. I am fine with my friends who have many (either naturally or through both birth and adoption). I am fine with my friends who have few or none or aren't even married. Since I see a number of instances in the Bible where the figures had few children as well as people who had many, I don't really see either as really being Godly. It is how we live not how many kids we have. When I was growing up, there were kids from large families where the parents were great and others that came from ignorant, lazy parents who gave birth and not much else. The Duggars seem like fine people but we prefer our lifestyle with less regimentation and more individuality. I can understand the logistics and expense that require them to have all children learn piano and violin but I enjoy that mine were able to learn what they wanted since there are only three. There are blessings in all types of families as long as the families are loving and nurturing. My kids missed out on having ready made sports teams at home. Theirs don't.
Yes, yes, and YES!!!
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Do you have a Trader Joe's near you? We use their powder and have been happy with it.
We like this one as well.
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I've ordered with them and had good experiences also.
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We took DD shortly after her first birthday. Looking back, I should have waited and let her make that decision herself.
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Not me, but I wish!
I have a filthy cold (insert whine) and it's pouring down rain. I'm thankful for the rain, but the folks who are in charge of the farmer's market, Mayfest, Faithfest and the festival a town over are probably suffering.
I really, really, REALLY want some strawberries right now, too! *sob!*
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Secondhand Lions is a good one.
Also, I personally like Jane Austen movies. The heroines' behaviors remind me of some qualities I'd like to cultivate in myself.
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Daddy's grandmother died of blood poisoning directly related to her ear piercings, so he was not happy when my mom and I got our ears pierced when I was 9. He got over it.
Amyable, mine also freaked out when I got my standard college double piercings, but by the time I got my third one in my left ear, he just rolled his eyes and snapped at me, "I guess if one is good, 100 is better!"
After years of not wearing the second and third earrings, I had the piercings re-done a few weeks ago. I'm nearly 40 years old and have no intention of telling Daddy! :leaving:
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Sneaks. As in "sneakers." But for a really weird reason.
A former pro baseball player moved into our town when he retired years ago and became friends with a friend of ours. Our friend told us a hilarious story of how his sweaty workout shoes made their way under his wife's car seat, where they were the source of a mysterious and apparently awful smell for awhile (think Georgia in the summertime). When they were finally discovered, she gave him the what-for about his stinky "sneaks" and our friend's mimicking of her had us rolling.
It tickled DH and me so much that we kept joking around about our "sneaks," and the name just stuck.
Before that, I called them tennis shoes. I grew up in Georgia and my folks are from this area as well, and that's what we called them growing up.
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I am a member of one homeschool group, based at our church. Because it is based at our church, we require a short, general statement of faith to be signed. I think that's fair.
But "living in a bubble?" Nah, not in real life. Christians aren't the only folks with wisdom, discernment, morals, standards, manners, courage or intelligence. We look to Jesus Christ as our ultimate example, and he didn't just hang out with the other church people.
As for teaching our children to live what we believe: Well, it's really just a matter of good standards and morals, isn't it? If I am Biblically convicted that my little girl shouldn't dress like a hooker, that doesn't mean that an atheist Mama can't draw the same conclusion for her daughter. If I am Biblically convicted that my children shouldn't bully or be bullied, that doesn't mean a Hindu mama doesn't feel the same about her children.
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Also, here's a guide to making powdered laundry detergent that I ran across this morning: A Life At Home
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What is your dw recipe? I've just used baking soda (i think) - I'm almost out of my Cascade and thinking about switching back again.
thanks!!
I know I'm not the OP, but I've used equal parts borax and washing soda to replace dishwasher detergent. I also have used 1/2 tsp. or less dish liquid in the reservoir that closes and baking soda in the secondary open reservoir.
Honestly, though, I only use those in a pinch. I haven't had great success with them. I like Seventh Generation gel and powder and am about to try the Trader Joe's brand (we can't use chlorine-based cleaners).
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I wasn't but I think I would have done much better academically if I had been. I'm nearly 40, and back then it just wasn't done in our little community. It's funny but there has been quite an explosion of hsing here -- I moved back to my hometown a couple of years ago -- and many of my classmates have hsed their children from birth.
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I don't know what bugs me most, the poor grammar or the boyfriends. :001_huh:
ETA: They just changed it to "gummy bears." Guess they'd rather have those than boyfriends!:D
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Right outside my window are DD, our neighbor girl and some of her friends (all in the 8-10 yo range). This is what I'm hearing:
"Ice cream, ice cream, cherry on top
How many boyfriends DO YOU GOT?
1...2...3...4..."
Just wrong. :glare:
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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I kind of remember my dad's dad -- Grandaddy -- who died when I was about 10. His wife, Grandmother, was sickly for a long time before she died about three years later. I remember their house smelling like cigars, which I really liked to smell, and I remember eating Krystals and drinking awful tea made with saccharine tablets. I also remember them bringing us Brach's Pick-A-Mix candies when they visited us. They lived about two hours away.
My mom's parents were farmers. I didn't like my Grandpa at all and he died when I was a freshman in high school. I had lots of great experiences with my cousins, aunts, uncles and great-grandmother (Nannie Goat was her nickname) at my Gram's house. Shelling peas on her big front porch, working in her garden, running wild in the pastures with the cows, climbing trees, playing under the irrigator in the hot summer...these are my memories of my Gram's house.
Nannie Goat died when I was about 9 but Gram is still alive at 87 and she is a treasure. No cookies but lots of good advice, perspective and encouragement. I talk to her every week or so and try to see her every few months (she is a couple of hours away). She loves my children and my 7-year-old son particularly is very attached to her. I am very thankful they have a chance to know her.
As for my own children's grandparents, they lost their sweet, cookie-baking, clothes-sewing, craft-creating Grammie to cancer last June and don't see their good Grandaddy that often, but they love him very well. My parents live about 12 miles away and we see them at least once a week most weeks and talk to them often. They are the kind of grandparents I want to grow up to be!
ETA: Long ago when we first married, my husband was job-hunting and refused to take anything too far away. He grew up far away from his grandparents and extended family and wanted to be sure our future children knew their grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins because he hadn't been close to his either physically or emotionally. He is a wise, wise man and was a good Daddy before he ever became one.
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Could he be reacting to food rather than environmental allergens?
I hope you find some relief soon! :grouphug:
If you can't afford to do go somewhere or do something with friends...
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"It's not in the budget" is the refrain around here. We save our bigger entertainment for family times. Not that we wouldn't enjoy Six Flags or Stone Mountain or Callaway Gardens with friends, but because we have to budget carefully, we try to make it a family event rather than a casual thing with friends.
Not that I tell most people that, which is where the "It's not in the budget" thing comes in. Thankfully, most of my friends are on a budget as well. :)