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9 minutes ago, saraha said:
This visit counts as her birthday and Easter, so next visit will be thanksgiving!
I think this counts as birthday, Easter, Thanksgiving AND Christmas.
😂 I love your bathroom texts. Sorry you have to live through it for our entertainment. The image of you texting in the bathroom with your mom outside 😂 😂 😂
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1 hour ago, MEmama said:
I've been battling depression for a couple of years. I'm currently in a space where I can accomplish the very basics (and we don't have kids at home so daily clutter is a minimum) but ugh, my house needs a good washing. I'm thinking about hiring a cleaner but I have no idea how.
Good luck, OP. It's daunting.
Have you considered a company like Molly Maids or something like that? People also get names off the neighborhood Facebook pages or fro me friends. But I think a cleaning company is your safest bet unless you know someone who has a cleaner they like.
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4 minutes ago, SHP said:
This right here. Had a rash of cancer in my family among the older members. None of the oncologists seemed particularly worried about it being unusual
Yeah-both my parents, two of my grandparents, my FIL—I would say most older people eventually have some form of cancer.
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8 hours ago, KSera said:
My recollection of that event was that it was never (publicly) determined? If we’re talking about the same thing, a known poster here shared they had been in public (a cruise? Restaurant? I can’t remember) and saw someone who is a celebrity and then could see that they were reading the forums on their phone. For the privacy of the celebrity, they didn’t want to share who it was. Which I thought was appropriate.
I remember that. I remember it as an airport.
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I grew up in DC and got my license at 16. My SIL and MIL grew up in Queens and didn’t get theirs until they were adults.
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Yes, I read that they waited until the kids were on holiday.
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1 minute ago, J-rap said:
Another more recent one that seems to be missing is Quill. I'm sure some of you are in touch with her! Someone from about ten years ago who was very active was Sparkly Unicorn. I'm not sure what happened to her.
Quill is using a new name. She’s just as active.
I miss Sparkly unicorn, too.
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2 hours ago, SanDiegoMom said:
My daughter became best friends with her roommates from her SOPHOMORE year, after a less than stellar freshman year. The freshman roommates weren't terrible, but one was never there and the other was still stuck in high school mean girls kind of behavior. The second year she got super grounded and loyal friends who she ended up convincing to go on a cross country road trip with her in January!
I am still super good friends with my sophomore roommate after a less than stellar freshman roommate.
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3 minutes ago, saraha said:
Im glad dh was within earshot of this conversation, but that doesn’t mean he actually heard it. 🙄
I have had grown dds call me at work to ask me questions like if there was more mayonnaise. My response? Did you look on the top shelf left side in the fridge? Did you look in the pantry? Then I guess not??? 🤦♀️ Or when putting groceries away, where do you want this? And this? And this? NOTHING has changed about stuff placement in my kitchen on 15 years
This has been the on going irritant in my marriage. In general we get along great but he thinks I’m rude if I object to questions like the above and I think it’s rude that he won’t just look! When we got married he didn’t want an answer like in the cupboard by the sink. He thought it was reasonable to expect—middle shelf, on the left. ( yes, that’s how his mother answers such questions!) Tb fair he asks less often now but still!
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I am confused, too. The house would probably be split in the divorce. Your best hope would be to buy him out and share with your sister with your name on the papers.
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It is indeed! I have two coming home from college this summer and I’m exhausted just thinking about it!
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Ds isn’t fond of his roommate. He’s not one to share so I don’t know any details. They are civil, but don’t really talk. Ds will room from a friend from his high school youth group who is part of his friend group at school. They had decided not to room together the first year, but will next year.
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Great job!
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Well, that was unexpected. To me it means that you were right to stand up to her.
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No solid plans for summer here. Sigh. But he’s doing well otherwise. I should check on his housing.
We got our Fafsa results but I think they are wrong. Dh said it never asked him about assets. That has to be wrong. Did other people get asked about assets?
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Wow, you are much nicer than I would have been and I can be too nice. She was blatantly rude to you. I think you should go meet Dharma whenever you want. Go tomorrow even though you said you wouldn’t. I would have texted her, “no, seriously, you back off.” So I am impressed with your restraint. You don’t need to tip toe around her. She doesn’t have real power over you.
Sorry about your people working against you. 😞
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@Corraleno that is an appalling story. I am so sad for him and all the other kids who have lived through that—generations and generations.
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I know you live next to grandparents so he eleven has close adults if he has an emergency. Even his dad is on the property, right, bc he farms? Is there a reason you think you shouldn’t leave him or is it mostly that he’s your oldest and you haven’t?
ETA: one of the things I did leave my oldest for was to bring his little siblings to gymnastics.
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I would and have left a seventh grader alone for a couple of hours by himself. I would and didn’t leave him with computer access. I would keep my expectations low that school work would get done. I would leave easy things like literature or history reading. Would make sure I checked right away that things got done and I would make sure if he didn’t that they did get done even if it meant having no screen time.
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17 minutes ago, Scarlett said:
Except earlier in the day of Dec 28 Kate and William announced a trip to Italy. Later that evening about 6:30 the ambulance came to their residence.
the Italy trip as well as other engagements were then cancelled. So not planned.The 28th would have been the emergency. As someone upthread said—at that point they stabilized her and planned the mid-January surgery. So it was planned, but after the emergency.
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17 minutes ago, Eos said:
I completely agree. Thanks for the book rec. Regarding the performative element, yesterday I was harboring dark thoughts about the future for these families when the pendulum swings or some new form of marketing takes off, will their marriages take the strain? Or will there arise a new online trend of #formertrads with indignant, tell-all memoirs? Or when their children reach adulthood and start attending the "I was a sad beige baby with everything to live for" support groups?
It's funny you say that. I just read an article last week about a formertrad telling why she left the "movement." (and her marriage)
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Hugs to you and your dc ❤️
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35 minutes ago, 2ndGenHomeschooler said:
I might do this. I don’t want to put Algebra 1 twice, once in 9th and again in 12th. It’s what she needed and part of the magic of homeschooling is that we can do this. But it wouldn’t make sense to anyone else.
I wonder if we have done enough to cobble together a consumer math credit. Or even just half a credit. She’s done some stuff in co-op that could fit and she started working this year and has learned some stuff there. We’ll be working on taxes this week. I have a consumer math text. I’ll see how much we’ve covered and maybe switch to that through the end of the year.
I think that’s a great idea. My present ninth grader is doing geometry this year but we are also heavily reviewing algebra. I just didn’t think she was solid enough. I’m not going to put the review on the transcript at all.
I also think that hitting consumer math hard is probably the most useful math for a child not going into a math heavy major. I think Algebra 2 and consumer math is fine.
Easter menus and recipes
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I’m mixing things up around here. We used to live where we could get a free ham if we spent $300 so we had endless ham. This year I think we’ll have:
chicken stuffed with mozzarella and asparagus
my yummy scalloped potatoes
broccoli salad?
salad with toppings
a peach cake recipe I found online with whip cream or custard
wine/fizzy apple juice