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We went to go see this today. We don't typically spend money on going out to the movies, but we had two free tickets. It still wasn't worth the $6.75 Sunday matinee price.
Pixar movies are usually excellent. They missed the mark with this one.
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My very early morning just started under noon.
"Under noon" is admittedly awkward phrasing, but it's better than Nancy. :001_smile:
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3 year old girl: a dinosaur or an airplane driver.
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The Story of Ferdinand. http://www.amazon.com/Story-Ferdinand-Puffin-Storytime/dp/0142409529/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308606305&sr=8-1
Easily still one of my favorite books.
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Shhhh! We are. But no one knows. After a week or two it will be 4 months of trying.
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GIMP. http://www.gimp.org
It's open-source, free, and fairly powerful. Not terribly user-friendly, but it can do most anything.
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My daughter is vaccinated on the "typical" schedule, but I wanted to say that her doctor told us it would be ok to skip the well baby visits after she turned 2. We switched insurance and we simply couldn't afford $72 every few months for 5 minutes of their time. Granted, DD has always been in perfect health and we can still go if she gets sick.
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We're going this weekend!
We've decided to do WDW on the first day, the "women folk" hang out and rest at the hotel while the rest of the family does universal (with express passes), and everybody goes to Islands on the third day (with passes).
We're staying in a condo off site, so I can't really say anything about that.
We looked into getting park hopper, but the prices we saw had 2 day, 2 park being the cheapest. I'm not sure about 3 day, though.
Don't forget, there are a ton of other things to do in Orlando- like the alligator park and Ikea (can you tell what I want to do on the middle day?)
Good luck planning! It seems like we've been planning this trip for ages.
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Pregnancy test, cucumbers, carrots, and *ahem* personal lubricant.
We wanted a salad! I swear.
I could have died at the register. Especially since we had the baby with us.
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We have two female white mice (generic lab mouse breed). Their cage starts to stink after a few days, but any sort of rodent will stink a little. They are very sweet and have never bitten us, though we did get them as juveniles, so they have been socialized from a pretty young age. I think mice are way better pets than hamsters (we had one that died a few months ago) because mice have shorter teeth- I don't think my mice could break the skin even if they wanted to, but the hamster drew blood on several occasions.
Our mice love to explore and will even walk on DD's arms if I let them.
I will say, though, when we get another small pet, it will be a guinea pig.
It's important to remember to let the mice get used to you gradually. For the first day, just put your hand in the cage for a few minutes at a time. They might come sniff you, or they might not. Keep doing this until they climb in your hand. After a while of them climbing on you, you can slowly lift your hand out and pet them. If you have to pick them up before they will come to you willingly, you can trick them in to climbing in a toilet paper tube or a cup, or you can carefully pick them up by the base of their tail.
Good luck!
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I cut the hair around here- using a cheap Wahl from Walmart. DH won't let me cut it until I badger him for a month, so by that time I have to cut it with scissors first so the hair won't clog the clippers.
I start with a 2 or 2.5 guard and go over his entire head. If I'm feeling fancy I'll go over the back with a slightly shorter guard, but that's backfired on me before and left a weird line on the back of his head (like last time. SHH!). Then, I take the guard off and clean up the scraggly neck/back hair that's left. Finally, I'll take the included scissors and clean up around his ears. It takes less than 15 minutes and it usually looks ok.
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I think that a lot of people are confusing the issue. Stages is not undermining MIL's authority. Her dh is. She is having issues with that. If you want to equate it to Stages it would be more like this:
FIL gave her dc something he knew she did not approve of. MIL knew he was going to do it and and told him she did not approve of him undermining Stages, but did not inform Stages he was going to do it. Should Stages be angry at MIL for undermining her authority? No. FIL did it, not MIL.
Thank you. I was starting to suspect that some people might have missed that part.
I truly don't want to do anything to hurt my relationship with my MIL. She really is a wonderful woman.
To answer your original question, we aren't currently allowing HP, but we will in a few years. I have no issue with them being wizards, but there is a lot of death (especially in the later books) and I would wait until I felt my kids had the emotional maturity to handle that. (Types the lady that just read the books two years ago and wept at the end of the last few...)I cried too. I'm way more excited about this trip than I should be.
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Just a thought how would you feel if your MIL secretly gave or let your dc read/watch something that you did not approve of? I think you MIL deserves the same respect for her child. We have pretty much avoided the whole HP thing. My oldest is almost 8 and has just even noticed it. I'm sure in the future I will have to visit the whole notion.
I wasn't going to say anything, but since a lot of people have mentioned this, I suppose I should say that MIL has given my daughter things that I don't necessarily approve of- like giving her a nativity set for Christmas and taking her to church without my knowledge, as well as talking to her (innocuously) about God. My husband and I are not religious, and would prefer for any religious information to come from us. We know she didn't mean harm by it, and if I made a big deal about it, I don't think she would do it again, so we just let it go.
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I don't that's fair to Stages. She's choosing (it appears) to stay out of someone else's business. How her husband chooses to handle HIS personal relationships with his sister and his mother is HIS business.
Stages may have her own opinions on the matter, but opinions are not actions and it sounds like she hasn't done anything herself to disrespect the MIL's choices for the teenage girl.
Thank you.
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I guess I'm not sure why you feel that she doesn't have the proper knowledge to make this decision. And why you think that you should undermine what she thinks is appropriate for her own child.
That to me is such a lack of respect and I think you both should respect her wishes. Why you are even having this conversation to me is frightful! You and your DH should go to the HP themed area on your own, meet up later and leave the parenting up to your MIL. And FWIW I don't think a 14 yr old should be able to read whatever she wants.
Stay out of it and respect your MIL.
I don't think I should undermine her. That's the whole issue.
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I'd stay out of the husband/sister/mother thing ~ he can make his own decisions as to how he handles his mother, his sister, and whatever. I wouldn't get into the middle of that, nope.
I think I agree. I really do love my MIL, and she's never done anything that I know of that goes against my rules/wishes for our daughter. I think my husband might just have to be on his own here.
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Is sil and your dh already doing something on the second day? Could you ask MIL to have a "girl's time" with your sil and dd, while you and your dh go on that day or part of that day?
MIL and I are sitting out on the second day is to save on ticket money and so we can have some low-key time. I get motion sick and MIL has some knee problems, so we'll need a break. DH and SIL will be riding roller coasters at Universal on the middle day while we rest, then all of us will go to Islands of Adventures the last day. I wish there were an elegant scheduling solution for this.
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I think you are right- tell DH to talk to his mom, then act like I'm completely surprised if he does it anyway. I think DH has a hard time understanding his mom because she became more conservative after he had already left the house, so he got to do a lot more than his sister did.
If his mother says "no" to the audiobook and the rides then I would forego both of them. I would save the Harry Potter area for a day or time when your mom, daughter and sil are doing something else exciting and you are "doing something special as a couple". I would keep it a secret from your sil to avoid building up resentment in her toward her mother. The fact is, once your sil is older, she can read the HP books and still enjoy them. She can go to the rides etc. on her own too at that time.The problem with the above is that it's only a three day trip, and MIL, daughter, and I are already sitting out the middle day. The only time we have would be the last day when all of us will be at the park. This is the first major family vacation we've ever taken, so we can't really run off by ourselves. Nine hour drive + huge expense = family togetherness.
Well, you say no to Twilight, but yes to HP.What if your ds and his wife feel that is wrong and undermine you in 20 years by introducing Twilight to your other dc? Would you be ok with that?
I say no Twilight because I don't see any redeeming value in it...of course, I haven't read them either and I'm just basing my opinion on what I've heard and the internet. ;) I don't have an issue with books- I think that your brain will just skip over anything you're not ready to process yet. Movies I'm a bit different on, because you can't really get an image out of your head once it's there. I will say, though, my husband and I are atheist, so that probably shapes our views quite a bit.
It's hard for me to say how I would react to something like that. Part of me wants to say that it's a much older siblings place to do that, much like it's a grandparent's right to spoil. I've caught my mom several times giving my daughter a sip of diet coke, even though she knows Holden's not allowed to drink soda. All I do is give my mom the stink eye and sigh- not make a big deal about it. So I don't know.
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For parents that don't allow Harry Potter, how old are your children? If they are young, do you think you will ease up on it when they get older?
I ask because we are going to Universal Studios with my inlaws in a few weeks, where they have a fantastic looking Harry Potter themed area. My husband and I are huge fans, but my mother-in-law won't allow my 14 year old sister-in-law to read the books or watch the movies. My MIL is very conservative, but I know her opinions are only based on what she's heard about the franchise, not firsthand knowledge.
I'm fairly certain MIL will take our daughter to a preschool-y area while we go to Harry Potter, but I know SIL will want to go with us. If you don't allow Harry Potter, would you make an exception for something like that? SIL adores her brother (my husband), and she would be very upset if she didn't get to see it with us.
Then, the last issue- my husband wants to get my SIL an audiobook of the first Harry Potter for her to secretly listen to on the way to Florida. My husband has a long history of giving his sister media his mother wouldn't necessarily approve of (the Matrix, Star Wars, etc.), so this wouldn't be anything new. I'm staying out of it, because although I agree that my SIL should be allowed to read whatever she wants, it's not my call. Plus, I like that MIL likes me, and I don't want to mess that up. :001_smile: For what it's worth, my father-in-law doesn't seem to have an opinion in this.
What would you do in this situation? I don't like that my husband is undermining his mom, but I agree that SIL should be able to read something like Harry Potter (Twilight no, but Harry Potter, absolutely).
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I broke my wrist and bruised my elbow six years ago. I was in physical therapy for six weeks starting a few days after I got the cast off, plus I was in a brace any time I wasn't bathing or exercising it. I know I wouldn't have the range of motion and strength I have in it now if I didn't go.
When I broke it I bruised the ulnar nerve at my elbow (the funny bone), and I couldn't feel the top of my hand or my pinkie for about 6 months. Your son may be having some issues with that, which would make his arm feel weird. Even now, when I hit my funny bone, my arm hurts for about two days.
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I watched it about a month ago. The more I learn about the seedy underbelly of the American educational system, the more I know I want to keep my kid at home.
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As others have said, make sure to emphasize "unsweet" tea. I haven't encountered too many places in Mississippi where you can't find unsweet tea- if nothing else, some people want to use a sugar substitute or sweeten to taste.
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I used to manage a movie rental store in a college town where our uniform was a polo shirt and khakis. For turning in an application, I would be impressed by people who came in wearing khakis and either a polo for guys or a school/community-related t-shirt (Seniors 2009 or Homecoming 2010 kinds of things) for girls. I would want to see people with conservative hair, conservative makeup, and no visible tattoos or piercings other than ears. Basically, I wanted to see how much they would have to change to fit into dress code.
I would not expect people who are just turning in an application to look professional even if I did an interview on the spot.
When people would actually come in for an interview, I would want to see guys in a polo (tucked in) and khakis and girls in a nice shirt or polo. No visible cracks.
It's really easy to overdress for an interview like that, so it's probably best to dress as closely to the uniform of the job (if it has a uniform).
Side note: I once interviewed a stripper. I don't think she changed clothes before she came to the interview. I did not give her a call back.
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I felt the first movement at 14 weeks, then nothing until 16 weeks. Then it was pretty much just a wiggly, wormy feeling in my gut. At 20 weeks (right before the gender ultrasound) i saw her push her elbow out for the first time.
PSA: teach your kids it's rude to whisper about people in front of them
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We treat waiting rooms like libraries- they are places to be quiet and not disturb others.