I'm a little late to this thread and it may have already been mentioned, but I really miss the Wegman's Scan & Go. It was so efficient to scan and bag everything as I shopped!! Then just scan, pay, and leave! Even without the Scan & Go, I much prefer self-checkout, but the checkout areas are too small for a full cart of groceries.

I looked into this when we moved and decided to go with an underground wire because we don’t have a lot of property. The wireless fences apparently work better for larger areas because it’s not as exact of a boundary. I know someone who is very happy with the Halo collar wireless system but we don’t have enough property for it.

We have separate Amazon accounts, but DH gets a text every time our credit card is used. It’s annoying. We’ve been hacked a lot so he wants the alerts but it makes it hard to keep anything a surprise.

I'm trying to do a book a month. No specific genres.

Do you have any other door that your dogs could use? I have our invisible fence on two separate loops for this very reason. Well, she doesn't destroy packages, but she barks "ferociously" (not really) and scares the delivery drivers. I don't want her barking at drivers or people walking down the street so usually I just let her out in the back. We have the front looped separately and she knows the boundary just for her safety in case she gets out. Otherwise, I like the idea of a danger dog sign at the front of the driveway, maybe also with a stop sign, and also ANOTHER box at your front door in case they are oblivious.

I will say that this definitely was a problem for my parents’ extra fridge. It stopped working when the outside temp got too cold. So I don’t think it’s a marketing ploy.

Following. We put ours in the garage but we are not sure what will happen. My parents had a regular fridge in their garage that they had to modify somehow so that it would still kick on in the winter. We are just kind of waiting to see. It's not full of a cow or anything, just some random extra frozen dinners.

I’m so sorry.

Is it possible for you to take time off? Like a sabbatical? Do lawyers do that? It seems like a break might be more helpful at this moment rather than a career change during such a tough season.

I wouldn’t do three that close. I’d just do two and add another day.

I was going to suggest the Hershey’s perfect chocolate chocolate cake recipe, but I see you’re going with carrot cake. 😊

I would call. They can send you a label if they want them back or they will tell you to keep them. I would absolutely keep them if the CS rep says to keep them. They will follow the company policy or risk losing their job. The other thing that could happen is, they might realize the shipment was sent and then charge the card again. I would not want that to happen to someone else's card. So I would definitely call.

The homeschool talk is nowhere what it used to be. It's slowed wayyyyyy down. I've been on here for 12 years and the forums were much more active all over back then. It seems that the chat group is the only one that moves fast these days.

I used to use it primarily for researching homeschool curricula. Now I use it for getting opinions quickly on a wide variety of things (best robot vacuum? Where to find xyz? Parenting teens question #1675894458273485) and also just time to read and zone. I'm not interested in debating hot topics, but I do find it enlightening to read a variety of opinions.

This is so much for one person. I’m so sorry. I’m not familiar with your family situation. Do you have any siblings to help shoulder your mom’s requests?

Do you mean something as benign as temporary loss of smell or are you looking for more significant symptoms?

My 16yo who loves to read and loves theater is reading Dante’s Inferno right now and is really enjoying it. Otherwise, B&N has a great selection of classic books with beautiful covers in their Collectible Editions. I know my DD would love any one of them for her bookshelf even if she’s already read it.

This link was an interesting read. I’m from NJ and both of my parents grew up in NJ but different areas. I actually think the difference might be more regional NJ than regional Italian ancestry. My dad was from a very Italian neighborhood in a city. My mom was from a wealthy suburban town. For my dad, sauce isn’t gravy only when it has meat, it’s always gravy. But his family was not big on meat sauce anyway (as in, meat sauce with ground beef). They definitely put meat in the sauce for special occasions like Christmas. It would be sausage, pieces of beef, or braciole for super special occasions especially Christmas. My parents never argued about the term but I definitely grew up hearing my dad call it gravy and my mom call it sauce. I say sauce. And I always twirl it.

My parents are both of Italian heritage, both sets of grandparents off the boat. Different regions of Italy. My dad says gravy, my mom says sauce. And in my mom's family, we always twirled it with a fork and spoon. My dad's family "would never!" I think both families would use gravy boats (two or three down the long table) for ease of serving large crowds.

A queen is even too small for me and DH and we are not large. I just need my SPACE 🤣 So my vote is two twins.

I think she does a great job addressing everything that is hard to understand, especially where historical and cultural context might make it challenging for us today to grasp the original meaning.

No it is not every verse. The podcast/reading is approximately a one page teaching/summary/explanation of the main points of the passage. Each day covers a few chapters to get you through the Bible in a year. The author also provides different opinions where scholars differ similar to what you might see in the footnotes of a study Bible. "some scholars believe this is in reference to XYZ while others say it might indicate ABC" etc.

I did this last year and enjoyed it. I started out listening to the podcast but ended up buying the book that is the podcast written out because it was frustrating for me to find my place everyday. I didn't start on January 1st so I had to scroll through and find the right day that I was on every time. I tried a few different apps and each was equally as frustrating. It would not just let me continue to the next day. Anyway, that was a function of the app not the content. I thought it was great. I didn't use any of the other tools, just the plan and podcasts/readings to reinforce and summarize what I had read.

Have you every bought shoes from here? DD tells me that "everyone" gets sneakers from here and it is reputable. I've never heard of it before.

Does she like Harry Potter? Accio boxes are cool. They just changed the name to Magic Delivered. https://magicdelivered.co