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  1. I was almost Carrie which was my mother's grandma's name. Ended up Janet after my mom's best friend who also named her firstborn daughter after my mom, Karen. When I was younger I always wished that Carrie had won. I never met the lady but from all reports she was a spry, happy person and I would have been honored to have her name 🙂
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  3. We've had two broken necks among the elders in our family in the past three years. Falls are a big deal and anything that you can do to convince her avoid them is important. I tried and tried to talk my mom into physical therapy but none of her drs. ever mentioned it and she was loathe to bring it up so her walking continued to deteriorate rapidly over the last years of her life. Her last fall led to her demise as she was on the floor for several hours, broken neck and bleeding (blood thinners). She never regained her strength. I wish she had begun to work at the physical therapy when she first began to have trouble walking but she wasn't willing and that was her decision. If you can convince your mom, I would push for physical therapy! Maybe you or your dad can get her drs. on board with specific recommendations.
  4. I was reading parts of this thread to my 17yods last night and now we are even more thankful for his job at a local restaurant/ice cream place. Yesterday morning we realized a soccer game had popped up on our schedule during a time when he usually works next week. He requested it off and was notified within 30 minutes that it was approved. He also has a very consistent schedule. In the summer it varied a bit but since school and fall sports have started it's the same every week.
  5. Yes, at least I will get it an my three youngest who live at home. I assume my dh will get it, too, we just haven't really discussed it. The timing is a challenge though because we are smack in the middle of volleyball and soccer seasons. I was looking today for a gap in games and can't find any until about the third week of October. My 25yods is getting married Nov 6 so it would be best to have it done at least two weeks before those activities. We'll see. My son and his family who live overseas are arriving next week after multiple flights to stay with us for the foreseeable future. I've been hoping our immunity carries us through whatever they might be exposed to on this trip.
  6. My mom was in hospice care for about 24 hours before she died. This was a separate wing of the hospital and though it was a short time, they were wonderful. They helped us through that day, helped Mom be comfortable and were so kind. I'll never forget their kindness, gentle spirits and the wonderful knowledge they were able to convey that helped us to deal with the different steps Mom went through that day.
  7. This may not have been appropriate on the teacher's part but it's not like it was duct tape. Masking tape barely sticks to skin or doesn't stick very long unless it was some kind of super strength masking tape. I was probably one of the quietest kids in my class but one day my best friend and I were cutting up in sixth grade math. The teacher drew a small circle on the chalkboard for each of us and made us stand for the rest of class with our noses in the circles. I was mortified. It would probably be deemed a horrible punishment now but I'll tell you, that was the last time I ever got in trouble in that class and it didn't injure anything but my pride.
  8. I feel sympathy with the teacher though because that was probably the only time she had to concentrate all of her efforts on the kids who needed a little extra help in math. The teacher's are often between a rock and a hard place on that kind of stuff.
  9. Thank you for this. She has an Android phone so maybe I can make this work.
  10. Paper doesn't help because she really can't comprehend most writing very well. I'm updating the phone and email to mine as much as she will let me but there are a few things that are constantly slipping through the cracks.
  11. Some may remember my aunt who suddenly began having major memory and cognitive issues last summer. Surprisingly, she's doing much better. She was diagnosed with low B12 levels and taking supplements along with some coping mechanisms she has developed seem to be helping a lot. This summer our major problem centers around technology. She has an iPad and a cell phone. The iPad she seems to primarily use for jigsaw puzzles. The cell phone she uses as a phone but also reads her email and receives texts. She is frequently getting agitated over texts and emails because she will read something, then not remember how to reread it. She calls me and gets angry if I can't solve the problem. I think we've got the email figured out. We can copy it all to me as a separate folder that way if she needs me to I can see it, too. Texts are another story. Is there anyway to have texts automatically duplicated and forwarded to another phone. In the past week her cable company (in a different state) and her homeowners association has given her info through texts that we/she needed but it turned a simple thing into a big deal because she either deleted the texts or couldn't remember that they were texts and couldn't find them again. Right now she lives about 20 minutes from me which means I am driving back and forth frequently only to solve electronics issues. I told my dh I was going to throw them in the pond by her condo - j/k, mostly. In a month she will be 12 hours away for the winter. I need to get this figured out before then. How have you dealt with this stuff with aging and confused people?
  12. This what we've done once they reached a basic competency (being able to keep the car straight, understanding how the brakes feel, etc.). Because of where we live there is a lot of highway driving involved in going anywhere so they need to get used to it. Most of them also learned to drive in our 12 passenger van - lol! My oldest was sure he could pass the driving test and manueverability test in the van but at the last minute chickened out and drove a smaller car 🤣
  13. Child #5 moved to the dorms on Monday. He insisted he didn't need help so I assumed he was packing things up back in his room. As I was leaving for an extended errand I stuck my head in the door to check on his progress and zero had been done. He was gone when I got back but if you surveyed his room you couldn't tell he had actually taken anything with him except part of his "college" pile of supplies (comforter, towels, microwave and mini-fridge) had disappeared. He returned that night to pick up the new sheets he had forgotten. He returned last night to pick up some clothes and his computer and to return the car that we told him he couldn't have on campus this year. He texted to ask dh to bring him some hangers today. (dh works at the same university). It's probably a good thing he didn't go too far away from home - LOL!
  14. My aunt has two residences. When she leaves one she puts it in "suspension" status so only one bill at a time but one house is always suspended. That wouldn't work for your situation. We shared our cable login with our adult son so he could use it for certain sports events. It seems like it he had trouble with it sometimes but usually worked but he didn't use it on a regular basis.
  15. We are pro-bench at our house. We had a table built by an Amish furniture company about 20 years ago and had a long bench on one side. It is still my favorite place to sit during our school day. In fact, I had the house to myself last week and still sat on the bench rather than any of the other chairs that were available. My 12yodd and 14yods still sit on it for pretty much every meal. Yes, when more than two people need to be on it, it is awkward to get in and out but we haven't found it to be too much of an issue in our family. I really like that we can put four grandkids on it together. Makes our dining table space much more flexible as far as numbers are concerned.
  16. Over the past few years I've seemed to develop a sensitivity to sunscreens. The first time it happened I had used a mineral based sunscreen and broke out in a horrible rash so I switched to using a "baby" version that my daughter-in-law had left here and it was fine. I forgot last Saturday at a fair and used the regular that everyone else was using and then it took me until Wednesday last week to figure out why I had a rash (I'm a bit slow - lol!) Yesterday was an air show so I made sure to take my baby version and confidently used it but now I'm broken out in a rash again . . maybe not as bad as last week but it's still there and it's early days. Are there any brands that may not have the same components or is the only solution to cover up more (I hate that idea). I used an umbrella yesterday so I probably didn't even need the sunscreen so much so I'm really annoyed at myself! If you have this issue is there a brand that you've found might work? I need to try the sensitive skin versions before I give up but I'm almost afraid to now.
  17. I just started using a Google pixel 5a and it's been a great upgrade for me. We had always had low-end Motorola's before and I wanted something with a better camera and it has accomplished that.
  18. People who will not move their cars over one inch when passing someone walking on our country road. No sidewalks and very little traffic so most will swing out into the other lane to give me room on my morning walks but almost every morning there are the two same cars, driving at a higher speed than everyone else who do not move over at all so I end up needing to step into the ditch. It's just so unnecessary!
  19. He had two accidents during the morning and then the daycare received the toilet insert (or went and got one? That part wasn't clear) and he was completely normal the rest of the day. Hopefully the problem is solved.
  20. I agree and I hope my dd pursues the whole story. I'm not sure how many kids the facility has but I do know they have multiple rooms for different ages so maybe the insert disappeared into another room and no one thought how important it was to him? This place really has been an excellent fit to the point that my dd has turned down jobs that would take her too far away from this daycare. I'm sure she'll be pursuing the issue today and I'm praying that it gets resolved. To me it seems so obvious, but maybe with his sickness in the middle (whatever that was) it obscured and interrupted his daycare time enough that they didn't realize what was going on.
  21. Wednesday morning update: My dd loaded him up on fluids as much as she could before taking him to daycare this morning and took him in to use his normal bathroom. Despite being told repeatedly by the teacher that they used a toddler insert in the adult sized toilet, there was none to be found. So, they have him on an adult seat with no insert and just tell him to hang on. He is not a big 2.5 year old (he was a premie and weight has always been a concern) and is used to using a toddler potty at home. We may have just found the problem. My dd asked about it and got a vague answer that there used to be one but it had disappeared and they had just ordered a new one yesterday. So we think that they had one when he first trained six weeks ago, it disappeared and probably around the time he got sick they were forcing him to use the larger toilet which stressed him out, on top of whatever virus he had! I would not want to be the teacher or administrator at the daycare today - my younger kids were cringing at the thought of their sister's anger over this whole thing!
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