Prayers for all of you sweet person

We do new flannel pajama pants and fun tshirts or long sleeved tshirts or even thermal shirts, just depends on what is on sale. I have bought old navy pajama pants for at least 10 years. They don’t match (well, some have similar ones received on different years as they are young adults now and not out growing out of them. And there are 6 of them so not always enough new patterns) I always choose old navy because they last well and they go on sale one day in fall. Up til Covid, they went on sale for one day for $5. Last two years it’s been on sale one day for $9.

My mother. I wear a lot of her hand me down sweaters. She buys clothes constantly from Walmart. Wears them a few times, then gives them away, either to me or her sisters. She only in the last year started donating things. Before, if no one wanted them, they went in the trash. I have one dd that is a clothes hound, but she has to buy all her own clothes so she haunts thrift shops. She’s away at college and the first thing she figured out how to do was utilize the college’s clothing exchange and use the bus to get to the thrift store. She buys used and donates back when she’s over something or trades clothes at the clothing exchange. If you bring something you can take something. She figured out quick she could turn over a lot more clothes buying used and it has become a kind of hobby. She loves to put together outfits, and thrift shopping makes it more of a challenge, which she really enjoys.

Oh how I wish I had had these when I was younger. I think for me, I only had my crazy mother and sister, so having this big new family was a lot of fun the first few years, so I let a bad pattern get started. Then I didn’t have the words or the nerve to stand up for myself. My mom had five different husbands, I had no idea how to disagree in marriage, I thought you got along or got divorced. So I just didn’t make it a hill to divorce on. Until the day I had a full on melt down. I had to be brave enough to face the possibility of divorce or to continue where we were at. It wasn’t easy, but fortunately for me my dh was committed, so we’ve been working on it. @Ting Tang I don’t have any advice, but I do sincerely hope you are able to get what you need.

Went through surgery ok, will know more tomorrow at check in. This is the fourth time since February he’s been put under and it just isn’t getting any less scary for me. Thanks for all the support

I have totally been where you are, down to farming together. Command family meals weekly no matter what we had going on, command holidays that SIL organized, group vacations the whole 9 yards. About 20 years in, I had a full on melt down complete with absolutely refusing to get in the car. I told him all of our young years were spent doing what his mom and sister wanted to do and because of that, I have never hosted a single holiday just for our kids and now that they were moving out and growing up, did he expect them to continue organizing their lives around his family? And from that moment on, I made a schedule for my kids and either opted in or opted out of family activities as I wanted to. Basically I boxed him out of having a say about what I did with my time/life. It was a long hard road, but he did finally come around. I heard it all, “it’s embarrassing if you don’t come” “you’re just jealous” “they do so much for us” “you’re acting like a child” “fine, we’ll go without you” I decided it was worth it to see if we would make it through or not. I am so glad to say we did, but I was prepared to not. I was tired of not being heard and being ordered around just because I was the youngest sons wife. In this last couple of years it has still come up occasionally, especially when dh’s mom got dementia. But it is soooo much better

Thanks, we thought it had to be respiration of some sort but then we couldn’t seem to figure it out because it moves a whole lot, but he couldn’t seem to affect it. Just being silly while he waits 😆

we keep forgetting to ask what that third line measures. We have played with it by him holding his breath etc to try to figure out what it measures 😆 Does anybody know? The yellow word all the way to the left says Imped

The check in nurse was like, weren’t you just here? Yes, yes we were. This is surgery #4 just in this eye

Today is another surgery.

Hope things are better today. Hugs for you guys and for the poor kid

Hugs for you @popmom

What is your favorite way to use the pork belly? Is it eaten like a beef roast, just kind of on its own? I’m not familiar with a hot pot. On the show,!it looks like it’s cooked as a whole piece, making sure the cracklings are good. This is so foreign to any way we cook pork

We have discovered My Kitchen Rules on freevee. We are really enjoying this show. They keep talking about pork belly. We raise hogs on our farm and never once on the cuts sheet at the slaughter house has pork belly been an option. I’ve also never seen it for sale in the stores. Do regular people use pork belly in their homes? It seems that on this show, everyone is about the cracklin on the pork belly

I did and my sister and I would fight over it. We always seemed to want to use it at the same time and we would have fashion shows where we cut them out, pasted to popsicle sticks and walked a cat walk

Dh got two of his four taken out in his 30s. They hadn’t caused any problems til then. It wasn’t anymore of a big deal than it was for ds23 and ds21.

Second the sandwiches, my teen boys regularly ate lunch meat and cheese or pbj sandwiches in between meals. Cheese sticks, apples Make it easy n yourself. ETA: my boys liked lunch meat and cheese sandwiches better on hamburger buns. for some reason when they saw a sandwich on a hamburger bun they got very excited 🤷🏼‍♀️

We’ve been gifted a few different ones over the years and it seems like they haven’t worked very well. We really want to have something reliable and fairly bright but not cost a fortune as we want to gift 6 for Christmas. Does anyone have any that have worked consistently? Thanks!

During that time of our lives, dh and I had date night every week. Sometimes we went somewhere, more often than not we sent the kids to bed early on a Thursday night, ate a special snack or take out just for us and watched a movie or show that was for grown ups. We would talk during the show, so something like survivor or the amazing race and that would usually lead to conversations not family focused. No talk about family during date night and it was sacred

This! I am a mom of boys and girls and the assumption that the girl is always the innocent party is ridiculous. My girls were WAY more forward to members of the opposite sex at 15 than my boys ever thought about being. It had baffled dh at times but dollars to donuts when something came up I would immediately suspect my dd, not the other way around. I remember being 15 and wanting to be in looooovvvveee and lacking the maturity to go about it the right way. I was just lucky enough not to have a phone. ETA: seriously though, if there is no chance of the two kids meeting outside of co-op, I would just ignore the other mother. The more I pushed in with my kids, the more doors closed in my face. If there is 0 chance of anything actually happening besides sitting next to each other at co-op, I would roll my eyes and go on. And I would definitely not have a meeting with anyone or pull my kid out of school. He has as much of a right to be there as anyone else and I wouldn’t let some bully mom, who’s time of being in control of her dd is running short, alter my life in any way.

That’s the thing, people catch him all the time, but they are usually people from out of town. We do t have a website except what’s run by the state so there is no way to contact it unless you call the number, and who answers the phone or gets the messages? He does

I listened to this on npr NPR Reveal episode update How teaching kids to read went so wrong They had reported on this sometime previously, then on the 7th did another episode updating the story

Do seasonal jobs like this have end of season meetings to go over how things went? Since boss lady is so confrontation shy, would it be better to ask if we do an end of year evaluation or sit down?

Could I say to boss lady, I would like to talk about next season. I love this job and I think it shows in my enthusiasm, verbal reviews to supervisor and a glowing google review (I only have one online review that mentions my name specifically although he has probably over 20 over the years that mention him specifically and the rest of reviews online relating to this season mention tour guides/staff generically) and in the ideas and completed projects I’ve submitted, several of my own volition. But I also saw some ways that the center is not being run optimally and would like an opportunity to discuss them, because I think it’s important that you know some of the inconsistencies that happen when you are not present on-site.

I never thought about that