My truck is home!!! $230 repair gone crazy, but spent a little less than I would have at a shop.

Similar here. I only had flu B, was down for a solid week, but then caught every bug that ever existed and was sick for most of January to June.

https://www.unitypoint.org/blankchildrens/article.aspx?id=92b7063f-d5cf-4e92-9fd0-0c4c16088e68 This article mentions the study that claims it’s no more effective than placebo. We got our flu shots, and so far half of my extra kids got them. I have to get the biggest 3 in (they were scheduled this week, but my truck needed a repair).

I still don’t have my vehicle. He got the fuel pump in and it started and ran great. Until he noticed something leaking. That something was the radiator. Gave him the money yesterday for one from the junk yard, and I was supposed to have the truck back today. The radiator was not cracked or leaking last I knew. The truck generally runs great. I called twice and texted a few times. Nothing. His mom is here tomorrow, and if I don’t hear from him by then, I’ll have to bring it up.

For us, If it’s worse in the morning but gets better, that’s allergies with a possible sinus infection. If it’s just sniffly in the morning but gets worse, it’s something else. This pattern is why my sinus infections brew for so long before I remember to make the darn appointment.

Yes! Mine wears earbuds for music with protective headphones over them.

Making the bed a loft sounds awesome! I wish we had the ceiling height to do that. My drummer currently has 2 rooms; his bedroom and then the drum and toy room. (He was in the master with everything, but then I needed to share with my daughter, so we had to move to the master)

My son’s a drummer. I personally have no issues with the sound. Probably because we have carpet, but if you’re on the first floor and he’s playing upstairs, you can still talk normal. My son had a pad and snare for the first couple of years. When I finally found him a kit, his progress went through the roof!

I’m walking and reading, so I didn’t read it all. Arnuity is a daily inhaler, NOT rescue. Why are you not taking it daily? It’s “normal†to sound worse after a dose of a rescue inhaler if you were really bad. You can be so tight that you don’t wheeze or sound too bad. Then the meds open you up just enough to sound terrible. Both of my kids’ asthma plans allows for 3 doses in an hour before having to seek medical attention.

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I don’t have a normal thermostat. My heater has numbers 1-9. The second floor tends to sit around 62-65 with the heater on 3/4. Before bed I knock the heater down to 1/2. Each room is a bit different since my heat just floats around. The master bedroom retains the most heat. Ds’s bedroom stays decent. The drum room is chilly. And the bathroom has its own little baseboard heater if needed. The first floor doesn’t get heated by the main heater. I have an electric heater in the bathroom I’ll turn on to about 2 if the thermometer says we went under 60. Once in a while 62-65 will feel colder and I’ll put the bathroom heater on for a while. When the heat is off from about April to usually October, temperature is controlled by the windows. Warm? Open the window. Hot? Put in a window fan. Cold? Turn off the fan or close the window.

So the truck is towed to this garage a town over. I wait several hours, and then give him a call to see how it’s going. Yeah, he’ll get to it sometime this week. Seriously?! Had he texted the address last night like I asked, I could have had it towed first thing in the morning. Or even better, had he communicated early yesterday, while I thought he was out getting a Uhaul trailer, that the tow was necessary, it would have been towed then! Before today’s tow, had he communicated that it would be “sometime this week,†I would have said never mind and my friend could have done it tomorrow! I only turned my friend down because it was supposed to be done yesterday and I needed it tomorrow. I paid him prior to the labor in the hopes that he would consider a paid job a priority, and because I know this is not the easiest thing to do. Now I’ll be spending more money to put gas in a friend’s car that I’ll be borrowing to take other people’s children to the dr all week. And I guarantee this guy will not put back all the gas he has to siphon out because of course my fuel pump died with 3/4 full gas tank. Couldn’t die during the 99% of the time it’s running at 1/4, which probably contributed to its death.

I am so sorry to say I laughed! And I hope it’s been long enough that you laugh at it! I have 1 side of a curtain rod hanger thing that will not stay flush to the wall. It keeps bowing in the middle. I got the heavy duty ones and installed a center support so my extra kids can have the job of opening and closing the curtains, but the one side will just not stay put. Next time I get the ladder out, im probably going to stick a nail through it.

I’m waiting for the tow truck to flatbed it to the garage. Overall cost is creeping, but still cheaper than a shop. And this is the last time I use someone other than my decade long friend. I feel like I’m chasing the current guy down, and I paid him ahead of time to not have to chase him down!

Not the poster you quoted, but we do just roasted sweet potatoes. Often. My kids love them.

The day before one of our contacts, my daughter was skipping or something with a lollipop in her mouth and fell. She scraped her knee and managed to hit her cheek right where the lollipop was. We joked that since she has a face bruise, CYS will knock on the door. Next day or so, CYS knocks on the door. All was well until the social worker asked about the bruise, and the kids and I just started hysterically laughing, which of course got odd looks. My daughter was able to explain and give a re-enactment, thankfully without ever looking to me for “correction†on the sequence or anything. It had happened in front of one of the banks where I’m sure there are cameras, so if came to it, we might have been able to prove it.

I finally tracked down the number of a long time friend who used to do all my car repairs. Aside from issues that prevent it from running, because we’re 3 hours away from each other, I’ll be going back to him for everything.

Hope your nose is ok! I did giggle a little at the sequence of events. My sleeping baby injuries are usually related to whacking a body part on a car part while trying to get the kid out of the car. My father is a contractor, so home repair drama is normal for me. My son’s father is a plumber, and my cousin is an electrician. If I have an issue, any one of them can walk me through it.

Very not cool! (that boys are worse. Not looking forward to this)

My truck died Wednesday. Went to go grab an extra kid from school for a dentist appointment, and it wouldn't start. 95% likely fuel pump. My son's behavior technician has 7 adult kids. One of her sons is a mechanic and does primarily side work in your driveway or road. He comes by today and we run through diagnostics and it's at least the fuel pump (my truck has had issues with the anti theft system producing the same symptoms, so until the fuel pump is replaced, we won't know if it's also anti theft). My block is oddly busy for a dead end, it's a slight downgrade, and it's tight. Not a safe place to jack the rear and work. So he runs and rents a tow dolly to bring it to a local garage he sometimes works out of. We get the front of the truck up. Then he realized my 4-wheel drive is not on or off. It's auto (like all wheel drive), low, or high, and an electrical switch. No off. It can't be 2 wheel towed unless he disconnects the rear drive shaft which is a job on its own. He's currently returning the dolly and looking for a full trailer to tow it. Replacing a fuel pump may not be "simple," but if I had a flat driveway, or a lot more money, it would have been done hours ago. (Money may not buy happiness, but it sure can buy some security!) What have you done and run into problem after problem?

Just had a nice walk with ds (‘cause my damn fuel pump is dead!). Most of the kids he floats around with he doesn’t even know their names. Lol. So no close relationships going on. Also found out that they actually have rules in place for their wrestling! No choke holds, kicking, or punching. Maybe more, but it’s easier to pull teeth by hand than get him to casually chat. I do hope that through winter there isn’t school drama to escalate the spring reunions.

My ds says he’ll never touch drugs, if for no other reason than his intense drug allergy history! Lol. He also said he’s sure his psychiatrist would beat him. :)

Mine was never into the rough physical play. It caused some issues when he was little (still in the fully always supervised years). But recently he’s been begging for it. Sometimes they play football, so they’re beating each other with an overall purpose. Lol

This isn’t a group that’s absolutely always together. So kids come and go. There are 3 10yos. Then 2 younger siblings of one of the 13yo girls. I’m not sure how old they are. Mine is 13, best friend is 14, 14’s brother might be a 4th 10yo. The younger bunch are in the elementary school together, and for the most part, the rest are in the middle school, with maybe a HS’er or 2 here and there. A lot of them are related. Cousins, far off cousins, whatever. Most have parents and entire families grew up here. Just mentioning because it makes more sense that the group is so age diverse, despite most being in different schools together.

Woah. I missed that part. These kids are a bit rowdy, sure. But they’re not running the streets as a whole. I don’t know what they do when mine comes home though. The group as a whole is made up of different small friend groups. They hang out at the park by the courthouse. Get bored, walk to the other park and play basketball. Get bored again and maybe skateboard in the no hoops basketball court (old, used as a parking lot before 3). They’ll go to the Y and play basketball or go down to the gym. They’ll walk back and forth from park to Y for hours. So even though there’s not a lot of direction, they’re not running the streets and getting in trouble as a group.