I just boil it up and make beef barley soup.

We also have an Odyssey (and a civic and an accord, we like our Hondas). My tall DS can sit in the middle row outer seats but doesn't like it for long rides and there is no extra room to move. His knees are within in inch of the front seats (and we don't even have them all the way back). He can't sit in the third row without being completely cramped. The CRV had so much more passenger room than the Odyssey does but probably might not have enough storage space. One "possible" configuration that might give a really tall passenger enough leg room would be to fold down the small section of the third row and hopefully that allows enough room for the instrument and then remove the middle row seat on the opposite site so the back row passenger could really stretch legs. So your three passengers were one in each row of the van but alternating sides.

I'd say take a look at the Honda CRV. DS is 6'3" and all legs. When shopping for a vehicle, he would position the driver's seat where he was comfortable and then hop in the seat behind it since he has several tall friends who may be sitting in the back. If I remember correctly, he didn't even have to have the driver's seat all the way back to be comfortable. The only thing I'm not sure on is the storage space in the back. I have no idea how big a double bass is.

We are just a tiny family business that only sells bedding plants for local pickup. But yes we sell the gallon jugs. When they are ready to go to market (we only sell at farmer's market not from our business site), they will have flowers and often time tiny tomatoes. Our last frost date is typically middle May and they are typically producing ripe tomatoes by July 4th, just to give you an idea of how big and full the plants will be. Our "jug" tomatoes are our specialty and we have been selling them in jugs since the mid 1980's.

I'm so sorry. That sounds so terribly hard!

This is kind of cheating but this time of year I don't get to do any gardening stuff at home. This picture is just a tiny portion of what I've planted the last couple of weeks at the greenhouse.

I guess I'll take the risk and say I'm completely befuddled by your reaction to your SIL. 1) At 12 my kids really had no idea what they wanted to do in life and frankly I couldn't blame them, It's really hard to know what you want to do when you don't even know the options. I would welcome exposing them to all different ideas and occupations so they can spend time learning and thinking about what THEY want their life to look like. I may want my kid to go to college but it doesn't mean my kid SHOULD go to college just to please me. 2) My kids regularly text with other relatives, grandparents, aunts, cousins etc. They have entire relationships with each other separate from me and that is a GOOD thing. It's another adult to offer input and different life viewpoints to help my child grow into their best version. Sure parents should have input but it's pretty controlling to think only parents should discuss life choices with a kid. I understand you have a difficult relationships with your IL's and from my point of view this feels like an overreaction to the built up tension from all those other difficult interactions because this particular thing doesn't seem worthy of the amount of angst this seems to be causing you.

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I'd be thrilled to even have the shipped in option. None of the three Costco's in my area even sell sushi.

Do you have a mychart? I would send a message (and a picture if the software let me) and ask your PCP.

I have no idea where or when I learned this "trick" but I drew little teeth inside the < and > signs and it was an alligator mouth and since alligators are hungry they aways eat the bigger piece (number) that was how I could remember which sign to use. I've had to use that with some of my kids who couldn't keep them straight either. They always laughed at the funny visual but it did work.

Personally, I teach my kids to learn to drive on the oldest vehicle with the least amount of safety features that I have available to teach them in. This might sound counterintuitive but here's my reasons: Driving safely is skill learned from the development of habit to always be checking and aware of your surroundings. On vehicles that blink lights when a car is next to you or shows you an image when you turn on your turn signals, it is very easy to get in the habit of relying on the technology to do your looking for you. I want my kids to have the habit of looking out the rear view mirror, or turning their heads to verify the lane next to them is empty etc and then use the technology as an extra resource to confirm what they saw. If the technology fails and they don't realize it, it is easy to assume that hey that lane is empty since the car isn't blinking at me and never actually look for themselves. Also the kids who learned to drive in bigger bulkier vehicles have been much more confident drivers and comfortable driving whatever vehicle that they have available than the one I taught on a smaller vehicle because they already know they can handle it. The one taught on the smaller vehicle is very intimidated by a larger vehicle and has created some headaches when her car was in the shop and she was uncomfortable driving the bigger vehicles that were available. So in your shoes, unless I had a kid that needed to learn in the next 6 months or so, I wouldn't be factoring that aspect in to whether I purchased a vehicle. There will always be deals and sales to be had if you look around especially if you are willing to consider more than one specific car model. If you and your DH are fine with the sharing one car and it works for your schedule, I sure wouldn't rush out to by a second car.

I'm sorry to hear you got sick but thankful you shared the warning. We will definitely be keeping a closer eye on what she is eating as well as if she has anymore reactions.

Soy sauce it pretty regular in our diet but she doesn't like wasabi so rarely has it (like only if a piece happened to touch it and she can't wipe it off). But she did say some of the rolls came with wasabi on them so she just ate them.

Curiosity, is there any medical connection between these two types of issues or just a fluke that these are two things you have issues with? I'm only asking because I have quite a few relatives who have issues with sulfa drugs and if there is a connection between these two things, then it would definitely be worth investigating since she does have issues with the bites.

That's an interesting thought I hadn't considered. She has been a kid whose mosquito bites just got enormous compared to anyone else in the family. Thursday she had been outside and got a few bites which had swelled and itched. She said she didn't even first recognize the hives as something different because she had been scratching the mosquito bites for the last two days and it was just more itching.

I have less hair on my legs than when I was younger too but that started around age 30 (and I was definitely not anywhere near menopause at the time as I've had 3 kids since then). I would say by age 40 I no longer needed to shave them at all. ten years later, I still haven't hit menopause but surely I must be getting closer. So for me it was related to get older but not necessarily to menopause.

Thanks all. I sent the question over to DD's doctor and will hope for a referral to the allergist. Not having experience with food allergies, I wasn't sure if this was a big deal or not.

The other day DD went to a sushi restaurant. Several hours later she broke out in hives. She said she itched everywhere and her throat was raw but she didn't feel like she had problems breathing. Sushi was the only food she ate that day before the hives so we are suspecting she was allergic/sensitive to something there. She has eaten all the major components many times over the years (crab, shrimp, avocado, rice, veggies) and has eaten sushi with raw fish before without issues. She said she put hydrocortisone on the itchy parts and just suffered through it. She's only had hives like that one other time several years ago but we were unable to pinpoint any specific foods. I only found out about the reaction a couple of days after the fact so not much I can do about it now but am looking for guidance for the future. Is this severe enough that I should look into food testing? Does she need to avoid sushi? Tell her to take Benadryl before eating sushi? Having never really dealt with this before I'm not sure how serious or not this is.

All 6 of mine started sippy cups around that age. We never used bottles.

I tried it with one of mine and all it did was make me sleep 20 hours a day and a complete zombie for the 4 hours a day that I wasn't actually sleeping. Since I was always sleeping, I didn't deal with the nausea but that's not really a method I would recommend. I ended up taking Zophran with all 6 pregnancies because it was the only thing that kept me from being sick all day yet allowed me to stay awake. I did consume lots of sour and salty (highly processed foods) because both of those would step things down a notch but my morning sickness was so bad that even a notch down wasn't enough hence the Zophran.

I've had mine for 3-4 years now and my sister has had hers for at least 2 years. No one has died. I absolutely LOVE this canner. No more watching and fidling and guessing when to start timing. Just put it in and do whatever it tells me to do when it beeps!

Bosch is definitely better for bread than a Kitchenaid, particularly if you will be doing whole wheat.

yes, whatever data amount you select is the amount you get each month.

I actually do both. For the things I use it for, it does a great job (better than any other method I've tried) but I don't have that many things that I use it for so it does sit around a bunch. I pull it out about once a month on average but sometimes it can go a few months. Things that I think it does better than other things on: large batch (gallon plus) of yogurt since it requires far less effort on my part than anything else, roasts (I was a crockpot person for many years but they never got as tender as they do in the instapot), hard boiled eggs (I've tried all the methods and this in the only one that reliably gets me eggs that are easy to peel, risotto (why would I ever stand and stir it when I get just dump it in the instapot and perfectly creamy rice?), and ONE all in one meal that my kids absolutely adore (a sausage, spinach, pasta and sauce recipe I found on the internet). And that's pretty much all I use it for but for those things, I'm so glad to have it even though I don't use it often.