I agree with Zoobie, but my mother. Di she send you something and not tell me?

Three things. You can "delete" the request. But I think she will see it. I unfriended dd1's ex-boyfriend. He sent me a new friend request and I deleted the request, which some how he knew about b/c within 12 hours he sent me a new one. Which brings up a second option. You can let the friend request sit in your request box. This is what I've doe with ex-boyfriend. It's just sitting there. Option 3 is accept the request but "unfollow" them. I don't know how much you will actually see, I miss a lot of those people I've unfollowed. One of the teens I know went through an extremely hard time one fall, because I had unfollowed her, I knew nothing about what was going on.

Ok, yeah you are right, The bowl games are all over Christmas break.

My dd was in Germany last spring. Passport you have. She didn't need a VISA (or she took care of it). Housing - she had to have a German bank account to draft it from, so that had a minimum balance. Food - where she was had no meal plan so the grocery store and cooking was her main option. In Germany they don't use plastic bags, She eventually had her own, but didn't know that on her first trip to the store. Educate child on food words - specific food words. For instance... She knew she was looking at cheese but which was white cheddar and which was mozzarella? Travel - she was able to get a regional rail pass at student prices. For some reason she did not buy a Eurorail pass. She quickly learned to buy her ticket as early as possible. Buying it the day of travel was at least once almost 50% more. She did some travel with group trips. But most were on her own. well... She traveled with friends but the "group travel" would be a bus trip with 60 students (or more). Speaking of bus trips, get used to sleeping on the bus. To keep costs down, they often traveled overnight. Get a hostel membership thing. It will save a few dollars every time. Luggage - She is majoring in International Studies and wants to travel the world so I searched high and low to find her a good carryon suitcase for international trips. Other than that she took her backpack that she has had since 5th grade. (Just now, she will be a senior next semester, this backpack has a hole in it.) Paying for things - we got her a copy of our credit card with a chip. and Transferred money to her once at the beginning of the semester. We may have transferred again but we tried to keep it to a minimum. Buying her things - her apartment had stuff for cooking but was missing some things and others were not of good quality. We found the German Amazon site and ordered from that. We had to pay the exchange rate but not the extra shipping. Communication - we have family in Germany and they gave her a cell phone to use if necessary for local calls there. She has an iPhone so we activated it internationally. and paid for mb of data each month. She went over once. We facetime-d weekly. OH and facebook and instagram and her blog helped us keep up with her as well. Ask any questions. I may remember more that way. :-)

I am shaking my head. Middle dd's college is hosting (what appears to be) the Division 1, NCAA women's soccer tourney this weekend. Small schools. I don't know what the class size is. Now it's actually here in town, not on campus. Kudos for the school. Great for them, they they get this honor. But THIS weekend? DD who goes to school there is in the middle of finals. As in I go pick her up on Monday because she will be inished. DD who is in college, but not at this school has class on Friday, reading day on Monday and then exams start on Tuesday. Neither of my girls play college soccer, that's not my point. Those poor soccer players. They have. got. to. be. somewhere close to exams and they are playing in a soccer tourney. They should be studying. I was a college athlete. I'd have been worried about exams. I'd have been studying every chance I got. I cannot imagine what the NCAA was thinking scheduling the final tourney this close to the end of the semester!

I had to do that exact thing for oldest's final transcript for her 4 yr uni. And I think I had to sign across where the envelope seals as well.

My kids are older, but I remember one time a student was in at the doctors office. The actual doc said to the student "see all those bruises on the legs." I immediately started to panic. Once student acknowledged them, doc followed up with "we worry when we don't see any." Where is the common sense on the part of the preschool teachers?

I've noticed this same issue when places go from "long hand" to online registration. Two years in a row, a local camp blew out their band width. The first year they went from all through snail mail to all on-line the same day, same time. The following year, they separated ages on-line. But they still blew the bandwidth. So when Operation Christmas Child went from call in to on-line, I knew it was going to happen as well. and it did. Now they have the different centers on different days. But of course the center I go to is the one day of the week that I'm out of the house at 7:30 and not home until noon. Busy the whole time so I can't just say, "Oh, I need to go register, I'll be right back!"

The only reason I don't mix ahead is so that I get all the Castile *in* the dispenser. This way I can just dump and go. If I premix the castile with the powders, then I map need to scrape the container. Long way to say, you should be fine to put it all in the same place.

My washing soda box imploded so I don't know the brand I have now, but I know Arm and Hammer is one I've seen. I've seen washing soda at Target, with the laundry supplies, on the bottom shelf. Also in grocery stores. I've also seen that you can make washing soda from baking soda by basically cooking it. http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-make-washing-soda/ But I haven't tried it so I don't know if it works.

I've been on a natural kick for 6 months or so. One thing to go was my Tide detergent. We've tried this before and everything eventually got yellowish stains. So I stopped. This time I read about someone who didn't make detergent to add, she measure the pieces as she went. I knew I didn't want to measure everything every time so I measure it once a week or so. I have small 1/2 c or so containers. In each one I put a teaspoon borax and a teaspoon washing soda. I put that in the normal wash detergent spot. Then I put a tablespoon Castile soap (Dr Bronner's) in the prewash spot. I have an HE machine. Ok, why I may never return. I wore a white shirt to dinner at Brother's house. Some how I dripped beef gravy down the front and on one sleeve. Foolishly, I didn't do anything at the time to try and get it out. That was Friday. Today, I put the shirt in the wash at home, with a normal load. It was in the dryer by the time I remembered the stain. I figured I just had a button down shirt that could only be worn as a base layer, the stains would be permanent. Maybe fade a bit over time, but still... I just took the shirt out of the dryer to hang up. I searched for the stains - they are gone. If you looked really hard, you can see a spot on the sleeve near a seam but you have to look really hard. No treating at the time of the spill. No treating before I washed. Just washed as a normal item and nothing! I may never go back.

Hat. I hadn't thought about a hat. I'll have to go get one (out of the hat box) and put it in my bag. I have a down blanket that usually works wonders. I'll grab the heating pad for my feet. And who knows, dh may wake up to a snuggled up wife. :-)

Since someone mentioned card games, Dutch Blitz is a good one for matching.

You'd need to modify it: http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Cave-Bird-Games-ColorKu/dp/B0055JIV20/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1448367953&sr=1-1&keywords=colorku Like only use the easy cards. Or make your own cards so he think he's sorting, making patterns. When Soduku was first big, someone gave us one. I still have it.

I don't have farm chores to do, but I feel for those who do. I keep saying there is a reason I live in the south. I think this winter is going to be worse. I've been outside in a sweater at 40 and needed my heavy jacket. I used to be able to go out in a sweater with my denim jacket. With my heavy jacket at 40, what on earth am I going to wear when it is below freezing? Mid North Carolina not Florida, so yes, we do get that cold.

We are going to brother's house for Thanksgiving. (Hopefully. MIL is local, has no one but us and is in rehab.) Yesterday he calls and tells me to bring winter jammies for us as the bedrooms we will be in get down to 55 at night! We have our heat set to 65 overnight. I already sleep in a fleece top and flannel bottoms! And I have a quilt and comforter on the bed, plus an extra blanket for my feet. I guess I'm taking "sleeping socks", a long sleeve sleep shirt to wear under my fleece, and probably a down blanket, just in case. I may not get up in the morning. I wonder if his dogs will naturally follow him or if they will get up on the bed in the night. DH and I are sleeping in brother's bed. Hey, if the dogs still get up on his bed, I'll have extra covers! I won't be able to move (the small one is 125 lbs) but I'll have extra warmth! I still won't get out of bed in the morning.

Stopped reading at some point so this may have been said. It's odd, my folks had a trust set up several years ago and their person who set it up told them to follow bio-lines. I have 3 kids. At the time my brother was not involved with anyone. Who was to say he wouldn't marry someone who had kids? Who is to say that I'm not going to go adopt an infant? I was upset at this unmet person on my brother's behalf. Because I'm sure that if bro did marry someone with kids that my folks would treat them as their own grandkids, if given that chance. Same if I adopted. Same if bro adopted. So who is this person to tell my folks to keep the inheritance in the blood lines???

I would look at it and consider it, but my kids are much older than yours. At my point in life, I'd have the apartment as an in-law suite. Or save it for my parents. Or simply a guest suite. I probs would not rent it. But yes check on the renter already there.

She chose classes and sections but then someone else actually put it into the system. And even though her chosen sections still had openings, she didn't always get them. She asked for Botany, they put her in zoology. (The good thing about zoology is that the lab they put her in is on M 2-5, so she is finished on Friday by 2. Right now she has a Friday class until 4.) I don't know what is normal at other schools, her assigned advisor has like 50 students. Which to me doesn't sound like abnormally large. Supposedly after this next semester, she will be on her own to sign up. But the problem with it all is that she doesn't know what she doesn't know.

DD came home last night and we were asking about classes for next semester, since she already signed up. She changed majors already (first semester freshman). From her point of view, the school is babying them. Freshman don't know how to do web advisor so their departments are signing them up for classes. And since she switched to biology, they did group advising, not one-on-one. Somehow they signed dd up for 18.5 hours! She already plans to drop a class. DH was trying to figure out how all the classes she took this semester for nursing were counting. She didn't know. Finally, I said something about a degree audit. DD didn't know she had one. I knew about because I tried to get in and look at it, but I don't know the right password. So she found it and we all looked at it - dd, dh, me and older dd. We saw where things from this semester are fitting in. We saw that something she took at CC was counting toward a gen ed. DD didn't know that the class from cc would count that way. It means she doesn't need one of the classes she is signed up for. The upshot is she doesn't know what she doesn't know. She doesn't know enough to ask the right questions. We left her with sending an email to her advisor saying she is confused about things and can they please meet. I know someone else also thought this part - advising on classes - was over. (She has a piano as her profile pic. I think.) I guess not.

Not struggling per se. DS (the one at home) went camping with boy scouts this weekend. He is senior patrol leader so he sort of, kind of has to go to get his leadership checked off. BOTH girls came home last night. He is a little peeved that they chose this weekend when he is not home to come. Nothing major. But he does have a point.

I do 5 loads a week and that's just me and dh. 1 load whites 2 loads darks 1 load sheets 1 load towels I throw kitchen towels and napkins in with whatever I'm doing at the time. Then ds does his own laundry. He may only do it once a week. His responsibility. I don't notice unless he tries to horn in on my time. :-) Both girls are off to school.

We went to see her last night and moving/coming home never came up. I was instructed by DH to let him be the bad cop. I was to be the good cop. :-) But it never came up. I so agree with Joann, a couple hours isn't enough time. I don't know that she is happy, but she is content. The food isn't very good. And her roommate is a piece of work, but it sounds like the nurses know that. And dh was able to see that the entrance area has been completely renovated and is nice looking. It's the *hall* that she is on that isn't finished. The foot boards haven't been replaced. he pointed those out to her. I really think it's the loss of independence that has her. (Although she has been in rehab before.) Thanks for the info everyone!

I grew up there. My parents still live there. Dad was Army but they have most of their medical on Langley. Look at Poquoson. It's what my parents were told when we moved there. Smallish town still. They come together on a LOT. I know you are probs homeschooling but an example: one of the football players was majorly hurt in a game. The whole team showed up at the hospital, the athletic director bought all the high schoolers there pizza, the kids at school held a fundraiser within a week for medical bills. And this is normal. I will say that there is not much in the way of diversity. It is a vanilla place. And it does tend to be a more expensive place to live, but they do tend to have yards big enough to play in. Watch for growth. There is a Walmart in play. I haven't heard if the permits went through. No one in town wants it. Good memories. I met my dh there.

Thanks ladies! I just hope talking with her tonight goes well. DH's plane didn't even leave Pittsburg until after it was supposed to land here. I had hoped to go in this afternoon as well as after dinner.