Another person with 2 friends whose cancer was found before age 45. Both are now multiple year survivors. The more recent of the two, even knowing EXACTLY where the lump was couldn't find it. Another 2 friends are going through treatment right now. One doing conventional radiation and chemo. The other is doing the natural route - diet, enemas, supplements. Neither of these 2 are 50 yet. So yes, I get mammograms. I started at 40, but missed last year. I need to make an appointment now.

Honestly, I go in with my entire shopping list and get everything I can there. I have found since I started doing that, I am spending a LOT less on groceries. I can't say how much because there are two things that happened about the same time - we bought all our meat in bulk and shopping at TJ's. Between the two, I am spending at least $50-75 less per week.

Vera Bradley has their Zip ID cases under $10. http://www.verabradley.com/product/zip-id-case/lucky-you/154781_200304.uts?N=80000 Knowing DD and friends were graduating this past May, when I saw these on sale last fall, I bought many! Then for graduation, they got one and a check. Check amounts varied according to how good dd and they were friends. Everyone loved them! (I think I found them for around $5 which is more than they are right now.)

I've been watching for days and with the most recent turn, I am in fact going to the beach for the women's retreat. I will keep an eye on it while there and be ready to leave for home if needed. I'll check the forecast track again at 11 and make final decision then but it's looking like I'm going. It's far enough out to sea. The forecast track doesn't brush land anymore. And even though I'm inland now, I did grow up on the (east) coast and I do know not to mess with a storm like this.

No experience but definitely get her seen.

We used residential hospice. Because there is still a lot you need to do yourself. You can get help with all the things you mentioned - I don't know about meals. But it is help, not there all the time. Also, you basically need a doctor to say he needs this. There is some sort of verification process and it involves a doctor. What you hear a lot is that they have to be terminal in the next 6 month. There is a fellow at church who is so ready to "go home". He has been on and off hospice. It has to do with a BMI thing. If his weight goes down too far then he is considered terminal. But if his weight comes back up, he's not. It is a hard time for you! Get all the help you can. If he doesn't qualify for hospice, see if someone (doctor again) will write him up for home health. Then you will have nurses come in to help.

My folks are taking all of us on a Tournament of Roses Parade tour! I'm so excited for my mom. She has wanted to do this since I was a child. (It's their 50th wedding anniversary in 2016.) So we get out there one day/evening. One day we go see the floats while they are still being decorated. We get seats for the Parade. Then I think the next day we see the floats in a barn afterwards. But we have one open day to plan. Either Dec 30 or 31. I can't remember which, probs Dec 31. (I think we have to be on buses at 6 am, so a late night NYEve might not be a good idea.) Campbell girl wants to go to Disney. We've been to World, but never to Land. But when I pointed out that it would probs be packed, she wasn't so excited anymore. DH is the only to have lived out there, but even he hasn't been to Southern California in years. It will be my parents - 70's - my brother, me and dh - mid to late 40's - and my kids - 1 high school, 2 college. Oh, and I don't remember if our hotel is in Anaheim or Pasadena. I also don't know if that makes a difference. Actually it will. I don't think we're getting a car and will be limited to hotel transportation. But the tour info suggested Disney, Knots Berry Farm and others. So I assume those are include in hotel transportation. Thanks! (OH and don't even ask me how much this costs! Mom and Dad are paying for all but the one day we have to plan.) ETA: Found the website - we are staying in Anaheim.

Yes, more than once, more than 15 minutes. But if you look at my sig, my kids are older. I never left them at all until at least one was over 12 years and could open the door and get out of the car. Never in the summer. And for the past several years, I leave the car keys so they can start the car and a/c if it gets too hot. And I don't leave them, they ask to stay.

We DVR everything, so, no, I didn't see any promos. I was thinking a family friendly show. Then someone on my facebook "Liked" what Franklin Graham said about it so I saw it. Much the same you guys have said - adult themes. Not what I was expecting! After reading that and now you guys, will not be watching.

Our state fair is soon and my kids can get 1/2 off admission one day with a student ID or report card. My college students are set. But my high schooler, not so much. There aren't' a lot of student discounts for high school around here so I've never made student ID's. I do transcripts and that's enough so I've never done a report card either. I don't know if they would take a transcript. It says I figure someone must have a template for one or the other. :-) Thanks!

When we went in March, we stayed at hostels. Two different ones. They both had laundry facilities - washer and dryer and racks for line drying. I ended up using it all. Clothes on the racks and in the dryers. Then I had a line that stretched through just about the whole room. I hung stuff on that when we needed to leave for the day. The washers were smaller than over here, so what may have been one load over here ended up being 2 or 3 over there. But if he's going for business, he probs won't be in a hostel.

Trader Joe's has pre-made bread dough. I think you would just need to let it rise and make into rounds. I don't know how much it costs though. Or the pizza dough I grew up with: 1 package dry yeast 1/4 cup luke warm water 2 tablespoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup + 2 tablesppons wamr milk flour to thick Combine yeast, water, sugar, salt. Stir until years dissolves. Add milk, stir in flour until thick. Let rise until double (we always put it on top of the fridge). Put it on greased pizza pan. Bake 425 for 20 minutes. It's great crust. My mom saved it from her home ec class way back!

What Laura said... DD spent a semester in Germany this past spring. She did find a group of Americans and they did spend copious amounts of time together. She also found a university in Germany that taught at least some classes in English. BUT she still had to make it on the economy - speaking German in stores and restaurants. She really looked down on those who didn't even try. DD is an international affairs major so it was required for her to study abroad for a semester. I can't say yet if it helped her or not. She is a junior this year. Oh and when we went over to visit her, ds who had one semester of high school German (to dd's 4 years in high school and 3 semesters in college), tried to speak more German than dd. He came home the master of 3 word sentences. :-)

This is what would concern me. The higher education part since you seem to have the denomination part down. I have learned with nursing, it has to be an accredited degree, if you are going to get an upper degree at some point. It's one reason I'm hesitant about dd going to Campbell for nursing. It's a provisional accreditation until the first class graduates and they are re-evaluated. DD will be in the second class to graduate. What happens if they don't pass? but as someone else said, he isn't paying for it, so it could be time lost but not money.

I know we had the cc send a final transcript to the college they decided to attend. I can't remember if we had them send one at application --- NO! We didn't because both dd's were in their first semester at cc. No grades would have shown up, it would have simply been a list of classes in which they were currently enrolled.

Coming at it from older kids - it's been to long since I've had a u8 playing. Yes, unintentional knock downs, shake off and go on. I can see where the other girl is coming form since it sounds like they may need to replace glasses. Her mom may have pushed - "what happened to your glasses?" Maybe she will get sports glasses this time? Maybe the other mom is trying to hint that you should pay for them? Sorry, but if your child needs to wear glasses during a sport like soccer, you should expected them to get dinged. Over the years the unintentional still happens, but some kids figure out how to make intentional look legal. I still laugh at the girl who was knocking down every girl on our team, it was so many she had to mean it. Then she tried it with my daughter. My dd is solid. The other girl fell down. Every parent on our team cheered. Then there was the team that was notorious for bad behavior and rarely got called on it. That team caused both my girls to stop playing. (It was during a season change, they chose not to sign back up.) This other team had knock-downs down to an art form, bad language. I heard they punched someone in the hand shake line. THAT did get called but too late for the game. I think your reaction is right in line.

Not sure about some of the criteria, but look at UNC-CH. DD has a friend who went there because of the languages she could take and I remember Russian being one of them. Not rural but also not in a big city. I don't know that there is a bus that runs to Raleigh, but I am sure there is one that goes into Durham. (Neither of those count for a big city, but they are bigger than Chapel Hill.) Coffee shops, assuredly! Price is at least close to what you said.

when we needed xrays for my daughter's ankle, we found out before we left the office. But it was a matter of going downstairs and back up. The doc didn't have a machine, but there was one in the building. You should definitely know by now.

Around here, honors get weighted to a 4.5. AP to 5. College courses to a 6. Honors A= 4.5, B= 3.5, C= 2.5, D=1.5, F=0 AP A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, F=0 CC A=6, B=5, C=4, D=3, F=0 I only started weighing honors classes when I found out the local public schools do. Some classes I give more than 1 credit to as well. Campbell girl got 1.5 credits for 10th grade English because it was R&S grammar book, Tapestry for lit, vocabulary book, plus an outside writing class.

I only get group texts from family - as in the 5 of s that live in this house. It's helpful that way. It was funny the other night though - 4 of us were at the kitchen table when the one not even at home starts a group text.

I have this as an automatic thing on my phone - iphone - under settings. I have to turn it on, I switched the times and I can still add which numbers get through.

I hear you! DD applied to one of those schools. And she had one AP class, not score yet and 15 credits of cc. When they asked for it, I told dd it was up to her. Do the tests or skip the school. It was one that she would have needed huge scholarship to attend, so she skipped.

I mentioned it to my college Junior. (State girl) She's heard of it but for some reason wasn't too thrilled with it. Maybe it's because she's been in Germany walking around at night and thinks everything is fine. Truly her campus doesn't seem of have a lot of violence. Someone dumped a dead bear on campus - killed elsewhere. But she feels safe on campus.

It's up to the individual professor and department. And of course it's a long holiday weekend. I'm not expecting to hear anything until Tuesday.

She went to student health on Tuesday and they told her it was viral. DH picked her up last night and I took her into our doctor today. Pneumonia. I asked our doc and she said that she presented as a virus. And X-rays wouldn't have shown anything at that point anyway. (so not knocking student health!) Doc said she should miss a whole week of school. As if missing 1/2 this past week wasn't bad enough. I called student services and they sent an email to her profs letting them know. DD is emailing them all now, as well asking for work to do from home so she doesn't fall behind. The problem is the school has an attendance policy and if one of these profs gets picky, if she misses a class after this, they could fail her based on missed classes alone. (Missing this coming week would put her at the number allowed to miss. One more and fail.) UGH! I'm just glad she is close! Only an hour away. (Sorry, she's home now and will be until she feels better.) **UPDATE - She heard back from 4 of her 5 profs. They will work with her on the missed work! One make-up test when she gets back on campus. One test emailed to her with the admonition that it is not open book. One prof doesn't put slides on blackboard but will email them to her. I will need to drive back to campus to get her books. When she packed to come home, she only packed for the weekend.