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  1. Oldest. 17. Smartphone since about 14. Computer around the same. I don't limit or control time or content with her. She's always been one that leaves her phone lying around and her computer open on the couch.

     

    Youngest. 7. She plays games, takes pictures, videos from all various mobile devices. I don't think she knows how to work the Internet for that. There are a few games she plays along with saving pictures to play with in GIMP or paint, but I usually have those things bookmarked. She Youtubes on the Roku. Minecraft on tablet and computer.

     

    Honestly it's me that's a problem. I usually have to clean up my download folder before I hand off the tablet to the 7yo. And my phone and tablet have started storing photos from private FB messages that I have to sanitize. These aren't pictures I saved. Just opened. I don't like it.

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  2. There are wolf spiders in Giddings, Texas. They like to carry all their babies on their backs. All 1000 of their babies. And in 6 months, twice a month, they would make their way into our apartment. So, if I'm doing math right, that's more than 12K spiders in my apartment. In our tiny 600sf apartment. 12K spiders. 12,000. Twelve-thousand. It's been 15 years, and I've still not recovered. 

     

    Mosquitoes don't like me, but they love my 7yo. She gets plum sized knots on her. 

     

    I could do without the flying roaches. But it's mostly spiders I can't deal with.

     

    And now the Hill Country doesn't sound so great. I'm thinking downtown. 10 stories up.

     

     

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  3. The Hill Country is the most ideal, I think. Close (enough) proximity to both SA and Austin. 

     

    I'm trying to figure out the freedom thing, too. :P Sod0my isn't illegal anymore. And I can't think of anything else. :P I haven't checked lately, but I don't think I'm able to run for any political office because I don't 'acknowledge the existence of a supreme being'. 

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  4. I'm in SA and it takes about an hour and a half to get to North Padre (maybe two hours; I can't recall). North Padre used to be my favorite place in Texas, until they built a Schlitterbahn. We still go during off season. The sand is nicer than the ones in Galveston, but as far as beaches go, eh. Mustang Island is right there, though. South Padre is just too dang far. We looked at real estate in Corpus not too long ago. The island is a little more expensive than Corpus, but ultimately, we will probably aim for the Hill Country and take a weekend every now and then and go to the coast. I really love SA, though. It takes little time to get to the water, and the diversity and food and history keep us here. We love Austin as well, but I loathe I35, so the Hill Country will give us access to both cities without dealing with that particular interstate. 

     

    I think it's important for you to come check them out the beaches, though. In August. Because if you are used to nicer beaches, the ones in Texas aren't going to impress you. Sometimes they're even kinda gross (I go for the sound.) I've visited Biloxi and Mobile and Texas doesn't come close (unless South Padre is nice. I've never been. It's way too far.)

     

    And if you come across a bug as big as your hand, don't look it in the eye. And if you get brave and decide to go at it with your shoe, you'll discover it has wings. 

     

    As for freedoms unique to Texas, IDK. I can't imagine what that could be. I find the politicians here embarrassing for the most part. 

     

     

     

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    Btw, homemakers in the past spent a fair bit of time watching soap operas and drinking cough syrup too. Kudos to your mum for being too tough for that, but there have always been people with stronger constitutions and others with weaker constitutions. I remember the last few times I got off my pity potty and stuck at it. I wound up in hospital. Bugger the Mummy Martyr Syndrome. I want to be well.

    Alas, cough syrup ain't what it used to be.

  6. For the ones where you aren't seeing any, oil up scalps and put hair up. Do the same to those who have it, but use more oil to cover hair as well (Vaseline, coconut, olive, etc). I leave that on for 48 hours. Wash bedding. Then wash hair, check for bugs and nits, and oil up scalps again (just a small coating).  Repeat after 7 days (just in case a nit hatched), and again 7 days later if you still see some. 

  7. Whats wrong with Texas!?!?!?! It's awesome here! So long as you steer clear of anything with a population less than 100K* and most of East Texas. And the panhandle is rubbish. And most of west Texas. And the beaches are a little gross. And the weather. Don't get me started on the weather. 

     

    But, everything else is pretty awesome. Probably.

     

    *number I made up based on my own experiences and there might be exceptions.

  8. It just occurred to me that I'm probably the rudest person ever. I have an app on my phone that holds all my shopping lists. It syncs with my husband's phone as well. So he does the middle aisles while I get produce and cold stuff. But, my phone is constantly in my hand with one eye on it, and I cross out every item. 

  9. Thanks for the information. My kids LOOVE these books, but this is something that has given us pause in allowing them to read it. We were made aware of this issue by a friend and chose to ask the kids not to continue reading it on the day it came out. While some families consider homosexuality an acceptable lifestyle choice for Christian believers, we do not. Therefore, we would not want them to read something that portrays this lifestyle sympathetically. We would never condone unkindness to a gay person, but we don't want our kids to see homosexuality as something that is normal or the way that God intended for some relationships to be. I know it is an unpopular stance, but it is what we believe and what lots of families believe. I am surprised that there has not been more of a backlash against the books; but, I think that just shows how much of our society, and even the church, has embraced this issue.

    Why would the homosexuality give you pause but not the promiscuity of the gods?

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