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It's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember thinking that Liv Tyler's only job in Armageddon was to look pretty and cry.
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The most important thing to remember is that, when they pass the live chicken, if you don't want to hold it, just cross your arms and nod 4 times. Simple!
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Thanks everyone for the help!
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Our local Catholic church is having a Christmas pageant for 4:00 mass today. A friend invited us, but then found out she can’t make it. But our church isn’t doing anything today, and a Christmas pageant sounds like a lovely way to spend the afternoon. We’d still like to go, even without the friend. That’s not weird, is it?
We’ve never been inside a Catholic church before. What do we expect? How do we dress? Where do we sit? How early should we arrive? What do we need to know so that we don’t feel completely awkward?
Thanks for your help!
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Hello,
OP here. I had no idea this would become a discussion with such strong feelings.
Thanks for all the advice.
Part of the problem was that I was just cranky yesterday. We had been battling illness in our home for about three weeks, so the cleaning had been neglected. Dirty houses put me in a bad mood, and the house was much dirtier than usual. Also I was PMSing a bit.
Another part of the problem I realized from a few of your posts. I hadn’t realized that my kids really have been box deprived the few months. We are currently renting a tiny home, but will be purchasing and moving into a much larger home next spring or summer. Because of that I’ve been hoarding all the boxes instead of letting the kids play in them like we usually do. I think they might be filling their box void with toy bins.
Today I’m feeling more rational, and we got a lot of the neglected cleaning done, so I’m in a much better mood.
I have been fantasizing all day about future toy systems though, because I’m the sort of person who fantasizes about organizing.
So my current fantasies are all for our new house (no room here). And they may or may not happen, because that is the way of fantasies.
But since I bet at least one of you also likes to fantasize about future organization, I’ll share. :)
The Legos are by far the most played with toys. I’d say the kids play Legos 80% of the time. So I think I’ll build a large lego table with a trench in the middle to contain the Legos. (They currently play Legos on a large blanket.) This will stay out all the time. I know the Legos won’t always stay at the table, but for some reason Lego mess doesn’t bother me much as long as it’s not combined with other toy mess.
We’ll also leave out the stuffed animal zoo and the ride-on toys for the littlest ones.
We’ll get a dress up chest that will probably not be locked either, but I want to have a locking option in case I need it for my sanity at some point.
I think everything else will go in a locking cabinet. Probably one like this. If they want something besides those things that are already out, they can ask. I don’t think there will be five bins out at once, as long as the Legos are out. And eventually, when they’re a bit bigger and better trained, we probably won’t have to lock the cabinet and can just leave it open.
But whether or not those fantasies ever become realities, I do know that in a few months after we move my kids will have all the boxes they could possibly play with. :)
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Thanks for talking some sense into me.
Getting extra bins wouldn't work. We actually have extra bins. And they have all sorts of things they've made out of boxes. But they want to use EVERY bin or box or other container they can find. I have to keep up on taking out the recycling because it gets raided often for imaginative supplies.
I've been planning on a toy purge soon. That will probably help a bit. And kids will grow up. Who knows, maybe someday when they're all grown up I'll miss the creative mess.
Off to bed I go. Good night.
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I need you to tell me how mean my plan is so I don’t inflict it on my children.
I am tired of the mess. The toys are everywhere. Not because children are playing imaginatively with toys, but because they love the toy bins so much that they dump out all the toys in order to play with the bins.
We have purged toys, and will again. But considering that I have five kids, they don’t really have that many toys. But we live in a small house, and 5 kids worth of toys dumped out in a small house means I feel like I can't breathe.
When they do the big dump, they have to clean it up, but it takes a lot of work from me to get them to do it. And then they forget their lesson a few weeks later, and dump it all again. I am tired of repeating this life lesson.
When I was growing up I loved to play inside my toy box and would dump it out so I could. I understand the allure. I’m not upset that they use imaginations or act like children. Just annoyed at the mess and the work required to remedy the situation.
When I was growing up I had one friend whose house was ALWAYS clean. Though I had no concept of keeping a house clean, I loved that hers always was clean. It made playing more fun if we actually had room. One thing her parents did to take care of the toy problem was to keep all the toys way out of reach. When we wanted to play with my friend’s horses or Barbies, we’d have to ask her parents to please get down the crate holding whichever set of toys we wanted. Afterward we would put them all back in the crate. No other toys would be retrieved for us until we had cleaned up the one set. We did this sometimes, especially if the weather was bad. But I remember mostly playing outside and using our imaginations.
Do I dare inflict this on my kids? Not letting them have free access to their toys? Only letting one set of toys out at a time? Probably saying “no†a lot when they want toys and I’m busy cooking or something?
I’m in a sort of irrational grumpy mood right now. It seems like a sound idea, but I need sensible people to tell me the truth.
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This.
Why THIS sin? Why not the rest? Would those who make the rules have to look deep within themselves to find that they are sinners, too, and that a blanket rule for sin would apply to themselves, also?
Just my opinion. I've been trying to figure this out too. Here is what I think the thinking is.
If heterosexual parents are not married, to repent they can get married. The family stays together. If an alcoholic repents, he stops drinking alcohol. The family still stays together. Repentance for the majority of sins will make a family stronger.
But to repent from a same-sex relationship, the partners would have to break apart. The family would be broken. This is one of the few cases where repentance of a sin would do that. Polygamy is another. I think that's why the policy is in place for this particular sin. The family dynamics are too complicated to expect a child to figure out and commit to one way or the other.
Just my current thoughts on the matter. I'm still trying to work this through. I think time will help. And I am truly sorry for those who are hurt right now. I hope time and understanding will help heal all wounds.
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That's exactly what it means. It's a seriously irritating habit of some Mormons including this blog author. If you don't agree with the church leadership (except on immigration and gun control, then the church is wrong, of course), you just didn't pray hard enough.
Agreed that it's an annoying habit of many LDS people (generally well-intentioned though). And just to clarify, earlier I said I've got some thinking and praying to do about this. I hadn't noticed that bit in the article. I really just figure that thinking and praying about stuff that's hard to understand is a good way to get understanding. I'm not saying I'm going to sit down and shut up. ;)
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But they can't live with their parents? Ever, it sounds like, even if the parents cease any same-sex relationships? Which is problematic when their parents are elderly or ill or disabled. (Or when the child is ill or disabled and relies on the parents as a caretaker.) Most adults are capable of living with a person who has differing views on one thing or another, agreeing to disagree and focusing on their love for each other, warts and all. That's what functional families do, and do very well. They embrace, love, and take care of each other, in sickness and in health, parents and children, as long as they each shall live. The "love the sinner, hate the sin" mantra speaks to this, yes?
I'm curious how this rule will play out. I have a hard time imagining the church telling someone that they can't care for their elderly parent. There could be extenuating circumstances where the rule is breakable.
I only pictured the rule from the young person's side. Trying to make a clean break from the lifestyle by moving out rather than living in their parents' basement for the next 5-10 years as many people do.
I don't know how it would work when the parents were the ones needing to be cared for. I'm curious to see. And hopeful that compassion wins. It might just be taken case by case as many things in the church are.
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And keep in mind, that blog post is from the same author as the "Frozen promotes the gay agenda" post that went viral a while back.
ugh. I didn't know that. I've never heard of that blog before today.
Hopefully the church will come out with an official statement soon.
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I thought the LDS Church was making a big push to re-think its ideas on homosexuality and to have dialogue and reconciliation.
Was that a misimpression? Is this policy new, or vestige of the past?
Bill
Sort of. The LDS church has never changed it's stance that homosexual relationships are a sin.
They have tried to be more open minded about why people have homosexual feelings. They've made it very clear that homosexual feelings are not a sin, and it's only when those feelings are acted upon that one needs to repent.
They've also been vocal about not discriminating against homosexual people in civil matters (housing, jobs, etc.)
They've been vocal about loving all people, regardless of anything (race, religion, or sexual orientation).
They do not want anyone to feel that God does not love them, and have tried to make amends for past policies that have made homosexuals feel hurt.
But they have never come close to changing the affirmation that marriage before God is between a man and a woman, and any other sexual relations outside of that are a sin.
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I'm LDS, and I don't understand everything my church does. I've seen a lot on the internet today, and I'll share my thoughts-in-progress.
I was about to share the blog post Amira shared. It is a good one.
The LDS church is very family oriented. The LDS church says that same-gender relations are wrong. The church does not want to cause contention in families.
If a child of same-gender parents were to be baptized they would always be in conflict. They live at home with parents they love. They go to church and find that their parents' relationship is sinful. Then they are asked if they want to be baptized. A young child should not make a choice like that. Requiring that they wait until they are adults protects them and the families they are in. At least, I think that's the reasoning behind this.
And when they are 18, to be baptized they do not have to disavow their FAMILIES. They have to disavow the PRACTICE of same-gender relations. They still get to keep their parents and love them.
There are other groups this applies to also, such as children from polygamous families. I don't think it's to penalize the children. I think it is to protect them and their families from conflict. Let them grow up before they have to decide if their parents are right or of the church is right.
These are just my thoughts-in-progress though. There are probably holes in my thinking. I'm going to wrap my mind around this for a while and pray about it too. There will probably be official press releases from the LDS church at some point too.
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I don't really see racism in Back to the Future. IIRC there are 3 times we see black people in the movies. One is a mayor. One is the grandson of the mayor who owns a successful car business. And one is a decently portrayed family trying to protect themselves in a place where everyone else is shooting guns at each other. All three examples seem to be in positive light. I don't know what the population mix was in that area in the 80s. The only slightly racist thing I could think of is that there weren't more non-white people in the movies, if the true population of that area had more than just a handful of black people and no other races even represented. I agree with others that casting a black family was probably just the easy way to show that Marty's family did not live in that house.
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ETA or are you getting the shock collar so you CAN leave her outside?
No, we never plan to leave her outside at night. We do leave her outside when we leave the house though.
If the barking happens every night, I'd send the dog to my parents for a week. So, when the police show up again I could smile and say the dog hasn't even been home.
Maybe the neighbor needs a shock collar........
There is no barking every night in our neighborhood by any dog.
Now, all that said -- I wouldn't use a bark collar on a dog if there was any way to avoid it. Can't you bring her inside more during the day? Many dogs bark because they're bored out of their minds stuck outside by themselves with no interaction and nothing to do.
Whenever we hear her bark at all during the day we bring her in. She is free to come in and out as she pleases when we are home. But when we are not home we leave her outside because she's much happier there than inside. If we're not home we can't bring her in when she barks. We're thinking now that we'll probably have to leave her inside when we leave the house. She won't be happy about it. She loves the outdoors. I just wish whichever neighbor is having problems would have talked to us, so we could find out what exactly their problem is and work on solving it. We really don't want to cause problems for our neighbors.
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Thanks for the responses.
None of the dogs in our neighborhood bark all night. I did hear one bark for about 10 seconds at 10:30pm last night, but that's as close as it gets. I think we have a neighbor who just doesn't like our dog. In the neighbor's defense, we did leave the house Saturday evening. We were back by 8:10pm, but it was already dark, and it's possible the dog barked while we were gone. I don't think that constitutes "all night," but that's just my opinion. I think we have left our dog home alone after dark less than five times total since we moved here in March, and we're always back by a reasonable time as we have five little kids who need to go to bed.
The good news is we are renting, and in about a year will probably have enough to buy a lot of land and move to where nobody will hear the dog should she bark.
Thanks again for your help.
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The short question: can you recommend a good shock collar for teaching a dog not to bark? We want to be as humane as possible, but still effective. We don’t know anything about shock collars so we need advice.
The long story is this.
We have a big dog. She is friendly and sweet. She does bark when people walk by (which doesn’t happen often), when a dog across the neighborhood barks, or when a critter wanders into the yard and she wants to play chase.
She does not bark all the time, or even the majority of the time. But we have a neighbor who thinks otherwise. They complained to the police. They say our dog barks all night. We bring her in at night and she doesn’t bark at all then, but if neighbor complains again we’ll get a summons.
We have our suspicions of who the neighbor is. We are new to the neighborhood. We have met many neighbors, and even discussed our dog with them to make sure things are okay. Most people on this street have dogs. Many of them bark. Many of them even roam free (ours is behind a fence). Ours is the only dog getting complaints. We have one neighbor across the street who we haven’t met yet, who owns two yappy little dogs. When they get yapping, our dog barks back. When this neighbor has very loud conversations on her porch, our dog barks. It seems like this would be the neighbor who would call the police, but we can’t be sure. Whoever it is, we wish they would’ve talked to us instead of the police. We do want to be good neighbors.
But the police say we need to get a shock collar that teaches a dog not to bark. So get one we will. Please help us find the right one.
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This week I am thinking about and memorizing 1 Peter 5:7. "Cast all your care upon him; for he careth for you."
I taped it to my computer. I was thinking about a thread on the general chat board too. I'll join in if you start it.
But I refuse to use the word "ponderize." I'm a stick in the mud that way. ;)
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The sky has gone from very bright to very dark in a short time. We still have a sliver of not-red moon though.
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looks like someone just took bite out of the moon
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I loved this session! And I loved watching it with my 11yo dd. We watched at home because it's dark here and I don't want to hit a moose on the 1-hour-country-road drive home from church. DD was a little sad about missing out on the ice cream social, so we had ice cream together while her brothers were in bed. :)
All the talks were wonderful.
So it seems that generally after conference the memes start to pop up. I'd like to share a couple quotes on Facebook without going through the trouble of looking up the exact wording or making them look fancy myself. Is there somewhere online a gathering of conference memes to choose from for lazy people like me?
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Thank you so much! That was extremely helpful!
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Ugh. My sister and BIL are dealing with a unique and stressful situation. Because of the current problem they need to put their 16-year-old in an online school as soon as possible. The tricky thing is that they don't have access to her previous transcripts.
So, is there an online high school that is easy to enroll in and doesn't require transcripts? Money is really tight, so cheap is good too. I figured if there is one someone here would know about it.
Thanks in advance!
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My families' biggest fear is that I'll cook Mexican food, as I am the only one in the family who likes it. But I do like it a lot, and, hey, I'm the one doing the cooking, so Mexican it is at least a few times a month.
I got tired of the complaining, so to be silly I started a tradition. When the kids sit down to eat I say, "One, two, three," and we all repeat together, "EWWW! I don't like that!" Then I tell them they all got their complaining done so they don't need to bring the subject up again. Once in a while they surprise me by adding afterward, "But I really DO like that!"
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The title sums it up.
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Question for Catholics
in The Chat Board
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Thanks again.
I live in a small town (population 4,000), so I doubt I'll be seeing any of you today ;). But I suppose if you live in a small northeastern town with a Christmas Pageant at 4:00 today, you could pm me. That'd be fun to meet a boardie in real life. :)