Started with my own schedule, that later someone wrote a book doing the same thing (MOTH). Then FlyLady. Combined Virtuous Woman and other Home Management Binder ideas. Enter ideas from Bullet Journaling. Just moved everything over to OneNote.

Scrap, I hope things go better for you. I spent my afternoon at the laundromat to finish washing everything that had not been washed yet in the move (I wash EVERYTHING after a move...just a thing). Transferring files to Calibre right now. Hubby and kids cleaned the living and dining rooms, rearranging the former.

Thank you!

It is garbage logic. No, I never said you made it up. Some fundamentalist in the past did and passed it around. Just like Jack Chick makes a bunch of leaps and connections that aren't there between one subject and another. It's a made up issue. And, no, jeez is not related to Jesus, except in the minds of those that want to make an issue of it, just as those that want to imagine that Santa is related to Satan. Gosh does not sound like God. Efcharistó sounds like "a far stool" to some people. It's not related. One is Thank You and the other is A Far Stool.

I don't need the functionality. I just need the ability to record. Because I don't have a paid Office, the templates aren't a thing. I tried OpenOffice, but not with any success.

I never associated Gee Whiz with Jesus until someone with an issue with it pointed it out. Again, someone made a connection where there was none to begin with. Just like the whole "if you move the N in Santa, you can make the word Satan, therefore Santa is Satan" garbage type logic.

Thank you. Yes, that might work. I will try that.

I like the notebooks. This is taking the place of my other binders and apps.

Thanks. It's a normal change of climate thing. Perhaps I'm just feeling draggy and it will pass. We've been running almost non-stop, getting what we need, etc. We did manage to buy a vehicle at the auction last weekend.

I would box their stuff, store it in the garage/attic/basement, clean the room, and turn the room into what you wish (guest, sewing, den, etc). FTR, once our daughter eventually moved in somewhere, after couch surfing (also just up and left), we felt free to get rid of or pass down anything she left behind.

Because of the move, we are still in "getting things together" mode. Today we accomplished buying outfits for the Greek Bazaar and new clothes several of the kids. Tonight, it'll be more OneNote set up and scheduling, as well as some minor cleaning. I think the move is catching up with me and I'm coming down with a cold.

Is anyone familiar with the OneNote App. It's the one thing I can use across devices. I'm looking for a way to do ledgers in it.

I believe it is different for everyone and what one person can handle another may not. You know your own limits. That said, I have had eleven pregnancies, some very difficult, and eight living children. My oldest is twenty-one and my youngest is six. Yes, we are done. One of my younger sisters is the first yiayia. I'm not in a hurry for grandbabies, but I will enjoy them when my time for being yiayia comes.

Cheese Whiz, to be honest. "Minced oaths" is one of those made up issues within fundamentalism that I left behind, along with fundamentalism itself.

They've been used in various Sci-Fi and later than the 80's. 90's and into the new millennium. I know some people have an issue with them. I currently do not and have no problem saying fricking or fracking. It's okay if you don't like it.

Lounge: took care of buying new towels, paying rent, and buying a black skirt/white blouse for Greek Bazaar and other future events that call for such. Tonight is working in OneNote for my planners and bullet journals.

Certain groups you cannot put in a box as a whole. Anabaptists are one. There are so many different branches of Amish and equally so of Mennonites that you will find "mainstream" to extremely cultish and everywhere in between. Your more cultic groups will often spread out to other areas of the country, away from PA, because the cultures are both separate and intermixed here. However, even these groups have individuals that are prone to joining such as ATI/Gothard. Charity Gospel Ministries is pretty big on it and has created their own form of it, pushing the same type of thinking (and, yes, I call them a cult).

Coffee followed by rootbeer. I'm just glad to be back in PA. Today, folding laundry. Hubby is breaking down boxes. Maintenance came in and painted the bathroom ceiling. The teen girls went to do their laundry. Books are being temporarily moved to the basement. Tomorrow, I go get new glasses ordered (mine are horribly scratched and wonky, thanks to a fridge door falling on me the other month and my work refusing to pay for new ones). Things are coming together.

When you are in a small town with few options and even those options prefer those that are 18+. 17 and occasionally 16yr olds, but only with parents signing permission slips (required here, where it didn't used to be, nor is it required elsewhere). All of this makes for teens without jobs. Oh, and insurance issues, where teens no longer may mow lawns or babysit without paying for certain classes (that are held in places where one needs a vehicle in order to take them).

JW's have been a mixed bag, from accepting our off the bat "not interested" to rude to downright angry and condemning me. LDS, I let them park their bikes under our carport. They are always polite. They have never tried to convert us beyond trying to give us literature and we've had friendly conversations about what we do have in common, places we've lived, and large family quirks. Eldest texted me today to let me know that "Bible Tract Man" came by the house today to try to save my children's souls. He's an annoying IFB guy that haunts the laundromat and the restaurants. He's even tried sneaking tracts to my kids, literally behind my back in a store. He and I have gotten into a verbal dispute at the laundromat. He's ignorant of history and theology and didn't even understand basic words I used. He condemned myself and most of the people in the laundromat to hell (a lot of Catholic Mexicans were there that day, and I have attended Mass with them, so I knew). He insisted that wasn't what he said. Yes, sir, here were your words. FTR, son and I remove any of his literature we find laying around... 91yr old SBC neighbour lady has slipped religious literature into snacks and gifts she's given my littles. Thankfully, they bring it to me and the most it's been is the 10 Commandments. Still, IMO, children are OFF LIMITS.

It's complicated. Not the example given for that choice though. Raised by a "spiritually mixed, but non-religious" mother and a backslidden Nazarene stepfather. Dad's family, unbeknownst to myself, but not unknown to my mama, were all Baptists. I was put on an IFB church bus every Sunday. I went to an IFB school for a bit also. I would visit the Nazarene church when visiting with stepfamily and visited the LDS church with my best friend once, when I was six (stepfather never allowed that again). Became SBC in highschool, while dating my husband, whose father was a former SBC pastor. We married, weren't welcomed into the married group, and went to the UMC. Eventually became uncomfortable with the wealthy, country club atmosphere of that particular congregation and went to a non-denominational, fundamentalist church (brethern background, mostly baptistic, somewhat messianic, and with a mix of Gothardites and Calvinists). A few months in a oneness Pentacostal church while dealing with some things. Ran off to join an ultra conservative Mennonite group, came back to the non-denom. Became Calvinists, went to a Reformed Baptist non-denom. Moved across country...PCA, OPC, RPCNA, PRC, URCNA, and back to PCA. Husband was becoming more "Catholic". We became Eastern Orthodox (a bit of a story there). I'm fine with studying various faiths, but Orthodoxy is home.

Your presumption is extremely wrong. There was no screening. My adoption was one of those lovely underhanded cases by the great state of South Carolina. My stepfather would only adopt me if he didn't have to fight my father, because he didn't want to have to put out the extra money to the courts or having me visit my family. $500 was all I was worth. Otherwise, my mother was to sign papers that allowed another couple to adopt me. Please look up Adoptee Rights. The reality is that you aren't sparing them pain by hiding their past from them. As adults they have a right to that information. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Some of this is a bit insulting to adoptees. If he gets adopted, I hope he doesn't have his past hidden from him his entire life. And ftr, all adoptees have a price tag. I was $500.

TCK/A and messed up extended family situation here, so take it for what it is worth. You live two hours away, live your life your way, AND get to spend time with extended family (I'm presuming that this is mostly peaceable?). COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS. Your children will go and do their thing. They will eventually have their families and come see you and each other. Extended family may become a once a year family reunion kind of thing. ENJOY IT. Nurture the relationships that are important to you and your children will do the same. Sometimes cousins ARE close and sometimes they are not. Now, if we are talking toxic relationships, disrespect, etc...then it's time to consider boundaries.

Third shifter here, so I am always a late riser. Girls have a friend spending the night. I'm working on organising files. Smallville is my evening company.