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I understand this struggle of what activities to do - my kids are still in AWANAS and would like to go to the summer camp they attended a couple years ago (it's out this summer because we don't have the extra funds). Dh likes that the kids are in AWANAS, so it's not an issue I can push at this point. But it is a concern that they won't understand the differences. Maybe if the EO church was in the same town I could try to encourage more involvement there, but it's not, and at this point, they don't have extra activities for the kids.
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We got chickens last year and they started laying around January this year, so our 5 hens keep us in eggs. We have about 1/2 acre lot, and finally finished fencing the yard (finished the whole south side of the yard last summer 250+ feet of vinyl :eek:). So the chickens are able to free range a lot of the time in the back half of the backyard (which is mainly quack grass and weeds).
I also have a good stand of raspberries, some strawberries, 2 apple trees and one peach tree, along with 3 raised beds and a small greenhouse and patio space/planters for gardening. Most of the greenhouse and patio will be dedicated to tomatoes and if we end up with enough (I have enough plants, it's more dependant on the weather), I'll can and dry the extra. Unfortunately, I won't be getting any fruit on the fruit trees this year due to a few freezes that came when they were in bloom. The past couple of years, I've lost most of the beans I've planted due to late freezes and then an onslaught of grasshoppers eating them after replanting. I'm hoping the chickens will help with the grasshoppers and that we won't get any freak freezes in June this year.
We get a fairly local 1/2 of grassfed beef every year, but I can't find a local source of free-range chicken. Ds will get his hunting license for the first time this year and dh might take him deer or elk hunting this fall (and this is a resource we haven't taken much advantage of, but should).
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We budget $100 a month, but since I use a literature based curriculum, that also includes all the books I buy for our home library. It used to be $50 a month, but as ds started getting older and I was finding I needed different writing programs, or had to try out a few math programs, etc., I needed more. I'm sure if I didn't also use it to build our library, I could get by with less, but I like that my kids have many books they love available for them to read.
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This page has some good instructions and also how to get multiple batches of broth from the same bones:
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Praying. . .
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:grouphug: I'm so sorry! :grouphug:
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My cousin, Sonny, has been battling cancer for a few years now, and his last 6 month checkup looked good, however the one this week showed spots. He's going for a lung biopsy tomorrow. He's my age and has 2 kids of similar age as mine. His stepfather died of cancer in 2003 and my grandma just died last month, so between the grief/stress surrounding her death and the re-living of the cancer scenario, it is very difficult for them. Prayers would be greatly appreciated.
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I believe, passionately, that when there is a breakdown in a parent-child relationship, that the highest priority isn't ruthlessly clamping down on the symptoms, it is repairing the relationship.
I also believe that the only person I can "control" is myself, but that when I change my patterns in a relationship, I can transform the relationship... and I've found that to be dramatically true with my kids.
I agree - I've found this very true in my relationship with my dc, but especially in changing (for the better) my relationship with my ds. However, it is often extremely difficult to remember sometimes in the heat of the moment, when everyone is out of sorts. And ds even admitted that he had a huge change of heart when he realized that I really did love him, even when he wasn't nice or being good. He said that changed the way he viewed things and acted. But I don't have step-kids, and that brings a whole 'nother dynamic into play.
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And actually, it's pretty simple. The two parties have entered into a contract. If the person who took the loan fails to pay it back per the terms of the contract, then the lender takes back the property. Those terms are clearly stated in these types of contract. There are rules, and there are consequences for breaking them. No where in the contract I signed for my home did it say "if you don't pay this loan you're a horrible, immoral person who will be shunned by your community and go directly to hell." I cannot even wrap my head around that line of thinking.
I agree.
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She weighs a few lbs over 100, so at least 4000iu per day? Would 5000iu be over kill? I have 5000 already that i take (i take 11,000 daily. 2 5's and a multi with 1000).
I will hold off on ds and have him rechecked. He was deficient when checked in september, and we had spent 2 weeks in georgia.
I forgot- in addition to the supplements, we spent a week on a cruise in december and dd got plenty of sun on beaches in the bahamas!
My dd is around 100lbs, and I've had her on the 5000IU. Granted, I have not had my kids checked, but dh and I have checked ours twice, and know to begin with, we were both low.
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I thought the new low normal is supposed to be 50. My level was 28 and I started supplementing with significantly more per day than your DD. I think 800 iU isn't enough, especially since this was basically through the winter in PA? I imagine the small supplement wasn't sufficient to boost her through the winter.
I would agree that 800IU probably isn't enough. I've read for kids, the recommended dosage is 1000IU per 25lbs of body weight. I've had both of mine on the adult dosage of 5000IU a day for awhile now, as they're up to that dosage weight wise.
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And is your step-brother happy with his decision, or does he wish he'd just stuck it out? Has he had a hard time since then?
I think he's just fine with his decision (he lives in another state and we don't talk - I hear stuff from my mom). He was working part-time in the mortgage business before this, so knew a lot about it and what the impact would be. He's very fortunate that he has a very good friend who invested in another house in the area for him, and once he's able to (credit-wise), he'll take over the mortgage from his friend. For him (I believe - all this is second-hand), it was only a business/financial decision - there wasn't really an issue of if it was a moral decision. The housing market tanked, he was way upside down in his mortgage and lost his roommate, so wasn't able to make ends meet. He would probably never have been able to get his money back out of the house had he stayed, and with the bank unwilling to adjust anything, he got out.
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I haven't read through all the other replies, but my step-brother did this a couple years ago - after going to the bank and trying to work with them to reevaluate what the home was worth. They didn't want to work with him and would rather go into foreclosure and then resell the house for less that what they could have renegotiated for with my brother.
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I feel like I have to wash 30 dish towels every day. Ok
Not feel. Fact. Is this normal? And many of those dish towels require ironing after washing in order to seem like they are lying right.
So I have two issues: how do you manage dish towels? My kids get a fresh towel every time they wash and then dry their hands. And I am never going to be successful getting them not to wash them in the kitchen. So all day long, people come in, do something, and grab a towel - to wipe something, dry something, etc. By the end of the day, there is a glut of towels, and we are all sort of squeamish and won't use a towel to dry a dish (or our hands) if that towel feels like it might have been used before. It makes me crazy, though, that there are so many slightly used dish towels to wash.
Second issue: I need better dish towels that don't need ironing!
Well, first of all, I am the only one here who's regularly allowed to wash their hands in the kitchen sink. The kids have their bathroom and dh uses ours, and so those towels are only used for hands and get changed out several times a week. I have one hand towel next to the kitchen sink that I use, but since I'm the only one using it, and I use separate towels for dishes, the hand towel lasts for the whole day (I change the kitchen hand towel and wipe I use for the counters, daily). So by the end of the week, I have a whole load of hand and kitchen towels.
And I would definitely find some other towels that don't have to be ironed. I use thin, cotton (like flour sack type) ones for drying dishes and they don't take up much room and dry things well.
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I told him I couldn't condense it into a 30 second sound-byte and there are lots of podcasts if he's interested (he's not). I think I get to a point where I'm starting to come to terms with this new normal and then he tears the scab off and it's raw again. He doesn't do it maliciously - he really wants me to be happy - but he isn't at a point he can get over the obstacles about EO.
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I wasn't sure if I should tie this onto this post or not, but I guess it's somewhat related (I know some of you ladies have posted struggles right before being chrismated). Dh brought up (again) this morning if I was happy and what we could do to make me happy. I told him I was content, but he wants happy. I said it's the same thing it has been for the past year or more, but you aren't interested (church). He's like why can't you just chose one here and we can go as a family, and I said (again) that I can't go back. He'll then ask questions about why - why change is bad? why is that the only way? am I saying people in other churches aren't saved? that what they're teaching is always wrong?
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My priest won't be back til the day before we're getting chrismated and the baptism, so there's no way to get it to him early. Thus the many logistical issues - he's only here 10 days a month, and many of us are an hour or more away from the church. I'll just take it with me and if he has a chance before, he can bless it and if not, then after, I guess.
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I agree with all of these, but most of all with the point BMW made - you have to bid the highest amount you feel comfortable paying, so even if you are sniped, it was at an amount you didn't want to pay. I use a sniping website when I bid on Ebay, but even so, don't always win because my amount was less than the previous bidder.
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Thanks for the recommendations! I went ahead and ordered the Guardian Angel with Boy - it seemed to be "right" to me. Now another question (maybe a dumb one) - do I not wrap it so my priest can bless it? Or maybe get a gift bag that it can be removed from easily? Or maybe it doesn't matter?
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Dh and I play World of Warcraft, and have for several years (6 or 7) and I held out for a long time before letting our dc play (or even watch us play, because ds especially, has a tendency to get obsessive about things). We started letting them play in the last year, and they played Lego Universe before that, but all on the condition schoolwork was finished and they were taking care of their responsibilities (along with getting off the computer when asked, if needed). We also did a trial period of World of Warcraft only on the weekends, to see if it created problems with either of them in behavior/attitude. They have a set number of hours they can play a week (of whatever computer game they choose that we have), and are allowed to budget those hours as they want.
But dh and I (I think, at least!) set good guidelines and examples on where gaming fits in our life - neither one of us puts it above our responsibilities and it's not an obsession with either of us. We would nix any gaming that proved problematic for them - if they were developing bad habits/attitude issues/not wanting to do anything else besides play computer.
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:grouphug: I'm so sorry! We have a 16 yr old kitty and I know my kids (and dh and I) will be very sad when she dies. :grouphug:
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Thanks for the suggestions - I was mainly thinking of a gift for the baby. What are good places to order from?
Outdoor cats/neighbor concerns - what do you do?
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I'm on the side of the cat owner shouldn't let their cats roam and annoy people (and I'm a cat owner). I love cats, but do not love them in my yard. Until we finally got the rest of our yard fenced last fall, I'd have piles and piles of cat poo on the south side of my yard (I guess because in the winter it stayed warmer and less snow). So I'd have the lovely prospect in the spring of scooping up all this stinky cat poo that wasn't mine, and finding presents the rest of the year (loved "finding" them by rolling over them with the mower tires). Personally, I think that's just rude of the owner(s) of said cats. I have never let my dogs or cats roam and leave deposits all over the neighbors' yards.
We have chickens now and I've taken care to confine them to my yard, but since they are livestock, I can legally shoot any animal harrassing them. I haven't actually shot a cat yet, but shoot near them to scare them off.