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  1. @hellen Awesome information…thank you so much!! Dealing with bathroom stuff is my biggest worry right now. I assume my dad will use a taller potty chair at first? Regarding a bidet, I will talk with them about it. Funny side note, I have a bidet at my house. Back in 2020 my dh severed both of his bicep tendons 😳. We had like two days to plan for surgery and the first thing I did was to have a bidet installed. Saved my marriage!
  2. Good ideas! I will contact the social worker today to talk about home health. It is tiring to care for someone on this situation. I have been running back and forth between the hospital (30+ minutes away) and my parents’ house (15 minutes away in the opposite direction), while trying to work and take care of my house and my own family (youngest is 16…thank goodness). I sit at the hospital, but it just wears me out. How is sitting so tiring??
  3. My dad is 79 years old and had emergency bypass surgery last Monday. He has been progressing well in the hospital and is set to be discharged on Wednesday. My dad lives with my mom in a one-story ranch home. My dad has always been fairly active, but my mom has some medical issues (her balance is very off - she seems so feeble). My brother and I have been splitting our time at the hospital. Now that we know the discharge date, I’m starting to think of what we need to do and how we should prepare. Fortunately I work from home, so I should be able to work from my parents’ house some. My brother is a business owner, so while he is busy, he is also in charge of his own schedule. Thoughts on how we should be preparing? Anything we should make sure to have at their house? Any tips or tricks?
  4. Dh and I both have Chase cards but my email address is used as the contact info for both. I get Chase emails all the time and have no idea if they are intended for dh or me, because they don’t put our names in the email. I would definitely look up Chase customer service number and call them.
  5. There is a widespread cellular outage across the US. AT&T seems to be the provider most affected and I read that Verizon says their customers aren’t affected directly. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna139938
  6. No cell service here. Although I did receive a text from my dd recently and I was able to respond. I have AT&T service, which seems to be the most affected. I am also curious to know what’s going on!!
  7. Yes, thank you!! I’m going to place an order for some too. I do have one additional question. I have purchased a high quality retinol that I use at night and vitamin c for daytime. Should I be using either of these near my eyes? If.l not, what do you use around your eyes? Thank you!!
  8. We celebrate our 25th anniversary this November and I would like to do something special. For our 20th, we went to Vegas which was fun, but really more his idea of a vacation. I’d like to go on a cruise or even just vacation somewhere warm, but no definite plans yet.
  9. My 19 yo ds is coming over and bringing his girlfriend. Dh will be here too. We are having wings, some type of taco dip (I’d like to make a dip with ground beef if anyone has suggestions?), veggies with dip, and jalepeno poppers. I may also put some chicken tenders in the air fryer. I’m looking forward to it. This will only be the second time that ds girlfriend has been over. She is a sweet girl and I am glad to get to know her better.
  10. Perfect! I just started using a retinol and I ordered the vitamin c you recommended. Did you say what brand of sunscreen you use? I have some neutrogena that I’ve been using, but not sure what to look for in a daily facial sunscreen.
  11. I did the same!!! I have a question, when using vitamin c, sunscreen, and moisturizer in the morning, what is the order for application?
  12. Can you share a bit more about your routine? For the tretinoin, is this prescription? I recently purchased a retinol from the esthetician that waxes/tints my eyebrows (I haven’t used her for anything else yet). It was expensive and I keep hearing about tretinoin. Is it a better option (the brand of retinol that I bought is SkinMedica)? Can you tell me more about Vitamin C serum? What brand? The SkinMedica one that was recommended to me was $$$ so I didn’t buy. I am intrigued by the Jones Road makeup and will check it out.
  13. What is the name of the podcast? Never mind…I see after reading again that the name of the podcast is Criminal. I am going to listen and then watch on Netflix.
  14. “Symptoms range from mild to pure hell…” My 48 year old perimenopausal self is over here cracking up at your description. 🤣🤣🤣
  15. I watched this yesterday and sent it to both my dd (16) and dh to explain myself right now. It was perfect!!!
  16. We really need a new vacuum but I really don’t want to pay the almost $400 price of a new one (the Shark Stratos, which has all of the features that I really want). Amazon has a refurbished one for only $228, which is in my price range. Will I kick myself for buying refurbished? Any other suggestions for an upright vacuum with great suction (pets, girls with long hair, and mostly carpet) that you would recommend? Link to refurbished vacuum - https://a.co/d/cu1ILSd Thanks!!
  17. I want to be a fly on the wall in your classroom (or heck, maybe I would even like to join in!!). You seem to be a great teacher and what a fun activity for a group of preschoolers.
  18. Thanks for all the suggestions!! I ended up following @goldberry suggestion and made a cocktail with vodka, sprite, and cranberry juice. I found a recipe online that matched this, but added orange juice, which was very good! I added some frozen cranberries and an orange slice in each drink and it was so pretty and festive! Oh and I was able to omit the vodka for my 16 yo dd and she loved it with just the sprite, cranberry juice, and oj. Saving all of the other suggestions for future use. Thanks!!
  19. I puffy-heart love YNAB. Seriously. It changed my family’s finances. DH and I started 5 years ago with credit card debt on three cards. Not much, but enough that I could never seem to buckle down and just pay it off. So YNAB first helped us to do that. It was amazing. Then we decided to try travel credit card hacking. We currently have six credit cards that get used regularly and I can only manage that because of YNAB. We import all transactions and my cards are paid in full each month. The credit card feature is what really makes YNAB, in my opinion. Now that we are 5 years in, I have been considering a fresh start, but I’m just not sure. I would love to clean up the Payees (after 5 years, there are a ton of one-off payees in the system for our budget). I know there is a way to do this, but I need to check into it. Also, YNAB has a bunch of new features that I should probably check out. I mostly use the iPhone app version, so there are probably features I’m missing by not logging in on a pc. There is a learning curve. But for my family, it was 100% worth it!
  20. Going to my BFFs tonight to celebrate Christmas and we thought it might be fun to have a cocktail while there. She isn’t a big wine drinker, so taking a bottle of wine isn’t an option. Thinking of something simple and fruity. Suggestions?
  21. I don’t have answers for you (age 48 myself and thinking I need to also start researching this). Can you tell me specifically what magnesium you take? My only real peri symptom has. Reb night sweats and if I could improve that, it would be great!!!
  22. Honestly, as the mom of a 19 yo ds and 16 yo dd, I would be more angry with my kids for drinking and driving. I know that many may disagree with me, but around here, many teens try alcohol, so the girls drinking is not shocking to me. My kids have always been fairly honest with me about it, which I’ve appreciated. But my number 1 rule, no matter what, is that they don’t drink and drive and they don’t ride with someone who has been drinking. I tell them I will gladly come pick them up - no questions asked. (Editing to add - I also talk with my kids a lot about why it is best for them NOT to drink at all!! But I figured they would both try it in high school) So I think in your situation, your girls drinking and driving would my my first priority. I doubt I would tell the 18 yo mom about the vodka. I may just tell him you know he left it at your house and get rid of it. I wouldn’t give it back to him (unless his mom found out and requested it, I guess).
  23. Ds (graduated in 2022) didn’t want a party. He also wouldn’t go to prom and may have skipped graduation if I’d let him! Lol Dd (will graduate in 2025) wants a party and ALL the things! Around here, the kids parents will host an open house, maybe at a park or somewhere else outside. Friends and family will just come and go. I imagine this is what we will do for dd.
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