For a close family member. 2 persons living in a single room with a bathroom, no kitchen access, have a half sized fridge and a microwave. One has Type 1 diabetes and is gluten intolerant. Other does better on low/no gluten. Both have high anxiety and self medicate. Neither interested at this point in pursuing conventional treatment for anxiety and bipolar/PTSD. Only one works (other has submitted numerous job applications with zero response) and as of this week, hours are cut to 10 per week at $10/hr. Room rent and utilities are bartered for maintenance work and cleaning. Looking for food suggestions they could reasonably implement given no standard food prep facilities. Up till now they have been doing mainly take out, including prepared salads from convenience stores, fast food and some grocery items, $ supplemented by family. I am totally freaking out. Thanks

Thanks for the update. I have followed your story from the beginning and am always happy when you update, even when STBX is a jerk, again.

Rayon has a tendency to shrink. If you have a good delicate cycle on your machine, I might risk machine washing, but I would definitely not machine dry.

I agree with so much of this. Also, I have found that *what* I eat has as much or more to do with when and how I experience "hunger" than calories and timing of food intake. "Hunger" meaning the perceived need to eat, as opposed to actual, true hunger where everything tastes absolutely delicious . Getting totally away from processed food of any kind was what it took for me to experience true hunger. I have experience with kids as young as 2-3 that do totally fine with 3 meals a day and no snacks, as well as kids that predictably melt down if they can't eat every 2 1/2 hours or so. But those kids all had processed food as part of their diet, so I don't know how much longer they could have gone with a cleaner diet. That said, we have to feed the kids we have, not some random internet person's ideal kids lol. And KFP, where were you when my kids were small! What a brilliant idea about prepping food for the mid day right after breakfast!

Here, a student in 8th grade can earn high school credit towards graduation that appears on the official transcript. Health/personal fitness, 9th grade English, physical science, math (this is a mess here--when ds was in 8th grade, the only math for high school credit offered at the middle school was AP Statistics! now I understand algebra is offered), and foreign language are the options at the local middle school.

I put my son in ps 1/4 into 8th grade. That worked out well for us because he had the opportunity to earn a few high school credits that year (science, health) and helped cement his placement (honors/AP) for 9th-12th. In retrospect, 7th would have been better for him because that would have given him the opportunity to do math and English for high school credit also. Hindsight and all that. Socially it was a big adjustment, and he came out very well in the end. He would have done better with sports if we had started in 7th, but math would have suffered, since the middle school is subpar at math instruction.

I had a similar issue with dd who finished SM through 6B by age 10, started New Elementary Math, flew through the first 5 chapters covering preA topics, then slammed up against the algebra topics. It turned out she needed another year of brain development to successfully do algebra. No worries, we had time. We tried Saxon Math 8/7 as a time filler. Blech! Don't do what we did lol

How old is the child?

My heart cries for you. I cannot fathom the mother pain.

In my similar experience, I was cut a check by the insurance company and was under no obligation to do the actual repair, which I did not do.

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I'm sorry, Beth, that sounds really hard. (((Hugs)))

Waving hello from another double double e family!

I think Dave Ramsey is to financial trouble as AA is to alcohol trouble. The same one-size-fits-all approach and dogmatic assertions that one can never drink again/use credit ever. It may well work for some, but there are those that can become a social drinker/responsible user of credit.

Have you considered calling a crisis line?

Oh Tammy, my heart breaks for you. No judgment here.

By Georgia law, you are not required to assign a grade for your child. They may ask for one, but you are not required to give it. You must, in your letter of intent, supply the name and age of each student, as well as the address of the homeschool and the dates of your homeschooling year. Standardized tests are required to be administered every three years beginning in 3rd grade.

You may be unusual if you throw up before getting drunk. Most people I am familiar with have to be quite drunk before throwing up.

I think it takes more than a drink or two for most drinkers to get and act drunk. Someone my size who drinks regularly might need 2 drinks to feel significantly more social and uninhibited, and 4+ drinks to approach anything like drunk.

I might do something like get her a gift card (of whatever value you can easily afford) and tell her how much you appreciate what she did, but as you cannot afford to regularly pay her for the hours, she needs to know this extra service is not expected. So a gift card once, along with the clarification, then maybe again at the end of the summer.

A quick google search tells me this is a thing. I hate flying now.

I've had crowns on molars on both sides of my mouth for over 25 years. No pain and minimal adjustment past a week or so of gum irritation.

For me, 2 eggs and fruit or oatmeal, or leftovers. For dh, eggs and meat, and potatoes if we have them. Fruit maybe. Leftovers. For ds, 3 eggs; ham, bacon or Canadian bacon; hash browns, pan fried potatoes, or oatmeal; fruit. Sometimes pancakes in addition to the rest.

I'm assuming the smarty pants aside is the brand of vitamin, not an insult.

I love it!! So cute!