Lawana
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I am totally biting my fingers here. BITE BITE BITE.
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:lol::lol::lol:
I can't wait.
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I wet mop with a string mop (stocked up when I found 12 lb. mop heads in a grocery store) and the two bucket system, one being a wringer bucket. People still ask me if my vinyl floor is new─14 years later.
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I totally see where you are coming from. I remember reading somewhere that the combination of saturated fat and refined carbs lead to the most weight gain in a rat experiment. It seems plausible that an either/or but not both approach could work. I sure wish there were more definitive answers, but it does seem clear that refined and fake food is wrong no matter what.
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Thanks for responding.
She is a carb junkie. Her diet has lots of bread and other starches. When she wants food it is always carbs she craves. We don't keep "junk" such as crackers, chips, cookies in the house, but we always have popcorn available.
I eat something close to an "Eat to Live" diet myself and have been greatly influenced by that book and "The China Study," so I've cut down on animal food sources for the family, though I still cook a meat for dinner. I can't understand how someone could not just love huge salads and lots of veggies:D.
I really think if she'd just get away from the carbs, she wouldn't crave them, but I can't convince her of that.
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I've taken the quiz for previous years, so maybe I've learned how the answers are supposed to be. 100% here.
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I've got an issue that I'd like some feed back on. Dd, 13, has always bordered on chubby─75th percentile weight for height from 4 mos to about age 8 or 9. For the year before she was dx, her weight crept up a bit. Then she lost 15 pounds in the month before dx, regaining 5 of those pounds in the few months after dx. She stayed a bit slimmer for a few years, but has been gaining consistently since, especially since going on the pump. Unless something completely unexpected happens, she has her full adult height at 5'6".
She now weighs 160lbs, which puts her overweight. So how do I deal with this? She does not verbalize any concerns with her weight, and I don't bring it up. So far, the CDE and endo have not said anything, but I'm thinking it won't be long. I'm not sure how to address this without setting her up for body image issues.
Any ideas?
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Thank you, LaissezFaire, for starting this group!
Dd was dx Type 1 on 4/11/06 at age 9. She's been pumping since May of '09 with a pink Ping. The only reason we didn't go on the pump earlier is because we had a horrible experience with the I-Port. The cannula kinked every time and we assumed it would be the same with an infusion set. Loving the pump! Dd is capable of doing all her own carb counting, decision making, etc., but I help her every chance I get. I always clean up after a site change.;)
We tried the Dexcom for a week, then were denied by insurance. BCBS of IL won't approve anyone under age 25.:confused:
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I am planning on using Aesop B with my 4th grade daughter next year. My understanding is that you don't really need to add any grammar to it. However, she has completed First Language Lessons 3 and is diagramming, etc. I don't want her to lose what she's learned if Aesop B is light on the grammar. So, my question is, does anyone supplement with a Language program with Classical
Writing Aesop B? I'd either go for FFL 4 and skip the redundant material, or was considering Rod and Staff English for 4th grade. Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
If you continue with CW, a regular grammar text is added into the program with Homer. If you are ready to start Rod and Staff now, by all means do so. For now, modify the grammar part of Aesop to include what she already knows. Consider getting the Homer core book now to look ahead and find out how the grammar is implemented.
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I am looking at the Primer level--there are 4 books, Basics, Theory, Technic, and Performance. Do you begin all 4 books at once or complete one and then move onto the next?
The idea is to work in them simultaneously. Are you going to teach your child yourself? Have you looked at the Faber and Faber books? They have great support for Primer level.
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I've gone through periods of flossing religiously, and only flossing to remove particles of food, although I do brush brush twice a day. Just in the last several months I have noticed my gums start to recede (I'm 51). Previously, I had very healthy gums and the hygienist and dentist always commented on how healthy my mouth was. I'm wondering if there is an age related thing here─you know, "long in the tooth."
Any how, it's flossing time for real now. Wish I'd been doing it all along.
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We've had packages delivered into the garage many times, and also to the unlocked van─that was weird. Another time, there was a plastic bag with a package and mail in it tied to the handle of the garage door. I often hit the button on the garage door opener before I get a visual on the door itself. That would have been strange to see the package suspended from the open door!
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I've started swimming again, and my goal is to continue two or three days a week. I have a neato little suit with a skirt, from Lands End. I will never go back to non-skirt suits! But I'm afraid they will go out of style, and then when this one dies I'll be out of luck. (So while others are stockpiling water and food, I feel the urge to stockpile suits. :D)
So, roughly, how long does a good quality suit last, if you're taking care of it, and swimming two or three times a week? A year? Two? Six months? How many suits do y'all have?
The good news is that Lands' End suits last longer than any other suit I've ever had. I'v been using the same LE suit for the past 4 years, but don't swim much.
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It sounds like it's time for 3 bootcamp. "Making 3's like that does not meet the standards of our school. Write 5 lines of 3's with this as a model."
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We are trying to get in the habit of cleaning up after meals. Until now, the job basically fell to me whether I got to it or not. Usually that meant dinner dishes weren't cleaned after dinner and I had to wash a huge load of dishes before I could cook dinner, which made dinner really late. How would you assign clean up chores?
I have a 10 year old DD, an 8 year old DS, and a 3 year old DS. DH is willing to wash dinner dishes if dinner is served early enough. None of my children are able to wash dishes (no dishwasher)...well, they can but it would take well over an hour for them to hand wash even half of the dinner dishes.
My kids are arguing over who gets what because certain things like clearing and wiping down the table are a lot easier than drying and putting away dishes. Does the younger get the easier job and the older just has to live with it being "unfair"? Do we switch jobs every meal, every day, every month? If you switch jobs, how do you keep track of whose turn it is?
I can so relate:glare:. I try to get the kids to consistently bring their dishes to the dishwasher, but if I don't remind them, they forget. Mostly, I find it easier to do everything myself than train, monitor, remind, etc.
As far as your older 2 actually doing the dishes, I think they are entirely capable. In my family of origin (2 parents, 5 kids, no dishwasher) the older 4 kids rotated the dinner dishes on a weekly basis, starting at age 6. I can't vouch for the quality, but it was an absolute that the kid whose turn it was did the dishes. And no one was allowed to help:confused::confused:. It probably took 30- 45 minutes or maybe more. But that was life.
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Wow. I'm not sure that I can add anything of value here, but I would be furious and sad to learn that something so deceptive had been perpetuated to the disadvantage of one of my dc. If they had already selected a president, why go through the pretense of an election? I would not be able to work with the adult leaders until this had been discussed and explained. As a nonconfrontational person, it would feel awkward, but I would still feel the need to address the situation with them.
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Dd is Type 1 and I completely understand. We haven't had a low that bad, but it is always a parent's worst nightmare. :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:
If they haven't told you already, let her run high for a few days to replenish her liver's glycogen stores. And be very careful for the next 24-48 hours. Statistically, it's more likely to experience another low within this period. I would reduce her basal rates for the next few days.
ETA I reread your post and see you are on shots. Ask your endo about lowering Lantus (or Levimir, or whatever long acting insulin she's on) for a few days. Now is not the time to be worried about highs.
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I second the notion that debt free means owing money to no one, not even for a mortgage. I think that it is a common idea to exclude the mortgage, because the value of the house "covered" the debt. If one needed to, one could sell the house and pay off the mortgage. The current economic situation, with houses lousing value, resulting in a mortgage greater than the resale value, brings out the problem with that line of thinking.
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grapes, carrots, bananas, and the such are fine. It's anything that is liquid and liquid also includes anything that can be squeezed out of a container. That includes peanut butter or applesauce. I found out the hard way. :D
And you cannot take yogurt either. I have flown recently on Delta and taken fruit, vegetables, sandwiches, trail mix. Since dd is diabetic, we can have juice and water, but it's a pain, and I've had to "prove" her diabetes, even though she wears an insulin pump.
Here is the TSA website page for prohibited items.
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm
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The first thing that comes to mind is eggs. An omelet with veggies such as tomato, spinach, green pepper, mushrooms, onions, etc. Oatmeal, depending on how low you need to go. My breakfast is 1/4c regular oatmeal, cooked in the microwave with just enough water to moisten for 30 seconds, 1 Tbls ground flax seed, cinnamon to taste, 1/2 oz. walnuts, 1 green apple, chopped, and some other fruit such as blueberries, strawberries, etc.
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I'm sorry, I've never had one, but it sounds truly awful! I hope it feels better SOON.:grouphug::grouphug:
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Our UPS guy throws the packages at the door from his truck.
I hope he's never broken or dented anything. I consider that highly unprofessional.
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No, sometimes he'll honk multiple times. It's not just the one honk to let me know he's there. Heck, he doesn't know I recognize the sound as soon as he's in the neighborhood. :D He'll eventually bring the box up.
In that case, it is definitely rude. His job is to deliver the package to your door, not get you to do part of the work for him. I would ignore the honk and let him do his job. If I felt confrontational, which I rarely do, I might bring it up with him.
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I'm thinking a lot of communication would be good. I'm usually bad about trying to guess what is expected, but my mind reading skills are rather lacking:glare:. It might help if you tell them what you're used to doing, asking their routines, and making it clear you're adaptable. But talking it out will take some of the strain off.
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Maybe it's just his way of letting you know he's there. Does he wait at the truck until you come out, or just honk and then go about delivering the package to the door?
Do you embroider? Quick question...
in General Education Discussion Board
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The embroidery I do is machine, and the software generates the pattern. Not much help to you. Oh─maybe you could type it in a font you like, print it out and use that for a pattern.