Maybe look at the Subaru Ascent. It's the largest Subaru and comes in 7 or 8 passenger configurations. So you can lay seats down to fit large loads and still have passenger room. I think it is taller than the smaller Subarus so may be able to accommodate taller passengers better. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sending caring vibes for your son, family, and all involved in his care.

I'm sorry for your loss. Reading this on the 4th anniversary of my own dad's passing, and having a difficult, demanding sibling myself, I say do whatever works for you. This is your grief journey - everybody else can go kick rocks.

It'd be great if they actually followed the 2nd amendment. I'm no constitutional expert, but I believe there is some wording about "well regulated militia". I'm also 100% down with them owning the same firearms that were available at the time of the writing of the amendment. 🤷🏻‍♀️

People get charged and held criminally liable for "poor judgement" quite often. Many accidental deaths are a result of "poor judgement" from driving tired, falling asleep with the stove on, forgetting babies in cars, etc. Poor judgement is not a "get out of jail free" card. Nor should it be.

My DD got a great video and some good photos. All she had to do was walk outside her dorm. Lucky duck was in the path of totality and I didn't even realize it until yesterday. I knew she was close, so had ordered her some glasses (didn't arrive, grrrr) thinking she'd watch the partial, but thankfully the school had glasses.

Yes! And the "trading parties" at recess with all the other girls. We learned some great bartering skills at a very young age. 😁 I bought myself a "retro original" Strawberry Shortcake doll last year. She sits in my office (in the box). I take a sniff when I'm feeling nostalgic and need to feel like a care-free kid for a moment or two. "My kids" 😂 had smelly markers in homeschool. Thick and thin. Yes!! I bought my DD a sticker album for Christmas. She is in university and LOVES it. She didn't even have an album as a kid, so it's not a nostalgia thing for her. There are cute ones for sale on Etsy and Amazon. I think I now need to get "her" (and me!!!) some of the scratch and sniffs.

With all the stressy shtuff you've had going lately, of course you're peopled out. Right down deep into your very core. It's not even about extroversion or introversion, it's exhaustion. Big hugs. On the introversion-extroversion scale, I'm an ambivert. I need people and I need my space.

My kid is the opposite. Loooooves soup. But wouldn't eat canned tomato soup to save his life. Lol But, he loves homemade tomato soup - last night's supper was homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese.

I might be able to identify between 5 to 7 individuals by posting style or subject matter. But, for the most part, I'd just be lost and confused. I don't think I post enough to be remembered or recognized, but some of you have genius level memories and pattern recognition skills, so I could be wrong.

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Rivka maybe?

I don't think you went off half cocked at all. SIL needs to be put in her place regularly. Maybe she'd learn to act like a regular human with those lessons. You also do not need permission from her to drop in on your ILs and meet the caretaker any dang time you please. More hugs about the other stuff and having people work against you.

((( Hugs @saraha )))

She does supplement b12, iron, d and magnesium.

Thanks for checking. Yes and no; she seems to be over experiencing the immediate fatigue with eating. But she has spent more time being ill, or experiencing symptoms of some sort, than not since September. Now she has stomach pains after eating, which is the return of a symptom from a couple months ago that had cleared up. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Tell the one in the wrong that they need to make amends. Or, they are welcome to find other living arrangements for the summer.

Congratulations!

My mom heated up and stayed that way for about 2 decades. Just in the last year or two, she will mention feeling cool when the rest of us do. I get the flashes. Mostly hot, but sometimes they are followed by a cold chill. So much fun. As far as feet go, I've never fit into women's "cute" styles ever in my life due to wide toes and mountainous arches. For the past dozen+ years I have almost exclusively purchased wide toe box, zero drop, "barefoot"ish, style shoes & boots. So far they still fit, possibly because they already have some leeway in the fit.

Thanks ladies. Unfortunately, today is her last day of reading week, so she won't get as much rest as we'd like for her to get. She is also 1800 mi/2900 km away, living in the dorms at university, so not nearby for us to help in any meaningful way. Amazon Prime shipping takes a week or more, so she'd have to attend a medical facility to test or monitor O2 or sugar levels, IF they would do it. She does not normally have blood sugar issues. Fatigue is not outside her realm of "normal". However, extreme sleepiness fatigue that hits like a brick within moments of eating is new. Hopefully it's just a symptom that will be gone in a few days. She may have to try to fast until after classes are done for the day this week.

DD tested + Thursday and - today. Yesterday and today as soon as she eats, she gets fatigue so extreme she pretty much passes out from exhaustion. After having a 60-90 minute nap she wakes up and feels fine. Any ideas what might be going on with that?

A metaphor for coming from a can? Being put there by a man? In a factory downtown? 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

She was responding perfectly fine. She answers calls when she is available to talk, and doesn't when she is not available to talk. That is how the world works. In most healthy relationships it is unspoken yet understood. Saraha has no desire to change the way phone communication with her mother works. The way it works now was a hard-fought-battle to build those boundaries. Just because her mother has decided to test the boundary does not mean Saraha needs to capitulate to her demands to set a schedule or change anything. She'll answer when she has the spoons and ignore when she doesn't.

You really are having your own conversation here, aren't you? First everyone hates business, and now we're restricting who houses are sold to? No. The discussion is using zoned property for the type of usage it was zoned for. Residential properties are ... residential. Not commercial. Not to be used for high-turnover business purposes. If corporations want to buy the house for LTR, then it is what it is. It's not an individual family owning, but at least it is long-term housing designed and zoned for that purpose. @DawnM, I see someone upthread answered your question, but I just want to confirm that is what I meant. People who educate specifically about how to get financially independent and possibly retire early.

IF that was what she really saying, she would have listened the several times that Saraha tried to insert her own responses into the conversation. But that is not what happened. Her mom was not asking "can we try that?" and does not care whether Saraha "has a moment to talk" because she was not asking anything; she was issuing a proclamation about how Saraha is supposed to arrange her Sunday evening schedule from now on. What she really said was "you not being at my beck and call is not working for me, so I've given this a lot of thought and this is how I am taking control whether Sunday evenings works for you or not."