Subway, Taco Bell, Wendy's. I can usually get away with $5-$6/person at Chick-fil-A, too.

I'm the resident food tester, so probably I'd try some and see if it made me sick.

Just popping in to say I'm going to try to be better at both of these! We need tons more fruits and veggies in our diet, to get back to unrefined sugars (homemade baked goods, namely), I need to lose my mummy tummy and improve my cardiovascular health, and we could all stand to be more active in general. Options to accomplish a better diet include smoothies, veggie snacks, more raw fruit, more baking, killing the chip and sport drink purchases. Exercise: HIIT and core DVDs, hiking, paved walking path, Couch to 5K, and eventually weight lifting (we need a rack). That's as far as I've gotten. My problem isn't options or solutions, it's discipline and distraction. I'll have spells of "doing better" before I wander off again, so we'll see if this time I manage to become consistent and drag most of the rest of the family with me. :D

Um, just to be clear, I'm answering for me, not what I think others should do. And I don't know whether it's the healthy thing to do; it's just what I do. (Agreed). ETA after actually reading the thread. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: I'm sorry. I deleted my vote and will just say... So for me, like I said, I isolate as much as possible. But for others, I don't know what I'd do if someone was a sobbing mess in front of me, but it wouldn't involve yelling. :confused1: It would probably be awkwardly sympathetic in some form or fashion. :o

According to each other, we both do. ;)

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This. It's worse if you have them really young. My self-esteem was too low to think to set boundaries and create space. It shouldn't take a Big Deal for that to happen, and in my experience, it's mostly an internal thing. Just changing how you perceive the relationship and respond to them will help a lot, and will likely be noticed. ETA: admittedly, I have no idea how to handle the over-the-top reactions, OP. :grouphug:

Wow FB is confusing.

This is what I mean by limiting contact. As well as avoiding touching things unnecessarily (banisters, door knobs, etc.). Kids have a hard time being that mindful for that long.

Depends on how I feel. We're staying home today because I slept in and youngest is still pretty runny from our flu-ish thing we had this week anyway. He's definitely still shedding virus and it seems like a good way to spread it. I feel kind of blah, so don't mind staying home--but there was no fever. If I had a fever but felt fine, I'd go and limit contact. If a kid had a fever, I'd be less likely to go, because they're not as good at limiting contact.

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party if I had to tease out specifics, something casual, indoor/outdoor, possibly with beer involved. GA, but Midwestern parents (idk if that matters)

I'm the same way. If it doesn't lay me out, it's not "bad." :D And I hope it does work quickly for you. Edited because my brain is fried.

Wow, y'all are kinda selling me on the city, lol. [The ideal kind.] Our big city is so crazy to drive around in, I don't go there much. We're semi-rural, I guess. It still feels like suburbia, but not the suburbia I grew up in. But cookie cutter neighborhood, everyone living separate parallel lives, yep.

Pay your teen to clean the house. ;)

They both count to me. I formally only count days we do seat work, but if I were to be completely honest, any day they pick up books that can be fit into a content subject, it's a school day. Though this approach does lead to a very uneven looking form of progress, I admit. I'm comfortable with that 90% of the time. The other 10% is spent freaking out that I'm ruining my kids. :D In first grade, it is alphabet books, tracing big letters, and lots of constructive play. Math about halfway through (depending on maturity), and read-alouds vary. My youngest hasn't had as much benefit in that area, honestly--for personal crisis reasons. I would do that over, if I could.

My kids think I never cry, seriously. They've seen me cry once, 3 or 4 years ago. I save it, and process slowly, sometimes for months or years depending on various factors. I cry alone. Iceberg is a good analogy. Maybe there's a lack of empathy there [re: the OP], by maybe it's like this. And I'm not saying this is healthy, but it's not a lack of empathy.

So the balance is still...we don't know what to effectively do. :(

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Try a bond, COD, or money market, if possible? And I don't know why trust fees wouldn't come out of the fund itself? Just random thoughts I'm throwing out there; they may not apply. I'm sorry for the losses and complications. :grouphug:

I have never heard this phrase.

Space/storage issues. Always. And I can't seem to find a good affordable solution. I was planning on building a bunch of 6' shelves, but I'm tired and I don't want to keep disrupting our routine with projects like this. An extra room or two would be nice, but I'd really just love to start with highly efficient use of space. I can't seem to make that happen, though. It's really frustrating.

I can't finish that right now. :cursing: