(Hurk.)

I bought a washable, micro-fiber-type fuzzy duster on a handle from Amazon. Love it. Also, I like the Swiffer! That thing is so quick and effective! I just have the original one with the dry "cloths". I hate making trash, but I love how fast that is.

"...Hagrid uttered empathetically." Snort!

I don't want to talk about it. :glare:

It is sometimes easy to see a person go off the rails and think, "This guy is not in his right mind, so he can't be that strategic." Oh, yes, he can. She needs to lawyer up. No doubt he has already done so; his desire to move indicates he has given this scenario some thought.

Do you think they want to verify that he isn't a drop-out? The union might be trying to avoid giving the student discount to someone who is not 18 but also NOT still in school. I have no idea how one would prove student-ship.

I made the recipe she described from my copy of that cookbook and it was REALLY rare for our taste. I used the longer times given, too. Blood ran all over the board and we had to cook the slices more just to eat it. We are medium-well-done wussies, yep. What would you change to make it medium/medium-well? Do you think I'd toughen it if I cooked it longer?

We moved four months ago and have not found a church yet, in spite of researching online and visiting a new place weekly. Would it help you if I told you what we are looking for? Or, what makes us not come back? I'm not sure we are your target; we WILL find a church because that is meaningful to us. Anyway! I want the kids' care to be safe and organized. I want to see two adults by policy at all times, and I don't want a confused shuffle over who is supposed to be "in there this week with the kiddos". Ideologically, I'd rather hear my 7yo say she learned about showing love to others than that she learned about "preparing to battle the world." I want the adult Sunday School or small group to be interactive and interesting. I'd rather be challenged, academically and ethically, than re-learn stories. If it is a church-full of new believers, I do understand that basics are important. I do NOT want to be "taught" a bunch of political opinions or us-v.-them rhetoric. If I wanted that, I'd watch Fox News. I want the pastor to preach in a way that is insightful and genuine. I don't care for scatter-shot platitudes. I really am looking for intelligence. Man, I sound so demanding right now. I know finding a church isn't all about me, but these are my kids' minds at stake, and I feel careful.

Smirking? Justified?

I have held a party where no one came. I chose a busy weeknight usually reserved for church, I didn't ask for RSVPs, I mailed the invitations, I invited people who couldn't drive themselves yet, and we lived 20 minutes from town. It was sad! I was 15 and a homeschooler. Aaargh. Anyway, I'm not sure this should be a negative news item. I think crummy manners are de rigeuer at this point. The story should be about a ton of nice adults going way outside their obligations to be kind to a kid.

I sit over my 2nd grade dd and have to frequently tap the next problem with my fingertip, say helpful things like, "Good, ok, next one!!", and less helpful things like, "Stop jumping around. Park it in the chair and read the next problem aloud to me!" We are doing Miquon and Singapore, a little of each every day first thing. If I walk away to move the laundry to the dryer, all work stops cold. I hope it is the age. She CAN focus. She gets frustrated if she loses focus too much. I'm making it sound terrible, but it is working, she's learning, and she says she likes doing school, so I guess I'm not killing the joy, though I'd like to do a little laundry sometimes. Sigh. If my kiddo told me I was distracting her, I'd be very blunt that if she'd focus by herself I'd let her do it by herself, but no. SWB had a part in one of her talks about repeating the same small directions over and over for years. It might have been in the one about Homeschooling a Difficult Child. Because you are asking the question here, perhaps you feel there is something more going on than normal bounce? My kid is, I think, quite neurotypical.

That is horrible! I hope they can get him in sooner. I have spent time on the phone with Tricare before over a kid...you have my sympathies.

What dirtbags those scammers are!

That was a good talk! I learned quite a bit that I didn't know before. I'm going to bookmark the youtube link for a friend of mine. Thank you! Also, I really liked the design elements of the handout (the layout of the pages and the crayon-like font of the headings). (ETA: There is a letter "l" missing in the third or fourth slide (at 38 seconds or so) in the word "cloning". That doesn't matter for your video, of course, but in case you have to turn in your slides....)

I cry over everything, including flash mobs on youtube. I bawled like a baby over the (spoiler) sad love scene in the last Hobbit movie, even though it bothered me that they added it! It's a little embarrassing, but I guess I'd rather that than a hard insensitivity. Oh, man, pregnancy? A puppy in a commercial was all it would take.

I'm glad they went in! Right answer, there, on Tricare's part!! And I do think Urgent Care will be able to handle it. Ow, ow, ow.

We eat about a pint of whole milk yogurt a day, so yes, for us it is cost effective! As someone pointed out above, a gallon of milk ($3.86 at Sams) becomes a gallon of yogurt. I don't strain it. I make it in the crock pot; it stays warm enough when wrapped in towels, in the unplugged machine, overnight. I make it every 7-10 days and I use the last of the previous batch to start the next gallon. I've been doing that since I had to buy fresh starter when we moved five months ago. The whole milk makes a much thicker, less sour yogurt, IMO.

:grouphug: I understand what you are saying, though I haven't had that experience. For me, pregnancy just heightens all my fears and anxieties; maybe it is a hormonal thing. Are you getting enough good food, water and rest so your body isn't extra drained? Our last pastor's wife was a great example, to me, of being able to be vulnerable enough to ask for support; she had years of practice finding her balance in that role, though! If I were there, I'd want to hug you and bring you dinners!

:grouphug: I hope you can catch a break soon! That sounds awful.

When we start a new workbook, I carefully tear all the pages out of the cover, punch holes in them, and put them in a notebook. That way I can hand DD a page at a time. We have a big notebook for all of Miquon and I think all six workbooks will fit in it. We do the pages in order, two to four a day. I put the "done" pages the back of their section of the notebook.

My new cookbook says that starch interacts to smoothly melt cheese. That's why there is flour in cheese sauce. Maybe make a cheese sauce and stir that into the soup?

Perhaps it would make a difference to him, enough to stop doing it, if you said, "I anonymously repeated what you did to the hive and 48 people said I should leave you over this." If it didn't seem like a big problem to him, perhaps that would help. Maybe. If he's a good dad with a blind spot, he needs to grow in that area. I have grown in many areas since dd arrived. My best wishes to him and you, and a big hug to your son. It's so hard being a kid.

Danestress said something that reminded me of something else: expectations! I realized one day a few years ago that DH thinks that in old age we'll be so attuned that we won't need to talk to communicate. He thinks I'll "just know" what he's thinking. Hahahahaha! He thought that was what very old married people do well. Especially he was hoping that we'd never have to discuss TeA; we'd be so attuned that we'd never have to talk awkwardly.... Poor guy. Nope, nope, nope. There will be talking, and lots more of it. I told DH what I realized, and he got the guilty grin which meant I was right. I would guess that your DH has an idea in his mind of how marriage should look, how intimacy should look, and is trying to get you to do that. It means love, but might take some figuring out to fit both of your realities instead of an ideal expectation.

Dd cried during Despicable Me 2 on her sixth birthday. I took her to the theatre as a birthday present. Awesome. Anyway, she's ok, and she talks about it as an interesting event: "The time you took me to see the second Despicable Me movie and I cried because of the purple minions." I vaguely remember crying during Pinocchio as a child. Maybe it is the theatre environment - it's so big and loud! Maybe its a rite of passage. Anyway, don't spend your mommy guilt on that! :grouphug:

"...hoping to amuse people she couldn't see." Brrrr. I sometimes find myself writing a snarky response to something online and then delete it. The world doesn't need my snark added to the pile. What a cautionary tale that article was!