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Thanks for all the replies! I'm unsure if I want a relationship with my sister. We've never been close and I always was the one who pursued the relationship. I'm just hurt that I again have to reach out and call to see whats up. I didn't sleep much last night going through all the scenarios of what the phone call might bring. I think I'm pretty much prepared for anything now. I plan to call her Monday.

I like my Riccar.

Background: I do not currently have a relationship with my mother, therefore I lost my father, brother and sister. I have not spoken to my sister for about 2 years. I got an email invite to Christmas celebrations at her house but I had to reply that we would not be able to go due to _reasons here__. Via face book I found out that she is engaged to be married. When she got back from her deployment (that I learned about through reading the newspaper) I sent her a short message welcoming her home. Today I got a wedding invite in the mail with a post it note saying that she needs to talk to me and for me to call her. Dh says that I should call and let her do all the talking. I'm thinking of just emailing her. I in no way want to be a part of the wedding, I'm likely not even going to attend due to my mom being there. I'm just at a loss as to what to do. Do I do what dh says and suck it up, put on the happy face, and call her? Or email her? What saith the hive? :tongue_smilie:

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It was hard to watch, but did have useful info. Thanks for sharing!

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:confused: I guess I should consider myself lucky. I'm just shaking my head at paying $10 for a book that is still readable. The processing fee I just don't agree with. Now granted I'm having an irritable day (need chocolate!!!!) but why do I have to pay extra for somebody to do their job? I didn't get extra money when I had to clean up a bigger than normal mess at my office cleaning job. I didn't charge the person extra because they made the mess. I just did my job. Ugg, try not to bash me too much, I'm just grumpy today.

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I can't help out as far as a brand, we got our at a Menards, but I wanted to say that I love carpet tiles! We put some in 7 years ago and they still look great!

I know we've talked about how much we pay at the library before. I only recently have been checking out larger numbers of books and last week we had our first mishap. A book got water spilled on it and the back cover was torn. It is still readable. I returned it and showed the sub librarian and she told me that the head librarian would have to take a look at it and then charge my account accordingly. Today I look at my account and a book fee of 4.99 is on there and a 5.00 processing fee! The book itself only costs 4.99 and I'm sure I could order it and get it shipped for less than that! Is this normal? :confused: Would talking to the head librarian even help?

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Snow day!

Glad no one was hurt. What an amazing/terrifying thing to see!

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Dh swears that if you put out chewed juicy-fruit gum, you will no longer have a mole problem.

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My sensitive 8yo says that she would love these in her lunch at school.

I have tried that in the past (but maybe not consistently enough) She always comes up with a reason that it had to be done in the first place. (this kid will be a great lawyer someday) She has flawed logic but she sure argues a great case and manages to get me completely off track. We go round and round for far too long. BTW she is 10yo.

How would I go about teaching empathy? One dd has a natural ability for it, my other dd struggles. Today is a tough one. :banghead: I'm open for anything at this point.

My very good friend as a young girl was Sophie.

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