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carriede

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    Optimizing kids schedules 📅
    Getting chores done on the weekday to free up the weekend 🙌

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    Catholic SAHM
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    Cooking, sewing, reading

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  1. I went into labor on Leap Day. 😆 Youngest is 8 today on March 1st!
  2. Hello! I had my back surgery a couple weeks ago and on the mend! Feels soooo good to have that sciatica GONE. But I need a new desk chair that will properly support me. I'm short, 5'3", not heavy, and sit in the chair no more than 3 hours at a time. My husband and kids will use this chair too, but we're fitting it to me. Any recommendations? I see Branch chairs advertised online and look nice, but wanted to ask here too.
  3. 3 of my 4 kids were conceived during the post-partum-breastfeeding-trying-to-read-symptoms stage. If you're not ready to get pregnant, remove the worry and use whatever bc your comfortable with.
  4. OMG, my son said this to me the other day and it took me way too long to understand it 😩 😅
  5. Microdisc surgery scheduled for Thursday! 😁 In the mean time, I'm not allowed to have ibuprofen. 😫
  6. One way to deal with this is to create Category Groups based on where the money "lives". I would make a Category Group called "Savings" that had your 10 savings categories within it. One of those is "life insurance". The money will live there most of the year, and you will assign money from your savings paycheck's to this Category Group only*. When you need to pay the bill, transfer that money from savings to checking IRL. In YNAB, you'll redistribute (zero out, it will cause that category to turn yellow*) that transfer amount from your savings "life insurance" category into another category that is under one of your checking account categories (perhaps one named "paid with savings" or "pay life insurance". I hope that helps! *Another advantage to doing this is you can match the Available amount in the YNAB Category Group with your actual savings account, and they should be the same. *Yellow categories in YNAB act as a warning. It means "look at me, something may be wrong". It can happen if you don't assign enough to meet your Target, or if you overspend that category using a credit card. If it makes sense for what you're doing that month, it's okay to leave categories yellow.
  7. Consider https://www.nobsweightloss.com/ There's a free intro course and a free podcast, Losing 100 with Corinne. No restrictions. No points. No BS. 😆
  8. Finished The Kite Runner just in time to count for 2023. Now reading the recently released Feel-Good Productivity. Also waiting for whatever fiction book pops up from my library holds next. Hoping to read 24 books in 2024!! Got to 25 in '23, but I had a lot of downtime lately. 🙃
  9. I used to wear contacts. I think anyone that has contacts must have a track record of OUTSTANDING hygiene before contracts are considered. My current teen would not qualify. They're a privilege, not a right. 😆
  10. The Accounting Game by Darrell Mullis and Judith Orloff I'm learning bookkeeping. 😁
  11. Thanksgiving weekend at my mom's house! My family, my brother's family, and my 3 other non-married siblings were there. My mom had somewhere to be Saturday evening. 5pm came around and my brother and I realized that Grandma wasn't home to cook us all dinner! 😆 So the adults had to remeber to "adult" in their childhood home.
  12. I'm so glad you've had such success! Which vertebrae did you have fused? Do you feel like it affects your ability to move or bend or whatever? My doc said fusion was a last resort and "LIFE CHANGING", and it kinda scared me.
  13. You know, I wonder if this is happening with me. Every nurse and doctor I've met, in a world where they see tons of different cases, seems a touch alarmed and very earnest after talking with me and reviewing my files. But the "let's try this and see" is the mantra. I'm so lucky to have my in laws come and help with the kids, but this can't go on for months.
  14. Small update: I've mostly been marking time these past two weeks. New appointments are just scheduled so far out... Finally got into see the referring doctor for the epidural yesterday at the pain management center, and the procedure is scheduled for next Wednesday! The Gabapentin hasn't been helping, so the doc upped the dosage and the frequency. 😳 But I am off the hydrocodone, except I take it if I'm leaving the house and have to move a lot - which is just to doc appointments. I'm currently managing the pain with a Tylenol/Advil cycle, heating pad, and just staying in the two mildly pain-free positions I've found. Hopefully the Gabapentin will kick in and I can reduce all that too. Or the epidural will just be amazing and fix everything. 🤞
  15. Love my Stratos! https://www.amazon.com/Shark-AZ3002-Self-Cleaning-Neutralizer-Technology/dp/B0B2VTZ432/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=351CMS7QR5PDW&keywords=shark+vacuum+cleaner+stratos&qid=1702509895&sprefix=shark+vacuum+cleaner+str%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-2
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