Amy in NH
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Oh my... I thought for sure there would be a link to an onion article.
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Has she seen the plush body parts at http://iheartguts.com/collections/plush-organs
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a Pinkie-Pie chicken
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a Monty Python knight with a coconut horse
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I heard a lot of chatter on public radio about this today. Some of the interesting tidbits by journalists who have spent a lot of time there:
They've witnessed dead baby girls floating in rivers (infanticide).
There will soon be 25 million Chinese men with no hope of finding a Chinese wife.
A testosterone filled society is more aggressive.
Some policy makers are talking about allowing women to take two husbands.
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I know a rocket team, thankfully not mine, that found out the hard way that dryer lint while free and soft is NOT good wading to place between the motor booster section and the payload.
Oh it was a interesting spectacle, such a nicely built, beautifully painted rocket going up in flame as it ascended a couple hundred feet and descended as sizzling confetti.
ouch.
that is a painful lesson :(
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Thank you! It sounds like they'll just enjoy creating, learning, and working together with Lego kits. I know she'll give a mini lesson each meeting. That's all I can remember right now from our conversation, at least. :p
I did a Lego Robotics project with my 4-H club one year. We didn't bother with FLL stuff, just did the creating, learning, and working together bit while using a Mindstorms kit with some extra pieces we pulled out of our own collection. After my son and I attended a FLL training session at the FIRST program we decided to go with particular software they recommended (I can't look it up right now as I'm out of town) which we purchased, along with the kit, directly from the Lego Education consultant. We got a grant from our local Walmart to purchase the supplies.
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Nope. Not even an ounce of meanie.
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I think it depends on the job, but I would definitely use "home educator" instead of "homeschooler", and list out the relevant skills including the administrative tasks: "responsible for research, planning, instruction, and record keeping for an education program for X-number of children of varing ages and abilities" or something like that. But I'm told that job-hunting is different than it was last time I was applying for jobs (like 20 years ago).
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I understand and empathize, but it still stings.
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My Mom says it's been standard practice since she was in school in the 1950s, and also when she was a public school nurse in the 1970s.
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We have Progressive.
To add a teen driver to our two vehicles would have bumped our rate $30/month.
Grandma gave one kid a car, and it cost $115/month to add the car and driver to our policy. For some reason all licensed drivers in the household must be insured to drive all cars in the household. I'm not sure how that works if you move out and get an unrelated roommate?
Rates depend on the car's age & safety record, the driver's age, experience, and safety record, plus grades if they are a student, the area you live (rural vs urban) and the purpose for the vehicle (short commute vs leisure, etc.).
This stuff is the reason oldest didn't get their license until they were 18!
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We have made similar repairs to our home in the eight years we have lived here, plus some. We refinanced this summer to afford a new well and roof. Even adding these expenses on to our loan we are still paying less because of the better interest rate we received. Not sure where you live, but check with Rural Development (USDA) or Urban Development (HUD) to see if you qualify for any programs.
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I'm sticking with 7 as long as I can. I bought this non-touchscreen laptop new about 18 months ago with 7 installed in order to could avoid new Windows versions.
A Dell project manager I know told me that Windows 10 scans your computers to check for anything that could possibly be pirated and sends a lot of info back to Microsoft. I don't have anything pirated on mine, but I also don't need Big Brother looking over my shoulder.
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Hi Ladies,
I know that everyone's financial situations are different, but it seems like there are quite a few ladies on here that are or have homeschooled (and operated households) on very tight budgets. I'm just curious what your plans/thoughts are regarding college. I know some people IRL who feel that saving for college is a huge priority and if that couldn't happen on one income then the mom should go back to work. Others believe that homeschooling is a different type of investment in their kids education that is just as, if not more valuable. What do you all think?
Do you/would you stay home and homeschool if that meant not being able to save for college at all? Thoughts? Plans?
(Right now we just have 4yo and 20 mo old and are on a pretty tight budget and only able to save a small amount - on an inconsistent basis - for their college, but still feel it is worth it for me to be home. We hope to have more to save in the future, but this is just something I've been thinking about)
Yup. My kids know I'm front-loading their education. The amount of money our family has "paid" in having one less wage earner all these years so that someone could be home full time to school them, plus the curriculum we've paid for out of pocket, is our financial investment in their education. If they want to go to college they will have to work hard to earn scholarships, or find some other way to make it affordable. So far, so good.
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We decided to try the "peanut butter cup candy corn", and it was horrible. It tasted like coffee liqueur. We bought it, opened it in the car, each tried one, and I marched back into the store with it and returned it at the service desk. I told the customer service rep that I didn't care if they gave me my money back, but they could have their awful "candy corn".
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Force is when I pinned my toddler to the bathroom floor and brushed his teeth while he screamed (the screaming was good because it meant the mouth was open), because he refused to do it the nice way and brushing teeth is not optional. Force is when I sat in front of him on the couch and held his arm under my armpit so I could cut his finger nails, or when I struggled to get the baby's snowsuit on (sometimes dressing a baby is like stuffing an angry octopus into a mesh bag).
Teaching is when he wants to do it the nice way, and we work on it together, and he learns how to do it himself with my guidance.
I have not had to force my kids to work with me on life skills and self care since they were toddlers. When I say, "hey, it's your night to come cook dinner with me", and he shuts of his computer and comes into the kitchen, that is not using force. But if he said "no" he would not get more (or unlimited) computer time instead. I would expect a very good reason for the refusal, and if he said "no" too many times there would be something very wrong and we would investigate the problem.
A parent's use of a command is not force. Quality time spent together is what forges bonds; it's important to our relationship. Learning life skills is important to their future and is not optional.
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I voted other, because I never started coloring my hair. Let it go naturally, and you'll never have to make the transition.
My father's wife let hers go natural in the past couple of years, and she's in her early 60s. She had been coloring it blonde, but it was a huge shock to see her last weekend after not seeing her for a couple of years. It turns out her hair is naturally dark brown with gray streaks.
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The insertion for me was uncomfortable and crampy. The removal? Zomg. I had a midwife I'd never seen before (and never saw again!) filling in for my regular practitioner whose DH passed away the day before. I was seen 2 hours after my appointment time and was about to bail, but getting child care arranged and getting to her office which is far from my house was an issue too. Anyway, this woman didn't have the right size speculum, tried to blame everything on me being overweight (?! is my cervix fat too?! which later ob/GYNs told me was crazy), and it was obscenely uncomfortable. I hurt walking around for a couple of days. That being said, I would have gotten one again because 6 years of no periods and not worrying was totally worth those couple of hellish hours.
It sounds like I used that same midwife under similar circumstances.
I think she removed the IUD on a futon using a flashlight.
She had me cough, though, when she pulled it, and I didn't feel a thing.
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I'd rather have a short, quality vacation, than a longer one with money worries complicating things and limiting the fun.
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There are lots of different kinds of chutney. It's like relish, salsa, or sauce to accompany other foods, although I eat salsa with chips and my kids would eat cranberry sauce with a spoon if I let them (kinda like eating jelly out of the jar IMO).
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This is the option my mother took. She had a history of malignant tumors (skin, breast, lung, then brain). When her neurological symptoms started, she was given 2-month and 1-month out appointments for MRIs and for post MRI follow-ups.
In the meantime, she deteriorated quickly, so my father took her to the ER. Immediate service. And we wonder why the medical system is broken.
I'd think a growing football-sized mass would be considered an emergency.
So sorry for your friend :(
Mine too. Mom had heart symptoms and called to get in with a cardiologist. They scheduled her two months out. Following week it's worse so she called again and they offered her another appintment in 4 weeks instead of 7. She went to the ER instead, where they admitted her immediately and she was first in the ER for a stent the following morning. She ended up with a one week follow up appointment with the same cardiologist who didn't have any openings before.
I'm sorry your friend didn't try to seek more immediate care when she was blown off by the doctor's office.
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Our 4-H office has a number of mid-level Janome machines that are sent out to be serviced all the time because they are always jamming, the tension is always off, etc. My early 1990s Singer is still going strong even if I did have to take it apart once to fix a broken metal rod. It is on its second pedal. It gets a lot of use.
I also added an inexpensive serger a few years back which has made a lot of difference in our projects.
I'm a self-taught hack, though. So what do I know? To think of the awful mistakes I made when first learning - lol.
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Martha Stewart has an amazing but extremely time-consuming baked mac and cheese. Otherwise what I'm really making is an Alfredo pasta...
I use her recipe, which I why I only make it once or twice per year.
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I went with SW Air since they let me use it immediately to book the airfare. Thanks for your help!
Buyers are Crazy. What the heck?
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This is how we "won" our 1880s obviously-a-fixer-upper farmhouse. The other bidders were asking for all sorts of fixes, improvements, and concessions. We bumped our offer from an xx9,900 up $100 to the round number and didn't ask for anything.
The last house we rented had an attic fan that cooled the whole house down in 20 minutes in the dead of summer. It was wonderful! I have plans to put one in here (got the fan on craigslist; have a contractor coming to properly install it next spring when they fix the attic insulation).