And you don't know what will happen in year 2. At least several excellent students from the high school where I taught went OOS with good financial aid, and then were offered significantly less for year 2. Their families couldn't pay more, so they ended up having to come back home and reapply to in-state schools.

Some people have a system???? If I have money, I stick it in the wallet. That's it. This reminds me of watching my son eat M&Ms. He sorted them all by color, ate the excess ones so that he would have the same number of each color, and then ate the rest, one from each color group, in order of least favorite color to most favorite color until they were all gone. I was shocked and about to call the dr. for a referral for OCD when my dh told me that was how he's eaten his candy as a child. I just ate them. Any order. Any color. They all taste the same.

don't **** with the babysitter's line!

When do they say that? I don't remember it. I just watched this last summer with my kids. Purple Rain is rather explicit. I watched it a couple years ago with my adult son, but wouldn't be watching it with an under 18 year old!

This reminds me of the time when my son's GPS was calling it "Ikee" boulevard as two syllables instead of I-ke-a. It was hilarious!

I will be starting a PhD program this fall and in doing some research about what laptop or tablet I might want to buy, I realized that I am pretty much clueless about modern technology. What really scared me was reading the IT page of my university and seeing something that said not to be "stuck in 2008." 2008!! That was only 6 years ago! So I've decided that this summer I need to get up to speed. I need suggestions of what to read, websites to visit, anything that will help me begin to understand the technology of 2014. Please help! Thanks!

My daughter and I study Swedish, so it's a cool destination for us because there's Swedish everywhere. Last time I went I spent more time looking at the books in Swedish in the display rooms than anything that was for sale! Plus, the food is cheap and good, and we can buy real Swedish treats.

When I flew into Philly a couple of years ago, my mom picked me up and we went directly to IKEA. I saw another woman from the plane there too!

I was so excited for it. I had won a premiere package from a radio station - free tickets, the record album, a whole bunch of Pretty in Pink promotional stuff...my dad drove me into Philly to go to the premiere...and I thought it was awful. Nowhere near as good as Sixteen Candles or The Breakfast Club. I never watched it again until my dh bought the DVD for me a few years ago. We watched it together (because I didn't want to hurt his feelings) but afterwards he said, "That wasn't very good, was it?" Sorry! I probably like movies you think are awful.

It does.

Yes.

Pretty in Pink sucked even back then LOL. I haven't seen a lot of these movies you guys are mentioning - in fact, I haven't heard of a lot of them!

I just didn't do anything. There was never really a good time to call with the kids because I went out to lunch with a friend, didn't get back until 4, then took a nap from like 5-7, then we had my husband's Fathers' Day meal, and then we watched Three Men and a Baby.

Oh, and my father said, "I can say this about her and her sisters, because I'm their father," and dh responded, "If you were anybody else, you'd be on the floor!"

Because my father is married to his mother, and his mom was in the room, and he was staying at their house with no transportation. They were both telling him how when the kids and I visited last summer, apparently we were all awful and disrespectful and rude. Apparently my children are badly behaved and I don't correct them because I don't care if they're rude to her because all I must do is sit around and run her down behind her back. My dh was a captive audience to two narcissists ruining the last family relationships they have. But it did finally get my dh to admit that his mom has narcissistic tendencies, so that was progress.

too late to send a card don't want to call, but guess I could with the kids all on the phone and just say, "Happy Fathers' Day" and a few pleasantries and hang up ignore the day completely - I mean, what the hell? about a month ago he spent several hours running me down to my dh about how rude and disrespectful I am ?

NO!

When I was in the hospital after the birth of my twins, I had a crazy thing happen. It wasn't until several years later that I realized why it had happened. My pediatrician had come in to see the twins, and then was sitting in my room filling out some paperwork and we were chatting. (He's great - we're FB friends!) Then my husband arrived. He had gone home for the night instead of staying in the hospital with me to be with our other children. The twins had just been born around 5PM the day before. I think it was around 9AM that morning. All of a sudden a woman burst into my room and demanded to speak to "the patient" alone. She was not dressed in scrubs. She kicked my husband out and kicked my ped out. After they had left, she told me, "Someone has said that you are scared to go home! Is that true?" I replied, "I have no idea why anyone would say that." She asked me again in several different ways and I answered the same thing - I don't know why anyone would say that. Her manner was very brusque and uncaring - I doubt I would have confided in her even if there HAD been abuse at home! Finally she gave me her card and left. I was so annoyed - dh had just gotten there and I really wanted to see him! So I called him but he had gone to have breakfast and so now I was sitting alone. A few years later I finally realized what had prompted this visit. I'd had an epidural during labor that completed numbed my left leg so I couldn't move it all. That hadn't worn off yet. I had been in labor since late the evening before until 5 PM. I'd had twins. They were so big that I had been really inactive the last few months of pregnancy, so I was weak. The morning after the birth, I couldn't get myself to the toilet unassisted. Around 6 AM the morning after the birth, some doctor/resident/intern who looked about 12 years old came into my room all chipper and said, "You did something really unusual!" I was confused and asked what. "Had twins naturally!" he replied. I was really confused by that comment. Next, he said, "Do you want to go home today or tomorrow?" I'm sure I had a horrified look on my face and said emphatically, "Not today!" He just said something like, "Tomorrow, then," and left and didn't ask why I didn't want to go home that day. But he must have suspected that I was scared to go home and called in the abuse people. Seriously? It hadn't even been 24 hours since I'd given birth, I couldn't move, and when I went home, I HAD INFANT TWINS AND A TWO YEAR OLD TO TAKE CARE OF!!!!!!! The next day when my pediatrician returned to see the twins, he came into my room and asked me, "WHO was that woman?!" I told him. He said that when she came out of my room, she had asked him questions about my husband and me, and he told her, "They seem fine to me." I had originally thought that this happened because the twins were my fifth and sixth children, but I know a mom who was having her eighth at the same hospital and nothing like this happened to her.

B one point two?

As far as I know, I haven't been recognized through WTM. However, I have had people recognize me in person from my posts on local homeschooling email lists, which always feels a bit weird.

When my oldest went to college, my husband took him because I had just given birth two weeks before lol!

I said $100-150, but that makes me sound like I care about shoes. I don't. I had plantar fasciitis and bought Danskos to help with it. I wear nothing else. I buy one black pair and wear them every day for nearly a year and then buy another.

No, no one ever did. Do and I were dating for three years before we got engaged, and then were engaged for another 14 months. We did a weekend retreat for marriage prep and we had already discussed everything they wanted us to discuss. So I was sort of shocked about how difficult the transition was. I don't know if he thought it was, but it was for me. Little things came up all the time. It was difficult dealing with him leaving cups everywhere, even though I'd seen him do it at his mom's house. Our first Christmas was full of things that we had never discussed - white lights on the tree or colored ones? Do we put the angel on top when the tree is put up or on Christmas Eve or Christmas? Oh, and different styles of dealing with money, too. Before we were married, he always used his ATM card and I hardly ever did. So we bounced a few checks that first year because he didn't know that I had written checks to pay bills while I didn't know that he had withdrawn money! The biggest thing for me was that I changed my last name to his. I wanted to. I strongly believed in us having the same last name, and I even liked his better than mine. But getting used to a new name was really hard. I remember thinking, "I don't even know who Firstname Newlastname is!" We got through it fine and celebrate our 20th anniversary this summer, more in love than ever, but, yeah, it was hard. Some warning would have been nice. I'll have to talk to my dc about it before they get married.

I commented on that to my husband while we were watching Flowers in the Attic. We know they are actors and not related at all, but we still cringed when they kissed.

I had a boyfriend whose mom's name was the same as mine, even with the same uncommon spelling. It was not an issue. Now mil did tell me that after her divorce, she met a guy who seemed really great but had the same name as her ex, which is also my husband's name, and she just couldn't handle that. This thread is so topical, since I'm reading the Flowers in the Attic series! My husband and I are stepbrother and sister, but that happened after we were already married lol.