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  1. The difference is important. The root cause of a gang related shooting is different than a school shooter. Until we address the root causes nothing will change.
  2. WF is amazing if you have allergies or special dietary needs. It is not somewhere to do your regular grocery shopping. We love their cakes.
  3. I was just diagnosed with this a couple of weeks ago and Chacos were one of the sandals that my podiatrist recommended. I am drawing a blank of the other two at the moment.
  4. Being that said kid is in high school and has not had issues before I would start with an ENT. They will be able to treat ear wax/fluid in the ears etc. Most ENT's will have an audiologist on staff or will have one they refer to if needed.
  5. I second this. I would do a food intolerance test. My kid was exactly how you described, I was at my wits end. Turns out he cannot eat corn. Corn makes him (and I quote my child) "mentally unstable". Removing corn from his diet mad him a totally different child. Daily tears and tantrums stopped. Outbursts stopped. Talk of self-harm stopped. He was a joy to be around. He is almost 21 and still cannot eat corn, he knows if he accidentally eats corn. No corn, corn syrup, xantham gum, nothing. Of all his allergies he never cheats on corn, never.
  6. I have a kid like this. He is not on the spectrum but was very rigid in his thinking. If I said we were going to do A, B, C and we did A, C, B his day ways over. He always told us we lied. We would always explain the difference between lying and circumstances changing. We had to be really careful and say we are going to try and do A, B, C. That helped a bit. He is now 20 (almost 21) and has become more flexible as he has matured. The first time he realized he was being unreasonable he was 17. He told me that I kept changing the rules and that rules are rules and rules do not change. I said "Fine, the rule used to be you could not go outside and play without me. Since rules don't change you will need to come ask me if you can go outside and I will bring my chair out and watch you."
  7. Ignore if it is unreasonable to you for a minute (the answer is yes), but there is no way in hell she can do a 4 hour round trip every day. The options are she can stay with one of her other children who live nearby, or all the siblings can rent you a short-term rental and you can bring the kids. If they stayed with a sibling, then you could all still rotate days, so no one is doing all the legwork. If I am reading it right, there are 3 siblings. So, everyone can take 2 days. That is not unreasonable IMO. As for school, I would not worry about getting school done, 6 weeks in the grand scheme of things won't make a difference, start earlier next year if you feel you must. Or do light schooling, things that they can be pretty self-sufficient on. I would absolutely say, no way, no how am I going to be the only one taking her to appointments.
  8. Diamond Eye (anything by Kate Quinn) The Book of Lost Things (John Connolly) - has a bit of an Alice in Wonderland vibe. The House at Riverton (Kate Morton) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Reid, Taylor Jenkins)
  9. This. I learned from my grandma. The recipe is really simple IMO but there really is not a recipe, the issue is it is really, really time consuming. The following are all statements from my grandma: 1. You must use pork butt, always pork butt. 2. The secret is using the water from cooking the pork butt in the masa. (This year am cheating and using premade masa from the Mexican market. We will see how it compares.) 3. Only NM red chili for the pork and masa. For the masa are use just enough to give it a little color. (The first year I made them alone I used way too much chili and the masa turned an odd color of brown.) 4. The masa should be the texture of peanut butter.
  10. I have been using Earth Breeze sheets for a few months and I love them.
  11. Honestly, to me it sounds like you are looking for something to be upset about. I grew up poor. Very poor. I have a huge, unexplainable fear of people going hungry under my watch. I always have way too much food. My friends (lovingly) make fun of me for it. It is just who I am. I either have to do all the food or none of the food. If I am only doing part of the food I worry that others won't bring enough and we will run out of food and I make extras, just in case. I am not trying to show anyone up. I am not plotting a big scheme. I just have to make sure there is more than enough.
  12. My son (14) is getting ready to read it at a HS Freshman. His teacher said they to get the original 1818 version. This is what she said, "In 1831, there was a new version of Frankenstein that was published where many original plot details were changed and I want students to all have the original publication of the novel which is the 1818 version"
  13. Having killed 2 Kitchen Aid's I gave up on them. The most strenuous thing I make his a full bowl of frosting, no bread etc. I did a ton of research and I cannot remember which one I decided on but due to supply chain issues I could not find one anywhere. I ended up buying a Cuisinart last year at Costco on Sale for $170 bc I was deserate for a stand mixer and at that price I figured it was no biggie if I killed it. It is so much better than either of my Kitchen Aid's were. I love it.
  14. Like others have said it will vary from state to state. The Seattle area is very easy. For sports we just needed to fill out a form and pay the fee and show up to practice. 😁 We never did activities during school day but all you had to do was call the school and tell them what you wanted to participate in and they would give you a schedule. In WA you also have access to therapy and other school specialists (ie speech, reading etc). I will say that with sports/activities the HS kids do tend to get forgotten when last minute changes are made. Or in our case as a private school student school times were not taken into consideration which often left us scrambling.
  15. We both went to our 20 but if we had to do it over again we would skip. Honestly, with social media I think reunions are nonrelevant now. Anyone I would like to catch up with I am friends on FB or follow on Instagram etc. Our 30th was postponed bc of Covid, and I haven't heard anything about this year so it probably is not going to happen at all.
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