Plateau Mama
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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.
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9 hours ago, Spryte said:
I used to wear Chacos almost all the time, so it seems like I should remember, but do they offer much support for the big toe area?
I recall good support for the arches, but can’t remember anything about how rigid the soles might be near the front.
It’s been a few years now, and my shoe needs have changed. I have hallux rigidus — which basically means I can’t bend my big toe without seeing stars like a cartoon character. Mostly I wear shoes with large toe boxes and room for steel plate orthotics to keep my toes stable. Or Birkenstocks when I need sandals, which work well until they are too well broken-in.
Wondering if Chacos might be a good alternative to Birks on days I need to be out doing some significant walking where Birks are not ideal.
If you wear Chacos, how bendy are the soles in front? Any significant support?
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.
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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.
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7 hours ago, gardenmom5 said:
we did a food diary to find he was over sensitive to nitrates (e.g. bacon, hot dogs, etc.) They were banned from his diet.
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.
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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."
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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.
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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)
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19 hours ago, Moonhawk said:
I have a recipe. It's easier if it's shown to you in person since so much is done by feel I guess? I can't find my copy but have texted my mom for it. I'll update when she texts. (eta: she's probably asleep already so may be a bit)
Are you looking for red Chile, or green corn, or ?
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.
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I have been using Earth Breeze sheets for a few months and I love them.
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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.
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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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Our boys must be long lost brothers. My 14 yo has been investing in stock since he was 7. He has gotten stock from grandpa for his birthday many times and he loves it. He is planning on buying a house when he graduates college and getting a roommate to pay his mortgage. 😃 Anyway we do not typically do single stocks. Most of his investing is in EFT's. You can open an account at Fidelity but I think they have a minimum to open an account but they have several EFT's that are free to trade. IVW is one that we like. There are a few others. He also has an account at Webull.com. I don't think there is a minimum amount there. This one we gave him a couple hundred to play with and learn about buying/selling individual stocks.
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I love this gals blog. If you have cream cabinets read this one. The 16 Best Wall Colours for Cream Cabinets & Trim - Kylie M Interiors I have cream doors and trim and was having such a hard time finding a color for my media room. Reading this blog post and a few others, ordering samples from samplize and I got an awesome color that everyone in my family loves.
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We lived on a golf course, we lived near a golf course, dh parents live on a golf course. The biggest issue for me is the early morning mowing. The last home we had (near a golf course) they would start mowing at on Saturday at 5am in the summer. My in-laws course they are early too, but not that early.
When I had small kids the golf balls coming into my yard did concern me but with older kids I would not care.
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12 hours ago, Ottakee said:
I had an Aussie mix...like Aussie/boarder collie mix for 8 years. Best dog ever.
I had and Aussie/BC too. She was a great dog!
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I used to work in a retirement home. Old people are either very, very grumpy or very, very sweet. There is not a lot of in-between.
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This is pretty typical. at 15/16 they start to have a lot competing for their time, jobs, girls, after school clubs etc. Usually they will stay involved until they get their Eagle and then fade into the night.
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We went to Mars Hill for 4-6 weeks. Our church was going under so we gave our building etc. to Mars Hill. My husband was the middle school director at the time so we had an inside view when the transition happened. This was a couple of years or so before the big Mars Hill implosion. I have been listening to this series and I will say a couple of the episodes were very upsetting/trigging for me.
We used to refer to it as doctrine according to Mark Driscoll. Mark never hired seminary trained pastors for his campuses. He always hired "nontrained" pastors and trained them through Mars Hill University or whatever it was called. He would never allow outside sources, curriculum, bible studies, books etc. Children's ministry, women's ministry etc. all had to use content he wrote. Not his staff, him. When we handed over the church they said that they would not change any of our programs for a year. Then they immediately changed them because and I quote from Mark "I don't know who Beth Moore is, so we can't use it.". and "Oh we didn't say for a year, we said until the end of the year." It was his way or the highway. The youth leaders of the old church questioned some of the things they were doing, because we knew our kids and our families and they were told "You do not question how we do things. Ever. If you don't like what we are doing then you can just leave."
We were told that main service was family friendly. They did not have classes for kids outside of the littles. The last straw for me was when he started talking about masturbation during service. I had my 4th & 6th grader in the "family friendly" service (and no other place for them). I got up and walked out and told my husband I was never going back. He also said either in that service or the one before I can't remember, that after he married Grace he found out she had been raped before they were married. He said if he had known that he would not have married her. I could not believe that a) he would feel that way and b) that he had no shame telling this to the entire church.
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Blendtec or Vitamix are the only blenders worth having IMO. I have had my Blentec for 7 years and it is going strong. Both are pricey but will last forever. Costco will sometimes run specials on them, or you can find a refurbished one on their site(s) if you want to save a little bit.
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Unfortunately that is how club sports are. You are expected to be available any time, any place. My daughter played club softball for 5 years. We lived in a Seattle suburb. Most tournaments were an hour away. There were several that we did that were in Portland, which is 3.5 hours, with no traffic. Others were in Eastern WA which is 3 hours away. I drove about 12K miles a year for practices & tournaments. As they get older it gets worse and you have to travel farther for tournaments. I will say that staying in one local area, even a large one, kids play the same teams over and over and it gets to be less fun BC you know which teams are good/bad, which have the mean coaches & parents etc. Trips to ID and such were fun BC you pulled in a bunch of new teams so it was more challenging and more fun.
Mine was the oldest of 3 so I did not let her do club until she was 12, almost 13. If I had to do it again I would not change a thing. She thinks she missed out on opportunities bc she started so late. I stand firm that young kids do not need to specialize so young, they still need down time to rest and play with friends and such. I see way too many 9/10 year olds that are playing select and all their time is their sport and they spend a lot of time injured bc their little bodies just aren't ready for the stress put on them by only playing one sport non-stop. Then, by the time they get to high school they are so beat up they don't or can't play in HS anyway.
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I have always thought it would have to be an annual shot. My guess is they will end up combining it with the flu shot so you are only getting one shot a year. Like the did with H1N1 for a few years.
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Another mass shooting in Allen, TX. right now.
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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.