This what I put when I was applying for a job as an office manager for a private school: Home Educator 9/2009-Present Solely responsible for curriculum development, instruction, and administration of home education program for two children of varying grade levels, interests, and abilities using the Classical Model of education. · Researched homeschool programs for my children by reading: The Lost Tools of Learning, Sayers, Dorothy; The Well Trained Mind, Bauer, Susan Wise; 100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum, Duffy, Cathy. · Develop customized curriculum tailored for my children’s specific needs, consisting of several different programs including Saxon Math, Easy Grammar, Logic of English, IEW, Story of the World, Apologia Science and others. · Successfully prepared my oldest son for state required testing each year using the Stanford test. · Experimented and refined teaching techniques tailored to each child to produce the best results.

I would not require a 15 yo to be an umpire. The parents are awful and very few take into consideration that they are berating a 14 yo. I never required my 15 yo's to work. My 2 oldest did. #1 because she needed the $$ to help pay for softball and #2 worked at summer camp for practically nothing because he loved being at camp. Actually at 15 he volunteered, the entire summer was not paid until 16. My 13 will work as soon as he is able, because he is itching to get a job. He doesn't need the $$ but he wants a job so badly. If you want him to work to learn the value of $$ then I would just stop paying for extras and make him earn $$ for things he wants. Could be all extras, could be some extras. (Like, I will pay for baseball, but kid will pay for spending $$ out with friends.) Also, if 15 yo doesn't want to save for a car then OK, that will probably change when they are 16 and have the ability to drive, but not the wheels. Also, keep in mind umping will always be there, maybe next year when he sees he wants a car he will be willing to do that job.

This was several years ago and it was totally my fault but I still laugh every year when it comes up on my FB memories. I was really, really sick with pnumonia. I placed Amazon Fresh order so the kids could have stuff they could prepare etc. My order arrived and I had 8 bags of bagels, I wanted 2..... I am pretty sure that every time I woke up from a nap I thought Oh, I need to get bagels for the kids and I would add 2 to my order.

Last time I went dishwasher shopping the appliance shop said not to get a Bosch. He said they used to be really good but now they have the highest repair rate. We got a Miele and loved it. I recently moved and now I am waiting for my KA to die so I can get another Miele.

I have 2 kids who are like this. Eventually I just had to let it go. In your case I would do the following. Stop doing her laundry. Give her a day that is hers to do her laundry. If she does it great, if not it is not your problem. If she doesn't have clean uniform to wear, too bad. As for the cat peeing on the carpet, buy a carpet cleaner. Every time the cat pees she has to clean the carpets in her room. Sit on her bed and read a book while she does it. Maybe all the extra work will motivate her to keep things tidier. It wouldn't with my kids but that is where I would start.

Hmmm, I have had the paperwhite since they came out I never even noticed the ad along the bottom. 😂

I would take her in, simply because the ear is swollen. My son had what we think was a bite and his ear turned red and swelled up. My neighbor, an EMT, told us to go to the ER. At the ER the Dr. said never wait with a swollen ear. There is so little blood flow to an ear that if it is swollen it is easy to not get enough blood ciruclation to the ear. In our case it turned out to be a staph infection, maybe from a spider bite. Antibotics cleared it up real quick.

Let's compare this to a hurricane. You are expecting a CAT 2 hurricane. You know it could easily be a CAT 1 or 3 because that is just how they work. You go to bed prepared for a CAT 2. You wake up and discover it is going to be a CAT 5 direct hit. That is what happened to the entire state of Texas. You don't prepare to be locked in your home for a week, no electricity, no water, that just doesn't happen here. People here don't have supplies or the knowledge of what to do for an extended power outage. This was our first winter here so we were pretty prepared because we are used to this. That being said I thought it would be a 2-3 day stay at home deal. I had planned on having electricity so I had to go to the store during the power outages and get things that we could cook on the gas stove. I stood in line for an hour. We have 0 degree sleeping bags, long underware, high end ski jackets. Most people here do not.

I am sure the overhead vents contribute, but I do think it is an insulation issue or some other build difference. In our other house, even when the power was out the tile never seemed as cold as it is here. As in I could always walk on it barefoot and it wasn't unbearable. Here in TX I have to put socks or slippers on before going into the bathrooms in the winter. I grew up in a house with all tile/wood so I don't mind doing it but my husband complains nonstop about how cold the tile is. He is from Florida so he is a cold wimp.

Umm, I think we are saying the same thing. In WA my house was built to withstand colder temperatures. Our summer temps average in the 70's so we do not need to worry about the few days we hit 90. And no, I did not have a custom home in WA, and yes, the spray foam was required. The year we built our home they had just started requiring it for fire purposes. Here in TX you do not build for long term sub zero temps, therefore the insulation requirements are not the same and that is why I can feel the cold seeping through my walls. I don't expect TX to get below zero for days on and and I do not want to pay to have my house built like it will. I will just suck it up for the few cold days we get. I will be the first to admit that we got lucky, very lucky not having any damage. On the other hand, part of that was I had knowledge of what to do in cold weather that most Texans do not. I opened cabinets, dripped faucets, closed blinds and doors to rooms etc, long before the news started telling people to do it.

Of course all homes have insulation, but the type and amount vary by region. We just moved to TX from WA. In WA we had spray insulation on all of our outside walls. That really helps keeps the houses warm. Our house here in TX is 3 years newer. I can put my hands on the outside walls and feel the cold. My tile floors in my bathrooms are freezing and uncomfortable to walk on without socks. In WA my tile were always walkable and not freezing cold like here. I would turn my heat off at 7:00 am and back on at 4pm and it would only drop 5-6 degrees, even on the coldest days. Here Even with the cycling electricity I could not get my house abouve 60. For us it wasn't an issue bc we have all the cold weather gear, sub zero sleeping bags, headlamps, long underware, warm jammies etc. In WA we have had power outages that lasted up to 7 days. The lowest the house ever got was 45. Heck we would go on vaction in December and leave the heat turned off for 2 weeks and it was still 45/50 when we got back. There is a difference. All insulation is not the same.

GF/Dairy free is hard to start but trust me, if you do it for a couple of months is becomes a lot easier. My biggest piece of advice is do not try to substitute things, find new favorite things. The substitutions are always lacking compared to the real thing and then all I want is the real thing. After a couple of months you dont even think about it, but those first few months are hard. Even if I don't think I am feeling bad I feel so much better if I stick to my diet and I realize how bad I actually felt. (I have a lot of things beyond gluten/dairy.)

I have been waxing at home for 20+ years. My dad used to own a salon and bought me a professional kit. I would never use an at home kit bought from Amazon. 2 tips are: 1. Never, ever wax during your cycle. Your skin is the most sentitive then. I usually wait till a week or so after. 2. Pull the skin tight with on hand and pull the strip quick with the other. The slower you do it the more painful.

My husband lost his keys once. We figured the toddler had put them somewhere. We found them 2 years later. In the canister vacuum. My niece at that age put the remote control in the trash compactor. Just some ideas for you.

That is a good realtor. Our realtor never told us of a listing, we found everything ourselves. Redfin and Zillow update at certain intervals, so they will always be behind what a realtor has access to. By how much is the question. Realtors also have acess to the coming soon listings and they talk with other realtors and know when something is coming up.

Surprisingly Costco has a lot of really soft clothing. In the last year I have bought workout pants, hoodies, sweaters etc all because they have been so soft. Most have been under $10 as well.

Most homes go up for sale on Thursday & Friday. Plan for those to be your looking days. Redfin typically has the home up long before Zillow. When we were looking last year I looked when I got up (5am Pacific time and again around 9 or 10am) and made my plan for the day. I checked again in the evening but rarely did anything show up. I would tour first thing in the morning and if I loved something I would immediatly make an appointment for hubby to go look. In a hot market you have to look the morning it goes up or you are too late. We lost 2 homes because we hemmed. Well we lost one for hemming, the other we tried to make an offer immediatly after doing the video tour but it was already pending. Looking back I am glad we didn't get them but it was sad at the time. The house we ended up buying already had an offer on it but we were able to get our offer in before they accepted the other offer.

After a foot injury 2 years ago I only wear Dansko now. I don't know about pumps but they have really cute dressy sandals. I have some that have pretty high heels and I can wear them all day with no issues. Even before my injury I could not wear heels. I get them at DSW or Amazon when they are on sale. DSW had B1G1 Free sale last summer and I got 2 pairs for $69.

Every bagger I have ever talked to dislikes them. They don't like that there is no uniformity and it slows them down bc they can't really have a system has to how things will fit etc.

Mine isn't. On thing I will say though is it is hot. I have no idea what I am going to do in the summer. I might get a cooling cover and see if it helps. I love my cooling pillow.

I was going to say this. I normally toss and turn all night long. I got a steal on a weighted blanket before Christmas. I sleep so much better now. I totally thought it was hype but now I want to put them on all my beds!

You can find higher end barbershops (like Floyds) but you will pay a higher end price as well so you may as well stick with the salon that is working for you.

I took Remeron years ago (like 18 year ago). I did not gain any weight, but I had the hardest time waking up every morning. It knocked me out, I literally could not function until noon every day.

What do you want to know? I have taken it twice. Once as a teenager and once as an adult.

I have a 2018 CRV and I LOVE it. My only gripe and it is more my husbands gripe than mine is that it is a bit underpowered. Anyway we loved it so much we bought my college daughter a 2014 this past Feb. We drove it for a month before Covid stranded her at home, so the car sat from March-Mid June. She just drove it from Dallas to North Carolina and said it did great.