Plateau Mama
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That's awful!! How are you now?
It is fine now. After the first 4-6 weeks my arm was fine, but those three weeks were hard. It wouldn't have been that bad if i hadnt had two small children to care for. I am actually getting ready to have a similar procedure on my thumb and have warned my kids that mon is put of commission for at least three weeks. Fortunatly they are old ebough to help me jow.
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I had surgery about 13 years ago. The biggest issue I had was the dr told me I'd be out of commission for a week. He neglected to tell me that was for the non-removable cast and that I'd still be in a remove only when you shower cast for two more weeks. I had a 1 & 3 yo and my husband had scheduled a business trip a week after the surgery. While he was gone we had a huge ice storm and my son spiked 105 degree fever. We were new to the neigborhood and didnt really know anyone. I couldnt lift the baby to get him in the car to go to the er. It was bad.
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This is what I use to to prevent troll doll hair when I go to Florida.
http://www.aveda.com/hair-care/smooth-frizz
The downside is you really have to use All 4 products to get the best results. That being said I've been to Florida during tropical storms/hurricanes and I dont turn into a troll doll anymore.
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We were told by our school not to prep for the 10th grade PSAT because that gives you the best idea of what needs to be worked on. For 11th grade, because my child was in NM range, she was told to take the SAT as practice for the PSAT. DD opted to do a practice test simply because her top choice school requires all test scores and she knew that she was going to do a lot better on the ACT.
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Coconut oil might help for staying firm at a higher room temperature than butter. If your house is hot enough for the butter to melt, then cupcakes probably should be eaten up soon after frosting them or there could be risk of the cream cheese going bad, I would think.
The high sugar content acts as a preservative.
If its too runny add more powdered sugar till its the consistency you like. If its too sweet you can add a bit of salt to cou ter it.
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We just flew Southwest yesterday. We were supposed to fly Tue Evening but our first leg got delayed making it impossible to make our connection. Without asking they got us a hotel room and $200 vouchers for each ticket. They bent over bavkwards trying to get me home Tue evening.
That being said our boarding passes were late B and mid C on our two legs. We were easily able to get two seats together on both legs. The C group we even got Exit Row.
My game plan for you would be to look for seats 2-2-1. Take the first sets of two and the single could keep going back and text if they find 3 and you could move if you wanted.
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I've seen the movie twice. Love it. I read the book after I watched it the first time. I actually enjoyed the movie more than the book. That being said I'd read Rocket Girls a year before watching Hidden Figures. I thought that book was very well done and I'd actually recommend that over Hidden Figures book. It touches on the civil rights issues but it's focus is more on the women computers.
I will be watching HF a third time this week aftermy son is done with his finals.
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Well, I have no stength and can't open jars right now anyway. Ive been dealing with it for a couple of years and was supposed to get surgery in December but havent been able to until now. My dr only does these one day a month so it's been hard to find a date that works.
Glad to hear I should be ok. Last time I had something done I was told I'd be out of comission for a week and it was three (no complications).
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Has anyone had trigger finger surgery done? I'm wondering what the recovery is like from someone who has BTDT. I'm looking to travel 10 days or so after the surgery. The Dr. says it will be fine but before I start booking atuff I want to know if I will really be up for it. Trip would be a week and a half or so and about 1/2 of those would be driving long distances (1.5-3 hours).
Am I crazy?
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My BFF and I met our freshman year of high school. She moved 2400 miles away after our sophomore year. We've been friends for 31 years and still communicate almost daily.
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(My beloved Powell's in Oregon is the exception; I'm sure there are others I don't know about.)
Powell's. Swoon. I will take a roadtrip to Oregon just to wander that store for hours.
Have you been to the one in U Village? It is mainly books. You can buy Kindles & accessories as well. What i don't like is that since they are whatever price Amazon is selling that day they dont have prices, so you need to scan or lookup prices on everything. Also they don't take cash. Must pay with credit/debit. They also only carry the top sellers in each category so if you are looking for sonething older or obscure they wont have it.amazon is opening a bm store in our local mall. supposedly only books.
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My 3rd was 9 pounds at birth and by 4 months had fallen off the charts. I was the one who freaked out a bit but my pediatrician wasnt worried at all. She said his growth chart was steady, even if it was going down and not up. She noticed that his little feet never stopped moving and said he was just burning a lot of calories. She had us start him on solids earlier than normal to get more calories and we did full fat everything. Noodles, add butter. Toast add butter and full fat cream cheese. Everywhere we could add calories we did, but she never stressed about it. Eventually he got back on the chart and slowley went to 20-30% where he remains today at 9.
Unless they aren't meeting milestones I wouldnt worry.
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If you want Fancy high tea thrn the empress is the place to go. If you just want high tea (or a really good breakfast) go to the James Bay Tearoom. It was recommended to me by a local last time I was there. I wanted to do tea but my daughter didn't want the frufru of the Empress. It was so good we went there every day. It is walkable from downtown but a long walk.
We stayed at the Royal Scot Hotel, it was nice but not fancy. Again, if you want fancy go to the Empress. Beautiful. Absolutly beautiful. The Royal Scot used to be apartments some of the rooms have a full kitchen.
Take the Victoria Clipper from Seattle. You can walk almost everywhere. They have busses to Butchart Gardens that are reasonable.
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My youngest we stopped in 3rd grade. My middle wasnt until he went to school in 6th grade. He has always struggled with reading though. Still struggles with reading out loud at 15. That being said we just found out he is dyslexic so that explains a lot. My oldest was never homeschooled and taught herself to read at three so I have no clue when we stopped reading outloud. I know it was at least first grade.
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Ah, thank you, that is clearer.
I think we agree that the box-checking attitude is a bad thing and that boys making Eagle only because of coercive, external motivations or to just to satisfy emotional pressure from parents is not nearly as good as earning it because they really want to and because they love scouts.
Our experience is different. The pattern I observe here is strong parental pressure to Eagle as fast as possible. Especially so that they have more time for academics, sports, and leadership positions only open to older high school students. The DL restriction is huge and usually effective. I am sure there are boys here who delay as you have described, but few will endure not driving or otherwise having their social lives heavily restricted.
If my parents had pushed me at that age, I would have stalled and purposefully failed, just to prove that I would not be controlled.
The friend I got the DL idea from her first son didn't Eagle till days before his birthday. I kind of told my son that as a joke and he took me seriously so I didn't tell him differently.
What I find funny is that these parents insistent on checking boxes, IMO, are hurting their children. Colleges know a boy who Eagles at 14 and drops out was just box checking. They would rather see them Eagle at 18 and mature through the experience than have them rush thru and check the box. Colleges want commitment, not box checking. My daughter does a few things but she does them well and had depth that shows passion.
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My comment was about parental attitudes among some people here, people I actually know irl. They DO, in fact, see Eagle and scouts generally as a box to check and they even verbalize this unapologetically. They encourage or require that their sons drop out of scouts as soon as they have their Eagle award. So they can move on to the next accomplishment or box to check. Their troops (2 specifically) have almost no boys over 15. These people use the DL requirement not as a general assessment of responsibility or maturity, but rather as a carrot to encourage their sons' performance, a sure means of motivation. I was expressing sadness at this attitude.
PM, I do not see how you can disagree with me because you do not know the people in question. It seems unlikely from your post that you hold the same attitude that these people do.
Perhaps you misunderstood my comment?
As Margaret said, each boy has his own journey. The troop my son will crossover into has more younger Eagles than older and some boys who never get it, but stay in because they like the outdoor adventure activities and those friendships are important to them.
I understood your comment. I think you misunderstood mine. I said I disagreed because my experience was different and what i see is that when parents push/force the boy to do it it generally takes them longer because they are more interested in other things. A large majority of the Eagles my husband has worked with who were obviously checking the box Eagled as close to 18 as they could. During the Eagle BOR their responses usually make it clear, even if they dont say it outright (and a lot of times they Do).
We went to a COH ladt night for two young men. I know them both well on a personal level. One felt he had to Eagle because his Father and brother were Eagles. The other was absolutly checking a box. We thought hed dropped out and he came to us in a rush at the last minute wanting to Eagle. They both finished withing days of aging out.
My husband is mentoring a boy right now. We are very close with this family. He is a John Smith the 3rd. His dad and i think grandpa are Eagles. His dad says he has to Eagle. Unfortunatly he came to dh so late he's not sure it will happen. The boy feels an immense amount of pressure to finish, but golf has taken priority the last few years. (He plays year round.)
We had several boys Eagle at 15 and drop out at 16 but it was a Scoutmaster issue. All these boys say they will return if there is a new scoutmaster before they age out. One of the reasons my son has not Eagled yet is because of the scoutmaster. My son wants to complete all his requirements and then wait for a new scoutmaster to do his BOR. Before this issue our Eagles hung around. We had one earn 4 Palms before he aged out and then he became a leader until he went to college.
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Yes, the push to eagle by 14 or 15 is huge here in affluent areas esp. Many parents require it before a boy can get his drivers license. Those parents see it as just one more thing on a college application. The absence of older boys in those troops is sad.
We are new to scouting and my son is only 9, but it serms to me that this attitude is contrary to the fundamental ethos of BSA.
eta: I know some boys will get their eagle at 14 or 15 without parental pushing or demands. Kids are all different and that's great. It's the parents' attitude towards scouts/eagle as a box to be checked that saddens me.
I dont really agree. My son was life at 14. He got there because he loves scouts. He could have Eagled at 14 but he has kind of been treading water this last year. He has 3-4 MB to finish and his Eagle Project. He has a project but his lack of executive skills are making moving along hard for him. The boys I see finishing at the last minute are the ones that are typically checking the box. They werent motivated to finish earlier because they weren't really into it. Dh attends all the Eagle BOR. the ones hes typically most impressed with are 15/16.
We also have the requirement of Eagle for license. It has nothing to do with checkung a box and eveything to do with if you can esrn your Eagle you are probably responsible enough to drive. We will let him do drivers ed but he will not get his DL until he has his Eagle.
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My ENT does not do hearing tests. He sends you to an audiologist.
If you want one that does both I have a phenominal ENT in Bellevue who does hearing tests. That being said, now that we know what the problem is We go to an audiologist for ds bi-annual monitoring.
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At a minimum I'd go to an audiologist but id probably start with an ENT.
Costco is probably fine if you are tracking an issue or want a baseline but an ENT will be able to get to the root of the problem. If Costco finds an issue they are just going to send you to an ENT.
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We pay for her gas, insurance and necessary repairs. Outside of school/work/sports she doesn't drive many other places. Now the she is driving i drove less than halfof what i drove the previous year. Factoring in the miles on her car its still 7000 miles less. So I fugire im saving a lot on gas, not to mention time. I have gotten my weekends back, plus i dont have to drive/pickup from school and i gained another 10 or so hours during the week not having to drive her to practice and wait around for her.
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I LOVE LOE. I did both foundations and Essentials with my 9 yo. I am so sad we are done and have no ideawhat we will do next. He had so much fun with foundations. Many days he'd ask to do 2-3 lessons a day. We did not do the handwriting. He just wasn't ready for it when we started at 4.5.
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My son is good at math, he picks up concepts quickly but he HATES it. He hates having to do the steps so he try's to skip them then gets frustrated that things dont work. He hates having to do multiple problems. etc.
We did Saxon K-3 and stopped midway because he kept complaining about how easy it was. I hated the scripted so i wasn't sad to see it go. He was in 2nd grade.
Then we did Math Mammoth for a couple of months, maybe less. Tears. Every Single day. Still Second grade.
I switched to Singapore and we breeze through 2A & 2B.
Summer we started Singapore 3A. Did a lesson a day. No problem.
3rd grade. Finished 3A, started having tears so we slowed down a bit. Started 3B. Tears. Every Single Day. Stopped a few months ago and weve been doing a Charlot Mason pet shop simulation. The plan was we'd go thru this quickly and then cover the other topics from Singapore in other, more hands on ways. It has taken us forever to do the simulation.
So i am at a loss as to what to do next year. This summer i am going to do the other hands on stuff i was planning and hope he is back track again for next year. I cannot do this hands on stuff permanently. Its just too much work on my part and it won't get done.
I'm open to suggestions but here are the options i an considering.
Go back to Saxon. 5/4 or wherever he tests. Do a set time each day and sit with him to keep him on track. The only reason i am considering it is he will be going to school the following year and this is what they use.
Try Singapore again now that he has had a break. Finish 3B this summer and start 4A in Fall.
CLE, although I used that several years ago for summer work with my daughter and the number of errors was astounding so I'm hesitant to try it again.
Something online? This is appealing to me because he might enjoy the lesson if its not from me.
CTC is intriguing, but im not convinced it's enough. Would that be better as an extra?
Monarch, i was looking at this but reviews seem to be negative.
Anything else?
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Search for AIP Paleo breakfast (Autoimmune protocol). AIP is egg free.
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How long are they in Seattle? I would consider a train ride up to go see them.
It just opened. I'm pretty sure it's here through the summer. I think I'm taking my kids on Monday since they have no school.
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PNW Heat Advisory
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We got up early and did our out door chores. We were done by 9. We have ac and my bedroom is still 76 last time I checked. (We normally keep our house at 68.). We will be up early tomorrow to lay all the mulch before church. They are saying 96 for tomorrow! Then we go back to the 70's. I'm good with 70's.