My mom fell multiple times February of last year, before she or I knew about Covid. We are absolutely convinced she had Covid and the falling was a symptom of it. Could you have been exposed?

Praying for your sweet niece, you, and everyone involved.

I am not normally a proponent for oils, but did purchase a kit from a friend once. Young Living has an oil blend called DragonTime that is pretty decent at helping with period cramps. You do need to add a carrier oil. Definitely don't put it on straight.

I agree with loads that have been said and don't want to repeat. Have you considered changing up how you do lunch? Something like setting out a pre-prepped crudite plate for everyone to snack on while lunch is being made. (It's hard to talk with food in your mouth, but alas, not impossible. 😉 ) Or having a pre-prepped lunch box type of lunch for the kiddos? They could grab and eat while you and dh chat.

Deleted. Found another thread that answered my question. It was about DDPY.

I've been slacking so I made an intentional decision to make sure I moved today. I just finished 35 minutes on my stationary bike. It's about the lowest end bike you can get so I don't know that it qualifies as an actual 35 minutes on a bike, however I moved and didn't sit on my behind for at least 35 minutes so its a win for me. Yay!

As an a member of the Osage Nation, Killers of the Flower Moon is a story close to me. My mother remembers her grandmother telling her about various people in the story and she even regularly waited on one regularly in the grocery store where she worked. My eldest sister's grandpa was one of the teens who discovered the first body. I'll be curious to hear what your thoughts are after reading. I can ask family members for more in depth information if you are interested. They all have said that the book is accurate. I just hope the soon-to-be movie is as well.

I've just finished book #6 One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3567415317?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

I'm an other because I literally don't know. I have quite a few sets that I wear in rotation and rarely wear the same ones two days in a row. I hang them up to air after wearing. When they smell funky, appear soiled or if I get a wild hare I will wash them. I'm generally washing a couple of sets per week, but could not tell you how many times they've been worn.

@Robin M I listened to the audio book version of this last year. It is spectacular to listen to while making dinner and doing mindless activities like painting. I am looking forward to the discussion. 🙂

I have no words. 🤪 I love this board! This is the distraction I needed today!!

I finished the book of Numbers in the Bible. I'm doing it as part of an Old Testament challenge. It's not particularly lengthy, but can be a challenge to read so I'm counting it toward my total. 🙂

20 minutes brisk walk this morning.

20 minutes on the stationary bike.

That was my plan until I was encouraged otherwise, hence the guilt. Thank you for your honest opinion. I hope it doesn't happen again, because I'm not sure what I will do next time. My first thought is ew someone's garage floor and possible contamination with covid, however I am having someone else shop and my groceries were set on my porch. I don't know why someone else's dirt mentally bothers me more than my own.

Just one charge.

Ah! Good to know!!

We don't have one, but I have heard several news stories lately of one brand being hacked on a large scale. I think it was ring. You might research before purchasing.

For most of the year we have regularly used instacart. Normally, I don't love shopping and with the pandemic I have disliked it even more. Why go if I don't have to? I scheduled an instacart delivery for early this afternoon. The driver shopped for us, but delivered a very small order. As you can see in my siggy, we don't normally order very small orders. Fortunately, I was able to catch the driver before she drove off and alert her that this wasn't my order. She apologized and said she had delivered my order to the wrong address. The other family that she had shopped for had instructed her to place it inside their garage. She told me that she would go get it and redeliver to my address. DD and DH both encouraged me to contact instacart to alert them to the mis-delivery. I did and they (instacart) decided to have the delivery re-shopped and redelivered. After completing the chat with customer service the original order arrived. I recontacted customer service to alert them and left the groceries on my porch. Instacart told me I could just keep the original order and they planned to cancel the reorder which they scheduled. When I inquired if it was against food safety laws to redeliver an already delivered grocery order they admitted it was. I left the groceries on my porch assuming they would be picked up and asked customer service what to do. They suggested I donate or keep the items. Now I have two of the same order, and I'm riddled with guilt. I know it was the right thing to do to alert instacart, but I would feel absolutely awful if I found out our original shopper got into trouble. I assured customer service that I would have no problem with the same shopper in the future and that it was likely just a mistake. Please, gently, share your opinions on what you would do in this situation.

This week we finished The Amazing Dr. Ransom's Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies: A Field Guide for Clear Thinkers by Douglas Wilson. I studied it with my school age children upon recommendation from a friend and as part of our morning basket time. The examples are not always appropriate for younger children nor are they intended to be. The wording is quite clever, but was somewhat lost on my children. If I were to recommend an informal logic study book, then I would choose the Bluedorn's Thinking Toolbox and Fallacy Detective over this one.

Not to hijack the thread, but have you looked into the 6 week body makeover? I lost 20 pounds with it and am restarting to lose 20 more. You type your body then follow the meal plan tailored for your type. The weight literally melts off. There is an active facebook group that shares recipes and encouragement.

I did a 25 minute brisk walk while my tweens biked alongside. It was nice to get out of the house for a bit.

Yes. We had a trip booked and paid for to visit my mother in California over Christmas. We got our money back on our airbnb and travel vouchers for our flights. I hope we can rebook for this summer. With 10 people flying that is a lot of $$$. I just hope we can coordinate our schedules and not lose our money. Edited to add... It would be really nice to stay in a weekend cabin or just get a change of scenery. My kiddos were so disappointed they would love to do something.

I've done some serious decluttering and cleaning. Not exactly exercise, but I am wiped. So it counts a little, right?

I am not starting the year on a good note with books. After not liking the first few I've read, I have already ditched one. I couldn't get past the first page of The Alchemist. What is the draw of this book?