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  1. My daughter just graduated with a Psychology degree and a business minor. I warned her that she would need to go to grad school if she wanted a job related to her major. She is taking a gap year this year and planning to go to grad school in Fall 2024 for a master’s in counseling. Younger DD is a rising Junior in college. She is also majoring in a non-stem field and will be going to grad school as well. Both of my kids have the aptitude to major in a STEM field, but they would absolutely hate it. It’s frustrating because I don’t want my kids to have jobs that are soul-sucking but they need to make a living. I am hoping that grad school and the fact that they don’t want to have children will allow that. I do suspect that we will be supplementing their income for years to come.
  2. I am so very sorry. I cannot fathom the pain you must feel, but my heart is breaking for you.
  3. Yes, several people have already explained the issues well. I hadn't heard about anyone being thrown out of the State House though. The Ohio legislature is out of control and I am absolutely disgusted by them. I really wish that more people were aware of the tricks that they are doing. I can't understand why anyone would support the change in threshold to 60% for a ballot initiative. Regardless of anyone's feelings on the abortion issue, they should be concerned because there might be other issues that they feel differently about and they will be subject to the 60% threshold as well in the future. Everyone should be concerned about this. As these people gain more and more power, eventually they will likely do something that you do care about you will be unlikely to stop them. It's so undemocratic. I'm so disgusted with Ohio and really want to leave the state. We likely will eventually. I do wonder if that is what the PTB want though. If the people who are likely to object to them (while we still have a tiny modicum of power to oppose them) leave, their power will be cemented even further.
  4. I am encouraging both of my daughters to relocate out of the United States. Younger daughter is the likeliest to do it. She is studying in Europe this summer, will likely be spending next Spring there as well, and is actively researching doing graduate school in Europe. I have been very clear that for numerous reasons she will likelier be better off elsewhere. My older daughter would consider it as well, but isn't actively working toward it yet. DH and I would likely be stuck here for now. His job isn't able to be done elsewhere. After he retired, we would definitely consider it. As much as I would miss my daughters, I really want them to be happy, healthy, and safe. Of course there are no guarantees anywhere and every place has its problems, but I really think that they will be better off elsewhere. We actually are a gun-owning family. They are locked in gun safes. If someone broke into my home, I really believe that I would use a gun if my family was in danger. However, I absolutely refuse to carry a gun around with me when I leave my house. I have pretty much accepted that it isn't unreasonable to think that the way I die might be via a gunshot when I go to the mall.
  5. I feel for all of you in the hurricane zone! I grew up in Tampa. I lived on Davis Island, so definitely Zone A! I remember evacuating for Hurricane Elena. Super scary and we were happy that the damage/flooding wasn't worse. I don't miss dealing with that at all! Be safe!
  6. Wow! I cannot believe that this is still going on in some places and now coming back in others. When I was in middle school in Tampa, Florida in the 80s, paddling was routine. (I was shocked to discover this as I had moved from Ohio and it wasn't done where I lived there.) I ended up getting a "job" as a Dean's Assistant during the last class period of the day. Any paddling taking place that day would happen during the last class period. So, every day (and I really don't remember many, if any, days that I did not have to do this) I would have to take the little green Dean's slips to the appropriate classroom. I would hand them to the teacher and she would call out the name of the person who the dean was requesting to see. During last period, it meant 95% of the time that the student was going to get paddled. So, everyone knew why that person was being called down. The kids would sit in chairs lining the front of the dean's office and wait to be called into the dean's office. The dean would talk to them for a minute or two and then he would open the door and call his secretary (an elderly woman) in to the office to witness the paddling. The door would close and everyone in the main part of the office would hear the kid get smacked with the wooden paddle three times. The kid would walk out and the dean would call the next person in. Most days there were 3-5 kids getting paddled. Sometimes there were 8-10. I think that they ended the paddling punishment a few years later. I can't believe that some places are bringing it back! The way Florida is going right now, I wouldn't be shocked if they brought it back to my old middle school. I feel like the whole world is going crazy most days.
  7. I heard about this earlier today and was shocked to see that this happened at the Chautauqua Institute. My daughter studied ballet there during the summer a few years ago. For those who aren't familiar with Chautauqua. It's a small, gated community on a lake. It's a very cultured, serene environment. In the summer serious ballet students and music students study there (all students must audition to get a place there). Chautauqua is considered to be a learning community and those who come for a vacation in the summer are mainly there to attend lectures on various topics. The ballet and music students also perform for the visitors (mostly older people, 60+). The lectures and performances take place in the amphitheater, which is where this attack occurred. My daughter performed there several times. It's so hard to imagine violence happening there. It's just goes to show that it can happen anywhere.
  8. I could have written this myself. I doubt that my daughters will have children, and I am not encouraging them to!!
  9. Yes, we do. One of the few good things about living in Ohio. We call them lightning bugs/fireflies pretty interchangeably. We have lots of them. I love looking in our backyard at night. When my girls were younger, they loved catching them and putting them in a jar for an hour or so and then letting them go. They are super easy to catch. They basically hover around.
  10. I hope you don't get it! There really is a chance that you won't. I shared the story last week that my DD21 got it while we were all on vacation together. She was asymptomatic but tested positive for 5 days. The other 3 of us never got it and we were sharing small living quarters since we were on vacation. We assumed that we were already super-exposed so we never even tried to avoid her once she was positive. We figured that we would all end up positive but it never happened.
  11. My 2 daughters are in college now. DD19 was always homeschooled and DD21 tried a private high school for one semester her freshman year, but was otherwise homeschooled. Academically, homeschooling was wonderful for them. Of course I do feel that there are some areas that a school would have done things better than I did at home, but I think that there are other areas that I feel that our homeschool instruction was superior. Neither daughter feels that homeschooling hindered them at all academically. They are both doing very well in college. Socially, I am much less sure about our choice to continue homeschooling. I will say that my daughters always had the choice to go to school. At the end of every school year, I asked them if they wanted to try school the next year. Older DD did try it for the first semester of her freshman year, but didn't like it and chose to come home. She does not feel like she missed much socially. She had an activity that she was (and still is) super involved in and had lots of friends with that. Also, some of her friends invited her to their homecoming and prom, so she got to have those experiences. So, she doesn't have any regrets. Younger daughter is a different story. She had an activity that she was super involved in until part way through her sophomore year. She experienced a lot of depression when leaving it. She also wasn't able to maintain any deep friendships. She had friends but they were more casual. She definitely felt like an outsider because she wasn't attending school. By the time she realized that she probably should try school, she was a sophomore, so it obviously would have been much more complicated. Then, Covid hit... Ugh! Academically, she has done very well in college, but socially it has still been a struggle. The college she went to has been a bad fit. It's too small and there are no activities to get involved in if you aren't involved in a sport or the drama department. She has really hated it. So, she is transferring next year. I am really hoping that her new school will be a better fit. I try to stay positive for her, but I worry about her every single day. I know that she regrets not going to high school and missing out on prom, etc., and especially being a part of a group of friends, so I feel very guilty for not encouraging her to try school when her sister did. We are not socially conservative and we have always been very cognizant of our daughters not feeling any different than their peers in how they dress/what they watch on TV/ social media usage, etc. So, people they have met in college have been shocked to learn that they were homeschooled (obviously these people have their own pre-conceived notions about homeschoolers). Nothing about college has really surprised them and they have blended in pretty seamlessly. Both of my daughters have said that they absolutely would not homeschool their children (if they even have children). They say that not because they didn't enjoy homeschooling (my younger daughter says that she would have only changed her school situation by attending some amount of high school), but because they have no interest in putting in the amount of work that I put in to ensure that they were well-educated. If I had to do it all over again, I don't know that I would homeschool, so I agree with them. I'm laughing about everyone mentioning their kids wanting to ride the school bus. I hated riding the school bus when I was a kid and in our area most of the kids that my children knew had parents that dropped them off at school, even when there was a school bus available, so my girls never expressed any desire to ride the bus. They were also horrified that they didn't have seatbelts! LOL!
  12. Yes, I wonder that too. My DD21 caught it (no symptoms; just discovered it through testing). Yet, DH, DD19, and I did not catch it even though we had been sharing a hotel room with her. We couldn't have been more exposed if we tried. I don't understand it. FYI-- both daughters and I are vaxxed and boosted; DH is vaxxed with no booster.
  13. Ok, here's my story. I really don't get how this thing works either. So, 5 days before we left for our vacation several weeks ago, my DH was exposed. He spent about 20 minutes in a small room with an employee who had some minor symptoms. She had tested negative the day before, but didn't test the day that my DH saw her. The next day she tested again and she was positive. I isolated from DH immediately, but he never got sick and never had a positive test. He tested over and over until he was past the window. We were very happy that he dodged a bullet. The night we got home from our vacation, I made my DD21 test because she was going to go visit a friend that has a vulnerable family member. She tested positive. I figured that COVID had finally caught up with us. We had all been VERY exposed because we had been on vacation together-- using one bathroom, eating together, sleeping in close quarters, etc. There was no point in isolating at that point, so we just figured that we would all get it. DD continued to test positive for the next 4 days (obviously we don't know if she would have tested positive earlier than she did). She never had any symptoms. The crazy thing is that DH, DD19, and I never tested positive. We tested ourselves numerous times and it never happened. I am so confused. I don't understand it at all.
  14. Two items that I have been struggling to find: Chocolate Frosted Mini Wheats cereal-- haven't found any for months Uncle Ben's Jasmine Rice in the microwavable packs We can easily live without these, but my daughter really misses her favorite cereal. I can't even imagine the panic that people must be experiencing about the baby formula! I know part of this issue is due to that plant that had to shut down (in Michigan, I think?) due to the contaminated formula. Last I heard they were struggling to determine where the issue was, so it still wasn't open. I haven't kept up with it and don't know where they are with that issue, but adding that problem to continuing to iron out the supply chain issues makes for a concerning situation! I really feel for the parents dealing with this.
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