DD17 once insisted her finger was broken and I kept telling her she was fine.....but welp, a week later and yep! broken. She is sooooo overly dramatic about everything, I just figured it was bruised. Ooopsy !

I don’t think the vanilla frap is dairy free.

And focus on "I want to know where my son was, during those hours". I would not focus on the driver, but your son and his well being.

If you are not getting an appropriate response, send a letter to the superintendent of schools.

Absolutely! You are 100% entitled to request this. They will likely not show you, but you can request a review of the tape to explain the 2hours.

I can understand getting lost if they mixed up Street/Ave or thought they knew where they were going and ended up some where else. My street hops/skips and jumps across town. I had someone once go to the opposite side of town because they knew my street was there.....but didn't realize that it was the wrong end of the street. It cuts out in the middle and from where they were to where I am is 25 minutes difference! That doesn't explain 2 hours tho. My daughter rode Special needs transport for 10 years. I had the number for dispatch on my phone. If the bus was more than 15 minutes late, I was on the phone with them. Too many times I got the 'substitute got lost, short on staff/running late, didn't think she was riding today' etc. The safety issue, is huge!!! We can all make mistakes but this is two that ++YOU++ know about. Hopefully that is the only two, but something tells me there are more and the company is just desperate for drivers.

In my state, property damage due to weather, is anchored to where the damage occurred, not who caused it. Unfortunately that means your mama would have to pay in my state.

My MIL used to own a small 10 room hotel in a high tourist area. Due to seasonal variations, they ended up closing it for nightly rentals and rented it monthly to people who were leaving prison as a first stop on the way out. She also had another home that she rented out by the room. Over the years, she had a couple situations where it was impossible to get someone to leave (usually mental health related). Her resolution...to pay for them to go to another small hotel for a period of time. It cost her money to do so, but got them out of her property. A hotel has different laws on someone claiming to have rights to continue staying there, due to current occupancy laws. It gave them a bridge and removed her liability. She had them rent it in their own name and only their own information, so she was removed from liability.

#3 or keep going as is without Sam and drop the original theme of the group.

One of my favorites was boyfriends son arguing that he doesn’t have to to online school on Friday because it was the weekend. It’s a 5 day a week program. His logic was that since Friday night is considered a weekend night, that Friday daytime is also the weekend. His dad works 4 days a week, so Friday is part of his weekend. The son couldn’t understand that his school was a traditional format not condensed schedule ( like dad’s work) and Friday was a school day. The argument was because he wasn’t allowed video games until after regular school hours and he wanted to play on Friday mornings like he was allowed on the weekends. It lasted for days!!!!

Higher quality meat/Seafood Alcohol Good coffee/creamer

I use them for paint drop cloths

Ummm. 😶Interesting LOL

Was the scientist Lt Daren who Picard dated, before or after that timeline?

Many of you know, I have raised a very difficult great-niece since she was 5mo (dd17 in my bio). Due to her continual defiance, violence, and many, many reasons, my xh and I surrendered guardianship back to the state of Oregon this month. There was the very distinct possibility that she would go to foster care, but her bio-dad stepped up and reluctantly, and provisionary, accepted her into his home. She has seen him weekly for some years of her life. Some other years....not at all. But most recently, once a month... or two and their relationship has been getting a bit better. Definitely not great, but better than nothing. It is all a mixed bag of emotions. He struggles emotionally himself, works only part time right now at a grocery store (after not working for 3 years) and has his own emotional health issues. His wife is....'okay'....seems more stable than him.....but just....well, its complicated. But at the end of they day, she accepted this very complicated teenager into her home...so there is that. 💙 They are also trying to conceive a child of their own, so we will have to see what happens there. Bio-dad is 40ish and she is younger than that but not not by much. They have said before. they couldn't afford to take my dd, because they were trying to have another and couldn't afford 2 kids. But since dd will be 18 in the fall.....maybe that changes things. They have a back up plan of moving her to a care facility, if things don't work out. We will see if they can survive the 8 months before she becomes a legal adult. On top of that, I had to rehome her dog. She was a absolute sweetie, and I adored her, A goldendoodle with soft curls and a bright eyes. I needed to rehome her so dd could move on. One big concern, was that dd would absolutely try to return to my house, if she knew that the dog was here. Bio-dad wouldn't take the dog. DD now lives about 30 minutes from me and only a public transit bus ride away. I know she would try to return home, to be with me and especially the dog. She knows I will eventually life with boyfriend, who only lives 2 miles from her school and an easy, downhill 30 minute walk...or 5 minute bus ride. Which will only make it easier and more tempting to return to her former life that no longer exists. It was best for dd for the dog to go, but not for me. 😞 I found the picture perfect family for the dog. Very, very similar life style and family to ours. Great pet parents, with a teen at home and a WFH dad. But I know the dog will be confused and depressed as she transitions to a new home at 5yo. 😞 I only wish she could understand....and maybe someday forgive me for disappearing from her life. DD went to live with bio-dad on Friday and it resulted in her going to the hospital for a significant suicide threat the same night. Pup left today to her new home. It hasn't been easy. So many of my tears have been shed this weekend. Honestly, more than when either of my parents passed. Probably because it was my abrupt, heartbreaking decision...not just time and life, slipping away. Boyfriend is working out of town which on one hand is good, because I can process emotions freer, but also hard because I am absolutely really, truly alone for the first time in forever. I have had the bustle of kids for 29 years. I was with my xh since I was 18yo, had ds at 22. I walked into a quiet, dark, cold house tonight for the first time +++++ever.++++. I grew up with 4 siblings, lived with my parents (as my older sibs slowly moved out) moved in my boyfriend/eventual husband, had kids, divorced-still had kids at home, still friends with my xh, was a single parent with kids/dog, and now for the first time in all my life.....have a completely empty home. When I was raising kids and they were all sleeping away on the same night, it is a wonderful break. A moment of bliss before the chaos inevitably returned. Tonight. This achingly quiet house Was not that. It was....the end. 3 decades of family, 23 years in this light blue house on the curve in the road. Where all the kids played because had the good grass, a huge shade tree and a segment of street with no cars ...excellent for kick ball or riding bikes. . Tonight the quiet resonates. I am moving to boyfriend's house sometime this summer. My son and his fiancé are taking over my house. Life will move onward and optimistically upward. They are planning four kids and lots of family. The house will be vibrant once again. But tonight!!!! This week. This month. The chaos of a homeschool family. The fuzz ball lookin up with her gold eyes asking for pets... is gone. The house is quiet. My heart in shatters.