Right. But you cannot eat this cow. Notice the fluffiness.

Squirrels are fluffy. 'Nuff said.

That is precisely my point, actually.

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I though so, too, but sometimes it can be very frustrating! You know how people hate waiting all day long for the cable guy to show up? It can be like that just every day, all the time. How about you haven't been able to flush the toilet for 3 days, or take a shower, or clean the dishes, and the water delivery guy is on "Mexican time". Or let's say you are doing a class online and then you have no internet and the phone company take 5 appointments and 4 weeks to actually show up. Eventually you want to walk around like a mad-woman screaming, "Siestas are GREAT but it would nice if someone would ACTUALLY GET SOMETHING DONE AT SOME POINT AROUND HERE." I'm told that if I say "American time" people will actually take my timing more seriously. I think they think Americans are all overly rigid and anal. Maybe we are. I dunno. But I do like to take showers and flush my toilet and not flunk classes.

:001_huh: It said that his method is rare. I can't fathom why anyone would let that happen to their baby. That's just freaky. And, obviously, for sanitary reasons a very very bad idea.

It is my understanding that Jewish circumcision takes off a good deal less. It is certainly done more humanely. I have heard of some very scary complications that occurred in routine hospital circs. I'd have gotten a mohel if I had gone the circ route with my son.

I have to agree that in places where tips are expected the service is better. Mexico has a huge, huge tipping culture. Some people here only make tips and nothing else. Customer service here is also amazing. They actually run to open the door when they see you coming. They run to get the door when you leave. But I love tipping and I love customer service. I have tipped 100 percent before and I tip 50 percent frequently enough to great service. I always tip the grocery kids and the parking lot guys because, apparently, they have no income besides tips. I think it's horrible to give them zero wages, but that's how it is here. If I am not prepared to tip well if the customer service is superb, I consider myself unable to eat out.

Other. I don't feed carbs as side dishes. We have lean meat and vegetables.

What was his reasoning?

I wouldn't think it unreasonable to call the police at that point.

I come from California, where the cost of living is not cheap, and I fed my family on organic for years. It was never anywhere near that expensive. I can't even imagine what items you would have to buy to spend that much. Like... organic truffles? Pounds of organic saffron? :tongue_smilie:

You're not a weirdo. That's a crime against food. Thank you for being so respectful to the people you are helping. I cook for people without enough food and I'm constantly making sure they are enjoying the food. If we had a helper who was of the opinion that we could give them whatever nasty food because they were hungry and poor, I'd tell them that they if they don't have respect for the people we are feeding, they have no business being here. Much thought goes into the nutrition and the taste of what I make. Serving others should be done with care and love.

My friend has been a missionary here for 20 years and has 4 children. Two are adults and she desperately wanted them to go get their college education in America so they won't struggle financially. One went. The other refuses and works terrible hours in awful work for nearly nothing. Why would she make that choice? I don't know why except that that is all she really knows. She grew up around poverty and then chose it. Everything she knows is a dusty impoverished town and her entire peer group grew up to join that life. She and her baby live in one room with no stove, no indoor plumbing, etc. She struggles just to provide basic food for her son. My friend has to help out to make sure the baby has his basic needs met. It really made me pause and consider the future for my son. Temporary turns out to be not so temporary for some families. I am trying to help people *out* of poverty, not condemn my child and my future grandbabies to that fate. I want him to be comfortable internationally and I want him to grow up in the missionary field, but I need to make sure that his idea of normal isn't the short, difficult life of the people we serve.

No, not really. All of the grown/almost grown children of missionaries that I know here consider themselves Mexican. You see the same thing in the children of immigrants in America. The parents who immigrated to America are shocked sometimes that their children are so American, but... of course they are. A parent's culture only means so much when a child is totally surrounded by peers of another culture. I think that my son will end up comfortable in America and in Mexico. He won't be quite as Mexican as other kids of Americans here because he is homeschooled by his American mother, eliminating much influence by peer groups here, and we go back and forth to America sometimes.

No one knows and it's a good thing because "But He said, 'You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!' Then the LORD said, 'Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock; and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.'" Apparently it's dangerous, or so says Exodus 33. :)

Classical veni, vedi, vici sounds like Elmer Fudd. After looking at the pronunciations in depth and worrying overmuch over it all... I didn't want to sound like Elmer Fudd.

I am so sorry. That's terrifying. Praying for you.

Forcing very shy kids to not be shy is kind of cruel. They're not purposefully being rude to anyone... they're having a strong fear reaction. I was extremely shy and all efforts to force me out of it caused me to retreat further into my shell.

My cousin unfriended me and I was hurt. I get it. Being unfriended hurts whether online or in real life. People are real live people complete with feelings even when on the internet, and I don't think everyone thinks about that. I asked her why, she didn't have a good explanation, and then sent a friend request. I'm still wary around her and that was like... 2 years ago. I've always been super nice to her and she has not always been nice to me. Oh well. Her actions reflect on her, not me.

I homeschool in Mexico. Nobody enforces anything one way or another. I have no idea what the laws are. Many kids don't get an education whatsoever, as you mentioned. No one is going to care whatsoever about your kids since they will actually be getting an education. That may sound weird to Americans here, but Mexico is a different country with a different way of looking at things.

:grouphug: There is nothing wrong with being open and honest with the children about who your mother is.

My son isn't allowed to play video games and I still got myself Skyrim. Can't help myself. It's just awesome and I'm a closet gamer.

Skyrim. Great game in a great series.

Everyone liked her until she became famous. I think such a turn around is catty and rude. It's nice that some people can remember her for the person she actually is. The Ree hatred really bothers me.