Chika
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Yea, it had to do with being an orgasm donor ... you know, like organ donor. Apparently this is how he serves his fellow man. Or woman.
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St. Theophan Academy, I visit your blog about once a week and I wanted to tell you that your new photo at the top (of the pretty vase in the kitchen) just makes me feel so happy every time I see it. What a beautiful, homey, welcoming scene. Is it your kitchen? DH and I have asked the Lord if He would open the door so we could purchase a particular house, and that picture makes me think of it, and the welcoming hospitality we want to extend and for which reason we are believing for a larger home. That was a really bad, twisty sentence, lol. Thank you for posting that picture.
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One of our daughters asked me one day (after playing in the neighborhood), "Mom, what's an orgasm?"
Ack! Ack! Ack! Lol. I had seen it myself before, but a neighbor in a somewhat obscure house has a bumper sticker on his truck that has this word on it. It never occurred to me that my daughter would see it and ask about it! I'll take virgin over orgasm any day, lol!
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figured this out, since my dd is ordering a book, too. We didn't put the free ship code in on hers, and voila! Free book.
it said one book per household ... could that be why it's not crediting the second book? Just wondering if it's catching you on that technicality somehow.
I ordered mine on Saturday. Can't wait to see it.
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i can't imagine simmering them on the stovetop for hours on end.
I did this very thing today ... soaked beans overnight and then low-simmered them on the stove top for about six hours. They were great!
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I hate it when an internet company doesn't include tracking info. for their packages.
That is all.
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Here's where I'm at from reading this thread:
Don't use a Rival.
Maybe a Hamilton Beach or other brand.
Euro-pro says they don't have lead in theirs.
Consider using a s/s roaster instead of a crock pot.
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There are reusable bags that stand upright on their own; they are shaped like an opened paper bag. I have a three of these. Trader Joe's sells them ($2.99?), and I got two of them free from the grocery store (expired promotion leftovers). Have you seen these anywhere?
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Hi there, I'm not actually Orthodox but have been reading a bit about Orthodoxy online lately and am intrigued. Hope it's okay to join you?
I wanted to post that I saw the Children's Bible Reader mentioned below on sale at bibles.com ... $4.99 and free shipping (there is a $2 handling charge). Oh drat, I just went there to get the link and it says out of stock now (did I get the last copy this a.m.??). Well, it would be worth watching for if you're looking at getting this since it's such a great price.
I've enjoyed reading your posts.
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Oh, I'm so, so sorry Doran.
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I just pulled out the ballot and looked ... it does say to have it postmarked the day by the day of the election. This is probably true all over our state, so millions of ballots could come in after election day. As more and more locations go to all-mail balloting, it seems that eventually we may not know by the next morning who the winner is .... unless, like some have said, the deadline is having the ballot turned in the day of the election, not just postmarked.
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I'm pretty sure ours have to be postmarked by the end of election day ... that's how I've always done it anyway, lol. But perhaps the rules changed when they went to all mail-in voting.
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and making a huge deal over a cookie
She didn't make a huge deal over a cookie. She asked her daughter before she went and sat down to just say "We don't celebrate halloween," the daughter did, and that was that. Nothing huge about it .... perhaps *I* mistakenly made a deal out of by asking for thoughts here. And waaay back in post, what? 4? I kind of said that -- I oughtn't judge this mother or family's actions since I have no idea what their story is.
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What about the whole mail-in ballot thing? Won't that (eventually) start making it impossible to determine the popular vote winner the day after the official election day? In our state many of the counties are now all mail-in -- so those votes will continue to come in up to a week or so after the election. Hmmmm ....
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Oh, hey, hi everyone! What's going on? I go to bed with less than 30 posts in the thread and come back to [*blink blink*] 100+ ... wowzers.
Here's the deal, since I started it: We did know ahead of time that the kids could wear their costumes. I didn't take my son to the lesson right before yesterday's, my older son did, but I do now recall my younger son saying that day that they said it was going to be a party. SO it wasn't spur of the moment. I guess I assumed it would STILL include a lesson, with maybe an activity at the end or something. *Anyway* ... it wasn't emotional abuse at all, this mom's decision, just a sharing of their family standard and her helping her daughter in phrasing/telling the teacher that she wouldn't be taking part. I think at that point we still assumed that there would be a lesson eventually. But once we realized there wouldn't some of us started bowing out (self and at least two others included).
To me emotional abuse is "You're a worthless fool, don't talk to me, your father can't stand you, I don't care if you do this or that make up your own mind, why would you wear that? do you think it looks good? Never mind I'll do it myself, shut up," never telling your kid you like them and love them, etc. Not "This is the way we do things as a family and here's help in how to handle this situation."
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Yeah, that's one way to look at the day, lol! It's funny, the two gals leading today's class -- one of them was handing out cookies, then the frosting, then (of course) the sprinkles. The kids are totally engrossed in this and all the while the *other* one was at the board trying to get kids to name the notes she'd written on the board and the songs that she was playing (probably so she could say they DID actually get some music instruction today). I'm sitting in the back thinking, "Nice try, sistah -- work with kids much?" (They're former students themselves). Ah, well. It's really no big deal and next week we'll go back to plinking out Hot Cross Buns.
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It's the fun, funky me I wanted to be about 10-15 years ago and am trying to become now, lol. They don't have a "laugh lines" option in avatar-making!
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Why should we even attempt to answer that? She's the Mom. It's her choice. She doesn't need a "good enough" reason to suit your or to suit me.
Yeah, I kinda commented on that in the follow up posts (see the convo with Jean in Newcastle). I do get that for the reasons described above.
Now I'm starting to get more peeved about having paid for .... decorating cookies and Fantasia 2008, lol.
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I don't know why I didn't think of posting this earlier... but a friend of mine started Green Halloween in the Seattle area and it has been spreading. Check out her website http://www.greenhalloween.org
Maybe next year. :)
I'll check it out! BTW, the link needs to be "dot orged" .... you typed .org in the post but when you hyperlinked you put .com so it doesn't work.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a Disney flick related to the original Fantasia (the teacher said it had "classical music" in it and I seem to recall that about the original). I actually think THIS is something I will be more likely to mention to the program organizers that I'd prefer not be happening without prior notification (and that I'd prefer, um, music LESSONS instead actually).
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Our "special" thing was trick or treating, lol -- we'd never gone before and boy, howdy it was a lot of fun. Just a bunch of laughter and smiles, like I remember from when I was a kid. The kids worked hard on their costumes this afternoon and kept putting off and putting off getting dressed for bed. It's been a very fun day! Glad you had a good time, too.
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This was probably the fault of the teacher! The mom told the teacher, "we don't celebrate Halloween." The teacher decides that the cookie is part of a Halloween celebration.
Nope, not in this case. While I can see that that could happen, I saw the mom coaching the girl in the back when she realized what was going on, so when the girl sat down and the teacher offered the cookie the girl said "I don't celebrate Halloween." And it was just a round sugar cookie, and the frostings were vanilla and chocolate -- no real Halloween focused things at all. That's why I kind of didn't get it. But I understand sometimes making it easiest by just drawing a hard line and not crossing it.
Now when the announced that 15 minutes into class they were all going to join with the other classes and watch Fantasia 2008 for the rest of the time, that's when I just kinda went "Hunh?" and *we* bowed out. I've got better things to do than to sit and watch a group video with a bunch of kids, lol.
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Wish I was your neighbor.
Sue
Won't you be .... my neighbor?
[*sung in my best Mr. Rogers voice*]
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Yeah, I know. And I have to realize that we've been all over the spectrum in what we've done as a family, from the pretending we're not home thing to the Harvest Party at church thing to handing out treats but not trick-or-treating thing to -- this year! -- trick or treating for real, (but no scary costumes! lol). I guess my disappointment for the girl is actually judgment of the mom, so I best not go *there* eh?
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Oh, your post is full of hope for me! We have moved 10 or 11 times in 16 years and I've said since the last one in 2005 we have "one more move" in us, since we knew this house was smallish for our family (but we got quite a deal on it -- if we could now just sell it!). We've had our eye on this house for more than a year and it's still available. The wife just got a new job in another state, starting in February, so we're hoping the door will now open that we could purchase it. I just feel "ours" all about it and love it. We would value your prayers! And thanks for your post. I enjoy this group even though I'm still a seeker/learner about Orthodoxy.