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Exactly what I thought of AFTER I thought of rainbow undies. haha I want one of those as well. I've seen some of them at Sam's Club, but have yet to buy one.

I'm assuming you are talking about those rainbow shelf/drawer things. First thing in my mind, though, was rainbow underwear!

Slache, I'm with the other girls. She needs to have some major boundaries set. GAHHH! Wish I could help you diffuse the situation. It irks me when people think they know better for my family than I do. If I need advice, I will ask. Until then, we all mess up our kids someway, somehow. You had your chance to mess up your kids your way. Now's my chance to mess them up my way. :cursing: I might have some suppressed issues... :huh:

I had an ELMO when I was student teaching (no smartboard; just projected onto the whiteboard), then transitioned down to an overhead. I was forever forgetting to make transparency copies and just plopping the paper on the overhead. Drove me nuts. Now, I live in a small community with a rather large technology business headquartered here. We have a lot of technology here in our schools because of that business, so I now have an ELMO and a smartboard. Sadly, I find that I've become more reliant on my technology than my teaching skills. (Honestly, I hate teaching now. Creativity has been pushed out the window at our schools. Hoping it will be different with the new principal and new superintendent.) That was a total ramble.

Dh would just pick the corn out and leave the rest. He eats like a picky toddler. That sounds delicious, though. YUM!

More of a test....this wasn't letting me post on here earlier. ETA: YAY! Success!

I always think "You can't come up with a state without an S in it? You're a moron." But, I so love when someone replies "Kansas!" or something equally incorrect. :zombie:

I was all geared up to read about a doctor who quilts during exams, but this is way more cool!

Oh lord. I love my husband, but sometimes he's a bit dense. He just laminated the campsite map "incase we decide to go back sometime." :lol: :001_huh: I love him. I do. But, sometimes, he just kills me.

Oh, have you seen the movie Contagion? I hate being sick, but I love learning how diseases work. Had it been a real epidemic, though, I would have been one of the ones infected. Just how it goes with me.

We've had a weird virus going around the area. It looks just like strep, feels like strep, but antibiotics do nothing. Dd had it and ran a high fever for 3 days. Then, 3 of the teachers at my school got it. It was pretty crappy. I like the hazmat suite idea someone had. Get that on quickly!

OMG! I went through that course! I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I read it all the time. I was a dork.

I don't have a teen, but I thought I'd just share what my mom would do. Mom never butted in during and argument, but did what regentrude said - she would come to us quietly to offer insight and to listen. I knew that unless it was an extreme circumstance, she would back dad. She may not agree with him, but she'd support his decision. It was never a "well, mom is just going to support dad, so I won't bother to talk to her." I knew that she'd be fair and listen and consider both sides. Not once did she let me know she disagreed with dad during our conversations. I know she did, because there would be times when he would back down on a topic and listen to my point of view and give me that freedom; however, her discussion with him was always in private. Your daughter sounds a lot like me. I bottle up the feelings and shut down. I'm not good with confrontation. Mom knew that and did her best to give me a voice and to let dad have his voice, while doing her best to protect our relationship as well.

I was just talking to my friend about this post and she reminded me of when she was applying to attend Ellerslie (Eric and Leslie's "college"/training institute/whatever it is). They loved her application, but the one thing that bothered them was her lack of "quiet time" to study the Bible. It was stated that there was a concern that she did not have a strong enough love for God because she didn't have 2 hours set aside for prayer, but she was still admitted to the program. Luckily for her, she couldn't make it at that time. Since then, she's had more red flags pop up and does not even entertain the notion of attending.

Cheap toilet paper is awful. Sore, raw bums all around. :scared:

I think he actually understood this time that I REALLY don't like it. lol I'm just glad that I had more reasons to back me up other than just being miserable. The weather really was bad later that night. We slept in today, took naps, and he's off fishing at one of his normal fishing spots now. lol Can't keep the man from fishing! I like your idea though! If we had a cabin, I'd be up for that too. Anywhere we can still do "camp" stuff (firepits, roasting marshmallows, etc), but I can escape the onslaught of nature. You should see my feet and legs. I was an ant and mosquito feast. :( ETA: My sister called me a diva the other day. I try not to act like it, but I'm beginning to think she was probably right.

Or a yurt. I could camp in a yurt. Yurts are cool. ETA: a deluxe yurt with electricity, water, and air.

Yes! - he doesn't realize exhausting it is because he's relaxing and fishing. I don't mind him fishing, but when it's all day while I'm hot, sticky, and being eaten alive by ants and mosquitos while dealing with an equally cranky preschooler, it's very frustrating. Maybe next time we can rent a camper. We can't buy one yet, but maybe one day we can. Until then, renting a camper would make me MUCH happier. We shall see.

Venting and feeling a bit justified - My husband took us camping this week. I say "took us", because I do not voluntarily leave my air conditioning to sleep in nature. :huh: I go, though, because he seems to forget every year that I really do not enjoy the experience. By yesterday, I was beyond done. Mainly because family time isn't family time when dh spends all day on the river fishing and it's incredibly annoying to have to entertain my dd alone in the middle of NOTHING. (She and I ended up driving around for 3 hours just so she'd take a nap.) Anyway, we ended up coming home last night. I pulled a diva move and just told him I was miserable, cranky, and wanted to go home. PLUS, I was pretty nervous about a storm that was headed our way. He seemed to think it wouldn't be anything, but we still packed up. He was upset and disappointed and I totally understand why. But, I have to say, I felt justified in my request when 30 minutes after we left, we ran into some nasty, nasty storms. It stormed the whole 3 hours home ( a storm that was continually moving in the direction of our campsite). There's also a flash flood warning there. So, he may be a bit pouty today, but we're not soaked or worse. That is all - I hate camping. A lot.

One of the main criticisms of Eric is that you can't exactly pinpoint his theology. He's influenced by preachers of old like Hudson Taylor, Leonard Ravenhill, Paris Reidhead, DL Moody, E.M. Bounds, Tozer, etc.

HAHA RIGHT? My husband is the warrior and NOT the poet. lol Sadly, the teachings I swallowed after leaving an equally legalistic church left me many times resenting my husband for not living up to Eric's expectations....a man my husband had never met nor heard of! It's ludicrous and it has taken me the last 3-4 years to really break free from those beliefs.

Not just for women, but men too. I have had to consciously push back some of their teachings as to how men should be. I found it was greatly affecting how I related to my husband and I was constantly comparing him to something that was just NOT him...and my husband is a wonderful man. He just doesn't live up to Eric's expectations on what a "warrior poet" should be. Same with a friend of mine. She has had to really step back and look at the "manly teachings" and decide if she's going to accept her husband as is or let those expectations rule her marriage. We've both had a long road of second guessing ourselves, our partner decisions, etc - all because of what we swallowed in some of their teachings. And that is NOT good for a marriage.

I've been to several of the conferences in the past. What do you want to know? I'll try to answer. :)