Zinnia
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You're welcome! See if disabling that Brotli encoding flag fixes it, and report back!
It worked! So happy.
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We also don't have a microwave, so all our leftovers go in the toaster oven or on the stove. That does make me like them a lot better than the days when I was reheating home food in the microwave at work. Blech.
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My mom doesn't like leftovers, so she cooks the exact amount she needs. That lead to some wasted food right after she had an empty nest, and sometimes when we visit, she has to add a hefty dessert to even out kid appetites that have grown since the last time she fed us, but for the most part, it works.
​Because she didn't/doesn't like leftovers, that is how I learned to cook. My dh is very, very, very easygoing, and he likes leftovers for lunch, so I mostly cook one serving extra for him to take. If it's something I like leftover (about half of foods), I'll cook 2 servings, and I'll eat it, too. Otherwise, I eat salads or easy foods for lunch.
We never eat the same meal two nights in a row. I guess I thought that was the stuff of TV sitcoms.
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This is happening to me, too. Thanks for this thread!
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The first time I saw someone eat berries and milk, I was in college.
It's not something I eat, because I don't drink milk. Even once almond milk became mainstream, it's too close to cow milk, and I can't do it. (I don't even eat cereal...just no milk like that at all).
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I redshirted 3 of mine. One is gifted (and ADHD,which we suspected but didn't know at kindy), two are dyslexic. All are boys. I teach them at their levels, all over the map. Grade level doesn't affect that
I like them being the oldest in things like Sunday school, camp, and co-op classes. It works better for them.
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My neighborhood has a section that has this (it was built in sections from the mid 40s to the mid 50s). People hate it for the most part, but it is what it is, and they make the best of it.
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This happens to me sometimes, too. Salmon is one of the worst offenders, but I can't always put my finger on what caused it.
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I had 4 c-sections. I needed narcotics for two weeks for at least 3 of them (one of them only a week). I did not become addicted, but my pain was controlled.
It's such a hard subject because controlling access means that some people are going to be in pain for no good reason.
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I find it takes practice. Also listening to something you are very, very interested in. I can pay attention better to Sally Clarkson's podcasts because I find what she says interesting.
But I still end up leaving my phone in another room, and not even realizing I walked away for.like 10 minutes. lol
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My dh travels every other week. When he is in town, he usually leaves at 6am, home around 6 or 7. We usually wait for him to eat.
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My oldest son has some major anxiety.
But for him, there is major anxiety at the end of the school year, too. Transitions are just hard.
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The drs at my hosptial make rounds before office hours, so usually 6:00-8:00am and then after hours from 500ish to 800ish. Their normal work day is pretty much 14 hours on average and they do that 5 days a week. Most are in groups and share call so every over night has someone on call and everyone weekend has somebody on call. It is very common for the mds work day to start on the floor at 6:00am, office hours until 5p and then back at the hosptial until the NEXT MORNING and then they start the routine over and get off that evening. They may or may not get sleep. 36 straight at one time and they still have 3 more office days and may have weekend call which runs Fri eve to Mon morning. So yea I can see them averaging 80-100 hrs a week. Notice drs talk about reducing hours to 50 or 60 a week as a good life balance so I think it is pretty normal industry standard.
This was my life as a hospital based CNM, too. I also see it as industry standard.
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Saturday night is our at home date night. We usually get take out, have a cocktail, and listen to our favorite oldie radio show (Solid Gold Saturday night) while playing yahtzee or watch a movie. My kids get a little extra screen time and go to bed early.
Tonight, we let our oldest stay up late with us to watch a tape delayed showing of our city's soccer team game. He is loving it, so that's fun, too.
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My number 3 and 4 were daily pool babies. We loved it. The more chill baby would even nap in a bouncy seat near the pool so we could play longer.
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We have about 2 weeks worth of clothes.
One thing that I am unsure of is heavy coats. We are in a climate that requires a coat about 4 days a year. Last year, I forgot to buy a coat for my 10 year old. He wouldn't wear his 8 year old brothers lame coat, so he just went cold for the 4 days. I am thinking of not buying him a coat this year, either, but this year not because of scatter brained-ness. :)
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I didn't realize that some people still got these really great plans. I thought that every company had gone to the high deductible ones. That is great that some companies can still make the better plans happen!
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$4500 deductible, then it pays 80% up to an out of pocket of $15,000
This is the only plan offered through dh's employer. We pay about $800 a month in premiums.
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In the last 10 years, we went from an HMO plan with very low copays to our current high (ish) deductible plan. This was the plan we had when we got married, and I think it cost an extra $10/paycheck to go from single to family coverage.
There are days that I lament the $20 doctor appointment, $50 ER visits, and $100 inpatient stays. We pay a large amount every month, and we still have that ever present knowledge that we are one hospitalization from a huge to us bill. We have a $4500 deductible (family, but there are not individual deductibles within that; it has to be met), and a $15,000 out of pocket. If someone got a chronic illness, a few years of the $15,000 would have us in debt for a long, long time.
Yes, I am thankful for insurance. Yes, I am grateful for what we have. Yes, what we have is average.
But I still lament the loss of the "good ole days." :)
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Our neighboring district is starating and ending an hour later that day. Elementary schools let out at 2:30, right as the eclipse is happening, so it makes sense.
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Before I had children, I was a midwife. It was a life passion, a job, yes, but it was all consuming, and it ate every bit of who I was.
I had babies. And mothering little children was my entire life.
And now homeschooling absolutely fills up my life.
I think I'm just that type.
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My library offers OD for audio books, and my kids have listened to quite a few, but we seem to not find as many (listened to a lot of them, I suppose).
The neighboring county offers Hoopla, but I'd have to pay for an out of county card, which is $40.
Anyone have any experience with both? Is Hoopla worth it?
The neighboring library is close...4 miles? About 20 minutes. And they do carry more books than my county's libraries, so it wouldn't JUST be for Hoopla, but that's what would push me over the edge.My main consumers of audio books are 7 and 9 year old boys. Sometimes the 5 year old girl. Sometimes the 45 year old dh. He usually sticks with Audible, though, because he has less time. It comes with the daily Wall Street, and that takes up a lot of his reading/audible time. Me? I struggle through the audio books we do as a family. I can not add more. LOL. This is just for the 4 of them.
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I have redshirted 3 sons in a row, without regret.
One of them is gifted, and two of them are profoundly dyslexic. Still happy with the choice.
My just turned 9 year old (yesterday) will start 3rd grade this year. I teach the kid I have (of course), which for him looks like not reading yet. He is fully aware that he is behind most kids his age, but the extra year in Sunday school and homeschool group settings has allowed him to participate without an even bigger gap. For him, it's been really good. Even though he is a BIG kid. Like 99.999% in height and weight, and being the oldest, plus big, he often towers above other kids. But it's still been good.
My oldest is gifted. But as the emotional maturity of a gnat. :) So it's been good for him, too.
I've long told my kids that I would allow them to skip 8th grade if it seemed appropriate so that they would graduate at almost 18 instead of almost 19. Things could surprise me, but if things continue the way they are, that probably won't happen. They are going into 1st, 3rd, adn 5th.
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Until I was an adult, I only heard people on TV say "seer up." It is more common now, but it still sounds weird to me. :D
s/o Don't like and/or won't eat leftovers
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This is my family with tacos. Taco leftovers are fought over. Dh remembers coming home from kindergarten and feeling like he had won the lottery because the taco leftovers were still there. Until his 19 year old sister wised up and took her lunch break at 11. LOL