Zinnia
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We liked the pray and play Bible stories for preschoolers.
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My 10 year old does not, but he has never played with toys. He likes sporting equipment more than anything else (soccer goal, basketball hoop), but even that is not to the level of other kids.
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September 1st.
Many, many redshirts, and the private schools strongly encourage redshirt for most kids after March.
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There is a difference between "this happens" and "every young woman can expect to literally have to run from multiple sex offenders every month of her adolescence". Which is pretty much what was stated. I cannot refuse to live my life, nor not allow my kids to live theirs, because of this.
I don't think she or you are being "hysterical". I'm sure that this was honestly your experience. But... it wasn't mine. It wasn't the experience of anybody I know. I know people who were raped and assaulted. Mostly they were harmed by people known to them. That's the way it usually is. Most crime is committed by people known to the victim.
This is one of those things that varies so much, too.
I totally believe that this happens to a lot of wmen. But I literally have NEVER had a guy make a rude gesture, catcall, or do anything of the sort. Ever. For. few years, I started thinking maybe I was just unattractive. But I don't know. It just isn't my experience.
And while I can believe that women are being catcalls and subjected to awful stuff every day, it seems hard for those women to believe there are others that have never, not one time, had those experiences.
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I'm thinking it is unusual, but it could just be my personal experience. I only like gravy on meat. I won't touch the white gravy I see on biscuits and I don't want gravy on my mashed potatoes. I like to eat my rice with butter and veggies or part of a dish (like inside gumbo or under a pile of chicken n dumplings).
I have never heard of rice with chicken and dumplings! And we love our rice here....I make a pot 5 days a week. I might have to try it!
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Oh, root beer. No can do.
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Our frugal vacation this year is half camping in the Smokies. We are staying in a private campground in a cabin, beds, roof, AC, but no bathroom or kitchen.
Four nights there, cooking all our meals at the campsite, and hiking the national park for activities.
It's also only 4 hours from home, so minimal gas costs.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: We live on such a property. Last night we heard fireworks going off while watching TV, so went out to watch. We could see 5 different sets in all directions. Four were municipal and one was private. The "fun" thing by not being right there is the noise is delayed from the sight since light travels faster than sound, but... the fact that we were in watching TV and heard them going off means you aren't going to be noise free just because you're out in the country. :lol: :lol: :lol:
That said, we enjoy being able to watch them from our house - no crowds - no driving afterward - no worries about one getting too close, etc, so there are benefits.
I am surprised so many people set them off in cities. I would have never guessed. Seems incredibly dangerous to me to set them off in cities without being in a larger park or something... legal or not.
This sounds amazing.
Here, we have multiple fireworks within 5 miles (we are in a metro area), but from my house, you can't really see them over the trees. You have to be pretty close.
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QuikTrip is usually our go-to for bathrooms, followed by McD, then rest stops.
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I never heard of boiled peanuts until moving to NC. Now I see big pots of them in gas stations and they are at roadside stands up in the mountain near Boone and the coast. I don't get it. I love peanuts but boiling them just makes them mushy. Yuck!
We all love boiled peanuts, and I boil pounds and pounds every fall. But you are right--it seems that anyone that did not grow up with them thinks they are horrid.
We also have a local fast food place, The Varsity, that people only seem to like if they grew up with it.
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Fried eggs when the yolk is fried hard. Just no. This is the most vile thing I can think of. Shudder.
Boxed Mac and cheese. Ugh.
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I had a bad one recently. It's having to grow out before it can be fixed.
I feel you, and I am so, so sorry.
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However, there is a strong cultural assumption that it's the female spouse's job to take on the work of making any division of labor fairer. Those assumptions abound in this thread.
I think that a 13 year habit....that totally works for the other person....is difficult to break. And that's why the work of changing the habit falls on the person who is most upset with the status quo.
I would totally expect my dh to buy in and buy in quickly on "things are about to change in here," but I can't imagine him initiating the change away from something that he doesn't see as broken.
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You guys are right about the work balance. I was only seeing it through my lens. I still have small enough/impulsive enough children that they need to be supervised at all times. So, in our house, one person "relaxing" during kid awake hours means the other person is doing the chores plus parenting duty. At the end of the day, I am usually tired of constant parenting, and I want a break. I am ready to hand it off, and that's what I was thinking about....Not that no one gets to sit down, ever. It's just that if I sit down and read during the day, I still have one eye out for the kids. I like to trade off that duty if at all possible.
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We would go if we didn't live in South America, but in your case, with a bunch of young children and your DH not being able to go, I think I would skip it. Who would watch your kids when you went in to use a restroom, etc.?
On road trips with one adult and a whole bunch of tiny kids, you pray for a family bathroom, but you can make do crammed into a tiny ladies' room. :) Pay at the pump for gas. Pack snacks, rely on a drive-through for a coffee treat (because you totally deserve it making memories for all those babies), and you are good to go.
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We are going! We originally were going to just go for the day (it'll be visible 3.5 hours from us; that's a day trip for us), but we decided to make it a vacation, and we are staying 2 nights. I have one public schooler, and he's missing school for it.
I am so excited!
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We had a misfit with a baseball camp this year. Pretty expensive for our budget, but for the target market, it fell into the "just something to do for the week" price range. I didn't realize that ahead of time, and my very type-A went, anticipating coaching to push him to the major leagues and got more laid back Saturday sandlot style.
I hate it when stuff like that happens.
A surprising hit this year was music camp. Very small, half day (except for one afternoon field trip to an art museum). They did 3 hours of music stuff, and he left the week thrilled with what he had learned and done. It was run by the director of the childrens' choir where a couple of my kids sing.
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We could never all relax/work at the same time. Our jobs are too different. And maybe even more, we'd both hate being obligated to work on someone else's timeline.
You are a better person than me. It makes me stabby to be cleaning the kitchen and still have 12 things left to do for the evening, while dh is watching tv, "supervising" tooth brushing/bedtime by yelling down the hall.
Stabby. :cursing:
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Along with a family culture of all adults working at the same time and all adults relaxing at the same time (so it is rare that one person is still working while the other is vegging out) and an acceptance of my role as a family manager, I would likely insist on being appreciated and acknowledged as having that role of manager. I'd start with a sweet conversation over a glass of wine. I'd go to texting every afternoon with a "heads up on what I accomplished today in regards to house management!" I'd bring it up at the dinner table and say, "yes, kids, it's appropriate to tell me thank you now :) !" I'd mention it over and over until my dh caved and told me how wonderful I was doing all the thinking and managing the house. I'd forward articles I found about emotional work, I'd mention that I saw someone share something on facebook, and it would be a constant topic of conversation.
And my own dh would eventually cave and shower me with appreciation. Which is why I'd use this (lighthearted, but persistent) tactic with him. He wouldn't get angry or resentful, which means ymmv about your own relationship.
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Prime is worth the extra cost. You get much more than fast shipping.
I haven't really taken advantage of much, and I've thought about (gasp!) cancelling.
Today I discovered audible has channels with rotating audio books for free. Ahhhh!! Heaven! Totally worth it. :)
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Going on a Bear Hunt
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Even before we had prime, our stuff came in 1-2 days, no matter what the site says.
My neighborhood does have a dedicated amazon delivery van, though.
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only when drinking fast food drinks. I prefer no straw, so in a restaurant, I go strawless, though it freaks my dh out.
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I had a fitbit for a couple of years that died, and I was reluctant to replace it, thinking, "eh, silly toy that I don't need." A friend bought me a replacement as a gift for carpooling this year. I went about 6 months without?
The feature that I missed the most and enjoy having back is the silent alarms. I'm terrible at losing track of time, and mine are set up to vibrate (pretty silently; no one notices unless they are sitting *this* close to me). It jump starts me in the morning, I've used it in a meeting where I need to leave a few minutes early, it reminds me to get supper going, to start getting ready for bed. I have 5 of them set to go off at various times of the day, and I find it immensely helpful
What are the easiest recipes/meals you have in your bag of tricks?
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Fish tacos---flour tortillas, fish sticks, bagged coleslaw mix, green salsa
Trader Joe's or Aldi's orange chicken, rice, frozen eggrolls
French toast
Migas, served in tortillas to make tacos if everyone is very hungry. I'll add meat if we have it.