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With regard to quarantine or avoiding grocery stores due to coronavirus, why shelf-stable? I’ve been putting stuff in the freezer, because I haven’t heard any news of sustained power outages in China. 🤔 Im stocking up on freezer meals in case I get sick and need easy meals. We don’t have the income cushion for larger stocks of disaster preparedness supplies.

Just on an off chance, can you check your deodorant for tocopherol acetate? This is the vitamin E additive that they use in a lot of cosmetics. My DD is allergic to it and we have to be very careful. Also, she's had a similar rash from when her friend was spraying Febreeze in a room, although that started on her face. Since Febreeze doesn't have ingredients listed, we can't really know if tocopherol was the cause, but it could have been.

Maybe the photos were just staged? My kids don’t use top flat sheets, but they have duvets. The covers get washed as if they functioned as the top sheet.

Raising children with great critical thinking skills, a love of learning and embodiment of the fruit of the Spirit. That stretches me about as far as I can go right now.

Well, I have about 100 sq ft of veggie garden space in my backyard. Right now there is garlic, kale and spinach in some state of dormancy before it takes off when the days get longer and warmer. There is volunteer lettuce and cilantro in there, but I don’t have much hope of it maturing before we get some serious winter weather. I have one grow light that I am impatiently waiting for lavender to germinate under. It’s week three and I have about six from a packet of 75ish seeds. Boo. I’m also germinating peppers, soon will be adding tomatoes. I want the lavender to hurry up so I can move it to the back porch/sunroom which is too cool for germination. At that point I’ll have the light for the tomatoes and peppers. I’ll need to wait until mid March to start anything else out on the back porch.

Can anyone recommend an online high school statistics course? Dh and I and Ds would like to supplement his math with stats next fall. I feel like we’ll need the accountability of an online (live or recorded) course. He will have all of the prerequisites I think, he will have completed math mostly through precalculus.

I’m a fan of Red Star yeast. Also a flexible bench scraper and a lame is nice.

Yes, if you do this, you’d have to claim the 3k as an exclusion, and the $250 per month deducted from your paycheck would be reported on your W2 (already excluded from taxable wages). The money should be available for you to use almost as soon as it hits your HSA account, and most HSAs these days give you a debit card to use at the doctor or pharmacy. The card draws directly from the account, so no paying cash and asking for an HSA reimbursement.

You report your contribution on Schedule 2 of your 1040 as an exclusion from income.

Our speech should set us apart, and anything meant to cheapen human dignity (F bomb, b***h, etc.) or cheapen our relationship with Christ should be off limits. Oaths should be taken seriously. However. The original Hebrew texts do contain some rather direct language. No mincing of words or being “delicate.” For example, in the account of Nabal refusing to aid David, David ended up wiping out his line by killing all of Nabal’s household that could, ahem, piss against a wall.

A human affliction tempered only by religious or cultural influences.

I believe it’s true that we aren’t allowed to make meaningful adjustments to government policies and programs until the Boomers mostly die out. It’s frustrating to watch. Especially knowing that we will have spent our entire adult lives using everything trying to provide ourselves and our children decent healthcare and education, and will not have a financial safety net to fall back on when we are old. That generation dug us into a very deep hole.

Does he have coverage on business interruption? Seems like this would be clear cut for him to get some payout on that.

Any other way to access this article? It’s unavailable to me.

Yes. https://www.pcusa.org/media/uploads/oga/pdf/boc.pdf

A statement of historical Presbyterian beliefs can be found in the Westminster Confession of Faith. Its an old document, full of theology, some of which has been modified in different ways and to a different extent by the various modern presbyterian denominations. In my church, elected leaders must be willing to uphold the Westminster Standards in order to continue in office. ETA: In all likelihood, the church you are showing started out as a congregation that was devoted to interpreting scripture a la Westminster, Heidelburg, Calvin, et al. It has probably evolved over the last 200 years to a congregation with a liberal "progressive" view of scripture.

For two of mine we used an old fabric winter scarf around their trunk and tied at the back of the chair. For one because he was a runner and holy terror, for the other, stability. The little fireballs like yours are hard mama. May the Lord bless you and keep you. ❤️

USAA does them. Our 8 year old was 7 when dh opened her account. People think it’s the cutest thing when she uses her debit card in the store and types in her “secret code.”

I haven’t seen it, but I can say I’ve sure been tempted. My kids don’t get much because all the worthwhile extracurriculars are beyond our ability to pay. I’ve racked my brain trying to figure out legitimate ways to fundraise; grow and sell seedlings? Baked goods? I don’t know what’s appropriate.

@Pawz4me thank you!

Is this what you are talking about? When I search for Summer Citrus, I get an antibacterial product, which I assume is not it?https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mr-Clean-Liquid-Muscle-All-Purpose-Cleaner-Lemon-Scent-16oz/29390271

I don't think it's just in teaching, but I think our culture as a whole is far too obsessed with certification, degrees and testing in order to prove that you can do a job. Sure, it has it's place, but it's also used as a barrier to entry in a lot of professions where the entrenched don't want to be upstaged. So they perpetuate the myth that you have to jump all of the hoops to be competent in their field. I'm going to go find an article that I read a while back about airplane pilots v. MDs. It was a fascinating perspective! ETA: Here it is, it's somewhat political, so I hope it's allowable. https://fee.org/articles/why-doctors-should-be-certified-like-airline-pilots/

I had the waterproof spider case and liked it a lot. I replaced it after I left my phone on the brick sidewalk and a toddler stepped on it and ground it across the brick. The plastic got pretty chewed up by the brick, and my iPhone SE at that point was so old that I didn't want to spend the money on another expensive case. Now I'm just using a hand-me-down case until I need to replace my phone.

We'd thank the Lord for some way to help pay for our roof.