Renthead Mommy
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Boy did I realize with this post I am SO out if the baby game! LOL!
My first thought at reading the title was 'On the laundry room shelf with the other rags? Somebody needed a post for that question?? Really?' LOL!
I guess when you still have a stack of them, but haven't used them on a baby in 13 years, your first thought of ' after they are used' has a different meaning than for those using them fir their orginal use!
But yeah back in the day mine were in a small pop top trash can (the kind you open with your foot) that the insert lifted out of. It always had water and borax for soaking.
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Pantsuit Nation has pictures of girls that age in pantsuits all the time since the election! They are becoming very popular. If she hates skirts, go with something like that. Cute shoes and and colorful top will dress it up.
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Respectfully, I am not involved in this thread anymore. I don't think we are all talking about the same things when we say, "driving tired." So I don't wish to discuss it any further.
You keep saying you're out, but you keep coming back still trying to convince everyone that you aren't wrong.
Maybe that should tell you something about this idea you seem to have. Or your need to be right about this.
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I don't get the whole panic either.
What should there really be fir you, as Mom, to do? He is 19. He can fetch a pillow and a blanket. He can clear the laundry off the counch. And as for housekeeping, she has been hanging at your house for the last 1.5 years. She already knows what kind of house keeper you are. She doesn't need tioletries, she'd brush her teeth at home the next day. You don't need to rearrange a bathroom svhedule, you need to let the poor girl pee. Something you would probably need to do even if she was leaving on her own, and I am certain you had to do while waiting on her parents. I mean this isn't a stranger, this is someone who has seen the workings of your house for over a year.
So now instead of just letting people go to sleep, everyone is now up and waiting at least an hour for her parents to show up. Yes I know it was a 45 minute ride, but they probably needed a few to get redressed and ready to go out at thst time of night.
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I'm really, really marveling at this idea that the neighbors are counting cars and surmising who's sleeping in what beds or couches in what rooms.
I'm quite fond of my neighbors, and have kept an eye on their house when they've been away (as they have ours); but I truly can't imagine keeping tabs on the cars in their driveway when they're home, let alone speculating on what bed or couch their visitors are sleeping in. Do people really do that?
I know, the car thing is cracking me up.
In our town, you could not park on the street overnight. Because there was not enough room in our driveway, my brother and I parked our cars in the street about five houses down in the next town. But they had to be moved every day, so more than a day didn't work.
Everytime I flew out to visit my dad or my grandparents, went away with friends, or went away with bf, I left my car in his driveway. Usually for a few days. Often when his father/stepmother were also gone (they ran a travel tour group so were gone often).
Oh the scandal the neighbors must have been imagined! LOL!
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I know for a fact my stb 15 can sleep through the smoke dector going off.
This lead to conversations in our bs troop where I was told by other parents their boys had sleep through smoke alarms and house alarms going off as well.
So I would be a no.
Plus not sure what the legal age is.
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This. Any unmarried couple does not share a bed in our home.
My inlaws are mid 70's. They got together after 40 years of marriage each and each lost their spouse around the same time. They have been together almost 8 years now. They are the only grandparents my son remembers from his dad's side.
I can't imagine telling two 70 yos they have to sleep in seperate rooms! Talk about uncomfortable! LOL
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I also know perfectly well that forbidding them from being alone behind a closed door at night does precisely nothing to prevent them from having sex.
Understatement of the year! LOL!
In college bf had the whole third floor so it was a bedroom/office area/sitting area. He was working on his paper. I was typing my paper. As in on an electric typewriter, click clacking away. Note cards and books scattered about his bedroom floor, bed, couch and desk. I am typing away furiously on mine so I can start typing his. Sex was the LAST thing on our minds.
For some reason his dad/stepmom suddenly decided we shouldn't be alone in his room while they go out this time. We sort of looked around like are you kidding me??? No clue why this time was different.
Fine, whatever. Abandoned the papers, went downstairs to the tv room on the second floor. Apparently, alone in the house in the tv room was fine. They left.
Well now that we were not working on research papers, we had nothing else to do so then we did have sex. In the tv room. Good thing they didn't leave us along in his bedroom! LOL!
You say no sleep overs. Okay. That doesn't mean they aren't having a quickie, in the basement, tv room, garage, where ever. And for those, you are probably awake and in the next room.
Oh and those types of out of spite quickies are more like to be the time they forego protection, because it's spur of the moment and condoms are stashed safely away somewhere else.
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In high school you don't get girlfriend sleep overs. I would prefer he wait till he's out of hs for sex, but it will be what it will be, it is not my body to dictate.
If he come home for break and brings his girlfriend, they can decide what they want to do. But my kid knows the level of sarcasm and joking that runs through our family/house. He knows if they are having loud enough sex that we can hear him, there maybe a text or a shout to keep it down. He's no dummy and would expect that (based on other conversations we've had about teenage boys...) He would expecxt either that or commenting in the morning.
But I find it amusing that all of these responses seem to be if they are sleeping in the same bed, they are automaticly having sex. It is possible for a couple to come home to visit, sleep in the same bed and NOT have sex. Even if they are regularly having sex when not staying at your house. Yes, some people would do it because they want to, or because of the thrill of 'doing it' while M/D are home. But others also won't. Some may think it's not right, some may worry about being heard. Some may just not be in the mood knowing M/D are sleeping in the next room.
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In two hours, my stb15yo Life scout meets his mb counselor for Citizen in the World. His last eagle required mb! He was down to his last three eagle requireds and the goal was to get them all finished befor we pcs. We go to boy scout camp in one week, come back from that and hit the road. He cut it close, but he finished off all his eagles before we leave! Now when we get there we need to find a troop, he needs to get a position within the new troop for at least two more months and find an eagle project. Really, really hoped we would stay here and he could graduate hs, or at least eagle here. That one is almost harder as we have such a great troop and he's worked with so many of our boys on their star, life and eagle projects it would have been great to do his project with them.
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34 years this September. We met first day of 8th grade. I had just moved to that state. My other bff is going on 33 years. I moved out of the area in 97 and have moved around with the AF since 2003. We still see each other.
My son has be AF since he was 1. We are moving again in a few weeks. He just completed 9th grade. Once best friend he has known since 2nd grade (but his dad and I have been close high school). Other best friend he has known since 5th grade and from a different state. He is still close with these friends and talks to them almost weekly. (Depends on school/business). They text and Facetime. They play Magic and other games online and just talk. Now I've heard some of the conversations. I'm not hearing deep soul searching secrets and conversations like I remember as a 14/15 girl, but I don't think boys tend to converse like that as much, especially not yet.
Will these friendships make it through college? I don't know. But I feel they should survive hs at least.
Also we have traveled to see them and them to us, but it helps that I am good friends with both moms, so part of that is my vacation as well. But most likely next summer he will be traveling alone to see at least one of them. The second I get to come with no matter what as I have too many friends in that area to turn down that trip.
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If she won't take the hint, then join the conversation! Be sure to interrupt and say things like "Friend can you repeat that last part, I didn't hear it clearly!" Nothing a teen loves more than her mother as part of the conversation!!
Hey if you are sitting here in the room with me, with it on speaker, you MUST want me to be part of the call!
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As his Life rank service project, my 14yo and some of his friends made survival braclets. He then sold them and took donations to raise money for the Hilton Head animal shelter to help them with repairs after last fall's hurricane. He raised over $500.
He's worked at the shelter walking dogs with his grandparents when we go back to visit. We are too far away to do anything else after the hurricane and he wanted some way to help.
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An eggplant.
We are in the city. There is a cross walk there and it goes through the four lane divider island and has 1-2 foot high rocks spaced in it. One day a big eggplant just showed up on one of the rocks.
The weird thing is there is no where around there to buy an eggplant. My best guess is either someone bought one at the much farther food store and was walking home with it, or someone was walking somewhere with. But why??? And it would seem if it someone had left it on a car roof, or it bounced out of a truck it should have landed in the traffic pattern. Which makes me think someone was carrying it. And just set it down as they were crossing the street. You could even see the produce sticker on it.
We actually watched it for about three months. We figured someone would pick it up or something, (it is a decently busy crossing) but no, there it sat. We could see it starting to decompose. It darkened and dried out and started to collapse in. (Every now and then I would catch the light and be parked right next to it.) Finally it was pretty much just a dried out shell and we had a big wind storm. Next day it was no where to be seen. But it sat there for three months.
Now I'm not sure which is weirder. The random eggplant, or the fact that we looked for a random eggplant for three months...
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Oh! Speaking of history! Check out Voyagers! The one where they travel through time fixing mistakes, and the guy lost his manuel, but the kid is a walking history book. Great fun show, but only about two seasons.
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Go back to the 80's.
Battlestar Galactica, A-Team, Dukes of Hazard. BJ and the Bear, Sherrif Lobo.
If he likes history... the one with The guy from NCIS New Orleans. What was that called. Ever episode ended with "Oh boy...". But he may not yet be ready for that to get enough of it. But it would be good by his next round of need more shows.
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My friend is a designer and her last house has no island but had space for it. She created on out of $150 thrift shop dresser she did with new hardware and paint and put a countertop on it wide enough to creat a breakfast bar. It looks fantastic in her kitchen.
I love drawers in my kitchen island.
But if you are going to use a dresser, make sure it is a good dresser. One that the drawers come straignt out and won't do that tilt downward thing cheaper ones will do. Especially if you have weight of dishes and things in it.
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The regimental system was really designed to create a community though, in that kind of setting.
But it's often not. At least anymore. It may still be more so at lower enlisted ranks.
Higher ups, where there is often only one or two of your specialty are often set to the side of the larger groups, who welcone you in, but forget about you until wander past their atea and they remember to mention goings on.
Plus that no fraternizing thing is an issue. Especially when it you and all your support/ most people you deal with on a daily basis is enlisted.
Overseas living is more like that, but again, often once you move away that friendship is shelved until you cross paths again.
On base living stateside has some of that, but not much. And base living stateside is harder and harder to find.
Out in community/ neighborhoods you may be the only militarty on the street. Neighbors barely know the people who have lived there for years, why bother with someone who is only a few years to stay?
Now thisis often different when brought together by a common cause. You befriend people who have kids the same ages as yours, especially when little. But often what you have in common is location and kids.
So while I see it creating a community early on, it is a lot of drink the kool aid, all in the same boat. With age and specializing this breaks down.
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It's not.
Don't ever join the military. You move every 2-3 years. Yes there is a military 'community' and some places you make life long soul sister friends. Other places you spend time hanging with people, and while you are good friends, you may only be friends because you are both together, but neither has found 'their people' in this place. Once you or they leave you may drop down to christmas card level.
Often it is friends/community of the moment. You partake in what is offered for that area and enjoy it while you are there. Then you move on and do it again at the next place.
I guess I don't know what you mean by 'feel safe'.
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We got married in June, but not because we wanted a summer wedding. The husband was up for residency in the midwest. I said it was stupid for me to pay for health insurance if he was working at the hospital, so we decided to get married. It was May. So when we pulled it together two weeks later, it was by then June.
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Not more worthy of respect.,,just too far gone to save!? Lost cause?
In GA, we had a father and 10yoish son come to the door. It was spring time. Dad starts off talking about 'this special time of year..." (meaning Easter)
I couldn't resist. I say "You mean Passover? That's coming up." Guy gives confused look. "Yeah, we're Jewish." (which is only part true.)
Guy gets a paniced looked on his face. "I'm so sorry! We've made a teribble mistake!" Grabed the kid and nearly ran back down the sidewalk!
So apparently we were a lost cause! LOL!
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What exactly does she wants to see at the library? The lions? Anyway the library might be a let down but it's on Bryant park which is lovely enough.
Driving in NYC is like typical urban driving, stop and go type thing. I cannot do it because I'm only used to rural driving and I learned to drive yesterday :)but DH does it every week.
You can split the baby by parking near say Hoboken and taking the PATH in.
I agree with this. It is not that exciting. There is a gift shop. And the children's section. Christopher Milne's orginal stuffed animals that inspired Winnie the Pooh used to be on display there, but I thought they had been moved or stored for awhile for renovations, but I could be wrong. But really, 30 minutes would be stretching it for a visit.
Take the train in from NJ or somewhere.
But the driving is easy enough. No one is going fast. You will just need a good map/gps. And know where a parking garage is (don't even try and park on the street unless you are incredibly lucky and an incrible parallel parker, who can do it fast and in one go!)
And if you don't have an easy pass, you will have to pay cash for all bridges and tunnels and NJ parkway. Make sure you are in the correct lanes early. (that woudl be more stressful to me than NYC driving. Plus NY drivers hate cash payers. They slow everything down and block the easy pass lanes.)
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We were in DC a few years ago for a convention. We had a car but our friends had flown in. With all of them our car was not big enough alone. I spent a LOT of time looking at metro, bus and car service before we realized it would be cheap and easy to just tent a second car for the day.
Picked it up that morning from a nearby hotel and returned it that night.
Totally worth it and so much simpler then the metro. Worth checking into!
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When I was at that point I had started watching Murder, She Wrote last fall.
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Ack! Broadchurch...
in The Chat Board
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We packed out our house last Thursday. I realized the night before that we won't have cable for the first weeks of July.
I am missing, and can even DVR Broadchurch, Zoo, the last Grantchester, some Father Browns, Game of Thrones and there was something else too!
Stupid pcs...