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just unfollow her and you won't get her memes in your news feed

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It is absolutely wrong that your son hit his head and blacked out and adults were aware of this and you weren't informed. IMO it is also inappropriate for a nurse to simply tell him to see a doctor the next day. If he hadn't told you and he passed out later that night, you couldn't even have explained to the doctors what happened IF you even realized he was passing out, not just falling asleep.

can't or won't?

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I am not defending the police officer, who has been fired and is being prosecuted. I am so glad the driver will be ok. I know many will want to call this an example of racism, but I don't know the thoughts of the officer so I can't get to that conclusion without more information. I am not sure if it currently taught in drivers ed or on license exams, but I consider it a given that drivers who are stopped by a police offer should: (1) pull over on the street or shoulder (not up to the door of a store/gas station). (2) stay in the vehicle, don't get out unless you are told to by the officer. (3) not make sudden moves that can be misinterpreted. This is what I do and what I am teaching my children. I truly do not state this in order to blame the driver or justify the shooting. IMO the driver didn't appear to even know he was being pulled over at all until he was out of his vehicle and heard the officer speak to him. For those who didn't read the article:

That would be so fabulous!

I know of three marriages where the man has had an affair, and it is known throughout the circle of friends that he cheated, and the marriage has stayed together. Two of them appear fine, and one they appear to be thriving. But all three have children, and sometimes I wonder if they are staying together just until the kids are out of school. Time will tell. Interestingly, in the marriages where I know the woman cheated, all have gotten divorced. I don't know what I would do if my husband had an affair. I might be able to forgive and not hate him as a person, but I wouldn't be able to forget and have complete trust again. I don't think I could ever sleep with him again, and I don't think he could live in a marriage without sex. It would just never ever be the same. We would likely muddle through until the kids are up and out and then separate.

I think you should simply write what you wrote here and what you would like her to do, and be fairly specific. for example: 8am: start laundry, fix breakfast, tidy kitchen 9am: reboot laundry, read books with ds2 while I do phonics with ds5 10am: prepare snack for ds2, vac & dust main floor You might also want to do one day's schedule at a time, or no more than one week at a time, so that you can adjust if problems arise. Make sure your dd13 has a written schedule as well so she can say "oh that's on my schedule if bf tries to take over some of the schooling of ds5." Make sure dd and ds have desks or tables where they do their things, maybe a desk in your room so you can be supervising and bf doesn't feel she needs to get involved. Also I would absolutely have her go home after school with her kids instead of bringing them to your house, but that's just me. Good luck!

Hopefully the original full resolution jpgs are still saved somewhere, you just can't find them? Maybe a search of your whole computer will turn them up? You can do that in file manager, search for the file name or for *.jpg. To be honest, with Creative Memories' reputation for proprietary behavior, it would not surprise me if they had done something to make it so you could only print with them, which makes life very inconvenient now that they're out of business. I hope that you are able to figure it out.

thanks for the link, I read through it and even after hearing your description I was amazed at quantity in the picture of stuff they brought! You are a very kind person to put up with this!

Can you just use file manager to go and look at the jpg files and check the file size? I have Windows 7. If I open up file manager (Start, Documents" and then navigate to the folder a picture is in, I can right click on the jpg file, select "properties" and see the size of the file in kilobytes/megabytes. There is also a tab that says "details" - that tells me the pixel dimensions. If you can find the files with your file manager and they look to be the proper size, upload them directly to the costco website that way without going into the Creative Memories Program. You can resize and crop within the Costco program if necessary (at least you can at the Sam's Club site which I use).

I would not be worried, but I do think you need to start a blog with an entry for each item they send you. Could you link up previous posts listing these things because I really need to know! The articles about children dying... yikes.