dangermom
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I am so happy to hear about this! How great for your husband that he got a new position, and it sounds like everything is working out well. Yay!
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Yes, I would expect 16 and 17yo girls to be able to handle that and enjoy it.
If it helps, I did it several times at that age. At 15, I spent a year as an exchange student. Volunteers met us at the airports and shepherded us around a bit, but we were expected to handle layovers and delays on our own. When I was 17, I flew to Denmark and back on my own, with stops in Paris and Amsterdam. The only problem was a changed flight at the Amsterdam airport, when I couldn't figure out how to get the dang Dutch pay phones to work so I could inform the people at the other end, and it did get solved. That was pre-cell phones of course.
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WD, have you got a link for that? Looks interesting.
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According to LDS belief, the Atonement happened both in the Garden and on the cross. It took both. There is an excellent description of it in a book...hang on...
well, of course now I can't find it. But LDS doctrine says that the Atonement started in the Garden of Gethsemane, as Christ took the weight of all sin and death and suffering upon himself. Then, upon the Cross, it happened again and the presence of the Father was even withdrawn from him for a time. After that part was finished, Christ voluntarily ended his life and gave himself as the final sacrifice.
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What a great woman and mother!
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Hm, I probably started allowing them to drink soda every once in a while when they were 5 or 6. They don't get it often. In summer ,though, I sometimes get them "little gulps" as a treat (that is, I like big gulps and sometimes they're allowed a smaller size!) Diet soda is my vice, I'm afraid.
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Without Jesus' sacrifice we could not be resurrected after death. He had to do it first. So yes, we all die--but it's temporary.
I would say that Christ conquered sin and death. But we still get sick. (OTOH, we still sin and we still die, it's just that those things don't win the victory. We won't get sick in the resurrection. Is that what is meant?)
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I've wondered the same thing. Anyone?
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I would say that the freedom issue boils down to where your family will find freedom. For some families, being able to do anything they want, to completely follow their unique child, is freedom. For other families, freedom is limited by lack of money or support. For our family we have more freedom using OG to provide a good education that we would without it.
Yes, I think this is true. When I joined up, it was because we were so broke that I couldn't buy a math book, much less science kits or anything else fun. For the first time I could buy as much science stuff as I wanted! It has been a great blessing in our lives. But that's our family. And if the time came that I felt like I was losing freedom, I'd drop the charter. I've just never run into any problem worse than the charter not paying for my kid to join the park district's basketball team (clinic, yes, team, no).
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If she doesn't "get" it, is in her thirties and is "clueless" after being already told her behavior was intrusive and inappropriate, it sounds like a mental health issue. I don't mean she is severely mentally ill, but she does have issues, big time.
I realize her family culture is different, but she really really ought to know better by now. All of that is well into weird territory.
I mean, when I was 19 I babysat a little cousin for a few hours every day. He happened to take his first steps while I was caring for him, but you can bet I never breathed a word of it to his parents, because I knew perfectly well that they would be sad to hear that someone else was the one to see it. I was a pretty clueless person, but I knew that.
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Oh wonderful! Hello Baby Lemon!
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I love Nutella, but it's basically a spreadable candy bar. I don't eat peanut-butter cups for breakfast either!
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I'm too old for AG dolls, but the quiz cracked me up. My daughters have Kit and Felicity (yes, she's a redhead!). We all would have wanted an Addy except that her hair is more difficult to care for, but I don't think she's a non-character.
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8:30am and 24F, which is super-cold.
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I've made a LOT of doll clothes! The Joan Hinds books are excellent. The AG patterns run a little small, so cut them a bit bigger. The Simplicity patterns are mostly great, but some of them have run small too.
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I am feeling this lately too. The house is a mess. It always seems to be a mess, and whenever I get them to do a grand clean-up, it's awful again the next day. I only have two children! You'd think there were a lot more, with the mess they make! I make them do chores but it still feels like I'm the only one around here who cares or who does anything. I have a perfectly able-bodied husband but he doesn't see mess much and he works so hard that I hate to bug him to do more (he does do stuff around the house, just not as much as I'd like, and he tends to wait to be asked and I hate to ask because hello, he's an adult and I am not his mother and surely he can see that the trash is full)....argh, how do I break this pattern? How do I get other people to care? Where do I even find the time to make everyone clean? This week cousins from WI have been visiting so I keep putting off the make-kids-clean part in favor of letting them play with cousins they haven't seen in over a year. GAH.
Now I feel all guilty for posting this. The kids are sorting through their clothes and husband decluttered a pile and is going to look at the suddenly-clanking washing machine...I am a whiner.
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I am feeling this lately too. The house is a mess. It always seems to be a mess, and whenever I get them to do a grand clean-up, it's awful again the next day. I only have two children! You'd think there were a lot more, with the mess they make! I make them do chores but it still feels like I'm the only one around here who cares or who does anything. I have a perfectly able-bodied husband but he doesn't see mess much and he works so hard that I hate to bug him to do more (he does do stuff around the house, just not as much as I'd like, and he tends to wait to be asked and I hate to ask because hello, he's an adult and I am not his mother and surely he can see that the trash is full)....argh, how do I break this pattern? How do I get other people to care? Where do I even find the time to make everyone clean? This week cousins from WI have been visiting so I keep putting off the make-kids-clean part in favor of letting them play with cousins they haven't seen in over a year. GAH.
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Chocolate and movies are often good therapy; that's part of what got me through the loss of my first. :grouphug: Of course you're unhappy, and you have every reason to be. Acknowledging that is probably the only way to get through it.
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There is a guy near us who is a pretty close family friend. I babysat his children, his youngest daughter babysat my children, now she's married and expecting, etc. We go to the same (LDS) church and there were a few years when he served as pastor for our congregation. He's also an anesthesiologist, and when I had my gall bladder out he did my anesthetic. So...yeah, he's seen me naked and unconscious. I try not to think about it. :lol:
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If I may say, it is 9.5" raw, so it will finish at 9". I'm the one that advised Brandy on what size to choose.
I am in for a square, but I can't sew it until later this week. We're going to be on the road for a couple of days.
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:grouphug: I'm so sorry, Felicity. Situations like this can be so rough for everyone. It seems to me that you've respected his choices, so he ought to respect yours. And the kids should be able to make their choices too. Sounds simple, but isn't...I'm sorry I don't know what to say to help, but my all means vent here.
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I'm sorry. :grouphug: I think it's good that you respect your husband's wishes and don't want to steamroll him, but OTOH I would think that 12 is old enough to decide for himself what he wants to do. Can you talk with your husband about letting your son make his own decision?My newly 12yo ds graduated from Primary but my dh that no longer believes doesn't want him ordained. Since it's something that he can have done later but can't really undo, I grudgingly agreed. Now I'm regretting that. My poor ds realized today that means he can't pass the Sacrament. He was really sad for the first time, so now I'm wondering if I should even bother. It doesn't seem fair to him that he's only "kind of" in YM.
Our ward shares the building with the singles ward, which wants to sleep in, so we never switch times. Church has been at 9am forever, and apparently always will be. My sleepy teenager complains about this. :glare:
12yo was happy because she's finally completely out of Primary, and gets to have SS with the 13yos too, which means she gets another good friend in class. Also the teacher treats them like grownups, which she likes.
9yo likes her new teacher and seems happy.
We have a new SS teacher who I think will be very good.
I was so tired--or something--afterwards that I pretty much took the afternoon off. Weird. I'm not a good faster at the best of times but it was weird. Two of my brothers are here in town with their families--one lives on the other side of the country--so the kids went and hung out with cousins and I went over around 4.30 and we had a birthday party.
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I am not a smoker, but think it's a bit unreasonable to expect the guy not to smoke outside in a park where smoking is allowed. If he was breaking a rule, it would be different.
This. I hate the smell, but it is a legal activity. I really hate it but I also dislike that we keep shoving smokers into ever-tinier areas in which to engage in their perfectly legal activity. Even though I benefit. I am conflicted about this, can you tell? :D
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He's 15 months old and doing this? Zowie. I do have a niece who used to do it, but she has grown out of it now. I don't know what to do with a young toddler who does it, but you have my sympathy!
Tell me that my kids need me.
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Yes, they need you. If it's scary with you around, it is way more scary without you around. It's OK for you to be grieving and in bad shape--you're still there.
Sometimes taking the next breath does seem like too much. You can do that one thing, though. I do like the walking idea--the weather is perfect for it and the sun and fresh air will help you.