I love that movie!!

So sad. I grew up watching the movie Support Your Local Sheriff with my family. I also loved him in Maverick, the movie with Mel Gibson. I am not sure if I saw him in anything else. Most his movies were before I was born. I did love him though.

😂😂😂😂 Hilarious!

Sir up, South Louisiana. I don't know anyone who says seer up.

Praying for a safe trip and that your son recovers completely and quickly. I am sorry that the care was less than stellar (to say the least!) where y'all were.

My house is almost always neat, but not necessarily clean. For example, I almost always need to dust. People think it is clean though because it is neat and non-cluttered. I do not pick up and clean all day long. We do have several times a day where we work for 15 or so minutes and get things done. My kids are expected to clean up after themselves at breakfast and lunch(they fix their own). Each month, one of them has "kitchen duty". He (I have all boys) wipes the counter after each meal, sweeps the kitchen floor after breakfast and lunch and vacuums after supper. He also unloads the dishwasher when it is clean. The other older son has towel duty that month (they rotate monthly). He folds all towels and puts them up. He also dust mops the wood floors and vacuums them once a week. My youngest son either helps his older brothers or does another job while they are working. He doesn't have an assigned job yet. My kids are also expected to make their beds, keep their rooms clean and do their own laundry (I try to make sure they are washing often enough to not run out of clothes). I don't consider these jobs chores, just life. I expect them do to the best of their ability, so age and natural neatness count. We clean bathrooms once a week. We have 3, so I clean one and each of my older boys clean one. My youngest does counters and mirrors. So basically, we have a routine for big jobs and keep up with keeping our items put away when we are done with them.

HAHA! I was laughing so hard I had a coughing fit. And disturbed my husband trying to go to sleep. Hilarious. :)

We have been in our house for 4 years. It is 30ish years old. The only things that have needed to be done was a new roof after a hailstorm and a toilet replaced. We paid $800 for the roof, insurance paid the rest and whatever a new toilet cost. My DH installed it. We have spent more on cosmetic stuff that we wanted done, but none of that was needed.

Both the kids and I do. We have been seeing our pediatrician since my oldest was born, so 11.5 years. We almost always get to see him. When we don't it is usually because he is out of town. I graduated high school with my primary care doctor. I also grew up with my dentist and eye doctor. My urologist knows me, but only because I have lots of kidney stones. ;) My OB also knows me as does our ENT. Our ENT has done surgery on all 3 of my kids and also treats me when I need an ENT.

Baton Rouge is the capitol of Louisiana (in case anyone reading doesn't know ;) ) I just looked up the population, and the number I saw was around 230,000. We do have a lot of more rural areas in Louisiana, but this area would in no way at all be considered rural. From what I understand and remember (my dad told me and he has passed away, so I can't ask), this area I am talking about was built as government run projects for lower income people, but has just over time been ignored. Crime is crazy there. One of the little girls in my class asked what my plan was at my house when the police came. I had no idea what she was talking about. Her brother and dad had hiding places and escape routes planned. Out of 22 students, at least half had at least 1 parent in jail. Several had both parents in jail. For the most part, the kids who did not have a direct relative in jail were bused in from other areas of BR. It is the picture of the cycle of poverty. It is heartbreaking. Louisiana doesn't have many (any?) safety nets for the truly poor or homeless. Partly bc we are a poor state in general, partly bc we have a lot of needy that need the small resources there are and partly for political reasons.

I am not 100% sure about running water, but when I student taught in 2002, I had students (yes, more than 1) who lived in houses with plywood for doors and windows. In the middle of Baton Rouge, LA.

I haven't, but through chatting with a poster, we realized our husbands know each other. I have sent more than one person to these forums though. I don't know if any join. I don't post that much though, I mostly read. I would want to know if someone recognized me from online. It wouldn't bother me at all.

I just remembered, when we were driving into D.C. for the first time, we saw the Washington Monument. My oldest, 9 at the time, said, "Oh look! There is the Eiffel Tower!"

My 2nd son once told me the Phoenicians were from Idaho... Oh, and my youngest thought Mississippi was the capitol of Louisiana. We live right outside Baton Rouge... The Mississippi River has been a source of great confusion for all my boys.

I wish that was our situation!! My house has never flooded, and will never flood, but we our still required to have flood insurance. Our parish is constantly fighting with FEMA because of that. We had a new roof put on this year, because of hail damage, but we haven't since then. It will be "fun" to see what that does to our rates. Our car insurance is high here too. My ancestors picked a terrible place to settle. LOL

It was terrible. I think it is around $1800 a year now. Our flood insurance is around$1500 a year. Louisiana has high rates.

Ours went up $400 one year. It wasn't just us though, it was pretty much everyone in our state. Every other year, it has gone up less than $50 a year.

No tub would be a deal breaker to me. I want a tub in the master bath. However, my IL's just remodeled their bath and took their tub out and did a huge shower. So, it really depends. Tubs in master baths are still the norm in new houses where I live.

We use Rite Aid and they call us right away, all the time. They call to let us know if they have just a partial prescription and see if we want to pick it up or wait until the next day, if there is problem with insurance, or if they just don't have our meds in. They have even called us to tell us they were running late getting it filled and give us an update on when it will be done. We love them.

Never leave a room without looking around to see what you can bring with you to put up along the way. If it isn't yours, put it on the owner's bed when you pass. I have trained my kids to do this as well. This has made the biggest difference in my house. All my friends think my house is so clean, but really it is just picked up. I always need to dust or vacuum or something. My grandma told me this and it blew my mind how simple it is and that I never thought of it. My mom is not a good housekeeper at all, so I wasn't taught how to keep it picked up.

My youngest started wearing glasses 3 months before he turned 3. We used regular frames because his prescription was/is so bad (only one eye, the other is fine). He has never broken a pair of frames. He has however had them fall off his face: in the potty, while he was watching himself poop (really?!?!) in a parking lot, where he then stepped on them, sliding the glass across concrete while swinging upside down from a tree branch He is now 7.5 and we average 2 pairs of glasses a year, bc of the lenses being scratched, even with protection on them. We bought sports glasses for soccer this year. That was worth it bc he moved up to U8. We get the first pair each year from the eye dr (insurance covers 1 per year) and the 2nd pair from Walmart.

My 2 oldest are 14 months apart. I combine them in Bible, History and Science. Next year, they will be doing science separately bc of the curriculum they have requested. However, I am combining them in Grammar and Writing next year, so overall they will be doing more together. Combining works well for us.

I would say yes. In first grade, I cried every day of school except for 9. I know that bc I got a certificate for each day I didn't cry. It was so bad that they put an extra teacher on carpool duty to pull me out of the car and bring me to my classroom so I wouldn't walk home. They couldn't get me on the bus. That year set me up for years of teasing and outright bullying. The reason I cried every day was because my dad had been killed in a car accident about a month before school started. I was terrified to leave my mom. Elementary and junior high were miserable. High school was much better. I still suffer from low self esteem and every time I invite people over or have a party for my kids, I have severe anxiety that no one will come, even though that has never happened. I am always scared people don't really like me. Some super good friends, my DH and my SIL have helped a lot, but I wouldn't say I am over it yet.

General: You May Be Right by Billy Joel My DH: Waterfalls by TLC My house: Fresh Prince of Bel air theme song

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