I'm just going to plug Vermentino and Arneis as Italian white wine options (I can't resist a Tuscan Vermentino. Maybe not for something like this where you'll be buy-in gin bulk so price matters. But just in general for people who like Italian whites).
Do you feel that this is not being recognized? I’m so sorry. I think everyone on here deeply feels this is a scary, painful and difficult yet situation.
Yes, I absolutely feel like us Jews are do not receive the same empathy because Israel is the aggressor. I wouldn't have said something id I didn't feel that way. I'm not going to justify how I feel to you or fryjack or anyone else. I said what I said.
Good night to you all. I'm exciting this thread. Do not quote me. Do not tag me.
I personally don't know how to type about this topic on this forum.
It is all so incredibly horrific. A neighbor's relative was taken and murdered by Hamas. My energy is going toward comforting them, not engaging here.
I am not asking you (or fryjack2 , or anyone) to justify anything, least of all to me. This is so awful for those living it, and so traumatic for those who are tied by family, religion or culture to this horror.
Spill your anger on me (any of you). I can't stop this terrible time, but I can listen to whatever you need to say and anything you need to have heard.
There is no getting around the fact that Hamas controls Gaza. Why not extend your anger to the terrorist group that caused this? Or the countries like Iran and Russia that paid for their weapons of war? … I wish that you could see that we have and still are experiencing the same things.
And I'll take it a step further. If I've gone down a rabbit hole on something can still can't figure it out/find it, I fall for the "well then I'll make it myself" trap. Which is how I started looking into learning how to make a simple app the other day since none of the free apps do what I need them to and the org I'm volunteering for can't afford the $1000/year app that didn't do a great job for them last year. lol.
The reason I ask is that we are trying to eliminate one car, and we are looking forward to eliminating a Lyft on the occasions I’m home with the kids.
My oldest is very responsible, and I was thinking my he needed to be 12 or 13 to watch his sister (they’re 8+ years apart). DH thinks that’s too young.
I think age of youngest also matters. I'd want that child to be moderately self sufficient. For an 8 year gap, I'd likely wait until the youngest is 7 or 8 before leaving them an hour or more.
12.5 and 9.5. They are allowed to be home for up to 90 minutes during the daytime or during parent back to school night (which ended before sunset). They call it their "bonding time." (At most other times they are at each other's throat.)
One thing I learned from this thread is the sunflower program. I've wanted to travel more with the kids. But after the cost, the main limitation has been "but what if it's just unmanageable with my youngest?" They can go from coping to "oh shit" sometimes. So now I have an answer. Ask for a sunflower and slap it on if we are having one of those days.
When do we get to the part where things settle down to pre-covid sickness levels?
Honestly, I feel like this is where things always were. We just forgot during the year or two when isolation and then masking dropped down infectious disease rates.
I was just vetting him before our first date to make sure he wasn't attached/a bad buy. I searched the group before hand and no one had posted about him, so I created a post, and this other girl responded to the post and also sent me a message. It was an awkward exchange, because she had never met him either but her feelings were hurt that he was going out with me before her.
In the future, I would save those posts until you're actively considering being exclusive with someone. I don't blame him for being weirded out about being posted in a red flag group when you're not doing anything wrong.
I don't know. When the last guy she searched was charged with 3rd degree murder (and there was a crime involving a child), preemptively checking people seems like the reasonable response. Men aren't always safe for women. Routinely checking for red flags *before* spending any time alone (not just waiting for exclusivity) should be normalized.
I'll also remind my kid who has a "hidden" apple watch for much more benign reasons. (She is supposed to leave it in her locker during school hours, but she's a tween. So I bet she "forgets" some days .....)
Around the time we got engaged, I sketched something I would like. Then we hopped on a plane and moved to a different country for nine months. After we got back I looked at a bunch of dresses. One day I was in a NYC consignment shop and found what I'd sketched for myself. And it fit perfectly (the shop keeper was so thrilled since it was a regular, if good quality, consignment shop so she rarely got to dress a bride). I shipped it back to CA and only needed a seamstress to add a bustle for the reception.
He might also have hyperhidrosis. My friend's daughter has had this since she was a baby. She uses clinical strength antiperspirant (like certain dri) at night on her palms, feet, and underarms.
I need to look into this for my kid. They started sweating like a teenage boy at the time they potty trained.
We use hygienic clean laundry pods, dehumidifiers and HEPA air purifiers to help. As well as open windows. I will add a bunch of things from this thread to our arsenal.
ETA: this isn’t our problem. My kid swears a lot, but more is a very smelly way rather than very soggy.
I understand why you want to foster and maintain the relationship between your father and son. Can you continue to do so while also making sure your son isn't left completely alone with him?
This sounds similar (actually more extreme) than DH's grandmother who continued to watch her grandkids as her dementia and paranoia progressed undetected. The first big red flag was when she was watching the boys (as tweens or young teens) and started carrying a big butcher's knife for "protection." Luckily nothing happened but it was pretty traumatic for the kids.
I'm guessing the teachers think they *did* space the test out by not having them all the same day.
I agree that schedule sounds really intense at that age. However, I'm guessing saying something won't change anything since they know what they planned. They may think they are preparing them for the greater rigors of middle school.
DD regularly has overlapping tests because her teachers don't confer. (6th and now 7th). Her science teacher runs a "flipped classroom" with the learning at home and labs at school. Which could be fine if she didn't expect students to spend equal time on her class out of school as they do during the day. (5+ hours of homework/week just for that one class out of 7).
I would be incredibly surprised if Adam Schiff isn't appointed.
Really?
He seems like an unlikely candidate given that Newsom first said he would appoint a black woman and now says he won't appoint anyone currently running (which excludes Schiff, Lee and Porter)
And as a follow up: I'm calling my state senator and state assembly member today to thank them for voting "Yea" on SB760 (at least one gender neutral bathroom available at each school).
If you live in CA, and your representative also voted Yea, could you consider doing the same?
The voices against trans kids are so loud. Those of us who want all kids to be able to pee safely need to be heard, too.
This is political. Yes, it also references minors. @
I'm calling my state senator and state assembly member today to thank them for voting "Yea" on SB760 (at least one gender neutral bathroom available at each school). If you live in CA, and your representative voted Yea, could you consider doing the same?
The voices against trans kids are so loud. Those of us who want all kids to be able to pee safely need to be heard, too.
And for a true random: Am I the only one who thinks the "post photos for x days, no explanation" trends miss the point? I'm much more interested in your photo if you provide a little explanation and context.
I wish more people raised their kids to have a backbone.
Well, apparently two of them *are* raising their kids to stand up for their values - those values just happen to be marginalizing transkids.
My husband had even referred a client to the child psychiatrist mom in the past. Time to shut that down.
DD has been handling things pretty well (all things considered) and leaning on out of school social connections. I had thought the friend bullshit was just regular middle school kid crappiness. Now I know better.