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Post by beaglemom on Jun 6, 2022 18:06:11 GMT
I had a student with selective mutism when I did my student teaching in Kindergarten back in 2006. Adorable little girl. We always made sure to specifically include her in any and all activities. One of us would make sure to check in with her during any seat work to reinforce any concepts. For this particular child, she needed some prompting to complete work, not that she wasn't capable, but at times she would just sit and not do the work. We always made sure to check in and hold her accountable for her work.
On my last day of student teaching her mom had her call the classroom after school to thank me. It was so nice to finally hear her voice. She was an absolute chatterbox on the phone. It made my year getting to chat with her.
So I would suggest seeing if the child it willing to engage in a phone call with the teacher before the school year and possible additional check ins throughout the year to see how the student's understanding is progressing.
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Post by beaglemom on May 12, 2022 16:19:31 GMT
This is amazing! I hadn't heard about them before! Signed up!
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Post by beaglemom on May 11, 2022 5:25:45 GMT
I am so sorry for your pain and that your "family" wasn't the family they should have been to you.
My mil's parents were very wealthy. Mil has 3 kids from a single marriage (they just celebrated 50 years. Her brother is on wife #4, has kids with the first 2 wives. Child #1 he adopted with wife #1 when she was an infant then they had bio child #2. Divorced he married wife #2, she already had a child (#3), he adopted, they had child #4 together. The mil/uncle's father died when the grandkids were all 12 and under. Grandmother died when they were all 20-30 years old. When the will was read it came out that adopted child #3 was left out. Everything was eventually (after mil/fil and uncle die) to be split between the 6 grandkids. Child #1 threw a big stink and made sure that her father re-wrote his own will to make sure that once he passes child #3 will be taken care of and has made sure that funds have been distributed to her to make things more even.
Granted the will got "read" to that side of the family. Mil/Fil have not shared any information with our side and have spent more money since grandma died than they spent in the 60+ years before she died. So our side will probably see nothing.
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Post by beaglemom on May 5, 2022 1:17:07 GMT
My 4-year-old got it and it was a cluster. Monday morning at school she tested negative on a PCR. Monday afternoon she had her 4-year-old shots. Monday night she had a horrible night. Tuesday she woke up feeling crummy, but we assumed it was a vaccine reaction. Tuesday day she spiked a crazy fever and was babbling incoherently and freaked me out. I gave her Tylenol and took her into urgent care, they dismissed it as a vaccine reaction. Wednesday I kept her home and she seemed fine. Thursday sent her to school. Thursday I had a sore throat and thought I would test both of us (the rest of our family had it at the end of January). She tested positive immediately, I was a faint positive. We both tested positive on rapids for 12+ days.
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Post by beaglemom on May 4, 2022 18:37:16 GMT
Hugs! I am so sorry, I can't imagine how hard this must be on all of you.
slight hijack, but I really wish that we as a society were better about having these conversations and supporting people with end of life care. My inlaws are in complete denail that they are getting older (early 80s) and that they need a plan. The current "plan" is that fil will die and mil will move in with her favorite daughter in a different state. My parents have been actively planning because they don't want to burden us. We have buried all 4 of their parents in the last 5 years, so it is fresh and they know how hard it can be.
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Post by beaglemom on May 1, 2022 23:03:45 GMT
Trader joes frozen cubes of fresh minced ginger.
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Post by beaglemom on Apr 23, 2022 22:45:24 GMT
My parents have come when they can, but they both still work, so I don't expect them to come. My inlaws rarely show up for our kids (they live 15 minutes from us). However they are happy to fly out of state or drive 10+ hours to watch their favorite daughter's children do sports.
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Post by beaglemom on Apr 16, 2022 17:00:39 GMT
He did once, right before our wedding. The scrapped down his callouses and he was very upset (we were training for a marathon). He hasn't had one since.
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Post by beaglemom on Apr 15, 2022 17:35:10 GMT
I am so sorry for your loss.
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Post by beaglemom on Apr 6, 2022 22:39:49 GMT
Oh, yes. Wonderful person - fantastic mother. OBSESSED with weight. My mom is a Boomer Jewish mom and is also obsessed with weight. Still is at 86. She will comment on my weight when I see her. She will complain about her own weight (she is normal weight, albeit weighs more than she did at any other point in her life because she doesn’t exercise). When I take her out, she often comments on the weight of others. It didn’t help me that, until a couple of years ago, she lived in Los Angeles. I love LA, but I would always feel fat - no matter where I was weight-wise - when I would go to visit. Partially because of my mom, and partially because of the super-thin plastic surgery culture that is the Valley. This is my mother in law (and father-in-law). They managed to give all three of their children disordered eating. She is in her late 70s and is always commenting on other's weight. I hate going out to eat with her because she always comments on how she isn't going to need to eat the rest of the day or that she needs to share with someone because she could never eat all the food (but then will eat a ton). Recently she compared her weight to that of her 10 year old grandson who towers over her. So annoying. That said I am overweight, dh isn't. My older two (11 and 9) have some chunky baby weight and my younger two (6 and 4) are not. I am very active, I work out an hour or two a day. I just love food too much.
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Post by beaglemom on Apr 6, 2022 0:30:00 GMT
I didn't vote. But I have a drink or two once or twice a month, maybe? Maybe 4-6 times a year dh makes his margaritas and I have one or two. And if we go out to dinner I might have a cocktail. But we have been out to eat maybe 10 times in the last 2 years? If we have dinner at my parents I might have a half or full glass of wine, once every other month? I have never been a big drinker. I like trying cocktails at restaurants, but since we haven't been going out during the pandemic I haven't had that. Before covid we went out to eat maybe once a month?
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Post by beaglemom on Apr 2, 2022 19:20:01 GMT
My parents are friendly with my inlaws. They don't socialize with them without us, but they send Christmas cards and the like. They only live 20 minutes away from each other. But my inlaws make no effort. My mom will invite them when they are having things, sometimes my inlaws show up? I'm also not a huge fan of my inlaws. My parents show up for a lot more of my kid's events than my inlaws do. My parents are also 10 years younger than my inlaws.
My parents are friendly with my sister's in-laws. They always have dinner with them when they are out visiting the east coast.
I hope that I will get along with all of my kid's SOs and their parents. I hate that I don't have a good relationship with my inlaws and that they are such crappy grandparents to my kids.
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Post by beaglemom on Mar 30, 2022 17:34:47 GMT
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Post by beaglemom on Mar 30, 2022 17:31:59 GMT
March 29, 2022 (Tuesday) Yesterday, a decision by Judge David Carter said that Trump had likely committed a federal crime when he was part of a conspiracy to obstruct Congress’s count of the votes of the Electoral College on January 6, 2021. Today, a Trump spokesperson called yesterday’s decision “absurd and baseless.” But the investigation into the events of January 6 is producing more and more evidence about the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and it is neither absurd nor baseless.
Today, journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa broke a story about the internal White House records turned over to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Those records show previously unreported brief calls on the morning of January 6 between then-president Trump and unofficial advisor Stephen Bannon and between Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. They also show a ten-minute phone call with Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), who was, as Woodward and Costa note, “a key figure in pushing fellow [Republican] lawmakers to object to the certification of Biden’s election.”
Trump also talked for 26 minutes with senior advisor Stephen Miller, who had publicly pushed the idea that alternative electors from contested states would replace the official electors who cast ballots for Biden. Trump then talked, cryptically, “to an unidentified person.”
And that was the last call identified before a seven hour and 37 minute gap in Trump’s phone logs. This blackout includes the crucial hours in which the Capitol was under attack. There is no record of any calls to or from Trump for 457 minutes, from 11:17 am to 6:54 pm.
Since there have already been reports of a number of phone calls during that time, including calls to Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the committee is now investigating whether Trump hid his calls or communicated through the phones of his aides, or perhaps through unsecure “burner” phones, cheap prepaid mobile phones that are untraceable and are thrown out when no longer needed. Trump tried to kill this idea by saying in a statement: “I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term.”
But former national security advisor John Bolton contradicted that, saying he personally heard Trump using the term “burner phones” in several discussions and had discussed with him how burner phones helped people keep phone calls secret. In November 2021, Hunter Walker of Rolling Stone reported that the organizers of the January 6 events used burner phones to communicate with the White House and the Trump family, including Eric Trump, his wife Lara Trump, and chief of staff Mark Meadows.
The news of this gap in the record is significant because Trump and his allies have maintained that they were challenging the election results because they honestly believed the results were false, and that they believed they were operating within the law.
If so, why the seven-hour blackout?
The missing logs might not, in the end, obscure any phone calls made in that time, though, not only because witnesses can fill in some of the holes, but also because last summer, the January 6 Committee instructed 35 telecom and social media companies to preserve records of calls. When news broke today of the missing records, Crooked Media editor in chief Brian Beutler recalled McCarthy’s threat to punish telecom companies that cooperate with the January 6 Committee.
The ten-minute phone call with Jordan suggests that the 139 members of the House of Representatives who objected to the counting of the certified ballots were perhaps not simply making a protest vote, but rather were part of a larger organized Republican effort to steal the election. That story dovetails with yesterday’s story by Michael Kranish in the Washington Post about Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who worked hard to keep Trump in power despite the will of the American voters, intending to lay the groundwork for his own presidential bid in 2024.
Cruz and John Eastman, the author of the Eastman memo outlining a strategy for then–vice president Mike Pence to throw the election to Trump, have been friends for close to 30 years, since they clerked together for then–U.S. Appeals Court judge J. Michael Luttig. While Eastman presented a plan by which Pence could refuse to count Biden’s electors, Cruz wrote a plan for congress members to object to the results in six critical states that Biden won, establishing a 10-day “audit” that would have enabled Republican-dominated state legislatures to overturn the election results in their states. Ten other senators backed Cruz’s plan, offering a path to create enough chaos to keep Trump in power.
Luttig told Kranish that Cruz was central to the events of January 6. Contesting the states’ electoral votes required one senator and one representative for each state. Then–Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made an effort to keep his caucus from working with representatives who planned to challenge the count. But junior senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) broke ranks and said he would join the challenges. Not to be outflanked by Hawley on the right, Cruz immediately stepped aboard the train and brought 10 senators with him. “Once Ted Cruz promised to object,” Luttig said, “January 6 was all but foreordained, because Cruz was the most influential figure in the Congress willing to force a vote on Trump’s claim that the election was stolen.”
Along with Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Cruz was the first to challenge an electoral ballot: that of Arizona.
Cruz’s plan was similar to a plan White House advisor Peter Navarro explained in fall 2021 called the “Green Bay Sweep.” According to Navarro, that plan was to block the counting of electoral votes until public pressure forced Republican-dominated state legislatures to overturn the election results and give the presidency to Trump. (It is worth noting that Navarro’s plan absolves Trump of responsibility for the Capitol violence, and seems to have been deployed in part for that reason.)
Cruz’s spokesperson said the senator “does not know Peter Navarro, has never had a conversation with him, and knew nothing about any plans he claims to have devised.” Navarro has his own problems. Yesterday, the January 6 committee moved to hold him and another Trump aide, Dan Scavino, in criminal contempt of Congress, sending the resolution to the full House for a vote. Navarro has ignored the committee’s subpoena, saying—falsely—that Trump had asserted executive privilege over his testimony and so he could not testify, despite the fact he had written extensively about his participation in the attempt to overturn the election. Scavino, Trump’s director of social media, has also ignored the committee’s subpoena.
A budget proposal from the Department of Justice yesterday revealed that it wants 131 more lawyers to handle January 6 cases. In the request, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said, "Regardless of whatever resources we see or get, let's be very, very clear: we are going to hold those perpetrators accountable, no matter where the facts lead us,... no matter what level.”
Today, on a right-wing news show, Trump appeared to try to change the subject and regain control over the political trends when he called for Russian president Vladimir Putin to release dirt on the Biden family, since “he’s not exactly a fan of our country.” Russian state TV featured a Russian government official calling for “regime change” in the United States, asking the people of the U.S. to replace President Biden with Trump “to again help our partner Trump to become President.”
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Post by beaglemom on Mar 8, 2022 1:55:43 GMT
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Post by beaglemom on Feb 14, 2022 21:43:19 GMT
We have this problem with dh's family. One sister really doesn't have the money. The other sister is a notorious tightwad, they are both doctors and make very good money. And his parents think dh makes enough so we should pay for things.
We "get" to go to Cabo every other year for Christmas with them. They pay for the place, but we pay for everything else. At the end of trips, his parents come to us and make sure that we are leaving enough in tip for the housecleaners, etc. Yet they cover all of that for his sisters.
The husband in the family that doesn't have much is always talking about how generous my inlaws are, we know that they help them out, but not the extent to which they help them. But for Christmas they bought the tightwad sister and her oldest brand new Mac book pros and her son a Mac desktop. They spend less than $50 total on stuff for our 4 kids.
Families and money are just weird.
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Post by beaglemom on Jan 7, 2022 21:57:06 GMT
Our school/district sent home tests the week before break. We were supposed to test the kids at home on the 30th and then again Sunday night before returning Monday morning. The at-home tests caught 23 cases. We have 325ish students (preschool-8th) and about 70ish staff. At school Monday the on-campus PCR testing that 40% of the students/staff have opted in to caught another 2 cases. 1 of those case was in my 3rd grader's classroom (unvaccinated student). Yesterday morning one of his classmates (vaccinated) tested positive at home on a home test. So now 2 of the kids in his class have tested positive. That child's sibling is in my Kindergartener's class, she has not tested positive yet, but they kept her home. And I know of another child with an older sibling in the class that is positive but the younger has not yet tested positive. We still got a positive exposure notice for that class, so there are at least 3 in that class out of 12 kids.
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Post by beaglemom on Jan 5, 2022 14:45:37 GMT
hugs, hugs, and more hugs. So excited for you that you found someone that you have connected with and feel comfortable starting this journey with.
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Post by beaglemom on Jan 4, 2022 19:08:32 GMT
Bike+ is totally worth it! I upgraded in June and LOVE the Bike+. It is totally worth the extra. The $40 vs $13 for bike vs ap is so worth it. The bike gives you so much information that isn't available if you don't have a subscription. I rarely ride live, but to do that you need the sub. I love that it stores all my info and that at any time I go to hop on there are people I can ride with on any ride.
I am a huge fan of the Power Zone Pack and Hardcore on the Floor. Both have Facebook groups are are really supportive and helpful.
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Post by beaglemom on Jan 3, 2022 17:09:47 GMT
I am so so sorry.
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Post by beaglemom on Jan 3, 2022 4:47:56 GMT
no. I'm a sahm, we have 4 kids ages 10, 8, 5, 3. I do all of the laundry, wash/dry/fold. I put away everyone's, except dh.
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Post by beaglemom on Jan 3, 2022 0:58:32 GMT
My daughter is in preschool. I am a sub for the school so I have subbed in her classroom a couple of times a month since the beginning of the year. She will be 4 in March. There are no worksheets. They have outside time every day. There are cleanable toys that are available (and sanitized daily). They each have their own art boxes (crayons, markers, scissors) and then communal items (papers, stickers) that they can use for self-directed art daily, plus weekly directed art projects. They also have their own individual sensory boxes and playdough boxes. They have been having a fabulous time and they are way better about masks than most adults I know!
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Post by beaglemom on Jan 3, 2022 0:48:19 GMT
I had 3 texts already asking me to sub tomorrow. My dh has tomorrow off, so we are taking the kids to school and going out to eat (outside) on a date for the first time in many, many months. Plus movers come in 3 weeks and I am freaking out because I still have tons to pack. So other than the one day I committed to before the break I won't be subbing until we have moved.
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Post by beaglemom on Dec 20, 2021 2:13:12 GMT
We are moving and the new house has a really nice wet bar with nice keg taps, alcohol storage, sink, etc. I think this might be necessary for it!
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Post by beaglemom on Dec 18, 2021 2:02:13 GMT
Totally not alone. I have 4 kids and we are moving on January 25th. I have no holiday spirit this year.
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Post by beaglemom on Dec 16, 2021 5:45:26 GMT
Mine come once a week. When it is the owner I pay $250 because she does an excellent job. But if she sends some of her girls instead I pay $225. I upped what I was paying during covid because I know they lost a lot of clients. We leave the house while they are here and have air filters running. I pay via paypal every week. I tip a full cleaning on the last cleaning before the holidays. I also tend to pay them at least something if I cancel a week on them because I feel bad because I know they depend on the income and they have been very good to us.
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Post by beaglemom on Dec 9, 2021 0:50:12 GMT
I'm totally biased, but I love my Peloton. I have had it since January 2019 and just hit 1,200 rides a week or so ago. I ride daily 30-90 minute rides. I was having huge issues running and needed something that didn't hurt. I have been so happy with it. Bike fit is really important and can make a huge difference in your comfort level. Any of us with one can give you a code for $100 off the accessory package. We bought the original bike Jan 2019. This summer we drove (in a trailer) that bike out to CO to have it to use at my sil's. We left it there for them and ordered a bike+ for us to have at home to replace it. We just ordered a second bike+ so that my dh can ride too. If you and your husband live in the same house, you can both can have a profile on the same bike. Maybe there’s a different reason for ordering a second bike (and none of my business) but just in case others read this, thought I would give a heads up I was a peloton app user during the early parts of COVID on a very cheap setup. After ‘riding’ for almost a year, I decided to upgrade to a peloton and I absolutely love it. The original bike has dropped in price and for me, having the metrics built in was worth the few hundred extra dollars. Personally, I feel the bike workouts kick my booty way more than an elliptical did. I can’t comment on the foot pain but peloton does have a 30 day return policy so if it doesn’t work out, you can always return it. Yes we know. We currently ride next to each other, me on the Peloton, him on his road or tri-bike using a smart trainer and zwift. We have a number of profiles set up on the bike. We just like getting to ride together. There is an adorable couple on the main Peloton fb group that have bikes side by side and cast to a large screen to bike together. I was more trying to say we love it so much we are getting a second bike so we can ride together. If you have any foot, knee, etc pain I highly recommend a bike fit. You may be able to find someone local to do it, otherwise Matt Wilpers' (one of the instructors) has a a group that does them. Having the correct fit makes a HUGE difference! I made it about 100 rides with the shoes that came with my bike and then started having issues. I have had my current pair (specialized) since about ride 200 with no issues. I can tell when the cleats on the bottom of my shoes have shifted because I start having knee and/or glute issues. So I make sure to check things monthly to make sure that I am all good.
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Post by beaglemom on Dec 9, 2021 0:06:13 GMT
I'm totally biased, but I love my Peloton. I have had it since January 2019 and just hit 1,200 rides a week or so ago. I ride daily 30-90 minute rides. I was having huge issues running and needed something that didn't hurt. I have been so happy with it. Bike fit is really important and can make a huge difference in your comfort level. Any of us with one can give you a code for $100 off the accessory package. We bought the original bike Jan 2019. This summer we drove (in a trailer) that bike out to CO to have it to use at my sil's. We left it there for them and ordered a bike+ for us to have at home to replace it. We just ordered a second bike+ so that my dh can ride too.
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Post by beaglemom on Nov 30, 2021 23:07:10 GMT
My mother would appeal to me, older of her two daughters, by using guilt to guide me to make peace. Whether if I was wrong or not. It's happened before. She babys my younger sister. Lol. My mom recently did this and I straight up told her she needed to stay out of it. She, thankfully, backed off. But it made me even more upset at my sister. I am still not talking to my sister. This all started in August. I have no intention of talking to her any time soon. I am still really mad and if she (sister or mom) keeps pushing it will only make things worse.
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Post by beaglemom on Nov 2, 2021 16:45:26 GMT
It's all about the location. My parents bought a home in that area in the 70's for less than $100,000. It is easily worth over $4 million now. This is the one I am currently watching because I think it is crazy.
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