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Post by threegirls on Apr 26, 2015 14:12:23 GMT
Definitely the dining room. Specifically the dining room table! Man, that thing gets a workout. The table is where we eat, the kids do homework, I scrap, I pea, review bills and complete other paperwork type stuff and the kids play with toys/games on it.
Dining Room = home office, craft room, play room, homework area and oh, yeah a dining room!
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Post by threegirls on Apr 26, 2015 13:58:21 GMT
I'm so sorry about your LSS. I really miss meeting my friend at our LSS and cropping the day away. We would stop scrapping for lunch at a restaurant within walking distance. Gosh, it's been two years and to this day I miss that store and cropping at their tables.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 25, 2015 19:56:22 GMT
maggiescraps definitely email, the blooper kits are still available on the site. Thanks Impearia, I emailed them right away but assumed the kits were sold out. Good to know there's still hope! Definitely don't give up hope! I've always had good customer service from them. They forgot an item on my order one time and they quickly made sure I had it!
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Post by threegirls on Apr 25, 2015 19:46:01 GMT
Where can you watch this documentary at? DirecTV wants $5.99 to see it... I literally just watched it on Netflix and came back here to post about it. Wow, it really is eye opening! My daughters are skinny so I have never really worried about what they eat. It's not that I don't care at all - they do eat healthy but they do get a supply of junk as well. I never knew you could be skinny on the outside and fat on the inside. It's so hard to cook healthy every single day. Especially with all the activities. Girl Scouts, Girls on the Run, Soccer, tutoring, speech therapy.... We definitely eat better in the summer when we have more time and can pick food right from our garden.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 24, 2015 23:32:22 GMT
My late father-in-law rocked a mustache pretty good. He was a fireman and it seems lots of firemen have mustaches.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 24, 2015 13:01:59 GMT
I bought several of the Chatterbox paper packs when TM had them (about 2 years ago I think). I love Chatterbox and felt like I had found treasure on an archaeological dig! I've used the paper for layouts and cards but I sill have tons of it left but I love it so much I won't part with it.
I've bought about 6 or 7 packs from other manufacturers (some of it cardstock). I feel I've gotten my money's worth but I have restricted myself from buying anymore of the 25 sheet packs. I'm going to let my daughters start using some of the packs (expect Chatterbox) now that I've used what I wanted. It's a win-win - they get to use mom's paper and I am able to keep their hands off my other paper!
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Post by threegirls on Apr 24, 2015 1:28:33 GMT
June 25, 2014 - 10:56PM
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Post by threegirls on Apr 22, 2015 12:31:37 GMT
I completely agree about the growth spurt. My kids eat like crazy and are tired for a few weeks and then boom, I'm buying new pants for them because their old ones have become highwater pants.
You might want to add a little more protein. My girls like apple slices with a little peanut butter spread on them.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 18, 2015 12:55:16 GMT
I am so sorry. I don't know what to say as my kids are still little and I have no experience with what you and your family are going through but I have read some of your posts and your strength and love for your daughter are amazing. Please take care!
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Post by threegirls on Apr 15, 2015 12:41:13 GMT
I was thinking about this... And I don't think I find it insulting that people would try it. I do think I find it insulting that people would think they understand what it's like. Food stamps actually could be adequate if you were making it in other ways. But living on that edge means that it's not just about whether your food stamps will last the month or what you can buy with them. It's about whether you can keep your car running, your kids clothed, your doctors paid, your house warm... I could easily feed my family on the maximum benefit but that doesn't really tell you what the rest of my life would be like. I know it wouldn't be like it is now. I think it would be awesome if schools and churches with big commercial kitchens would have seminars and classes for folks to teach them how to cook on benefits. We could offer childcare in our nurseries or classrooms and feed some folks a meal while we're at it. I honestly think for many people on benefits it's just easier to grab a bag of chips and let the kids eat that than to try to figure it all out. If I ever win the lottery this is exactly what I'd do, set up a non-profit organization that would provide this type of education. I know several folks on this thread said they don't care if people on food assistance buy junk food. We all know that too much junk food can lead to health problems (diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc). Now before anyone jumps on me I am not saying all food assistance recipients are unhealthy or make unhealthy choices. And, I don't begrudge anyone a treat. However, if more people understood nutrition, budgeting and how to cook it might just increase the overall health of Americans. A win for everyone. I shop at a large grocery store that serves a large number of people on food assistance. It also serves some middle class to wealthy people. People car pool usually in big vans (that have seen better days) or they share a taxi and pack the trunk with bags of food. As just a casual observance, the chip isle is sometimes decimated but I've also notice that the frozen vegetables are also decimated! (there is nothing wrong with frozen by the way, they are nutritious and if you can only find a ride once a month the store, frozen is better than nothing).
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Post by threegirls on Apr 14, 2015 18:26:17 GMT
I guess junior and senior high schools do not teach home economics anymore? I learned more about cooking, nutrition, budgeting and the science of food in home ec. class than from my mother. Don't get me wrong, my mom is a wonderful person and great mom but she wasn't the best at teaching that kind of stuff. It was faster for her to do it herself than to spend time teaching me how to cook. My home economics teacher was fabulous. I loved her dearly. She really did focus on nutrition and budgeting and science. She also taught us about healthy weight for our size and age. We learned how to make simple meals. We had ovens, sinks and refrigerators in the classroom. Her class was so much more than home ec. It was finance, science, math, health and oh yeah, we learned how to cook. I think all subjects taught in school are important but the information I learned in home economics is one that has truly lasted a lifetime. While I agree this is true, those skills don't matter if the person lives in a long-term hotel and only has a hot plate or microwave available, or only has a corner store / convenience store to shop at, as previous posters have stated. All the cooking skills in the world don't help if the person doesn't have a place to do it, or the means by which to buy pots / pans / food. Or has to ride four buses for three hours one way to get to their minimum wage job-- then they wouldn't have the time to cook anyway. I guess I should have clarified. Teaching kids about budgeting, nutrition, health and how to cook could be ONE solution to multilayered problem (how to get nutritious meals on the table within a budget). It would be better than just sitting back and saying oh no that won't work for a certain population. There is no one size fits all solution.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 14, 2015 17:26:30 GMT
My daughter is earning a lot less than I did ( adjusted for the era) at her age, yet she has facials, manicures and gets her eyebrows threaded regularly . There just wasn't a culture for these things here back in the 80's except for makeup and manicure for your wedding- even then ,I did my own. I was in my teens/early twenties in the 80s and I agree with you. There wasn't such a huge culture for facials, manicures, etc. They existed but really only for the wealthy or very special occasions (mostly weddings). They weren't everyday, ordinary things. I don't enroll my kids in expensive sports. Recreational playing is fine and they enjoy it.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 14, 2015 17:13:35 GMT
I guess junior and senior high schools do not teach home economics anymore? I learned more about cooking, nutrition, budgeting and the science of food in home ec. class than from my mother. Don't get me wrong, my mom is a wonderful person and great mom but she wasn't the best at teaching that kind of stuff. It was faster for her to do it herself than to spend time teaching me how to cook.
My home economics teacher was fabulous. I loved her dearly. She really did focus on nutrition and budgeting and science. She also taught us about healthy weight for our size and age. We learned how to make simple meals. We had ovens, sinks and refrigerators in the classroom. Her class was so much more than home ec. It was finance, science, math, health and oh yeah, we learned how to cook.
I think all subjects taught in school are important but the information I learned in home economics is one that has truly lasted a lifetime.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 13, 2015 12:11:52 GMT
I'll be running my three girls around to various day camps and to swim lessons and swim team practices/meets. I'll also be running the middle girl to tutoring twice a week and speech therapy once a week. My oldest has a week of high school test prep classes. For the most part my summer will be spent in my car!
At night I'll have a drink with my husband on our back deck. I'm looking forward to that.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 12, 2015 12:21:30 GMT
If your son ever has kids he can proudly proclaim to them that he had two dates to prom and he has the pictures to prove it! Those pictures are adorable and made me smile! Your son is very handsome.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 12, 2015 11:47:21 GMT
My kids drink 2% but I have thrown in a 1% and they didn't notice so I might switch to 1%. I gave them skim milk and you would have thought I gave them water. They definitely noticed and were not happy.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 11, 2015 22:13:03 GMT
lucyg - I am so sorry that your LSS is closing. It always breaks my heart a little when I hear of another LSS shutting their doors. I know that sounds corny but hey I'm a scrapbooker and I'm allowed to be corny! I'm many, many miles away from the store that is closing but it makes me sad because it's another little bit of deterioration in the fabric of a hobby that I love and derive much happiness from.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 11, 2015 11:23:03 GMT
I love it! You should keep it since you like it.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 10, 2015 23:22:42 GMT
I went and loved it. I think adults of any age would enjoy it!
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Post by threegirls on Apr 10, 2015 13:10:42 GMT
I have 12 layouts/albums/projects that need to be finished.
Here is the breakdown:
*Two pre-school albums (one of which only needs the Intro page and the last page). One album is for the dd who is in second grade and the other is for my dd who is in Kindergarten.
*Six layouts need journaling
*One set of multiple pages that need journaling - the pages are from a vacation and will go in the vacation book
*Two layouts that are partially finished but I'm not happy with them so I might start all over using different paper/embellishments
*One layout that is partially finished but I'm happy with it so far and will finish it with a title, journaling and some additional embellishments.
I hope to finish these projects/pages soon. I also need to organize a whole bunch of supply purchases that are just sitting in the original shipping boxes and shopping bags. One of my fears is that I'm going to croak and my family will discover how crazy I really was!
I don't put a page in an album until it is completely finished.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 10, 2015 0:45:24 GMT
We don't own a dog but I would only be able to stand a neighbor's dog for about 15 minutes. Our next door neighbors have a dog with a very loud bark but they get on her very quickly when she starts to bark. My neighbors are great. On the flip side, I don't let my kids scream and be really loud when they are playing in our backyard.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 9, 2015 21:20:51 GMT
Your district is unequivocally wrong on this point. Dyslexic minds learn differently. If the district continues to teach the concepts "harder," the only thing that will happen is that kids and teachers will become frustrated, their self-esteem (closely tied to ability to learn) will plummet, and they will fail. It would be as if someone were to speak to me in Russian. They can speak louder. They can get angry. They can repeat themselves over and over. But if I don't speak Russian, I'm never going to understand what they're saying. Here is some of the best info I have seen on recognizing dyslexia. Every parent and teacher would do well to review this information and keep an eye out for the signs. One in every five children is dyslexic, and the best approach to teaching them is with a multi-sensory, phonics based approach like Orton-Gillingham. Hope this is helpful! Good luck to your DH! Dyslexia SignsI couldn't agree with the above post more! My daughter is being tutored by a certified Orton-Gillingham tutor and she is doing so much better! She actually kind of likes to read. Teaching "harder" to a dyslexic won't do a thing. It didn't for my daughter when she was in first grade.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 9, 2015 12:41:01 GMT
Only you know if he was inappropriate with you. If you at all feel that he was then I would call the police.
I would definitely call your state cosmetology board and find out for sure if he is licensed. No way would I go to a salon that has an unlicensed person performing duties that require a license. Even if the sisters are licensed he shouldn't be performing those duties. I wouldn't care how nice they all are or if they are trying make a living, blah, blah, I wouldn't support a business that isn't following state cosmetology law.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 9, 2015 2:37:53 GMT
I used to dislike Webster's Pages - I thought they were too hard to use. Since Alison Kreft has been designing some lines for them, I love them.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 7, 2015 19:48:51 GMT
Ours was a weekend through the Catholic Church (30 years ago.) I don't think they charged us, but my memory isn't clear on that. They covered all the basics. I thought it was useless because we'd talked about all those things many times, but it would be worthwhile if you hadn't. One couple got kicked out because they were partying the whole time. Seriously, they had red solo cups full of booze that they kept refilling out at their car. We had to go to the weekend engagement encounter also. We just didn't click with the presenters and found the whole weekend to be a waste of time (and I hate saying that). The other couples were about 10 years or more younger than us and hadn't dated as long as we had so we didn't relate to them either. We were so bored that on one of the two or three hour breaks (during which we were suppoed to be talking about our feelings) we ran down to a gas station which was close and bought a 6 pack of beer which we drank on the lawn of the retreat center. That definitely helped get us through the rest of the day! We weren't as bad as the couple you mentioned though. We didn't get kicked out!
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Post by threegirls on Apr 6, 2015 13:36:55 GMT
There have always been people trying to get people to pay for their vacations, etc., in various ways. I'm going to show my age but there used to be a time when the Internet didn't exist. The way a person would communicate with a large audience was through classified ads taken out in the newspaper and by public bulletin boards where actual pieces of paper were attached to the board with these things called thumb tacks. These boards could be found at the entrances of grocery stores, librarys, student lounges at universities, etc. The classified ads in newspapers and boards usually advertised garage sales, which local band was playing where, rides home for university students, etc. I never saw any ads asking for vacation money. Maybe family members asked other family members for vacation money but I think that at one time people didn't ask so "publicly". Fundraisers for good causes have been around long before the Internet but asking for wants such a vacation money (at least to me) is relatively new.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 5, 2015 16:59:47 GMT
Welcome! I was also a shy pea on the old board. I post much more often on this board. Have fun posting!
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Post by threegirls on Apr 5, 2015 16:56:16 GMT
I just remembered that my neighbor across the street lived to 99. Helen lived in her own home completely by herself. She only spent the last few months of her life in a nursing home (due to a stroke). She never married and never had kids.
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Post by threegirls on Apr 5, 2015 15:18:40 GMT
Medium Rare
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Post by threegirls on Apr 5, 2015 15:16:29 GMT
I agree with everything that has been said here. Also, nuns probably have good health insurance. I'm pretty sure that in my archdiocese all employees are provided health insurance. There are lots of good Catholic Hospitals. I would imagine that nuns receive pretty good health care and don't have the stress of how to pay the bills.
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