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Post by gs11rmb on May 25, 2020 11:21:43 GMT -5
Can it be recycled? If not - it!
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Post by oped on May 25, 2020 11:31:39 GMT -5
I think I need you guys to tell me it's ok to put our crib in the dumpster. I've had it up on Craigslist for free all weekend with no responses. I don't think there are any places that will take a donation crib. It's 11 years old and this is what happens when you hold onto stuff for too long. I still hate to throw it away, but if it's not gone by the end of today I can't see leaving it listed any longer. List it again for $30.
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Post by stillmovingforward on May 25, 2020 13:07:29 GMT -5
it. It's old enough people aren't going to chance it having a recall.
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 25, 2020 17:56:41 GMT -5
That crib was made before they had a hard date that made all older cribs obsolete. They banned drop sides at that time. It annoyed me a bit because my crib was purchased just slightly before that date, and was not a drop-side anyway. My crib was convertible, so I was going to use it as a full-size bed eventually. I should look to see if I can still get the conversion boards.
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Post by alabamagal on May 25, 2020 18:53:28 GMT -5
I think I need you guys to tell me it's ok to put our crib in the dumpster. I've had it up on Craigslist for free all weekend with no responses. I don't think there are any places that will take a donation crib. It's 11 years old and this is what happens when you hold onto stuff for too long. I still hate to throw it away, but if it's not gone by the end of today I can't see leaving it listed any longer. List it again for $30. Sometimes people ignore the free stuff. Maybe try $10.
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Post by raeoflyte on May 26, 2020 8:09:00 GMT -5
I can't bring myself to charge for such an old crib. I got half of it in a dumpster (couldn't find anyway to recycle it), but spent half the night trying to come up with ways to build it into artsy garden decor. Guess mom and I have more in common than I thought. Lol. I might swap out which half is in dumpster and try to use the ends as some kind of trellis piece. Or maybe I'll get brave and just chuck the whole thing.
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Post by oped on May 26, 2020 8:15:22 GMT -5
I was going to say let peas grow on it
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Post by tcu2003 on May 26, 2020 12:40:04 GMT -5
This morning was one of those days where I wanted to strangle my son. His cousin spent the night last night so it naturally took an extra long time to fall asleep for them. Then I hear them talking at 4am. Go downstairs and they are awake and playing. Send them back to bed. Rinse and repeat at 530 am. Seriously, children. I want my sleep! C is getting an early bedtime tonight, and I’ll let my sister know then niece probably needs one as well. On the bright side, so far they’re not cranky here yet, or I’d make them lay down for some quiet time.
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Post by tcu2003 on May 26, 2020 12:41:08 GMT -5
Depending on your weather, if you want a socially distant way for your kids to play with neighbor kids, we had an impromptu water gun and water balloon fight yesterday with our next door neighbors and everyone had a blast.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 29, 2020 8:52:22 GMT -5
Day 1 of kids going back to daycare. I'm nervous but they were ridiculously excited. Abby packed a lunch and Gwen got up early enough to do make-up. I am not at all sure how they are going to keep kids entertained all day but just the thought of going back and seeing kids' their own age has done wonders for the girls.
We'll be keeping them away from DH's parents. I need to discuss with DH that none of us should be going into my grandma's house either for the next couple of weeks either. Mowing her yard fine and talking in the driveway but no inside visits.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 29, 2020 9:14:17 GMT -5
Grandma and DH are driving me crazy. Grandma wanted DH to take her to Dollar Tree. My dad said no. She won't wear a mask, lives alone and is in the most at risk age group.
DH wants me to be the one to tel her she can't go. Thanks for throwing me under the bus.
There is no hospital in that town either so if she were to get sick she'd have to be found in time to be taken to a hospital here.
She can't drive so it's those of us who would drive her that get the final say right now. My dad is pissed and has said his piece to my great uncle (her brother) but we can't stop him if he chooses to take her places. We can however control what we can control.
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Post by tcu2003 on Jun 1, 2020 14:26:47 GMT -5
That stinks about your grandma not getting the severity and taking precautions, drama.
My mom headed home yesterday after 10 weeks with us, so my kiddos went to daycare today. C was more okay with it than I expected - as there are no field trips for the school aged kids this summer, I was prepared for a fight about it, but maybe he’s desperate for some kid interaction other than his sister. 😂
It was definitely bittersweet dropping them off; but they were both happy to go in and M was ecstatic that brother was going to her school.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 1, 2020 14:31:44 GMT -5
It's not I don't think she thinks it's serious it's that she is pretty isolated out there to begin with. If she could drive we couldn't stop her from choosing to go where ever she wants and I get that at her age maybe she has decided screw it.
But DH and my dad get a vote as the driver. Neither one would be able to forgive themselves if she caught it on their watch. We can't stop her and my great uncle from doing what they want to do but we can make the choices we are able to live with.
That being said DH does take the kids out there. We've all decided we are all okay with that because who knows how long she has left on this Earth and not getting to see the great grand kids so she can get maybe a few extra years isn't fair.
That doesn't mean we need to add onto the risk pile by taking her out to a store where there have been lines out the door sans masks. Even without a pandemic that store is skeevy. I doubt they are doing much to clean in there compared to other places.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 1, 2020 16:40:36 GMT -5
I officially have a high school graduate! I'm just bursting with pride right now. They did such a great job with the ceremony under the covid constraints and it was livestreamed so all the family members could watch. There was just all kinds of nice touches that made it special, even if it was rather unconventional. The senior band members were able to record themselves individually prior to the ceremony and the band director put all the tracks together so they got to "play" at their own graduation, the speeches were good, along with their diplomas, the students all got letters that they'd written to themselves back when they were freshman. I have no idea what was in his letter because he wouldn't let me read it, but he was fighting back tears reading it. After the ceremony was done they escorted us on a parade through the campus where all the teachers were lining the streets cheering on the grads. There is a glass walled skyway between the two main campus buildings and they'd filled the windows with balloons in their honor...we're talking thousands of them. It had to have taken forever. = Wow!!! Where did the time go??!! Congratulations, from all of his cyber aunties!!
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 1, 2020 16:52:30 GMT -5
Super bad teenager day again today (the real teen, not Carrot). On days like this I just want to give up and tell him he has X number of days (weeks, months?) to pack up and find another place to live. The summer between high school and college can suck in a good year, during a pandemic it must suck tenfold. It’s an established phenomenon called “Soiling the Nest”. He’s leaving the familiar behind and headed off to a strange new world and that is equally exciting and terrifying. He’ll flip between confident, anxious, super needy, and dismissive. He’s just doing what he needs to do so you’ll do what you need to do: let go. Hang in there. It’s not personal.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 1, 2020 17:02:04 GMT -5
DH and I received a letter today from ODS’ college. (Background: ODS is a college junior who lost a year and a half of college when he got sick with Mono. In that time, YDS lapped him and graduated first.). ODS was awarded a prestigious junior-year award. This is the kid for whom, at Spring Break this year after mid-terms, we received a vague letter (FERPA) about the multitude of academic support services available on campus. Turns out he had a C, 2 Ds, and an F at that point in the semester. He recovered, but didn’t make Dean’s List. So, he, like all of our kids, is equal parts frustrating and impressive. Two steps forward, one step back, but we’re still moving forward and that’s what counts, LOL.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2020 17:50:46 GMT -5
Super bad teenager day again today (the real teen, not Carrot). On days like this I just want to give up and tell him he has X number of days (weeks, months?) to pack up and find another place to live. The summer between high school and college can suck in a good year, during a pandemic it must suck tenfold. It’s an established phenomenon called “Soiling the Nest”. He’s leaving the familiar behind and headed off to a strange new world and that is equally exciting and terrifying. He’ll flip between confident, anxious, super needy, and dismissive. He’s just doing what he needs to do so you’ll do what you need to do: let go. Hang in there. It’s not personal. I was just going to post about my frustrations with him again! I kicked him and his computer out of the community sunroom this weekend. Years ago when he first got a desktop computer I insisted it be there because I didn't want a 13 year old holed up behind a closed door with a computer at 2am. I'm over that now! He's on it from the time he gets up (early!) until 11 or 12 at night and it drives me nuts, especially in the evening when I'm watching TV in the next room and he's yelling at friends playing games. Now he's in a back basement room. Out of sight, out of mind has reduced my stress level some and I have my sunroom back since he had kind of claimed it as his own. He has orientation for college on Wednesday (online) and I sure hope they get him a little fired up. He just doesn't seem excited about going at all (just in moving out). His Dad thinks the computer should not go and I agree...just trying to figure out how to broach that subject. I think even just the first month or two not having it would make me feel better. He'll just hole up and not go out and find his peeps and join groups if he has it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2020 17:59:59 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2020 18:13:56 GMT -5
Technically no. The school mentions that all the time on the tours as they have many, many computer labs including in the dorms and if you really need a laptop you can check one out. But, I wasn't really talking about a laptop anyhow as I was totally planning on buying him a new one to take (Chromebook is shot). I meant his big-assed gaming computer with 24" curved monitor and VR headset that he spends half his paycheck every month on upgrading and buying games for.
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Post by CCL on Jun 1, 2020 21:13:03 GMT -5
At least he's only on it til midnite. My boys would stay up til 4 or 5 in the morning with video games. They still try to do it and they're almost 30. They send me random texts at 4 am lol. At some point as long as they were keeping up with what they needed to be doing I gave up on worrying about it.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 2, 2020 10:08:08 GMT -5
Abby fell asleep early last night. That's good it means going to daycare is burning off a lot of her energy. She loves going to Kids & Company right now.
For Gwen it's agony because none of her friends attend summer care and there isn't a lot to do. I told DH to check regarding spots and if it still doesn't matter how many days she goes I am okay with her staying home with him till he has to go back to work if she wants. But she'll have to suck it up once he does we're not making grandma watch her all summer, especially if it ends up we need her help for the fall.
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Post by azucena on Jun 2, 2020 12:56:12 GMT -5
Ordered myself a week's worth of t-shirts from Target since my current stash is ratty and likely ill-fitting. DD11 is wearing one of them for the second day in a row. Hopefully I solved the issue by telling her they were men's which is true because I like a looser fit.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 3, 2020 7:38:16 GMT -5
C keeps snagging my XL Packers Tshirts. I really need to get the boy some clothes but I don't have a freaking clue what size he's currently in. And he likes looser fits but then tells me once I've gotten him home and the new clothes washed that he doesn't like the way they fit. Do they even have junior sizes for boys? K needs clothes too but her cousins and aunts like to take her shopping and they're figuring out her sizes. She's definitely into junior sizes.
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Post by azucena on Jun 3, 2020 8:51:45 GMT -5
Turned on the ac for the first time yesterday. Told DH three times to stop playing thermostat wars because I kept getting cold and would go look and the thermostat was much lower than I left it. At 10 pm, I realized that it was using the programmed temps from the winter heat which hasn't been on for two months. Oops and LOL. I did apologize to DH and luckily he thought it was funny.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 11:12:30 GMT -5
At least he's only on it til midnite. My boys would stay up til 4 or 5 in the morning with video games. They still try to do it and they're almost 30. They send me random texts at 4 am lol. At some point as long as they were keeping up with what they needed to be doing I gave up on worrying about it.That's why I'm still worrying! Right now he's in orientation for school and I'm staying away, but it's giving me an ulcer. So far he's ran upstairs about 5 times since it started. "I need my webcam!" (oh for a Zoom meeting you've known about for weeks?), "I need paper!", "I need something to write on!", "I need my orientation book!" I know he's been a Boy Scout for many years, but "Be Prepared" was never something he got down.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 16:22:26 GMT -5
STILL in orientation! It started at 9am and it's after 4pm here now. Every time I go down to check on him he shushes me and waves me away saying he's in a live meeting. (I've only done it a couple times...I'm being good  
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 17:23:36 GMT -5
He's done now, but he registered for a class that I think is a bad idea and I'm a little annoyed the advisor went along with it, so now I'm trying to decide how much I pursue this. It's going to mean he has a heavy load this Fall and will end up taking one additional class to boot that he wouldn't have to take if he just chose something else
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Post by taz157 on Jun 3, 2020 19:29:51 GMT -5
He's done now, but he registered for a class that I think is a bad idea and I'm a little annoyed the advisor went along with it, so now I'm trying to decide how much I pursue this. It's going to mean he has a heavy load this Fall and will end up taking one additional class to boot that he wouldn't have to take if he just chose something else Maybe he'll change his mind before classes start and the schedule will be better then.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 21:53:23 GMT -5
He's done now, but he registered for a class that I think is a bad idea and I'm a little annoyed the advisor went along with it, so now I'm trying to decide how much I pursue this. It's going to mean he has a heavy load this Fall and will end up taking one additional class to boot that he wouldn't have to take if he just chose something else Maybe he'll change his mind before classes start and the schedule will be better then. Maybe. He doesn't seem to get it though that it means taking 7 credits instead of 3. He also registered for an online section for his Chemistry class. It wasn't like he was even trying to do that, he just didn't realize he did and now doesn't care. Advisor never pointed out that either. I need to start playing the Frozen soundtrack over and over... Let it go, let it go!
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Post by oped on Jun 4, 2020 5:56:11 GMT -5
Online for lecture and then a hands on lab? If so it’s probably ok... honestly a mass lecture isn’t going to provide any more benefit than attending the lecture distance... Daughter hasn’t taken any sciences yet but sons sciences have 3 types of meetings... labs, small groups and mass lectures, providing different components in different ways... so check that out.
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