You could always use The Don's technique. Aka make an offer he cant refuse xDExcept, I don't want to rent...I want to own...!
Sympathy like at least you'll spend today inside and get paid for itIt was beautiful. Sadly, no outside time for me. High pollen counts+air quality alert=staying inside for SWG.
I told James he could do 2 activities never thinking he'd go with band. So far they have DC and Boston in their futures
I was allowed academics, debate, violin, summer swimming and chess and to think my kids call me a tiger mom
In high school we had Poms more of a dance back then and cheerleaders. Poms were more elite. Cheerleaders had more of athletic feel to their routines where our Pom's had more of a dance feel. I was not allowed either, athletics or nothing was my folks thoughts, we were to do not cheer on someone else doing.
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It could use a beach, outdoor kitchen and a few palm trees
She really is!! We're working on getting her to stand up for herself more, because she tends to be a bit TOO nice sometimes. One of her friends really takes advantage of her...has her tying her shoes because she "can't do it herself". She's almost 12 and can't tie her shoes, so she has DD do it. Or DD does really well in school, so the girl will ask her to help, and DD totally doesn't mind, but then the girl insists she help her before DD can do her own work and gets mad at her if she makes her wait. So we're trying to teach her it's ok to set boundaries and tell people they have to wait. She's getting better, but she is still extremely empathetic. She takes everything on her own shoulders and feels responsible for making everyone else happy...it's not really healthy for her.Your DD sounds like a really sweet girl. We need more like her.
And next Friday is my long weekend at SC. No air quality alerts, and their pollen is all grass pollen, which I'm not allergic to. Get a break from the allergies.Sympathy like at least you'll spend today inside and get paid for it
Was it the girl? Like she wasn't appreciative of the gifts? Or was it her parents who were rude about it? My ex-Sister-in-law was horrible about gifts. She insisted we draw names for Christmas. Hubby got her name. She set the price limit herself and then every gift on her list was over the price limit except for a lipstick she wanted and kleenex. (Yes...she put kleenex on her Christmas list.) So we got her the little purse/pocket size packages of kleenex and I wrapped them up in different ways....2 stacked up, 2 side by side, 2 end to end...so they all looked different, but she had more packages to open. After she opened the first ones, she complained that they weren't on her list...she wanted the kind in the box, but she hadn't specified on her list. Then every package she came to, she rolled her eyes and told the next person "You go...I don't even need to open this to know it's more kleenex I didn't want." And then my MIL had gotten her a glass cake stand just because she got us all a few little things and thought it was something we might like...I got one too. Ex -SIL says "Why would I need this? It wasn't on my list." I have never ever met anyone as rude and ungrateful as she is. It scares me to think there's someone who might be as bad or worse!! I hope the grad wasn't THAT bad. How does your hubby feel about doing all this stuff they expect from him? It's not like they can DO anything to him, right? And what about his parents? Are they still around? What do THEY think about it?
Glad you had a great trip. Welcome back! How's your grandma doing? I bet your dog was so happy to see you!
My want list grows longer....
My want list grows longer....
Amen! We don't have a lunch program here in the Netherlands, so I'm afraid I will be packing lunches for several more years.My kids lived and breathed Chlorine. My kids and their Dad were out the door for high school swim team at 445am. I was tucked in my bed. I loved high school. No lunches. Just gave them lunch money every Sunday for the week. Done.
Can I tell you how much I hated 15 years of packing school lunches?
Interesting....so it's kind of like a drill team? We didn't have that at our school. Just cheerleading. I was a fantastic bench warmer for basketball in Junior high and I did cheerleading, too, but when I got to Freshman year, I dropped basketball because I never got to play. It was a waste of time. So I switched to speech and debate. I still did cheerleading that one year, but then it got really catty on the squad. We had only had 4 girls on the squad and one graduated, one moved, and the one that was left was a social climber and speech and debate sometimes conflicted with basketball games. I hated football cheerleading because the coach was a witch. It was below zero and she didn't want to let us wear our coats...parents had to complain. She would have just let us all get frostbite because "We were representatives of the school and have to look nice. Winter coats don't look nice. You know when you sign up for football cheerleading that it will be cold sometimes." Yes...and every year before, they had had a different coach who let the girls wear lettermans jackets in the school colors. And we got home from an away game one time at 2:00 am and a couple of the girls made a MESS in the Suburban...we weren't allowed to ride the bus with the football team because we "distracted the boys" so we had to take a suburban. So the coach told us we had to clean up the suburban or we wouldn't be going on any more trips. So I started cleaning up, and the 2 girls who MADE the mess ran off to go inside and call their parents for rides and left me and another girl cleaning up. I was the last one there and the coach wouldn't let me go inside to call my mom for a ride because I "Should have done that earlier." She was going to make me walk home at 2:00 am. Fortunately, our pastor's wife was in the parking lot waiting for her son...the bus was an hour behind us because they got to stop for food. So she saw me and asked me what I was doing by myself at 2am. She gave me a ride home and then my mom went in the next day and yelled at the coach because the school rules said she HAD to make sure everyone got home safely...she had already left by the time the pastor's wife saw me. School policy was that she was responsible for me until a parent or guardian arrived. She tried to tell my mom that I was dinking around. My mom said "Well, she said she was cleaning up the suburban" and the coach said "Well, yes, she was, but she should have been faster." My mom was SOOO angry. She almost made me quit. So I didn't do football cheerleading the next year, and since the basketball cheerleading squad completely changed and conflicted with Speech, I dropped it and focused on Speech and debate instead. I was better at that anyway. I'm not athletically inclined at all.
In high school we had Poms more of a dance back then and cheerleaders. Poms were more elite. Cheerleaders had more of athletic feel to their routines where our Pom's had more of a dance feel. I was not allowed either, athletics or nothing was my folks thoughts, we were to do not cheer on someone else doing.
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Aww thanks! Big hugs to you and Donna from us too.
We are doing better. Just one day at a time.
Thank you!very sorry about your loss
