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Board challenge!
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We've done this before and it worked pretty well, so I'm going to try it again. I'm challenging everyone to start one thread a week and reply to two posts a day. And GO!
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New Member
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Hello all! I just wanted to pop in and introduce myself! I am married, mother of two, live in VA, but a Cali girl at heart.
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Pending accounts are now active.
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If you recently signed up but couldn't log in, you should be able to now.
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Grand Poohbah of Peepdom
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Aardi's Aadventures in Photography
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As promised, here are some pictures from my new camera. I'm still just using the auto setting, but I hope to get to the manual stuff soon! (Spoilered for size)
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Aardvark
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10 Words Every Book Lover Should Know
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/oliver-tearle/10-words-every-book-lover-should-know_b_5297284.html?utm_hp_ref=booksThe word for a book-lover is a 'bibliophile,' a word first recorded in print -- according to the Oxford English Dictionary -- in 1824. Alternatively, there...
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Happy Day... all you Mothers!
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 On a more serious note... Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers out there in Peep-land. Those of you with grown children that have flown the coop... I hope they give you a call. I'll be seeing my Mother in about 1/2 an hour.
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RichardInTN
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Weird hacking facebook thing
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Never had this happen to me before. I got a message on facebook from one the people on my friends list. It is someone I really don't know super well but she is nice. Anyway, it said "OMG Are you mad?!" I was like What? So I responded "About what?" She responded "The horrible...
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Balloon Animal
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Thank goodness I travel
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I was reading about a mom who's kids were driving her crazy and how she just wanted to get away. I am fortunate that I travel about once a month at my discretion so the home life doesn't drive me to murder. How do/did you cope with kids when you want to get away
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I haven't been by in a while
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But wanted to say Hi! For some reason I couldn't access on kindle or laptop but now realize it's totally operator error lol. Hope everyone is good!
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Mary Zombie
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Dear Prudence- paying for broke parent's funeral
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Dear Prudence,My mom doesn’t have two nickels to rub together, as she would say when we were kids. She was not around me and my three siblings after I was about 10 years old. She and my dad divorced, she moved away, and he got custody and remarried. She’s in her 80s, back in our neck of the woods, and we have...
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Balloon Animal
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What a Rain/Thunder/Lightning/Hail Storm we had
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last night! light my house up bright and my puppies were distressed as it sounded like something was breaking our house down! and the dang hail bashed my trees, but they looked ok this morning~! shakes fist~! then the FOG on the way to work was beyond horrible, you could not see anything! There were s...
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Riding in the WY Wind
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Legal question
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Is it the law in every state that a medical procedure can be forced on a minor, if the parent does not want the medical procedure, but it is for the good of the child? Why don't vaccines count in this and are there any other exceptions?
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Mother's Day Scrooge
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Am I the only one sick to death of Mother's Day? I am a mother and I loathe this "holiday". Am I alone in hating it?
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Twelve Years a Slave
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I bought the ebook after watching this year's Academy Awards. I'm having a very hard time with it, as I find it upsetting. If it were fiction, I'd stop reading and move on, but it feels wrong to stop. It's as if it's an insult to Solomon Northup's memory and he should not have suffered in vain. This is w...
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Shopping
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I live in Nj and when I have people visit they always want to go shopping in NYC. I don't live in the boonies so pretty much any style you can get in Manhattan you can get at the Shorthills Mall. Well actually there is something you get in NYC that we don't have here......tax!!! I go got Chicago at least 8 tim...
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Richard I know you hate short hair but....
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So Richard on the other board Halle Berry was my icon. i know you hate short hair but what about grey? If I did not color my hair I would be a silver fix. And in a corporate world be it a man or woman how attractive a person is matters. And I don't mean just "attractive" but sexual attraction. So ta...
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Cousin and the Dog
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This is an oldie but goodie! We are dog people. We have 4. Our house is doggie daycamp and we regularly dog sit for people. When Cousin moved in, she had 2 dogs, Boy Dog and Girl Dog. These dogs had been visiting us and staying with us their whole lives, so we were very comfortable with them and they fit very w...
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Dear Prudie-disinviting friend's abusive husband
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Q. Wedding Guest Gone Sour: I am getting married in a small, intimate, and hopefully casual ceremony this summer. My fiancé and I didn’t want to do anything big, so we picked a small venue in his hometown. We invited our parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, and a few very close friends. The issue is wit...
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Open ended plans?
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I have a new friend that has talked to me twice now about us having "plans" but they are never concrete. Like it will be "Okay after church I will give you a call and we can do something with the kids" or "after my exam tomorrow I will call you and we can do something". But t...
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Balloon Animal
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Cousin move-out in 40 hours!!!!
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Her movers are arriving Friday morning!
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OpheliaDev1
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Sorry I have been MIA
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Been peeking in. But I thought I had allergies. Nope bronchial pneumonia. But antibiotics, shot, inhaler and breathing treatments helping. Feeling much better hope all is well with everyone!!
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Riding in the WY Wind
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Yeah, that kind of rich
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I don't know if these commercials air outside of the NYC area but they are for the lottery and they talk about being crazy stupid rich. As an example rich is flying first class and "that kind of rich" is having a private jet. Rich is shopping at Nieman Marcus, "that kind of rich" i...
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Woohoo, share your happies!
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DH and I didn't do the big wedding thing so didn't have any kind of registry. We decided that since his mom always wants to know exactly what to get us for gifts, we would use that to our advantage and work on a collection of Fiestaware square dishes. We were going to create a wish list on amazon and refer h...
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Regional Food Chains that are all that
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If you live where these places call home, do you agree they should spread to rest of us in the dark? I think Taco Cabana is awesome although I don't go there nearly as much as I did say five years ago. I have been to Perkins a few times in my travels to and from MN, I liked them well enough that if they were to exp...
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For Christians who want to distance themselves from the hate....
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In the wake of Sarah Palin’s recent remarks advocating the torture of prisoners, the Christian organization Faithful America has created a petition aimed at distancing people of faith, from this hateful commentary made by Sarah Palin this past weekend, specifically: “…Water-boarding is how w...
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My new toy is here!
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I ordered a new camera on Saturday morning. I didn't expect it to be here today, but I'm thrilled that it is. Our current one is seven years old, and while it still works, we've been planning on getting a digital SLR. I found one for $129, so I snapped that baby up. I need to get a memory card, but after th...
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I want to make my own tortillas
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I love fresh tortillas. We used to have a Mexican place here that made their own. Now the don't. :( I was in New Mexico and this little Mexican restaurant made their own tortillas, and you could buy some to take with you. I bought a bag and gobbled them down! I just got a mexican slow cooker cookbook. I am ver...
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CS couldn't find anything good at the grocery store
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Apparently on CS and Cousin's last trip to the grocery store, CS couldn't find anything he wanted so Cousin was forced to pick what they got. And now he won't eat it b/c he didn't choose it. A+ parenting there, Cousin!
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Banana kick
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[video=http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/barcelona-defender-dani-alves-bites-back-at-banana-racism-20140428-zr0q2.html]
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When you give food, what do you give?
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I admit it - I'm a feeder. I feel like if I send somebody home with some food, it's like a hug that's waiting in their freezer when they need it. For those of you who also like give people food when they are going through something, do you have a "go to"? Mine is Bolognese sauce (Emeril's recipe.)...
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I don't see dirt
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Note to self next time I hire an au pair (AP) make sure she is a neat freak. So when yelling at her for her sloppiness and stepping over **** on the floor her response was she doesn't see it. As an example my son will pull all of the towels off of the towel rack, AP will use the bathroom and leave all of the towe...
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Throwing glitter instead of rice at a wedding?
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On what planet is this a good idea? Glitter is a BITCH to clean up. There's a reason it's called the herpes of the crafting world! If this is going to become a thing (and if Pinterest is any indication, it is), I foresee many venues banning glitter.
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Would you let them sleep together?
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I finally have something to share with you guys. We have 2 days off this week, Thursday and Friday, and a lot of people uses the long weekend to have a mini vacation. This year we'll be hosting my cousin and his girlfriend they are both on their early twenties and have been together for a good amount of time...
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Couponers, Stockpiles and Running a business out of garage
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I stumbled upon an ad for a person who is doing a "Stockpile Sale". She coupons and then stocks shelves in her garage like a store and holds sales. Per her ad, she has "regular customers" who get access to a presale so this is a regular occurring stock and sale kind of thing. I per...
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To AR and OK Peeps -- I hope you are all right!
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I hope all our Arkansas and Oklahoma peeps and their families/friends in the area are all right. I'm looking at the devastation on the news right now at work. My thoughts go out to all the victims.
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Do you expect family members to attend your child's bday parties?
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This seems to be a new trend in parenting. I'm in my mid-30s. When I was a child, typically extended family members did not attend birthday parties. The exception being same-aged cousins might be invited as guests. But now the expectation seems to be that extended family members will attend. My sist...
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For those who live in a temperate climate, when do you "change your closets?"
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I live in CT and we experience the four seasons. I never guess right as to when it's ok to change my wardrobe from fall/winter to spring/summer. I was going to do it last weekend, but then I woke up to a two-inch coating of ice on my car last week and it got colder, so I put it off. Now, it appears it will be in...
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Pat Robertson: Consider Divorcing Wife For Withholding Sex, She Was Probably 'Molested As A Child'
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Pat Robertson told a 700 Club viewer today that he has “grounds for divorce” because his wife is not having sex with him regularly, speculating that she was “molested as a child” and needs serious psychological counseling. The viewer told Robertson that he has “only been intimate with my wife a handf...
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Cousin and family titles
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Very small issue. My sister are not "aunt" to CS. But my cousin has coached my sister's son to call her "auntie" his whole life. It really grinds my gears.
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Share your Easter Pics!
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AB, looking quite dapper: The Aardvark Family:
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Camo soap - what scents would you enjoy?
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I made a soap that is white, brown, green and black. It's camo. I scent it with a fragrance called "Sexy Man" that smells something like Gillette. It's really nice. Women snap it up. I want to scent a batch with vanilla, because that seems to be the most popular scent among men. Would that be we...
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It's Lambing Time
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My mother in law just called from the barn to say that another lamb has been born and there is a second one coming along from the same ewe. Two others were born this morning. In a week or so when they all start scampering I'll see if I can figure out how to post a video. Baby sheep are almost as cute as baby go...
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Evil Stepmother
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Easter outfits!
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This one is AB's: And I know white pants on a toddler is a very bad idea, but I loved the bow tie and it was the only ensemble with one.
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Mom gives CS's father an earful
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Last night, CS's father called Mom b/c he wanted to pick up something. He mentioned something about Cousin not being good and communicating. Mom agreed. The subject came around to Cousin and CS moving out, and Mom informed him that it wasn't Cousin's idea, that she'd been asked to leave, mainly b/c of...
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Big Family Dinner - WITHOUT COUSIN!
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It was great! Mom, Sister and I had just gotten used to be angry, frustrated and miserable after every single big family event. Well, this time Cousin and CS weren't there and it was GREAT! Nephew could run around and play and Sister didn't have to be watching him constantly to make sure CS wasn't bullyi...
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It's Tax Day!
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Did my fellow Americans file?
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Beautiful day today
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sunny crystal blue sky, the meadowlarks are singing and the air is just so fresh, I love Springtime in Wyoming!
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Riding in the WY Wind
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Vacation Idea for Frootloop
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My sister and a friend are flying to Denver Friday for a long weekend. They are going to Colorado for the sole purpose of going on one of the 420 Bus Tours. They're like winery tours with pot. Just picture, a bunch of middle age stoners touring pot growers, and sellers; touring glass blowing studios;...
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Evil Stepmother
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Dad has a minor epiphany regarding Cousin
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So apparently Dad started grilling Mom about why Cousin was moving out. He's been mad that Sister won't let her son around CS, and making snotty remarks about how she's supposedly such a good Christian, etc, and she's being so mean to Cousin. Dad is an atheist, and Sister recently became very involved...
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Would you like some dinner with that drama?
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Cousin's Son (CS) has again resorted to fake nausea and throwing up when forced to eat food he doesn't want. He used to do this fairly frequently at about age 4 (he's now 8.5), until one day Cousin justed handed him a towel and said, 'Clean it up' then ignored him. In order to appease the little beast and g...
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