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It's been awhile since I posted, but I have a question for those who have been in this situation before. This summer I was diagnosed with chronic bronchitis after the sixth episode in 2 years. Every time it was preceded by a cold. I have a cold that has come on very suddenly. It started with...

At my parents' house I always took it seriously. Storms have always made me nervous, so I tended to be more cautious than them. If it looked bad I would get all the animals in our safe room in the basement ahead of time. I was home from college on spring break in 2006 when we had to do it for...

Thank you for all of the replies. My class was actually the calmest one! It was tense, and of course it covered all of lunch time and then some. My husband's school in KCK also had sirens, but theirs only lasted half an hour. He has to work at the theme park tonight and at first it looked like...

I can't speak for Six Flags or Cedar Point, but the park my husband and I work at does have designated shelter areas. Many of our rides do have basements, you just can't tell by looking at them. Hopefully the other parks have a similar set up and will be able to keep everybody safe.

Im' glad your daughter is safe! I'm in the KC area and we dealt with the first wave. We had two classes on field trips. One had just gotten back when the sirens sounded. It was about an hour long of ducking and covering, but the kids were amazing despite how scared they were! We did have a bus...

My worst nightmare has always been that we would experience a tornad warning at school- and it happened today. Whatever genius designed our school did not design it for the kind of weather we get. There are truly no interior spaces for the kids to go. The best we can do are the hallways, but...

Thank you for all the ideas! I emailed my family to see if they would want to get together on a care package. I am also trying to enlist my mother in law who makes the most amazing quilts. If you have any other ideas, I would love to hear it. I am organizing a team for the Komen 5k here in her...

I hope you all don't mind me coming here to ask a question. I just found out that my favorite cousin was diagnosed with breast cancer and recently underwent surgery for it. She returned home today. I do not know anything beyond that like what kind of surgery she had or what her treatment from...

Ugh, I have caught what we refer to as the school plague. I could tell Friday night I was getting sick and by Saturday was miserable. I ended up missing work Sunday and yesterday. I did not do Taekwondo the last two days and have not been eating on plan because I have not been hungry. I think I...

LOL, that does sound similar to our neighborhood. We've not had a true lockdown this year where we have to hide. We've been multiple times on what I call "lockdown light". We lock the doors and do not leave the rooms, but we can continue teaching. Now, we do practice the real thing enough that...

I'm not a parent, but with my students I do not. I kind of have to laugh at thsi thread because one phrase we use a lot of with our students is, "because is only an answer when your mom says it."

I think you win! Our cats have peed on stuff, but not the bed. We had to get another litter box and we have a very rigid scooping schedule and that has solved the problem. They will pee on sheets if you leave them on the floor though. I have had to train my husband not to do that if he...

Thanks, I will check them out tonight! Today was interesting to say the least. We were under a heat advisory. They passed out water bottles to everybody and in the afternoon we all went to the gym and watched a movie as the gym is one of three rooms with air conditioning. I couldn't believe the...

LOL. I was talking about this situation with my mom and reminiscing how we did not have air conditioning in my school until I was in 4th or 5th grade. I even told my students that and to bring water bottles. Unfornately, it is in the 90s all week and Missouri is very humid. It's not the end of...

I looked at capris, but even the petite ones were almost to my ankles. Unfortunately, the mall is the next city over (the same city where I teach) and I just didn't have the energy to go on a hunt. I figure I'll look after work tomorrow. Our windows do open and we have ceiling fans. Based on...

Two weekends ago somebody stole all the copper out of our school's air conditioning units. Last week it wasn't too bad as the temperatures were lower. This week however... I was out sick today with whatever plague is going around the school right now, but based on what my coworkers have said...

We were married in December. The jacket was actually separate from the dress, but I loved that it was all lace like the dress so it looked like it belonged. This has good detail of the bustle and the lace on the bottom: This one shows the lace on the jacket and top of the dress a...

I haven't tried to go gluten free. I was tested for celiac however and that came up negative. It might be something to consider.

I switched from Weight Watchers to Slim4Life. I had done Slim4Life before and found it too restrictive. However, now that I am a vegetarian there are more options. I also remember having so much energy back then because it is very strict in exactly how you get your calories. I feel like I'm...

I have IBS and a family member I believe has it but has never had an official diagnosis. I'm lucky in that I've never been that desperate, but my family member has had those moments and it typically meant coming home for a change of clothes. I know what it's like when you have to go all of a...