rosiejo said:I think I have a problem with windows media files... I'll have to try it on DH's laptop later
bengalbelle said:
babytrees said:What a woman!! Cake decorator, halloween costume maker extraordinaire and Mrs. Fix-it!!! Will you adopt me?
I grew up in an environment where you learned how to do everything for yourself. When we build our house the only outside contractors we used were for the heating system, electric (we had a good friend to that), the foundation and the chimney. We did everything else ourselves I have never had to hire a plumber, mechanic, painter etc in my entire life. It is kind of funny because I can usually look at something and figure out how it works or how it was built and then fix it or build it myself. We've built several houses, camps and garages over the years. My Dad grew up on a farm so he learned young how to build and fix and he passed it on to my brother and I. I don't know how people can afford having to hire everything out, I'd have to give up my Disney trips and that ain't going to happen. 
triplefigs said:
bengalbelle said:I need help from all of you creative people out there. I accidently destroyed the crib set I had with Christopher (which was unisex) but I got a blue PBK gingham/chambray bumper set super cheap to replace it. It also came with a chambray duvet which I'll never use, but could use the fabric for something else.
I also found these valances super cheap because the set was discontinued. I also got the diaper stacker to go with it.
So...I'm afraid it might look too boyish with all of the blue, but I don't want to buy new crib bedding when I already own this, and I really love the striped material. I'm thinking about putting the bumper on so the solid blue is facing out. I was also thinking about turning the valances into a dust ruffle (I have 6-7 of them). Or if someone had a better idea for a dust ruffle, I'd put the valances on the window over the panels I'm going to make. I'm making my own panels so I can use blackout lining for naptime. I'm not sure of the color of the panels yet, but I'm thinking it would be one of the colors in the valance.
Any suggestions on how to make this work for a girl? I'm thinking the walls will be green or yellow, but I'm open to other suggestions.
Here is a picture of the bumper with the valance, showing both sides of the bumper. The colors in the valance are yellow, blue, green and a light coral. The coral is showing up darker in the picture.
This one shows the diaper stacker, so you can see the yellow fabric.
Sorry the pictures are so big.
bengalbelle said:I need help from all of you creative people out there. I accidently destroyed the crib set I had with Christopher (which was unisex) but I got a blue PBK gingham/chambray bumper set super cheap to replace it. It also came with a chambray duvet which I'll never use, but could use the fabric for something else.
I also found these valances super cheap because the set was discontinued. I also got the diaper stacker to go with it.
So...I'm afraid it might look too boyish with all of the blue, but I don't want to buy new crib bedding when I already own this, and I really love the striped material. I'm thinking about putting the bumper on so the solid blue is facing out. I was also thinking about turning the valances into a dust ruffle (I have 6-7 of them). Or if someone had a better idea for a dust ruffle, I'd put the valances on the window over the panels I'm going to make. I'm making my own panels so I can use blackout lining for naptime. I'm not sure of the color of the panels yet, but I'm thinking it would be one of the colors in the valance.
Any suggestions on how to make this work for a girl? I'm thinking the walls will be green or yellow, but I'm open to other suggestions.
Here is a picture of the bumper with the valance, showing both sides of the bumper. The colors in the valance are yellow, blue, green and a light coral. The coral is showing up darker in the picture.
This one shows the diaper stacker, so you can see the yellow fabric.
Sorry the pictures are so big.
Someone from TGM. She'll be in Orlando for two weeks and seems like a great family!rosiejo said:
tink2020 said:I'm glad you can hear it at least! I hope you can get the video to work sometime, because his face after he says it is PRICELESS!!!!!!!
No, I was not there. We got the email from my uncle
her and her kids will be in my prayers.tink2020 said:If you all could send some prayers up for a family in our church, I would appreciate it greatly! A little backstory:
They joined the church when they had 6 kids. Dad was kind of a workaholic and really just a huge jerk (to put it bluntly). Well, with kids 7 and 8 (yep, 8!) people sort of (appropriately) questioned the mother as to how things were going, since the 6 kids sort of had her frazzled, etc. She made it VERY clear that she really only ever wanted 4 kids (although she loves them ALL dearly, obviously, and is great with each one) and Dad said they "had" to have more, as long as they were blessed with the ability to
Fast forward to last fall, when Dad leaves them for a hot young girl. A decision he talks to his kids about: "She's younger, more attractive, and has time for me" ***?! Hmm.... maybe you could be home and spend some time with your WIFE and the children you desperately wanted. Just my opinion, of course.
Fast forward to today. Mom gets a call from school. Apparently the oldest boy (second oldest overall) who is.... maybe 13? Tried to kill himself in the janitors closet.
The biggest shocker of it all? The school's response. Apparentely he has been talking about wanting to kill himself for months. Red flag, definitely something mom should have been alerted to by now. Even worse, the last few weeks he has been TELLING OTHER KIDS how he would do it. Holy crap. When someone actually has a plan of action, it's REALLY a big deal. Still nothing. Just told the boy "he shouldn't discuss things like this with the other kids".
Even today, when they called her they suggested she call to see his doctor. HUH?! My thought is a little more drastic than that, but what do I know? So she calls, he obviously tells her he needs more than primary care pediatric help, so she calls someone she knows that is a psychiatrist. They aren't taking new patients, but the schools says "that's fine. we just need documentation that you are aware of the situation and are trying to follow up"
Needless to say, when I can find out what school that is (particularly), my children will not be going there. Sounds to me like they are just covering their butts, but what the heck?! This kid needs help
Sorry that got so long. I just wanted to ask for prayers for the family, espeically the mother who was JUST in the hospital last week as one of her kids was diagnosed with diabetes. She is also terrified that Dad will try and use this against her to prove she is "unfit". Not sure why, because it's not like he wants the kids anyway...
But then I had to add that school vent. Am I overreacting, or is that rediculous?!
ETA: Kyle called my mom and provided her with the psych hotline for Children's hospital, which triages and tries to identify paths of care for any sort of psychiatric sitaution. Hopefully she will call, and they can direct her to an ACTUAL peds specialist or clinic, if not convince her he might need to do at least the partial hospitilization program to get started.
tink2020 said:If you all could send some prayers up for a family in our church, I would appreciate it greatly! A little backstory:
They joined the church when they had 6 kids. Dad was kind of a workaholic and really just a huge jerk (to put it bluntly). Well, with kids 7 and 8 (yep, 8!) people sort of (appropriately) questioned the mother as to how things were going, since the 6 kids sort of had her frazzled, etc. She made it VERY clear that she really only ever wanted 4 kids (although she loves them ALL dearly, obviously, and is great with each one) and Dad said they "had" to have more, as long as they were blessed with the ability to
Fast forward to last fall, when Dad leaves them for a hot young girl. A decision he talks to his kids about: "She's younger, more attractive, and has time for me" ***?! Hmm.... maybe you could be home and spend some time with your WIFE and the children you desperately wanted. Just my opinion, of course.
Fast forward to today. Mom gets a call from school. Apparently the oldest boy (second oldest overall) who is.... maybe 13? Tried to kill himself in the janitors closet.
The biggest shocker of it all? The school's response. Apparentely he has been talking about wanting to kill himself for months. Red flag, definitely something mom should have been alerted to by now. Even worse, the last few weeks he has been TELLING OTHER KIDS how he would do it. Holy crap. When someone actually has a plan of action, it's REALLY a big deal. Still nothing. Just told the boy "he shouldn't discuss things like this with the other kids".
Even today, when they called her they suggested she call to see his doctor. HUH?! My thought is a little more drastic than that, but what do I know? So she calls, he obviously tells her he needs more than primary care pediatric help, so she calls someone she knows that is a psychiatrist. They aren't taking new patients, but the schools says "that's fine. we just need documentation that you are aware of the situation and are trying to follow up"
Needless to say, when I can find out what school that is (particularly), my children will not be going there. Sounds to me like they are just covering their butts, but what the heck?! This kid needs help
Sorry that got so long. I just wanted to ask for prayers for the family, espeically the mother who was JUST in the hospital last week as one of her kids was diagnosed with diabetes. She is also terrified that Dad will try and use this against her to prove she is "unfit". Not sure why, because it's not like he wants the kids anyway...
But then I had to add that school vent. Am I overreacting, or is that rediculous?!
ETA: Kyle called my mom and provided her with the psych hotline for Children's hospital, which triages and tries to identify paths of care for any sort of psychiatric sitaution. Hopefully she will call, and they can direct her to an ACTUAL peds specialist or clinic, if not convince her he might need to do at least the partial hospitilization program to get started.
rosiejo said:I've been ploughing through with my essay again today, the second of two due in on Monday... it's really hard and I'm struggling...
Anyway I just got an email from my course leader, our tutor has been off sick for weeks so we've had no support and no online activities, so one of the lads emailed him today to complain and I was supposed to follow up tomorrow... but our course leader has come back to say he's really sorry and we can have an extension to May 17
I'm not sure if that's good or bad though as I work so much better when a deadline is looming and now I'm likely to put my feet up for a fortnight
If you put it off, just think how many pages you'll be behind that time. 
tink2020 said:
and its because of school responses like this that I plan to homeschool Olivia.tink2020 said:If you all could send some prayers up for a family in our church, I would appreciate it greatly! A little backstory:
They joined the church when they had 6 kids. Dad was kind of a workaholic and really just a huge jerk (to put it bluntly). Well, with kids 7 and 8 (yep, 8!) people sort of (appropriately) questioned the mother as to how things were going, since the 6 kids sort of had her frazzled, etc. She made it VERY clear that she really only ever wanted 4 kids (although she loves them ALL dearly, obviously, and is great with each one) and Dad said they "had" to have more, as long as they were blessed with the ability to
Fast forward to last fall, when Dad leaves them for a hot young girl. A decision he talks to his kids about: "She's younger, more attractive, and has time for me" ***?! Hmm.... maybe you could be home and spend some time with your WIFE and the children you desperately wanted. Just my opinion, of course.
Fast forward to today. Mom gets a call from school. Apparently the oldest boy (second oldest overall) who is.... maybe 13? Tried to kill himself in the janitors closet.
The biggest shocker of it all? The school's response. Apparentely he has been talking about wanting to kill himself for months. Red flag, definitely something mom should have been alerted to by now. Even worse, the last few weeks he has been TELLING OTHER KIDS how he would do it. Holy crap. When someone actually has a plan of action, it's REALLY a big deal. Still nothing. Just told the boy "he shouldn't discuss things like this with the other kids".
Even today, when they called her they suggested she call to see his doctor. HUH?! My thought is a little more drastic than that, but what do I know? So she calls, he obviously tells her he needs more than primary care pediatric help, so she calls someone she knows that is a psychiatrist. They aren't taking new patients, but the schools says "that's fine. we just need documentation that you are aware of the situation and are trying to follow up"
Needless to say, when I can find out what school that is (particularly), my children will not be going there. Sounds to me like they are just covering their butts, but what the heck?! This kid needs help
Sorry that got so long. I just wanted to ask for prayers for the family, espeically the mother who was JUST in the hospital last week as one of her kids was diagnosed with diabetes. She is also terrified that Dad will try and use this against her to prove she is "unfit". Not sure why, because it's not like he wants the kids anyway...
But then I had to add that school vent. Am I overreacting, or is that rediculous?!
ETA: Kyle called my mom and provided her with the psych hotline for Children's hospital, which triages and tries to identify paths of care for any sort of psychiatric sitaution. Hopefully she will call, and they can direct her to an ACTUAL peds specialist or clinic, if not convince her he might need to do at least the partial hospitilization program to get started.
