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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 8, 2018 23:30:31 GMT -6
dizzycooks I wish I could come give you a break for the day. And nellieoleson I don't know but when you find out please to share!!! The puke happened in dd1’s bedroom yesterday morning and it was cleaned three different times throughout the day, but her room still smelled like vomit. Today around lunchtime I dumped almost a full box of baking soda on the area in question, and left it there. It is actually still there, BUT the room doesn’t smell anymore! I’m going to vacuum it up tomorrow and keep my fingers crossed it does the trick. I’ll report back. Exciting, I know.
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Post by scorpioscuba on Feb 9, 2018 9:46:13 GMT -6
nellieoleson had I got here sooner that is what I would have suggested. I hope the smell is gone for good! Open the windows too to air it out if you can. I had to do all the for DD’s car seat to get rid of the puke smell.
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Post by crimsonandclover on Feb 10, 2018 10:10:50 GMT -6
nellieoleson, one my big arguments for getting rid of carpets in bedrooms when we redo the floors on the bedroom level is that hard floors can be easily cleaned if there is puke or other bodily messes on them. I'm all for an area rug to keep things warm, but if they don't come clean, you can just pitch them. I really hoping the baking soda works for good, though!
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Post by lollipop on Feb 10, 2018 12:27:25 GMT -6
H and I are having a date night tonight. My sister is coming over to babysit. I think we're going to dinner at the big mall and then go find something to do there.
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Post by dizzycooks on Feb 10, 2018 14:58:07 GMT -6
H and I are having a date night tonight. My sister is coming over to babysit. I think we're going to dinner at the big mall and then go find something to do there. Date night sounds awesome! It’s parent night out at the local Y, but I’m afraid I’d fall asleep before it’s time to get the kids. I wish I was more adventurous or had more energy. So tired. I could sleep for a week. It’s dd2s bday so she’s kind of calling the shots today. Thankfully naptime wasn’t debatable.
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Post by lollipop on Feb 10, 2018 15:59:29 GMT -6
I'm trying to get the house clean enough that my sister won't feel obligated to clean while we're out. I've been getting the bare minimum if help from H and nothing but complaints from the kids. H just turned on M's favorite movie and is tidying the living room and going to take the garbage out, so at least he's finally helping after I nagged him.
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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 10, 2018 17:33:27 GMT -6
nellieoleson, one my big arguments for getting rid of carpets in bedrooms when we redo the floors on the bedroom level is that hard floors can be easily cleaned if there is puke or other bodily messes on them. I'm all for an area rug to keep things warm, but if they don't come clean, you can just pitch them. I really hoping the baking soda works for good, though! We redid most of the floors before we moved in. Dd1 has hardwood with an area rug, dd2 has carpet. I actually like the carpet for being a soft, comfy surface for playing, but yeah... I’m sure there is going to come a time when it is a complete disaster. 😖
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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 10, 2018 17:36:31 GMT -6
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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 10, 2018 17:38:11 GMT -6
You guys. I have been eating pretty healthy since the new year, and have kept up my “resolution” diet for the most part even past January, which was my goal. Today, however, my period started, and I have literally eaten nothing but 2 hard boiled eggs, peanut butter cups, and pirate booty. Oops.
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Post by dizzycooks on Feb 11, 2018 16:22:18 GMT -6
nellieoleson you can get back the health train tomorrow. All is not lost. Give yourself some grace.
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Post by theoprah on Feb 12, 2018 4:59:54 GMT -6
nellieoleson - Enjoy! Period day should be an internationally recognized cheat day! tinydancer - wooohooo!! Congrats on the new house!! You are down in the Carolinas, right? Are you guys loving it? We got some nice wood slat blinds for our master bedroom which look great. My first love however is plantation shutters. Someday we are going to bump out our living room a few feet and I am going to get some big windows with plantation shutters!
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Post by crimsonandclover on Feb 12, 2018 5:16:32 GMT -6
I have not read it. In general I really hate all of these "The French Raise Perfect Children" or "The Norwegians Raise Perfect Children" or "The Germans Raise Perfect Children" books. Dude, there are awesome kids in all of those countries and also kids that are spoiled rotten jerks. However, I will say that in general, the Germans are waaay more lax about safety things than the US is when it comes to kids and playing. There is a trend toward helicopter parenting and academization of preschool, but it's slow and there is a lot of resistance. As for your two points, though: 1) they do run around naked at pools. German kids under about 6 or 7 usually don't wear swimsuits when they're at the beach. A lot of pools require them now, but not all of them. Germans are way more relaxed about nudity than Americans are. Germans don't understand why scenes with naked breasts are such a BIG DEAL in US movies and yet Americans have no problems with people getting their heads cut off and gore flying everywhere. Like: violence is ok, but the human body is shameful. That point really resonates with me. Not that I walk around naked... nor do I allow my children to run around naked on the beach, but that's more because of sun cancer. and 2) building fires at school - haha! I think twice a year they have an event where there's a bonfire, but I have never heard of our kids making fires on their own. However, they do climb up on this wooden playhouse structure that's about 6' tall at the top. I doubt that would be allowed in the US. They also had thing a few years ago where a dietician came for several weeks and taught them about healthy nutrition - they made things together, too, and all the kids were supposed to bring a cutting board and a sharp knife. DD1 was 3.5 at the time. I asked the teacher, and she said a sharper knife is safer than a dull one because a dull one would slip while she was trying to cut the food whereas a sharp one (used with supervision) would cut right through the food. So yes, my 3.5 year old used a sharp cutting knife at preschool, probably with only a little supervision since there were a lot of kids involved. She's still got all her fingers.
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Post by crimsonandclover on Feb 12, 2018 14:14:30 GMT -6
Oh!! I totally forget, nellieoleson, I was in Berlin last weekend and walked by this playground that even made my jaw drop. It was like an old abandoned junkyard - like just salvaged crap from around the city, and most of it was rusty, full of graffiti, and dirty. And it was labelled like a "builders' playground" or something, like the kids could go in there and just build or destroy the stuff. Kind of cool, but, um... tetanus? And the first thing I thought when I saw it was: "This would never in a million years happen in the US."
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Post by nellieoleson on Feb 12, 2018 14:29:27 GMT -6
Oh!! I totally forget, nellieoleson, I was in Berlin last weekend and walked by this playground that even made my jaw drop. It was like an old abandoned junkyard - like just salvaged crap from around the city, and most of it was rusty, full of graffiti, and dirty. And it was labelled like a "builders' playground" or something, like the kids could go in there and just build or destroy the stuff. Kind of cool, but, um... tetanus? And the first thing I thought when I saw it was: "This would never in a million years happen in the US." I have heard of playgrounds like that! I think there is one somewhere in NYC? But yeah... definitely not common here. We have a playground near us that is a “nature playground” made of huge logs piled up for climbing on and very large branches/logs for kids to drag around and build stuff with. We are actually meeting a girl from dd1’s preschool there for a play date today.
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