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Post by DGM on Dec 16, 2020 11:12:37 GMT -6
I don't remember which thread had the $10,000 oven or double oven talk. I'm thinking about baking cookies today and recalled my friend's range that is a modified double bc it has a pizza oven along with the regular oven. She said it's the best bc 90% of the time she needs a 2nd oven is for things small enough (cookies, brownies, biscuits, casseroles, etc.) for the pizza oven so it saves energy too only having to heat the small pizza oven. So sign me up for that in my dream house along with a library room complete with a fireplace.
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rugger
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Post by rugger on Dec 16, 2020 11:13:43 GMT -6
I don't remember which thread had the $10,000 oven or double oven talk. I'm thinking about baking cookies today and recalled my friend's range that is a modified double bc it has a pizza oven along with the regular oven. She said it's the best bc 90% of the time she needs a 2nd oven is for things small enough (cookies, brownies, biscuits, casseroles, etc.) for the pizza oven so it saves energy too only having to heat the small pizza oven. So sign me up for that in my dream house along with a library room complete with a fireplace. This sounds amazing. |
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Post by stringy on Dec 16, 2020 12:50:37 GMT -6
Four year olds are clumsy right? Cuz P is wrecking her poor self these days. Two black eyes in the last two months and today she fell with her hands in her pockets and landed on her face. Fat lip. Nose to forehead scrapes. The poor child. She’s asleep on me now.
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Post by Dramaphile on Dec 16, 2020 13:06:42 GMT -6
Four year olds are clumsy right? Cuz P is wrecking her poor self these days. Two black eyes in the last two months and today she fell with her hands in her pockets and landed on her face. Fat lip. Nose to forehead scrapes. The poor child. She’s asleep on me now. Nugget is constantly bumping into things, tripping, etc. I think part of it is the rate they're growing, they don't know where all their body parts are. And impatience, 80% of her falls and bumps happen when she is running across the house to get/do something. |
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Post by mc13 on Dec 16, 2020 13:13:46 GMT -6
Our window treatments that we ordered in AUGUST (delays with the fabric) were just delivered and installed in the kitchen. I'm in love. I can't stop staring at them.
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Post by charlotte on Dec 16, 2020 13:41:09 GMT -6
I have a weird crush on Jason Bateman.
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Post by tj on Dec 16, 2020 13:57:00 GMT -6
Our window treatments that we ordered in AUGUST (delays with the fabric) were just delivered and installed in the kitchen. I'm in love. I can't stop staring at them. Please to share with the class! |
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Post by mc13 on Dec 16, 2020 14:05:15 GMT -6
Our window treatments that we ordered in AUGUST (delays with the fabric) were just delivered and installed in the kitchen. I'm in love. I can't stop staring at them. Please to share with the class! Ta da! And there’s a matching one over the sliders to the future deck to the right of those cabinets on the far right. We have “forever wild” (aka never will be built on) behind us so we didn’t want to block any views.  And close up.  |
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Post by tj on Dec 16, 2020 14:12:29 GMT -6
Omg I absolutely love everything about your kitchen!!!
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Post by mc13 on Dec 16, 2020 14:14:58 GMT -6
Omg I absolutely love everything about your kitchen!!! Thank you!! It's all coming together so nicely. We're just waiting on the backsplash to be installed and then the inside of the house is done! |
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Post by tj on Dec 16, 2020 14:26:54 GMT -6
Omg I absolutely love everything about your kitchen!!! Thank you!! It's all coming together so nicely. We're just waiting on the backsplash to be installed and then the inside of the house is done! What is your backsplash going to be? I want to see more pics of your new house! I love your style. |
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Post by snowmoon on Dec 16, 2020 14:27:02 GMT -6
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Post by charlotte on Dec 16, 2020 14:28:30 GMT -6
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Post by mc13 on Dec 16, 2020 14:31:36 GMT -6
Thank you!! It's all coming together so nicely. We're just waiting on the backsplash to be installed and then the inside of the house is done! What is your backsplash going to be? I want to see more pics of your new house! I love your style. Thanks! While we loved our old charming 1930's tudor in NJ, it has been such a fun experience picking things out for a blank slate. Backsplash will be a 3x6 white beveled subway tile. |
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Post by milano on Dec 16, 2020 14:39:19 GMT -6
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Post by Speedy on Dec 16, 2020 19:59:08 GMT -6
I've been feeling very... not happy with my looks and style lately. Part of it is that my hair is in an awkward grow out phase and part of it is that I just feel like I'm in a generally awkward phase in life, where everything I like feels either too young or too old for me. So anyways, I realized that cottagecore is, like, all of me, so I think I'm just going to lean into that more lol. Just not sure what to do with my hair, if I should color it or leave it, and let it grow so I can do all of the braids?
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Post by milano on Dec 16, 2020 20:40:59 GMT -6
Speedy so like a month-ish ago I decided that I was sick of blow drying my hair and straightening it. I don't even like how I look with straight hair. So I decided "fuck it- I'm done" and haven't blow dried it since. It air drys, it's CURLY (all these years I've been all "oh i don't know where my kids curls come from?!" And guess what? It me.) and even though it's not perfect it feels more like me and I'm rolling with it. And I have gotten so many compliments on it, mh is obsessed. All that to say - how do YOU want your hair to look?? Because that's all that matters. Do you, girl. Whatever is easy and makes you feel as sassy as you need to.
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Post by rugger on Dec 16, 2020 21:04:25 GMT -6
mc13 I love it!! And we have beveled subway tile, too, and really love how it looks.
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Post by tj on Dec 16, 2020 21:12:44 GMT -6
We spent all day rearranging E’s room Bc she didn’t like how the movers had set it up. We swapped out some of her and P’s furniture. And her room looks so amazing and clean and orderly and perfect.
And she has now been screaming in her bed for 65 minutes. She ASKED us to do this. And now now she can’t deal with it. And nothing we do can help her through this. Nothing. She is so fucking out of control.
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Post by stringy on Dec 16, 2020 21:17:41 GMT -6
We spent all day rearranging E’s room Bc she didn’t like how the movers had set it up. We swapped out some of her and P’s furniture. And her room looks so amazing and clean and orderly and perfect. And she has now been screaming in her bed for 65 minutes. She ASKED us to do this. And now now she can’t deal with it. And nothing we do can help her through this. Nothing. She is so fucking out of control. Oh hi. M did this yesterday. We had mini splits installed and when she came home from school and saw they’d taken down her shelf (which she had removed the items from the night before in prep) she FLIPPED. Going on and on in tears about her room and shelf is ruined and take that off the wall and her “special shelf” (never special). I chalked it up to being unable to control anything in life right now and just let her cry on me. And today she’s happy as a clam and doesn’t GAF about the shelf. Lord kid, the intensity. Between that and her sister who keeps trying to earn concussions...I’m losing years off my life. |
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Post by tj on Dec 16, 2020 21:23:03 GMT -6
Thank you stringy. It helps to hear that her intensity, while draining, is not too abnormal. I’m sorry you had to go through this too yesterday. You are right, that she typically does bounce straight back a-ok in the morning. I’m just so concerned that I’m going to ruin her whole entire life by not being able to fix this. |
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Post by tj on Dec 16, 2020 21:24:58 GMT -6
Also stringy. My brother got so many concussions and black eyes and stitches by the time he started kindergarten, that the ER nurses nicknamed him “Bump.” He’s now an extremely successful asshole. But to be fair, the asshole is probably genetic, not related to the head wounds. |
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Post by snowmoon on Dec 16, 2020 22:08:15 GMT -6
tj both of my kids lose it whenever we rearrange furniture. Change is hard.
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Post by mc13 on Dec 17, 2020 6:42:24 GMT -6
mc13 I love it!! And we have beveled subway tile, too, and really love how it looks. Great to know! It’s hard to tell when you have one tiny sample. It took forever to make a decision so can’t wait to see it done! |
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Post by tj on Dec 17, 2020 8:30:03 GMT -6
My kids are at school. Their bodies are physically away from mine in a whole other building. Actual footage in my home right now:  |
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Post by sarenu on Dec 17, 2020 10:09:39 GMT -6
My desk is by the garage wall.
I want to put a sweater over a sweater today. I am so cold.
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Post by milano on Dec 17, 2020 10:10:52 GMT -6
So in a last minute twist of events, yesterday afternoon I found out that I am driving to DE tonight for my house closing tomorrow with both of my kids and the dog. I had it all planned to do it alone but at the even more last minute (late last night) I asked my mom (who is 12 days out from covid symptoms so not contagious anymore) to accompany me so I'm not wrangling 3 extra bodies solo. My stress level is still an 11. On one hand, it will make me feel better to not be driving alone for 6.5 hrs both ways, while keeping control of the kids and dog. But on the other hand, I'm irrationally nervous about being around her since she had Covid even though she is the safest person to be around right now since she just had it. MH is not worried so I need to not be worried. Also, this is a lot of time to spend in the car with my mother who I love dearly but we just don't have much in common to talk about. We will come home later Saturday night after getting internet set up at the house so I can install our security stuff, where we will come back to MH and and the new puppy. And then we don't have to leave the house for 2 weeks, thankfully. Any calming thoughts of safety please send my way.
I now have 2 different sleeping arrangements set up for tonight - one in the new town, one partway there so I can play it by ear as to how far we drive tonight. This seems crazy but also I can't be trying to reserve something last minute while driving on the highway so seemed easiest. And we will be camping out in the new house Fri night on air mattresses so that will be a bit nuts too lol.
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Post by snowmoon on Dec 17, 2020 10:48:49 GMT -6
We’re like 2 weeks in to 5 months of winter and we’re really struggling to get the kids interested in going outside. B resists every time I suggest it until he is finally out the door and will then happily play for an hour +
E gets outside and then tosses the mitts and complains about being cold. She lasts maybe 10 minutes.
I’m struggling without daily outside time.
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Post by Speedy on Dec 17, 2020 17:07:42 GMT -6
milano thank you for the advice. I looked at my hair last night, like really looked at it with a flashlight lol, and decided that I'm not mad at it, even though I miss my light blonde, but I really need a touch of red in there. So in the new year my best friend and I are going to go to Sally's and get the stuff and put some red in it and I'm going to try to get to the salon to thin it out a bit since it's NUTS, and then I'm just going to let it grow.
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Post by tj on Dec 17, 2020 17:52:34 GMT -6
My kids are at school. Their bodies are physically away from mine in a whole other building. Actual footage in my home right now: ![]() Aaaaaaand they came home sick. Fuck it all. As per. |
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