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I didn't go outside during the eclipse because I couldn't be sure my 2yo grandson (he's with me during the workday) would keep the glasses on. Instead, we watched the event on tv, and during totality he noticed that it got darker outside my house - and asked "grandma, raining?" (it was about 95% where we live). I guess he associated daytime darkness with rain! My smart boy. As for the earthquake, I didn't feel a thing - but my husband ran down to the basement to check the washing machine. He thought it was so off-kilter that it made the whole house shake. Crazy that I was so oblivious that I noticed nothing. And, my youngest daughter had a baby over the weekend - and I got to attend the birth! So intense and emotional. A healthy beautiful baby girl. An earthquake, a baby, and an eclipse all in the space of a few days. I am so very lucky. A week to remember, for sure.

What?? Don't you mean ANGEL POCKETS?????

Considering that Jill came from a "buy used and save the difference" family, I can't imagine that this one is top-of-the-line.

Hyperemesis gravidarum (aka puke-a-rama)

"Janessa enjoying a moment with Daddy and his EAR" Someone help me off the floor please. I've collapsed and am speechless!!!! 😄🤣

Or, maybe, he's learning that his sisters-in-law actually AREN'T sluttish.

Looks like the hot tub washed off most of her left eyebrow

Or maybe hospice wouldn't allow filming?

Well, I cooooould.... but would you hear me? (Sorry! Sorry! I couldn't help it!)

I interpret this as "Amy contacts 100 publishers and 2 responded" (likely with "please go away"). Or, she's investigating self-publishing and deciding which kind will gain her the most attention while losing the least amount of money.

Hmmm that description doesn't narrow things down very much

Hmmm I dunno. I guess it... Depends....

There are 40 holds on this book in my local library system (over a dozen libraries), and they don't even have the book yet. So I think I will buy my own copy. However.... I cannot keep it, as we are moving and my husband & I mutually agreed on NO MORE BOOKS!! (lol, I donated over 1000 already). Would any of my fellow snarkers like to have my copy after I'm done? I'd happily mail it to you (or deliver it in person if you're not too far). Message me!

I use the same starter word every day, and it hasn't yet been a winner - so I can't switch to a different one because one of these days it'll be a winner and I don't want to miss it! I'm so ridiculously obsessed with maintaining my streak (over a year) that on my mountain hiking days I Wordle on the summit (yesssss, I just verbed a noun...)! Normally I do my puzzles in the morning with my coffee (ah, retirement), but on hiking days I leave the house super early and don't have time. So it's my summit treat. My friends think I'm insane. Post-Wordle view from atop Mt. Washington in New Hampshire:

Dreck-orating?

Anyone here do any of the NY Times puzzles? I do all the word puzzles every morning with my coffee. This morning I could've solved LetterBox in two words if it accepted GAWDLY - but it was denied! So annoyed - you guys know it's a word!! Just wanted to vent....

Well, there's a metaphor.

Random thought: this forum is dated 2014. I've been reading here for almost 10 years (and TWOP before that)!!! How did y'all stumble on this crazy family (and then this forum)? My kids were graduating high school in the early 2000s, and all of a sudden, after years of exhausting parenting, I was about to be an empty nester. I'm not much of a tv person, but I did watch the news while making dinner and sometimes the tv would just stay on as background noise - and I heard a commercial for some big-family show. It wasn't the Duggars, it was a series on various large families. One of the families was featured while shopping for their oldest son's college supplies, and the son was going to the same college as one of my daughters, so it caught my attention. I watched that show, and then segued into Jon&Kate, and then the Duggars - because I just couldn't fathom how families of that size functioned. I mean, I myself was EXHAUSTED - finally taking a breath after 20 years of parenting. And here I am, years later, still obsessing over these lunatics. (I even incorporated the Duggars into one of my lessons [I'm a now-retired math teacher] in the unit on binomial probability. I always began each class with some tangentially-related wacky story, so I told the kids about the crazy family with 14 children and then asked "what's the probability that if you have 14 children, that they will all be girls? That there will be at least one girl? That there will be 7 girls and 7 boys?" And then the lecture would be about how to answer those questions. By the time I retired, there were 19 children!)

I strongly suspect that it doesn't allow "so many people".....

You're very welcome. And thank YOU for alerting me to the gift option - I had no idea there was such a thing!

Maybe Spurgeon stopped speaking.... so there was nothing to report.....

There was an interesting article in the NY Times yesterday, called "Shiny Happy People and the Toxic Quest for Certainty", by Opinion writer David French. Unfortunately it's subscriber-only, so I doubt you could see it if you don't have a subscription, but just a heads-up if you have access! The author attended an IBLP Basic Seminar in 1993 so that he could pursue a relationship with an IBLP-affiliated girl he was interested in. TLDR: he was appalled. And, no relationship.

Also in the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/opinion/duggar-shiny-happy.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-time-cutoff-30_impression_cut_3_filter_new_arm_5_1&alpha=0.05&block=more_in_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=267840589&impression_id=267938f4-0001-11ee-98e4-9fc4b41c9491&index=1&pgtype=Article&pool=more_in_pools%2Fopinion&region=footer&req_id=721453342&surface=eos-more-in&variant=holdout_best_more-in

I wonder if they feel traumatized that their boy baby had on a pink hat.

And - I like their voices. And their camaraderie.