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Mountainair

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  1. The K-12 Charter school I work at doesn’t even have a library. Only books in the classroom. I teach Kindergarten so my kids aren’t completely reading all the way yet. My 2nd grader is allowed to take books home from her classroom as are my middle school kids. I thought it was so weird when they built this new school in 2020 with no library or cafeteria. The kids eat lunch in the classroom or grades 5-12 eat lunch outside if the weather is nice.
  2. I haven’t worked a full week since November and I rarely get sick. If I do it’s mild and I can work through it. December we went to Disney and I came home with a sinus infection. January I tested positive for Covid. Today- stomach bug and Covid symptoms all over again. I have not been cough or tissue free since December. I work in an elementary school with my own kids being in 2,6 and 8 grade. Normally I don’t catch everything but it’s been awful!
  3. All I know is it will be another season of cringeworthy games and I won’t have to waste my money on a ticket.
  4. As a Panthers fan who has been to several games, sports a vanity license plate, sticker on my car, yard flags, etc.. I’ve given up. We have slowly emerged as a hockey family now. My two boys play roller hockey and are obsessed. The Hurricanes don’t let me down nearly as much as the Panthers. In fact the last game the Panthers lost I promptly went out and removed my vanity license plate and replaced it with a Hurricanes one. Panthers stadium is a day trip for me but Hurricanes require an overnight stay. Haven’t bought a Panthers ticket in over two years. This will be our 2nd year seeing the Hurricanes. Tepper needs to go!
  5. I still buy cards for gifts but it pains me that they can be upwards of $5.00 just to be thrown in the trash. My grandparents send me Jackie Lawson ecards all the time!
  6. I was in middle school in the 90’s and as a white girl growing up in a predominantly African American neighborhood and school system rap was my music of choice. I had the biggest crush on LL Cool J. This was about the time Doin’ It came out and through MTV was able to catch some of his “older” hits. I still love LL. My husband thinks he looks like he should play a Ninja Turtle though.
  7. One of the fantasy leagues I’m in involves my cousins who live in Dallas. I lost this year but I’m secretly loving this since from September- December all I hear about is Dallas.
  8. Yea. Not liking this shill at all. I have three kids. My oldest is 14 and he’s the only one that “regularly” takes melatonin to go to bed. And that’s after I make him try for at least an hour with a book in bed and no screen time. My younger two (11, and 7) rarely ask for help getting to sleep but I’ll give them a small dose if they’ve tried for a few hours. We also keep on a regular schedule including bedtime at the same time every night. Dinner at the same time, wake up for school at the same time. Schedules people!!!!!!!!! They know nothing about that! My 11 year old, as I’ve mentioned before has a rare Congenital Heart Defect that didn’t get diagnosed until he was 10. He has had 2 heart surgeries so I’m a little anal about what I give him to help sleep and his daily routine. edit to add: with Layla saying she is tired after dance class… my heart kid was always complaining about his legs hurting or being tired after doing something and I never thought anything of it. I always brought him for his yearly checkups and it wasn’t until he turned 10 that we went in for a check up and he had sky high blood pressure. We went through kidney specialists, CT scans, echos, blood work, etc until we figured out it was his heart. There was never a murmur or anything.
  9. Unseasonably warm here as well but I personally hate snow on Christmas. Too many family members trying to drive and navigate roads in snowy weather. Give me snow anytime of year but Christmas Day. July is even ok. Christmas 2020 we had a massive snowfall Christmas Eve. Sort of unexpected. We had our annual party with my mother in law and my family made it home ok but the rest ended up parking at their neighborhood entrances hoofing it home in pj’s with small kids.
  10. Yea. Not looking forward to Sunday. I’m in one fantasy league with all my cousins who live in Dallas and bleed stars out of their asses so the group shit talk has already begun. I have no doubt BOA stadium will be full of Cowboys fans as most of us have given up on the Panthers. I also have no doubt the Cowboys will smother the Panthers. My MIL of course wants us all over at 1 on Sunday to help her get Christmas decorations up and while part of me is irritated that she planned it for football Sunday the other part is fine I won’t have to watch the shit show )though I’m sure I will find a way to turn the game on at her house.
  11. I’ve always loved having a real tree so it stings a little to go artificial this year. I went with a flocked tree. My mom hates the idea of fake snow on a tree but I live in the mountains so I think it works. If I could afford an aluminum tree with a color wheel I’d be all about it!
  12. I was all but ready to give up this website which would have gutted me. Saw another poster here recommending Duck Duck Go and it’s been a life saver. No ads and much more enjoyable experience .
  13. I have three kids. My youngest is seven so well past the age of throwing ornaments. I never had to do anything special with my tree when they were babies. I taught them to leave the tree alone and they did 🤷‍♀️.I even have a massive Christmas Village setup and maybe a piece got broken from a kid playing with it but it only happened one time. I think the worst tree offender in my house was the dog or cat drinking the water out of the stand but a spray bottle came in handy when ever that happened. This will be the first year in 10 years we have not gotten a real tree. Our local friend and tree farmer said he had a limited supply this year so I bought a fake one on clearance at the end of last year. I will so miss the tradition of hiking through the mountains and watching my boys saw the tree down :( We will actually be out of town for a week at the beginning of December so a fake tree works better rather than having someone come water it for us. Anyhow, some Christmas decorations will be up before Thanksgiving (it takes a week to get it all up)but the tree and outside is always done the day after Thanksgiving and if it was up to me it would come down Christmas Day after the presents are opened but I digress. December 26th it is. I’ve yet to see my tree assembled or out of the box so I’m anxious to get it up but it can still wait until after Thanksgiving. My daughter keeps wanting me to listen to Christmas music and I’m just not ready yet….
  14. I gave up on Hallmark Christmas movies a few years ago but will watch Biltmore Christmas. Got tons of media around here when it was being made and it has a time travel element which I’m always a sucker for. For those old people like me if you remember the Richy Rich series of movies (McCaully Caulkin- Home Alone fame) those were filmed at the Biltmore as well.
  15. I own about 10 winter jackets but not the designer kind Hallmark movie people wear. It gets cold where I live and I am gifted a winter jacket almost every year and hang on to things so I digress. A few years ago I had my first real Hallmark movie Christmas experience. I took my three kids to the local Christmas tree lighting complete with decorated gazebo, Mr. And Mrs. Clause strolling the sidewalk, roasted chestnuts, Christmas Carolers, Hot Chocolate etc. it was certainly magical but this was also located in Biltmore Village (in other words at the “free” part of the Biltmore experience in Asheville).
  16. The only soft spot I have for Austin is his sisters tragic death. I go to Chimney Rock once a year with my own kids and there is a fence around the area where I presume his sister fell. I live in the area and am very picky about where I take my kids hiking partly because of his story and witnessing a lot of unsafe situations on these mountains mostly due to little parent supervision. Just the other week a hiker fell to her death on the parkway. The last time I actually hiked Chimney Rock my kids were little. The elevator was down and we climbed the 499 steps to get to the top. My daughter was an infant so I had her strapped to me. After we were done we climbed down and I put her in her stroller and a rock slide occurred. I went to take the older ones to the bathroom while a family member stayed with her. Heard a terrible rumbling sound and ran out to see a boulder headed her way. My family member abandoned her dog and saved my kiddo. I love where I live but it’s not a place to be taken lightly either.
  17. I’m mooching off my brothers cable right now and have no way to fast forward or pause. I usually catch this on Hulu the next day but decided to watch live despite all of the above. I thought the episode moved much better this week for the 90 minute format. Was sad to see J&V eliminated this week but was glad to see Yeremi and Liam go on. I have a soft spot for their brother story and find it amusing because my oldest son is named Jeremy Liam and his younger brother is close in age. I could see them doing the race together once they grow out of these pesky pre teen, teenage years. My boys love to fish but they know I’m of no help to them when it comes to taking a fish off the line. My 11 year old handles them much better than the 14 year old though. I’d be squealing too if I had to touch those eels. .
  18. Mountainair

    NHL Thread

    That’s so cool you chat with your brother too! He got me really into watching hockey last year. My boys have played inline hockey with a local league for years though. Last Christmas my brother treated all of us and our parents (8 people) to third row seats to a game. It was awesome! I love the #CauseChaos hashtag this season!!!! 8:30 game tonight and I have tomorrow off!!
  19. Mountainair

    NHL Thread

    I’m just glad to have a Carolina team worth pulling for. My Panthers are letting me down spectacularly and I’m not much into college football. These west coast games are going to kill me though. I stayed up until almost 2 this morning watching last nights game texting with my brother. Can’t do that during the week. It was a great game ending in a shoot out and we are still undefeated!
  20. I don’t mean to derail the whole momentum of this conversation but I’m having a hard time focusing on the episodes this season. I’ve still only made it part way through last weeks episode several times before switching to something else. I do love the triplet baby song that Steve Martin does. I also found it funny that in the opener Mabel doesn’t think (Short) should be released from the hospital after five days and a stent placement. Girl, these hospitals get you in and out. My son has had two stent surgeries for his heart this past year at a top children’s hospital. Fall risk wrist bands included and we stay one night and I have to request a damn wheelchair and wheel him out myself. He’s 11 but still…. Alright off to finish this episode before tomorrow.
  21. I was excited to have something back to watch. Even though we are talking about Virgin River. It’s as maddening as watching most Hallmark shows. I still haven’t finished watching the first episode as I keep pausing it and finding other things to do but I have to chime in and say the hospital scene where Mel’s mom is dying and the nurse tries to distract a child Mel really grated (as do most scenes of this show). The nurse had Mel take her blood pressure in her damn elbow pit! I know it was meant to be a distraction but at least but the BP cuff on the proper way! Sorry- as a mom of a kid with a Congenital Heart Defect who spends my life worrying about and taking his blood pressure that scene just grated!
  22. Yea don’t get me started on American Health Insurance. 2022 we qualified under the ACA as a family of five. We purchased a plan that was affordable monthly. My kids never get hurt, sick, blah, blah, blah. My daughter breaks her arm twice (!) needing four surgeries including rods placed in her arm. My son is diagnosed with a rare heart defect requiring multiple echos, ct scans and eventually surgery. My oldest son was diagnosed ADHD and of course our plan doesn’t cover mental health. So I’m paying out of pocket for his meds $150.00 a month and therapy &150.00 month. Meanwhile I’ve met our $16,000 deductible and am drowning in medical bills. Me and my husband both work but took pay cuts for the ever elusive promise of raises and the kids are on Medicaid as of 2023 but I still owe close to $10,000 for one crappy year. Hopefully no more broken bones but my son will always need surgery. Never started a GoFundMe even though it was suggested to me. Just doesn’t feel right. We work. We provide. We have close family to help if need be. We just have tons of debt :(
  23. Me and my husband were literally just reminiscing about Pee Wee Herman last night after our 13 year old brought him up out of the blue. Crazy!! Playhouse was always must watch for us as kids!
  24. Loved this episode! I like that so far this season seems to be moving the plot along instead of treading water on the same dull storylines season after season. I have to say though that I was pretty triggered this whole episode and had a hard time holding back tears. We just returned home yesterday after my 10 year old son underwent his 2nd heart surgery in 9 months from a rare undiagnosed heart defect that didn’t present until last summer. He was in fact sleeping in bed next to me while I watched because he had spiked a fever and I wanted to monitor him through the night. As a non book reader the practical side of me wonders how Roger and Bri expect to jump through the stones and get medical care with no insurance, no address, no birth certificate or social security number for Amanda but with a lot of stuff on this show I have to suspend reality and just go with it :)
  25. Yes. The ending sucked. And I don’t like things where dogs die but at least it was done off screen. I haven’t seen Kaley in anything since Big Bang Theory and enjoyed her performance here even if it is typecast. I may check out The Flight Attendant because this definitely left me wanting more. I liked the two male leads and know I’ve seen them in other things so I’ll have to go look that up. It was funny seeing Ruby’s husband played by the guy that got his foot ran over by the tractor in Mad Men! He’s aged a bit or they aged him up for this. A bit too many gratuitous sex scenes for my liking especially since I binged this yesterday and today in the hospital.I mostly FFW through those. My 10 year old had heart surgery and he was in la la land and it was the perfect distraction for me.
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