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Well she's rejected the sticker chart. Asked her the first few times if she wanted a sticker and it was a resounding no. However we have had very few accidents, even with a morning out to our art class. This afternoon she's running round the garden naked and taken herself off to her potty a few times so it's definitely going in the right direction. From tomorrow it's nurserys problem and then her dad's as I'm away Friday and Saturday night 😂
 
Lady Kelly said:
Well she's rejected the sticker chart. Asked her the first few times if she wanted a sticker and it was a resounding no. However we have had very few accidents, even with a morning out to our art class. This afternoon she's running round the garden naked and taken herself off to her potty a few times so it's definitely going in the right direction. From tomorrow it's nurserys problem and then her dad's as I'm away Friday and Saturday night 😂
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The last child was given cheap versions of My Little Pony. I think my mother gave me a 12 pack of them. She was given the same ones over and over, and it worked. She was actually done 24/7 within about two weeks. I know I got very lucky with my LOs though.
Oh! The oldest knew those disposable training pants were just diapers. He didn’t have a problem as soon as I put him in underwear.
 
Just need a cuddle tbh. I feel like I’ve failed :( I’ve had so much time off my maths class because my gastritis, I don’t think I can take my exam and am going to have to redo it. I had the opportunity to do make up workshops these last two weeks but I’m just unable to do much, when eating hurts and you’re constantly chucking up any food that goes in what are you meant to do? Waiting on the hospital to ring me back with a referral… just feel so defeated. I should be better than this
 
Rivervixen said:
Just need a cuddle tbh. I feel like I’ve failed :( I’ve had so much time off my maths class because my gastritis, I don’t think I can take my exam and am going to have to redo it. I had the opportunity to do make up workshops these last two weeks but I’m just unable to do much, when eating hurts and you’re constantly chucking up any food that goes in what are you meant to do? Waiting on the hospital to ring me back with a referral… just feel so defeated. I should be better than this
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Please don’t feel like a failure. This is hopefully a (big) ditch in the road. You will hopefully be able to bridge it and continue on your journey. You have done well to get to this stage and I believe you can do it again ❤️
 
Siikibam said:
Please don’t feel like a failure. This is hopefully a (big) ditch in the road. You will hopefully be able to bridge it and continue on your journey. You have done well to get to this stage and I believe you can do it again ❤️
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Thank you :( I was incredibly close to finishing as well which is a bigger kick in the teeth.. being kind to myself is something I struggle with so hopefully I can find a way to x
 
Week 3 of the bus strike. I'm half way through my working week and exhausted. The heat really isn't helping my extra walking/wait (going to work isnt too bad but coming home I have over an hour to wait and a mile to walk to the bus station). By the time I'm getting in, eating, showering and preparing my dinner for the next day it can be close to 10pm and I'll just be sitting down.
 
Someone offered to put my bin out for me (they get emptied tomorrow, we move our bins to the gate on the Wednesday and someone else shifts them to the street either late the Wednesday evening or very early the Thursday morning) and I said yes, thank you! They asked which bin, and I said green bin with blue lid, which is for our plastic/glass bottles and aluminium/steel cans.

I just had to go take the green bin with the blue lid to the drop off point because they put out the dark green bin (unicolour, with a dark green lid) instead. Grumble.
 
When people say animals don't have souls. I'm a Christian, I believe in Heaven. Animals don't just die, they DO cross that Rainbow Bridge. Animals have more soul than humans do. Change my mind.
 
Guinea Pigs 'n Things said:
When people say animals don't have souls. I'm a Christian, I believe in Heaven. Animals don't just die, they DO cross that Rainbow Bridge. Animals have more soul than humans do. Change my mind.
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Of course animals have souls! All living creatures have souls. How are they living if they don't have souls? Surely your soul is who you are.
 
Guinea Pigs 'n Things said:
When people say animals don't have souls. I'm a Christian, I believe in Heaven. Animals don't just die, they DO cross that Rainbow Bridge. Animals have more soul than humans do. Change my mind.
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I'm a Christian too, but I don't believe animals have souls. God created all humans in his likeness, and we can do things animals can't. We can love, we can create, we can learn. Sure, you can say animals can love, but not like us, we love selflessly. Animals love you for the things YOU GIVE them, not just for you. Animals create on instinct. You don't see a bunch of monkeys go out and build a skyscraper. Animals can learn, but not nearly as advanced as us. Guinea pigs can learn to turn circles, but they can't learn fractions. Animals weren't created in God's image, therefore they can't have souls. Only we have souls. When animals die, there're gone. Forever. Believe me, I've had animals that I loved die, I know it makes the pain easier to bear if you think he/she is still alive and happy somewhere. But that's just fantasy.
You may think it isn't fair. Why should you live forever (if you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior) and not your pets? The answer: man brought sin upon itself In the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve yielded to sin and ate from the Tree of Good and Evil, even though God had forbade them to (Genesis 3). Our punishment is to die. If we didn't disobey God, then people and animals alike would live forever.

@Guinea Pigs 'n Things, you said animals have more soul than people. That's wrong, because animals can't sin, they can't talk. If your pet could talk there would definitely be arguments. @Betsy, you asked how animals could live if they don't have souls. They live because they have a beating heart, food, etc. (I know that was a rhetorical question.)

I do believe though that there will be creatures in heaven that remind you of your pet on earth.
 
The pigeons have nicked our strawberries, and picked the gooseberry bush clean! Husband has just spent some time scouring the CCTV cameras for the culprits as he couldn't believe a bird had done such a neat job. 😂🤦
Now we need to invest in some anti-bird protection ready for next time.
 
My cat Harrison who is 14 this summer is worrying me just lately. I think it's because it's warm but he will just not come in apart from to be fed. He sits at the back door but won't come in when we open the back door. At first I thought it was because our two younger cats, Austin and Morris who are indoor cats were bothering him but they've been here for 3 years and we've never had this problem. He has a cat house outside and we leave the summer house open for him but he worries me being out all night :(
 
Grump. Did some washing this morning. I use a scented detergent (for myself, the goblins get fragrance free stuff) and I don't know if I just somehow skipped putting the detergent in but I just took it out of the machine to put on the airer (yes, yes, I always leave it til the last minute) and it doesn't smell right. Not that musty smell of Didn't Take Out The Clothes Quickly Enough, but there's just...nothing. I'll have to redo it tomorrow :no: and I was hoping to get the goblins stuff done tomorrow, sigh.
 
Just had to soak my feet for 5 minutes in cool water before I came to bed as they felt like they were on fire. Very odd! I'm blaming all the extra walking I'm having to do!

All I've seen today on my walk to the bus stop is driving instructors. Then I find out someone I work with has just decided to learn to drive, rang an instructor up has a lesson this weekend... all this in the space of a week!
 
You make some great points. We are made in God's likeness. And are the most intelligent. The part about humans being more selfless than, say, dogs... people suck. I still say... agree to disagree. It was kind of a stupid post to begin with, as I'm not really here to have a religious debate. I only mentioned I was Christian to show that I do religiously believe in an afterlife. Not to say my belief is superior or anything. I hope you have a nice day!

Adelyn said:
I'm a Christian too, but I don't believe animals have souls. God created all humans in his likeness, and we can do things animals can't. We can love, we can create, we can learn. Sure, you can say animals can love, but not like us, we love selflessly. Animals love you for the things YOU GIVE them, not just for you. Animals create on instinct. You don't see a bunch of monkeys go out and build a skyscraper. Animals can learn, but not nearly as advanced as us. Guinea pigs can learn to turn circles, but they can't learn fractions. Animals weren't created in God's image, therefore they can't have souls. Only we have souls. When animals die, there're gone. Forever. Believe me, I've had animals that I loved die, I know it makes the pain easier to bear if you think he/she is still alive and happy somewhere. But that's just fantasy.
You may think it isn't fair. Why should you live forever (if you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior) and not your pets? The answer: man brought sin upon itself In the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve yielded to sin and ate from the Tree of Good and Evil, even though God had forbade them to (Genesis 3). Our punishment is to die. If we didn't disobey God, then people and animals alike would live forever.

@Guinea Pigs 'n Things, you said animals have more soul than people. That's wrong, because animals can't sin, they can't talk. If your pet could talk there would definitely be arguments. @Betsy, you asked how animals could live if they don't have souls. They live because they have a beating heart, food, etc. (I know that was a rhetorical question.)

I do believe though that there will be creatures in heaven that remind you of your pet on earth.
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Guinea Pigs 'n Things said:
You make some great points. We are made in God's likeness. And are the most intelligent. The part about humans being more selfless than, say, dogs... people suck. I still say... agree to disagree. It was kind of a stupid post to begin with, as I'm not really here to have a religious debate. I only mentioned I was Christian to show that I do religiously believe in an afterlife. Not to say my belief is superior or anything. I hope you have a nice day!
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:) Yeah, I know how stupid people are getting these days. It's all about me, me, me, me. It's really irritating. More than irritating. As for politics, UGH. That's all I will say on that matter. As Christians, all we can do is pray for these people and show them love.

I hope you have a nice day too! :D
 
We're going on holiday on 25th July to Cape Verde and I'm already stressing about having funny turns / seizures, chaos at the airport and the taxi not turning up. I booked the taxi back in October as there are 6 of us going so we need a mini bus. I've just ended up emailing them to make sure we're still booked and am feeling anxious awaiting the reply. Why am I like this :(
 
Claire W said:
We're going on holiday on 25th July to Cape Verde and I'm already stressing about having funny turns / seizures, chaos at the airport and the taxi not turning up. I booked the taxi back in October as there are 6 of us going so we need a mini bus. I've just ended up emailing them to make sure we're still booked and am feeling anxious awaiting the reply. Why am I like this :(
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It’s good to check. I’d do the same. I’m sure they have your booking. Have a lovely time away.
 
weepweeps said:
It’s good to check. I’d do the same. I’m sure they have your booking. Have a lovely time away.
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Thank you. She's just emailed me back and they have my booking. Just I wasn't sure if the price I had been quoted had changed due to increasing fuel costs and I've never got a taxi to the airport before so have been worrying in case it didn't turn up. I just hope that all the airport chaos has died down by then as that's worrying me too :(
 
Sar said:
My brother
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Brothers are a right pain. I've never got on with mine. We've just about tolerated each other for the last 6 years but only because we've to. Thankfully he lives about 4 hours away. Loads of people think he's lovely because he turns on his "charm the birds from the trees" mode.
 
My sister probably says the same thing about me, tbh, she and I haven't seen or spoken to each other in about a decade. There was a point where her number got merged with the PALS office of Pennine Care (I don't actually know how, but it was a mistake on my end) and she left me a voice mail going yeah, I think you're ringing the wrong person. Other than that, nothing. Families can be very odd.
 
Betsy said:
Brothers are a right pain. I've never got on with mine. We've just about tolerated each other for the last 6 years but only because we've to. Thankfully he lives about 4 hours away. Loads of people think he's lovely because he turns on his "charm the birds from the trees" mode.
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I despise him. I find it hard to believe we came from the same parents and had the same upbringing!
He's been off all week, meant to have been sorting his room out (its like a hoarders paradise) because if not his notice period was up and he was out. Excuse this time was he's "poorly" and waited until Sunday afternoon to start! He's tried putting 4 massive bags of rubbish in the bin, yet black bin day was only on Friday and he said he had no rubbish and now the whole house is a mess with stuff to get rid of in various places. I've achieved nothing that I wanted to get done myself and he upset mum so much that she was crying down the phone to a friend.

In the future, I can't really see us having any sort of meaningful relationship. We don't have one now.
 
Sar said:
I despise him. I find it hard to believe we came from the same parents and had the same upbringing!
He's been off all week, meant to have been sorting his room out (its like a hoarders paradise) because if not his notice period was up and he was out. Excuse this time was he's "poorly" and waited until Sunday afternoon to start! He's tried putting 4 massive bags of rubbish in the bin, yet black bin day was only on Friday and he said he had no rubbish and now the whole house is a mess with stuff to get rid of in various places. I've achieved nothing that I wanted to get done myself and he upset mum so much that she was crying down the phone to a friend.

In the future, I can't really see us having any sort of meaningful relationship. We don't have one now.
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My Late Mum apologised to me that he was my brother. All communication had completely broken down between them and it was from his side not hers. She went to Heaven with the relationship not sorted out between them. She tried so very hard to mend it but he just didn't want to know. We had the same upbringing and I adored my Mum.
 
I’m sorry for those of you who have a difficult relationship with your siblings. Sometimes people are just different, even if they had exactly the same upbringing. Just be happy that you make your parents proud with how you turned out.

It is painful but if a relationship doesn’t bring you any joy and is a stress then perhaps it needs to be let go of. Would you tolerate it from a friend? Sorry ☹️ 💜
 
Siikibam said:
I’m sorry for those of you who have a difficult relationship with your siblings. Sometimes people are just different, even if they had exactly the same upbringing. Just be happy that you make your parents proud with how you turned out.

It is painful but if a relationship doesn’t bring you any joy and is a stress then perhaps it needs to be let go of. Would you tolerate it from a friend? Sorry ☹️ 💜
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The saying that goes "you can choose your friends not your relatives" is very true. I would certainly not choose my brother as my friend. My brother in law yes as we get on very well but not my brother.
 
When parents/adults of a pet parent or pet parent wannabe don't want pets, don't want more pets, think proper care is too expensive, or want to rehome pets. In general. It sucks. Children will lead us. There's something about this stupid world that puts stupid blinders on people the older they get.
 
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