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Thank you for posting.

I'm 55 and snow for me just means back-breaking work, but I remember what it was like when I was young.

I had a lot more deep snow when I was a kid. My dad would plow our driveway and leave huge piles of snow at the end. Then I'd go out to play and tunnel through the snow. It was fantastic.

My wife's service-dog-to-be was found abandoned in Mississippi. This is probably the first real snow he's ever seen:

https://youtube.com/shorts/orgksGyd_nw

I think he might have understood how you felt!

He wasn't as happy about it later when he realized it wasn't going to go away that day.

carries the full weight of law

Law? Are we still doing law here?

My doctor thinks I should get down to 230. Personally, I'd prefer to get closer to 205. I'm at about 245 now. That's down from around 300 at my peak.

According to This chart , the ideal weight range for a 6'4" male is 182-222 pounds. A 6'4" female would be 162-198.

Ah. I'd say that's about normal for 14. It won't last forever, but teenagers need a lot of food, and if you're in a guardian role, you're on the hook. I'm not sure what other complaints you might have, but for that one I think you need to come to terms with it. It's unfair to him. Some kids need more food than others, and it might be that your expectations are out of line with reality.

When I was that age, I was working stage crew at the high school one night. My mom brought baked pasta and Pepsi to the school. I ate it. When I got home, she asked me how everyone liked it. I told her I ate it all. She said she made enough for everyone on the crew. I told her she was wrong. She only made enough for me.

Another tidbit from that time: with everything I was eating, I was still barely getting enough. I could eat as much as I wanted at every meal, and I was still deathly skinny. I was 6'4" tall and only 185 pounds. When I was 16 and started dating my future wife, I briefly stopped eating (love struck). I dropped down to 165 in two months. I never noticed at the time, but when I look at pictures from back then, I look like a skeleton with skin stretched over it.

I have three kids and they are all above average height. My wife would make food for the week on Sunday, and by Tuesday morning it was all gone.

My advice is to make sure that he eats one serving at a time. Make it clear that he can come back for more as much as he needs to, but to the extent possible get him in the habit of eating one normal serving and then stopping for 30 minutes. That won't reduce the amount he needs, but it will help him avoid eating more than he needs. That's more for his benefit than yours. It will help him avoid overeating later.

You can tell him I told him so. I stuffed myself at every meal growing up. When I was done growing, it took me decades to unlearn that habit. I ended up gaining a lot of weight. So, I made that rule for my kids and they've all stayed down to a reasonable weight.

How old is her son?

Years ago, our oldest started dating someone whose family always insisted every holiday had to be with her family. Her parents were divorced and split the holidays, so we fell victim to their custody arrangement.

Not unexpected in hindsight, but that relationship eventually imploded. However, others started. We've essentially given up on having holidays on the day.

We had Thanksgiving on November 29th, and we were planning to have Christmas dinner on Saturday. Now there's an ice storm expected on Saturday, so we've shifted to Sunday.

The tree and decorations are set up. In a first for us, nothing is wrapped yet. I'll probably take care of that later today.

We've got some cooking to do, but we have time. I wasn't able to do grocery shopping until yesterday, and they didn't have a lot of things we need. We need to get more ingredients, but that has to wait until tomorrow.

For today, it's going to be a mostly relaxing, chill day.

The dinner we've planned:

We have a beef tenderloin roast and two cans of lump crabmeat to make into crabcakes. Focaccia bread, Caesar salad, mushroom soup, twice-baked potatoes, green beans, and possibly roasted pears and Brussels sprouts.

For dessert Christmas cookies including meringues, and I'm planning on making a chocolate cream roll.

How did you ruin it?

I guess not as well known as some might think.

I think you misunderstood.

The antisemites referenced in the article are not the people falsely labeled as antisemites because they want Israel to stop committing genocide. He's not suddenly pro Palestine. I'm sure Vance hates them too.

The antisemites that Vance is welcoming are real antisemites. Actual Nazis. People who want to murder your Jewish family, friends, and neighbors.

Leo is being trained as a service dog for my wife.

Among other problems, she experiences attacks of low potassium. When it happens, she can't move and can barely speak. However, we have a rescue med that she can take that raises her potassium and gets her back to normal.

That was one of the things we wanted Leo to do. Not so much give her the med, but let me know so that I can and she doesn't spend hours stuck while I'm working. However we had no idea how we were going to teach him. It turns out we didn't have to.

The first time I had to give her the med, he thought it was a treat and jumped on her to try to get some. That happened a few more times. Eventually he just sat there and watched.

One night he was acting strange. He was pacing around, and jumping up on me as if he wanted to climb up into my chair, but then he'd jump down again. After about 20 minutes of that, my wife started to feel an attack coming on. I went out to get the meds, and he hopped into her chair and put his head on her lap.

I gave her the meds and he stayed on her lap until she was ok again.

After that there was a day when I had to be onsite at work. Those are always bad days because by the time she realizes she's having an attack, she can't move, so she can't get the meds on her own. If I'm not there, she's stuck sometimes all day waiting for me to come home. However, Leo took her by the hand and pulled her into the kitchen where we keep her meds while she could still get them herself.

Leo's still a bit of a pain in the ass, and he has a lot of training and maturing to do before he can be certified as a service dog (service dogs don't argue with vacuum cleaners). However, he already figured out the most important thing.

It looks great!!!

Leo decided today that he wouldn't tolerate the robotic vacuum any longer.

https://youtu.be/u2F_ZD0EohE

He argued with her for a long time until I finally couldn't take it any longer and put her in another room.

You don't understand! Epstein told them no one would find out that they were raping children. He lied to them, so they're victims too!

/s

There's a sex offender who likes to barge into underage girls' changing rooms when they're naked. Perhaps we should all report him.

It's working fine making money for people who already have enough. What do you think it should be doing?

He's rotting from the soul out.

If it's not easy being green, I can't imagine how difficult orange is.

Just let go and blame it on the dog!

My parents would do that routinely, but we didn't mind because it was usually asking the lines of, "Hey, we were in the area, and we realized it's been awhile since we took you out for an expensive meal you could never afford on your own. Do you have time to go out for dinner?"

I can't think of a time when it bothered us.

However, I have a "GO AWAY!" doormat at the front door for everyone else.

Good choice!

I was going through DVDs at the thrift store at the end of November, I found Lawrence of Arabia, and was surprised that I didn't already have it in my Emby server.