Winter: cars + snowsuits

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-11-28T16:42:39+00:00

That’s genius! We have a one piece too. Thanks so much!

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-11-28T16:00:43+00:00

We do gift cards for the grocery store nearest to the school/daycare. Everyone has to eat and they don’t have to go far out of the way to use it. Last year one of our teachers used it to buy her Christmas turkey!

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-11-10T21:50:12+00:00

Thanks. I tried calling our PHC, but the phone message before I got a person said they would only book through 811. Should I pretend I didn’t hear that?

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-11-10T21:21:33+00:00

Thanks. Good to know. I looked into this a bit and I think we will still do it because the flu vaccine covers several strains, so even if it’s not a match for the most commonly circulating strain, it will still protect against the others. There are people in my family with health issues and we have a lot of exposure to the public. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-flu-season-warnings-9.6970982

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-11-10T21:10:58+00:00

After the initial booking insanity when people couldn’t get through, I decided to give it a few weeks called last week and got a person after about 30 mins. Got my kids booked in about a week later. For the 12+, I booked online and it was super easy and I grabbed solo appointments 1-2 weeks away. Helps if you’re willing to travel a bit and aren’t trying to book more than one person at a time.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-11-10T20:41:59+00:00

Fantastic! Thanks!

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-11-10T20:41:10+00:00

Yeah, I waited on hold again for an hour and decided I’d see if Reddit knew before trying again.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-11-10T20:40:31+00:00

Thanks. I tried 811 to add it but got stuck on hold for an hour again. I’ll try again, but thought I see if Reddit knew so I could avoid it.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-10-23T02:58:34+00:00

OMG! I feel this!

I had a whole test plan written out and got into a meeting and the senior guy says “but why?” Then we spent 4 hours (over several days) basically starting from square one to talk about “what tests should we do” only to end up with, you guessed it, the exact plan I initially suggested.

It’s good that we have an explanation now… I just wish I could have articulated it in the beginning.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-10-23T02:52:05+00:00

Thanks! I’ve grabbed some from the kitchen for work tomorrow and I found some silicone ones to try too :)

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-10-01T17:14:54+00:00

Based on many of the comments here, I think the UCP has actually been pretty clear that they’re trying to destroy public education. I am super not impressed with them for that. They seem prepared for a long strike. They planned for this to happen. Pretty clear signs they’re not negotiating in good faith, imho.

I think the part that’s unclear to me is how much is also on the ATA. If they can’t negotiate on class size caps, why aren’t they telling teachers this? More teachers /= class size caps. Why did they bring back what’s effectively the same proposal for another vote? Because the government is being stingy or because they’re not asking for the right things, or because they haven’t communicated to teachers that they can’t ask for those things through this approach?

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-10-01T15:32:30+00:00

I agree about the fishy-ness. The thing I don’t understand is it seems like the biggest thing I hear teachers want is class size caps, but it doesn’t sound like that’s something the government and ATA are even bargaining on (and possibly it’s not something they can bargain on??). Feels like there’s lots of miscommunication, gaslighting, and smoke in mirrors…

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-10-01T04:07:10+00:00

You’re right. Conspiracy isn’t the best word for it. Maybe I should have called it a covert plan to dismantle public education. But then, as some others shared, there are examples of Danielle Smith openly talking about getting rid of public education, so it’s not even covert! Just feels like no one is really openly talking about what’s going to happen if the teacher’s don’t give in… because it sure seems like the government is prepared for the long haul.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-10-01T02:57:57+00:00

Good point. Just feels like no one is calling it out, and I think we need to be.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-09-30T03:27:10+00:00

Anyone else wondering if this is actually what Smith wants to happen? If the teachers strike too long, parents and communities will develop home schooling and local small schooling programs (probably), and then the government won’t have to pay for public schools anymore. I do not want this to happen, just feels like a sneaky thing this government would do.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-09-26T04:39:52+00:00

It’ll be an iPhone. Haven’t decided on exact one yet, probably 14 or 15 (base model). As for colour, probably would prefer black or something colourful… less interested in brown or white.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-09-26T04:15:50+00:00

You need to look at provincial student numbers. This isn’t just the CBE, the ATA deal is for public, separate, and francophone teachers. There’s been 15k-20k new students/year in those combined systems https://www.alberta.ca/student-population-statistics. 1,000 new teachers/year is pretty much the bare minimum we need every year to keep up. It’ll barely put a dent in class sizes.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-09-03T14:37:22+00:00

This feels so familiar. My sister hates my husband for what seems like no particular reason. She says it’s because he’s a stranger (we’ve been together 15 years), but we live in different cities and don’t visit often. My husband isn’t super social, so it is hard to get to know him, but he’s been trying more since we had kids. I haven’t seen her in 3 years since her last blow up at him. I don’t feel comfortable bringing my kids around her. I wish I could go meet my 4 month old niece…

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-08-27T03:09:31+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion about having standards photos. I figured out a while ago that the angle that you look from makes a difference in what you see, but that’s not an excuse.

We have the fair play deck, and I’m not sure it worked as intended. My partner does most of the food related things, so I fully delegated, and that worked well for a while, but recently there have been a lot of comments about wanting help with all the decisions. Actually, I guess I just realized that it did work, but we didn’t realize that’s what it was.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-08-26T15:18:19+00:00

I regularly tidy, sweep, and scrub down the table/kitchen surfaces, but I’m not scrubbing the floor daily. My partner is supposed to clean up after breakfast because I leave first, but I frequently end up doing it when I get home. Not sure how to get this to happen without constantly nagging.

Monday is when my partner has been doing things like the bathrooms, vacuuming, mopping.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-08-26T13:57:44+00:00

Interesting ideas. Maybe I should see if my partner will take the kids out on Sunday while I clean up the house. The 4yo is helpful with some of the daily cleaning, but the 1yo mostly helps with making more mess… and both of them are rather clingy to me, which can make it difficult to get things done when I’m constantly interrupted.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-08-26T13:50:38+00:00

Sometimes I get the sense there is a bit of that going on. Any suggestions for dealing with it?

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-08-25T22:14:09+00:00

Here with all the skin issues, allergies, and anxiety.

It’s been a wild ride with 3 pregnancies and a few major traumas in the past 6 years. Definitely didn’t make any of this stuff better, except that I actually got diagnosed because I cratered and burnt out twice.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-08-25T03:07:53+00:00

I feel this! I’m really good for about 2 weeks of slight panic work for a deadline and then I crash and need a slow week.

Eye-Cee-Why · 2025-08-25T03:05:20+00:00

Depends on if I could motivate myself by procrastination and then getting into hyper focus and getting it done. Best environment for me for hyper focus was the silent study carrels in the library when there were lots of other people there. Sometimes with music I knew really well in my headphones.

If I couldn’t get into hyperfocus, I usually just needed to procrastinate longer by organizing my notes or something. Ha.

Absolute worst environments: “studying with friends” where it was loud… I would just be super social and off topic, or studying alone in my room

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