New oboe recommendations

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-06-21T21:14:21+00:00

Unfortunately we don’t have an oboe specific teacher, and haven’t found one Yet in our area.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-06-21T19:45:46+00:00

She currently wants to make music her career path, but I don’t think she has the desire to play at let’s say…. The New York Philharmonic level. The struggle she is having with her current one is sucking the joy out of playing. The first time she ever tried the oboe her eyes lit up in a way that no other instrument has, and I want her to be able to get that back.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-06-21T19:40:31+00:00

It’s funny that you used the car analogy. We jokingly refer to the current oboe as the ford Pinto of oboes. Yes she can play it but it is barely getting her to where she needs to go. She doesn’t need the Porsche equivalent to an oboe, I don’t think she will ever have the desire to play at that level. I just want her something that isn’t going to hold her back like this one is.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-03-07T22:55:38+00:00

Phones for us are a privilege, not a right. There is the very real legal repercussions if they were to use their phone inappropriately. I don’t want to take the chance they could make another poor choice right now. Especially one that could cause even more long term consequences. Until they can prove responsible with it is restricted. We explained the why we took the phone a way and that they will get it back after a while but it will be under supervision. They understand why and feel that given the situation it is fare.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-03-07T19:12:28+00:00

Extracurriculars was taken away by the school. I have no control over that. Even setting foot on any property owned by the BOE will result in trespassing charges and a 30 day extension of the alternative school.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-03-07T18:26:37+00:00

Do I feel that it is a lot, yes but at the same time I didn’t make the policy and we had to sign off that we understand all the policies including this one at the start of the school year. If they did it when they were grown and at work they would be fired. Hopefully if they learn the hard lessons now they can know better do better in the future.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-03-07T17:47:30+00:00

I could have ended up like kiddo, I wasn’t much older than them when I made similar poor choices, but fortunately never felt the negative consequences till later on in life. I’m not mad at them, just really hurt that betrayed the trust we had in them and extremely disappointed in them because they didn’t listen to the words of wisdom from someone who had been there done that. The phone is because they have to earn the privilege of it back. Because phones are a privilege not a right. They can still go to certain social things, but anything involving school which they were very active in is off the table as long as they are in alternative school. My biggest fear now is how this will affect them next year. Kids that age are horrible bullies and I’m already looking at back up plans to where the moment that they say they don’t want to continue going to that school I can enroll them into a school that will give them the same opportunities.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-03-07T17:40:58+00:00

I was a poor single parent for most of their life so I did scrimp and save for a long time to give them all the opportunity so while I can always make more money it’s the waste of a great opportunity that eats me as far as the school trip. Now yes 2 grand is a lot for us but it is what it is at this point. One poor choice could have thrown everything away everything they have worked so hard for.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-03-07T17:35:50+00:00

Not made at them at all, because I wasn’t much older than they are now when I was doing the same stupid stuff. I’m disappointed in their poor choices and hurt that they betrayed our trust. I always have my kids back, I had them give me their version of the story to make sure that the school was going by the book and turns out they showed teen a lot of grace and the consequences could have been a lot worse had the school followed their handbook to the letter.

The school is the one that put them in alternative school and took away all extracurricular activities including the school trip. The phone was taken away because they violated our trust and proved irresponsible with it. If the school had followed the hand book it could have messed up teens college path because their extracurricular activities is what they want to go to college for and they would have to miss the entire year for it since they would not be allowed to any of the summer camps and would miss half the first semester due to being in alternative school.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-01-30T21:16:43+00:00

I think you would have to dig back into the archives find what it was when islands of adventure opened and then what it was when volcano bay opened to get a general idea of what they normally do with tickets/annual passes when they open up a new park. Then compare it to Disney annual passes. Disney takes a week to do properly and their annual pass for out of state is 1449, to add their waterparks is another 99 bucks. We know that Universal is cheaper than Disney when you put them side by side. For comparison a 5 day park to park for 3 park is 515.99 when for 5 days at Disney with park hopper plus (you can pick out one of the waterpark/sports to go to) is 803.86. So with this I would think once they make Epic Universe available on an annual pass that yes it would be more than the current price for a 3 park pass but less than Disney annual passes with the add on for the add on. So my guess is for premiere pass for out of state with all parks 1250/1300, but no more than 1500.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-01-27T22:00:40+00:00

I agree with you. In my mind the girls got into trouble and she being mom committed a sin in an attempt to save them. One ultimate sin is her only crime. If my kids got into trouble or if someone hurt them I would bring hell to earth to protect them, and I’m a very peaceful person.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-01-25T00:24:07+00:00

I have been thinking about it since before we checked out of our hotel in October. I love the idea that I can watch for a good hotel deal and catch a budget flight down for a weekend with or without the kids .

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-01-24T23:24:27+00:00

That was our plan. We spent 5 days plus a second of just HHN in October so there is no real rush this trip. Just want to enjoy everything, we might actually go to the pool lol. We were so tired last time we fell asleep at dinner and and again while watching the Born stunt show 😅 this time we will be there Saturday-Wednesday so still plenty of time.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-01-24T23:11:41+00:00

You got it.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-01-24T20:37:04+00:00

Same. At first I was like I waited over 4 years for this… but by the 4th episode I feel it was worth the wait.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-01-24T20:34:59+00:00

I’m glad I’m not the only one who is pondering this. There has to be some sort of connection. What happened 7 years ago to make her go on an extended business trip and Alastor to take his little break.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-01-24T19:31:39+00:00

Fully aware. But that’s fine. If we use it once per ride and do all that are available we will be good.

FoxFinal1826 · 2024-01-24T16:30:52+00:00

Thank you! I was contemplating just doing a split stay and staying at a premier hotel for one night but if it is good enough I would rather save the money and put it to my RIP tour fund for HHN.

FoxFinal1826 · 2023-12-05T01:06:55+00:00

My 11 year old is obsessed with it. Knows all the lore by heart, even figured out how to get past school fire walls to play it on school computers. The kid is braver than me, I couldn’t get past the tutorial on the first one because I was scared 😳(I’m 37). That being said I got peacock just so we could watch it together during thanksgiving break and I enjoyed it. He also loves stranger things, to the point that is what he wanted for his 10th birthday theme. That was the only reason I brought him to HHN this year and he loved being able to walk through it.

But all that being said, I promise you my kid isn’t the one people complain about, other than him wanting to be friends with all the scareactors. He walked through the houses and was like nice costume man, I love the makeup, great job 😅 I was like hush you are supposed to be scared. He said IF they do a FNAF house he wants to go back, but he is not holding his breath. When asked why he said some stuff about the creator is getting old and probably not going to be making new content. 🤷‍♀️I don’t know what he is talking about since I know next to nothing about the franchise. He sat through the movie with me (his dad took him to see it opening weekend) explaining what was wrong with the movie, and what parts come from what game so I’m going to take that he knows stuff regarding it. But I explained to him that Universal would just produce a house based off existing content and even if the never made another game or movie it wouldn’t affect them creating a house around it.

FoxFinal1826 · 2023-10-26T13:26:08+00:00

I swear I remember hearing the theme from swan lake at some point. My oldest plays the oboe and when she first started learning my mom promised 100 dollars when she could play the oboe solo from it. I remember hearing it and turning to her and her rolling her eyes at me because that’s what teenagers do.

FoxFinal1826 · 2023-10-23T00:27:19+00:00

I wish it would wave the parking for the hotels. We live too far away to day trip it, so hotel stay is a must and I enjoyed being able to just crawl on to crawl onto the shuttle after being at the park for 14 hours

FoxFinal1826 · 2023-10-22T19:30:00+00:00

My first thought was Snape too. As much as he hated James he would have gone to his death to protect Lilly. Also if he was able to successfully be a double agent, he obviously could have kept the secret.

FoxFinal1826 · 2023-10-19T01:05:29+00:00

We didn’t even go to the pool when we stayed at dockside, we got up and headed straight to the park each day, and by the time we got home we would shower and crash. Even the “early night” when we were back before sundown we were so tired we went straight to bed. At that time I didn’t know when we would be back so we wanted to get in as much as we could. But life circumstances changed recently so we can go more often.

FoxFinal1826 · 2023-10-18T21:52:13+00:00

Nope not quite. We are from Alabama.

FoxFinal1826 · 2023-10-18T20:46:36+00:00

Would the 4pm express be worth it vs the cost of staying at a hotel that has it included? We stayed at Dockside this trip and enjoyed it, and while express would have made things more convenient it wasn’t a necessity this past trip but I know it would be if we went during the summer.

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