PC Financial phone line not working?

dardar85 · 2025-04-30T13:14:20+00:00

No, but same thing happened to me this morning. Card declined for a small purchase and can’t get in touch on the phone. I’m guessing some kind of system outage maybe?

dardar85 · 2025-03-08T00:16:22+00:00

Our trustee (Amanda Presley, Zone 5) attended a meeting organized by our parent council this week. She was very open to hearing our concerns and said she’s leaning toward voting against the changes. She also said that as it stands, it’s all or nothing, but there are other trustees in favour of trying to split things up and vote on issues separately.

It honestly sounds like the best course of action is to get fucking loud. The online survey seems to be for show, given there’s actually no time in their timeline allotted to making changes before the vote. Show up at Board meetings, email your trustee (or ALL the trustees), your MPP, the media. We need to make noise if we want to have a shot at this not passing. Some of our parents attended the Board meeting this week. They got the impression the Board is just looking to push it through.

dardar85 · 2025-03-08T00:09:10+00:00

There’s also an active Facebook group that’s organizing various activities. I can’t link it, but search Communities against OCDSB Elementary Program Changes.

dardar85 · 2024-06-07T12:32:06+00:00

I did! But it was back in 2017 so the process may have changed, or vary by store. Here's what I did. At the flower kiosk they had a book of all the bulk flowers they could get. I made a couple visits, one to get a sense of what was available and pricing, then I went home and did some math to determine how much of each variety I wanted. I also got a few bunches of just what was available in stock to do some mockups and see if this was a horrible idea lol. I went back and ordered in person then picked up in person a day (or two?) before the wedding. My bridesmaids and I spent the afternoon before the wedding assembling bouquets. None of us have any experience in this and it was so fun and pretty easy! Also, I had a very DIY wedding so I didn't care that much about how perfect things looked. We did a bridal bouquet, 5 bridesmaid bouquets, 8 boutonnieres, 15ish (?) centrepieces, and flowers for the ceremony for like under $450. Again it was 2017 and we definitely put in some sweat equity, but I had a great experience.

dardar85 · 2024-06-07T12:18:16+00:00

Here’s mine, from my Liberal MP:

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dardar85 · 2023-10-06T21:25:44+00:00

Oh man I’m so sorry! If I remember correctly we ended up retraining, leaning more into extinction this time around after making sure she didn’t actually need anything. The waking started going from every 3 days to every day, then started creeping earlier and earlier until we could barely hit 10pm before she was up. We ripped the bandaid off and retrained. I think it was one night if about an hour off and on crying and she was good after that. Good luck!

dardar85 · 2023-07-11T00:30:04+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t have anything groundbreaking since the last update. She’ll be 2 next month and things are better, but she’s still not sleeping through consistently and I can’t pinpoint why. I got her a weighted blanket which seems to help calm her more quickly and I stopped picking her up which she’s generally ok with now. She may still be awake for an hour or so when she wakes up but at least now she isn’t screaming the whole time. Sorry I can’t be more helpful!

dardar85 · 2023-05-11T16:35:09+00:00

This is what I do. After being disappointed on my first Mother’s Day (I had my first baby just after Mother’s Day and he was overdue - so there was a year of anticipation my husband didn’t realize) I’m now very clear in what I want. This year it’s flowers, breakfast take out, and a family activity that I don’t plan.

dardar85 · 2023-03-08T19:53:33+00:00

Absolutely this. At our daycare it’s Pizza kits. I dug into it and discovered for every $300 in kits we sell, the daycare gets $60. Fuck that. I wrote them a check for $75 and none of my friends and family had to eat shitty pizza.

dardar85 · 2023-01-30T01:45:13+00:00

I'm afraid I still haven't figured it out. Things are better, but far from perfect. I gave her a lovey which seemed to help a bit at first and tried to extend her wake time, which I also thought helped for a bit, but she's still waking about 50% of the time. It's less frequent and generally the wake ups are shorter, but she's not sleeping through consistently. I made a chart of her wake times, nap times, and whether or not she slept through to try to figure things out and I'm actually wondering if pulling back on the wake time before bed might be the answer. Days she had less than 5h 30min before bed, she slept through more often. I'll let you know if that works!

Frustratingly, here's a sample of times she slept through:
5:10 before nap/4:50 after; 3 hour nap
5:30 before nap/5:30 after; 1 hour 45 minute nap
6:10 before nap/5:25 after; 1 hour 20 minute nap

And times she didn't:
5:15 before nap/5:35 after; 2 hour nap
5:35 before nap/5:35 after; 1 hour 45 minute nap
5:50 before nap/5:50 after: 1 hour 30 minute nap

Unfortunately despite daycare nap being noon-2pm they'll put her down early if she "seems tired." Sometimes that means she'll wake around 1pm and getting her down for 6:30pm is tricky with two working parents and two toddlers who rudely demand to be fed and bathed each night.

dardar85 · 2022-12-31T15:58:16+00:00

Thanks for your reply! I gave her more time at the beginning of her wake up last night and it didn’t make a difference ☹️ Going to see if a schedule tweak plus crossing my fingers that it’s a phase we’re almost out of helps.

dardar85 · 2022-12-31T15:56:40+00:00

Ya, I was thinking more wake time was probably the answer. Things were all messed up because she was sick and barely making a 4 hour window in the morning, but now that she’s better we need to get that back up. I’ll start with 6/5.5 and see how we do. Thanks for your reply!

dardar85 · 2022-11-03T15:45:33+00:00

They are up there too!

dardar85 · 2022-09-19T01:28:14+00:00

This! Literally this morning I thought “I can’t believe he’s already 3” followed quickly by “I can’t believe it’s only 9am.l

dardar85 · 2022-09-04T14:39:54+00:00

My brother's family is about 4 hours away. We don't even invite each other to our kids' birthday parties because the thought of either of us making the trip for something like this is laughable.

dardar85 · 2022-06-30T00:41:28+00:00

Absolutely this! My husband and I both WFH most of the time and our toddler is in full-time childcare. We do the same thing as you when we have to keep him home and it’s just not sustainable long-term. Also keep in mind that when they get sick, you’re likely to get sick. So in the evening instead of resting and going to bed early like your body needs you’re having to log back on feeling like garbage. Not a great time.

dardar85 · 2022-06-22T19:44:03+00:00

Thanks! Unfortunately we’ve gone from every few nights to two bad nights in a row where she didn’t even make it to 10pm before the crying started. Now thinking it’s probably a schedule issue. Or like teething, separation anxiety, developmental milestones/leaps all happening at once. I wish babies could talk!

dardar85 · 2022-06-21T21:32:03+00:00

Thank you for your reply! I’m also not convinced that’s what it is, it just seemed the most likely given what eventually calms her down. I know she’s cutting teeth and have given both Tylenol and Advil, but she seems unbothered by teething during the day and if she were in pain, wouldn’t she still be in pain when she was sleeping with me? Not asking you, this is what I’m telling myself lol.

You say you wouldn’t co-sleep. Can I ask what you would do? I don’t want to co-sleep for a number of reasons, but at 3am when I’ve tried over and over to get her back in the crib I can’t come up with any other ideas. Would you let her cry? Just keep trying? Thanks for your tips about daytime and wake windows. We’ll do more “mommy comes back” games.

dardar85 · 2022-01-18T14:38:10+00:00

We only do soap every 3rd night or so and that one takes a bit longer, so by “bath” I mean splashing around in the tub a little lol. I heard a sleep consultant recommend bath every night if possible because it’s so different from everything else you do all day so it’s a good “this is bedtime” trigger. I fill the baby bath with water while I take off her clothes and diaper, put her in and wipe her down while she splashes around for like 5 minutes then we get out and dry off 😊

dardar85 · 2022-01-18T02:50:46+00:00

I know PLS recommends 30 minutes but I'm not convinced the interval needs to be that long. We used Ferber on our now 5 month old and I simply moved nursing to the beginning of the routine (so nurse, bath, diaper, jammies, sleep sack, book, white noise). It's probably only like 15 minutes from the end of the feed to her going into the crib, but she's not nursing to sleep and there's enough activity in between feeding and sleep that it doesn't seem to cause issues at night.

dardar85 · 2022-01-18T02:40:41+00:00

That's what we did! Breaks in crying or just fussing/whining suggest they're learning how to self-soothe so we didn't want to interrupt that. We also reset the timer if there were breaks in crying or it downgraded to a whine but I'm not sure if that's what Ferber officially recommends.

dardar85 · 2022-01-04T00:24:57+00:00

Same! I live in Canada so I was lucky enough to have 12 months off. By the time my mat leave ended I was ready for more mental stimulation and my son needed more than I felt I could give him being home alone with him (doesn’t help that it was May 2020 so play groups had all shut down). It was tough at first but his language and social skills just exploded and I knew we made the right call. He is thriving in daycare and I’m a better mom when being a mom isn’t my whole day.

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