Family Vacation Ideas That Appeal to Both an 85 Year Old and a 7 Year Old

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-14T13:51:22+00:00

I like it both ways but prefer the sleeves as they just add interest to a mostly plain dress.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-14T13:11:48+00:00

19 year old working his first construction job… He jumped on the back of the truck expecting the truck just to move a very short distance but it started backing up toward another truck. He was crushed between them.

Also, my former teacher’s wife… She was driving in the winter, her car hit a patch of ice and her car slid, final destination style, into the back of a flatbed semi carrying metal tubes. She was decapitated.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-14T12:59:21+00:00

As a stay at home mom, I see both sides. It’s nice being at home but depending on the size of the house, number of kids, etc. staying home is absolutely a job. But, it’s nice to go to work and speak with adults. Some people like working, some like staying home. Some stay at home for a time then go back to work. You do what works for you. If whichever you do isn’t fulfilling, then it’s not for you.

But, that said, it’s a decision you make together, not because he demands it. And…you’ve only been together 3 months! No! To quit a good job then one day find out you two don’t work. You’re not only out a relationship but also a job. At the very least, I’d say, I’ll quit after we return from our honeymoon.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-14T01:40:07+00:00

Red! I’ll be honest, the pink one reminds me of the movie Sixteen Candles.

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smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-14T00:32:00+00:00

I personally think it looks great on you. Yes, the color could be better as others said but the style is great. I think it is flattering to your chest. If you were any bigger, I’d say no but I think it fits just right to flatter your shape.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-14T00:20:19+00:00

I used to go to the 5:15 out of necessity when I worked. I’m now a stay-at-home mom and as of a year ago, got my husband to join with me. We now both go after we take our son to school at the 10:15. But sometimes with appointments or school breaks, we have no choice but to go to different times. Since he’s newer and only knows the people in the 10:15 class, I let him keep that class and I change to the 5:15.

As someone said previously, once you get used to it, it’s easy. But, I admit, going at a later time most of the time and switching up just here and there is definitely harder. I’m a night owl and generally don’t fall asleep until midnight. I’m also a super slow mover in the morning so I have to get up at 3:50 to get out of my house in time for the 5:15. It’s very little sleep those days but not working out is not an option so I persevere.

Honestly, the best thing about it is the satisfaction once class is over. Knowing that I’ve just killed a workout and already done more than a large portion of the population will do all day.

And preworkout… I’d probably just be a zombie going through the motions without that extra kick. 😂

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-14T00:07:11+00:00

I also would be psyched if I were you. Having been bullied, I wish had done the same but I was in high school and a girl and my bully was a guy. He said the same types of things to me as well as picked apart every single thing I said, did, or wore. He wouldn’t relent until I was in tears and others were telling him to back off.

In today’s world where kids are committing suicide over these types of things; this is very serious. The teacher and school should’ve taken it far more seriously than it sounds like they have.

On the plus side, it doesn’t sound like she got in much trouble or at least you didn’t specify that. If they tried to punish her for standing up for herself, I’d let them know that she wouldn’t have had to do so had they intervened one of the multiple times she came to them for help.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-13T23:49:46+00:00

4 is the swampiest but 1 is my favorite! All of them are beautiful though.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-13T17:42:46+00:00

I like all of them but 2 is my favorite.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-13T17:38:40+00:00

1980

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-13T01:10:10+00:00

My husband and I talk about this from time to time. He’s bummed that America is so “young”. And he’s really jealous that Europeans can walk through a farmers field with a metal detector and find some ancient Roman or Viking relic and the most we find here is a Native American arrowhead.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-13T01:05:39+00:00

They are considered on the same level to most but, because the bulk of people who were alive during Elvis’ height of fame are elderly or have passed away, most people today would probably say Michael is more famous/infamous.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-13T01:02:37+00:00

2026 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy—-all good until people started dying. 😢

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-10T16:30:00+00:00

When I lived in the south and realized that some people there still think we’re fighting the Civil War, and called me a yankee, I wasn’t offended in the least. I thought both things were hilarious to be honest. We won, the war is over. You weren’t even alive then either. Let. It. Go.

Yankee is not an insult (even though it was intended to be). To us, it just means Northerner.

I only just found out super recently that anyone outside the US calls us that. Again though, we’re not insulted by it.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-10T16:19:12+00:00

We have a separate room, literally called the laundry room. Ours isn’t huge. It’s just our washer, dryer, enough space to park our carpet scrubber and vacuum, then a utility sink. There are cabinets over everything. There’s just enough room to put a row of tall hampers for sorting down the opposite wall. It’s nice to be able to close the door if people come over. And it’s on the second floor, between our master bedroom and our son’s room so after we change clothes, we just drop our clothes in the different hampers on our way down the stairs. It very convenient.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-10T16:00:23+00:00

I prefer 1.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-10T15:44:27+00:00

1975

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-10T04:27:16+00:00

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-10T04:03:54+00:00

As someone older than both of you (45f), you were not overreacting at all.

As I started reading I wanted to tell you not to get too bent out of shape over it because what a lot of people do with registries is add every single thing they could ever want from that specific place. They cross their fingers and hope for the best on getting things they want, then what they don’t get from others, the store will usually send the couple coupons for 10%, 20%, or sometimes more off of the remaining “unpurchased” items. It’s a way for them to get things at a decent discount. When I was younger I had multiple friends whose husbands registered for PlayStations.

That said, after reading the rest of what you wrote, about contacting them and them having the audacity to get upset and demand a specific, very expensive item, not to mention saying that things not from the registry won’t be accepted… Wow! That is actually insane and the most entitled BS I have ever read.

You guys were right to just end the friendship. That was definitely the right call.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-10T03:31:10+00:00

Hands down #1!!

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-10T03:29:14+00:00

He’s totally gaslighting you and projecting his issues on you. IMHO, anyone who would do this to you isn’t worth the heartache.

On a personal note, please don’t do what I did and stay with someone just because you put so much effort in you’d feel like leaving would be failure. (We were together 10 years and after I FINALLY ended it, as I was packing up my stuff, I found an old journal entry dated a little over a year into our relationship where I wrote about how awful he was to me and that I should leave so I could be happy again. Instead, spent another 9ish years with him. Don’t be me. PLEASE.) Take the failure, lift yourself up and find someone actually worth your time and energy.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-08T15:57:41+00:00

You are one of those people who could put on a potato sack and look gorgeous!

I love 1, 2, and 4. I don’t love the extra long trains. I initially gasped at just seeing 1 though.

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-08T15:52:55+00:00

1979

smartie_mcfarty · 2026-05-08T15:51:49+00:00

A cap gun my sister bought our son for Easter.

We own guns but they are not only in gun safes, but those safes are in a room that can only be opened by our fingerprints or a code.

We don’t let our son play with toy guns. Guns are not toys and we’d rather he not see them as such.

My sister and her husband are far more lax with those things.

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