The LED lights used these days are pretty cheap to run, and you can get cheap usb grow light sets with a built in timer. You just don't want then anywhere you are looking too often, they are often coloured lights which make your vision go funny when you look at them too long.
I mostly use them for raising summer seeds indoors and growing basil over winter. I wouldn't go overboard in trying to do an indoor setup, but a small system for a few herbs or seedlings is quite affordable these days.
I think the specifics of how you raise your kids is less important than whether or not you respect them as individuals that will change, grow and decide their own direction in life. Toxic relationships between parents and children pretty much all boil down to treating the child as if they are subordinate to your own thoughts and feelings. That might be using a child to try to fill gaps in your life (like having children in the expectation that they will provide you with unconditional love), trying to control what they do for work, who they have relationships with etc.
Being responsive to your child's wants and needs and building a relationship based on that will always work far better than envisaging a relationship you want and trying to fit your child into that vision. The same applies to any relationship really - getting to know each other and working to create a mutually satisfying relationship over time takes both work and openness to knowing each other.
Woof Woof! ๐๐ช๐ฅฉ๐
If I can get the trade in for near the top of the range on RedBook (its very low mileage, so I should) plus $500 off the advertised price I'll be happy, but I'm going to try for a bit lower. I don't know that my negotiation skills are up to that, but guess I'll find out.
Oh dear. I hope it was not too full.
This possibly happened to maintain the balance of jam jar karma within the DT, as I had the good fortune to pick up a good (empty) jam jar from the food cupboard this morning, The universe added to my jam jar collection and took from yours.
Well, not much from me. Mr Woof sometimes gets a bit enthusiastic in his rolling around and he's been known to rip the doona off the bed to show dominance to passing delivery people, but so far the sheet has escaped unscathed ๐คฃ
Vehicle finances are worked out and I have a short list of vehicles to look at on Wednesday. Hopefully number 1 on my list will be ok (and still available) and I don't have to keep looking. I don't really enjoy looking at cars. Don't tell the salesmen, but I'll probably pay more just so I can get it over and done with.
The one I am looking at is just out of warranty period and is sold through a Ford dealership that offers a three year mechanical warranty on the used cars. Would it make sense for me to skip the vehicle inspection in this case?
I found the sheets I have are not very generous with sizing for the flat sheets either, there was not enough fabric to actually tuck under at the top or bottom of the mattress. If it is an issue I will sew an extra length of fabric on to allow tucking, but so far it has stayed on well anyway.
That's the plan at some point. But as I do have access to microsoft office without needing to pay for it, so I'm not in a rush. I have some stupidly complicated formulas and conditional formatting in there, so it's highly likely that something won't translate across. I want to have plenty of time to play around with it when I do give it a try.
I've taken the next step in reducing Microsoft's presence in my life: I've just notified my mother that I'm cancelling my subscription at the next renewal and she will be back on the free plan.
It is not much of a sacrifice as I still have full access to all the programs through both work and uni, but I won't be paying them (which was primarily for my cloud storage). I might look at LibreOffice at some point, but the main thing I use is a complicated spreadsheet for my budget and it is highly likely something will break if I try it in a different program.
I need to move back to the heavy doona, I've still got my light summer doona on the bed and needed the electric blanket last night.
As a bonus that means I will get to use one of my new (to me) fancy patterned flat sheets I was given, which will match the doona covers for the heavy doona perfectly. I have king sized wool doonas for winter & have moved to folding them between two sheets instead of using an actual cover, which is easier to change (especially because the covers have shrunk or something and don't fit well). I like the patterns on my covers so I have cut and hemmed them to be the flat sheet on top and the two patterned sheets I was given will match them really well as the folded over top sheet.
I've also moved to having flat sheets on the bed instead of fitted. I was getting frustrated with fitted sheets that had been cut without enough fabric on the sides and with dodgy elastic, so I was planning on making fitted sheets from the flats, but I have found that just using them as is has been working fine too so I think I'll just stick with that.
Support is absolutely critical. But like the scaffolding on a rocket that is designed to fall away as it takes flight, not like a permanent cage that prevents growth.