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I’m paying $6400 in Lakewood for a boy.
In Bais Yaakov HS in Toronto- we did Shakespeare, A Tale of Two Cities, Silas Marner and a bunch more that I cant remember :). There’s nothing wrong with being well read and I suspect there is a specific curriculum by the government in order to get a high school diploma.
I don’t have a filter and I don’t have a heter.
My husband owns his own business online and without it we would have basically no parnassah.
I’m a graphic artist and to do my job I need to research, download images and look for inspiration online.
My husband works from home so the internet is filter-less in our home.
Yes- it’s not healthy. Exercise and eat right pls.
I learned Navi from 4th Grade all the way through high school so I’m not sure where you’re getting this “just in seminary” thing from.
Please stay away from any woman!! CMV is most dangerous during the first couple of weeks of pregnancy.
My baby has microcephaly, hearing loss and developmental delays due to suspected CMV during early pregnancy.
Do not take this lightly!! Please stay away from any woman who may even have the slightest chance of being pregnant!
“Really, the “yes” decision is too heavy a burden for a young person, let alone an infatuated one, to make on their own. The “no” decision is difficult enough.”
This is ridiculous. If your child is too young to make the decision on who to marry, then he/she is too young to get married.
I think its a little silly to say that someone who goes on at least 8 dates and speaks to each other on the phone while engaged knows their chasson the same as someone who’s met their chosson for 20 minutes. That’s total baloney.
Litvish parents do just as much research as their chassidish counterparts. I think its just the way you’re brought up that helps you adjust to knowing the guy for 20 minutes or knowing him for 8 dates before you get engaged.
Btw, workaholic- if you’re feeling uneasy- definitely ask for either a phonecall or another sit in.
I think it depends on how you grew up. I grew up litvish and there was no way I would marry a guy I saw for 20 minutes. No way.
But then again, to people more modern than me- the way I dated might be crazy and no way would they be able to do that either. I dated my husband (he was my 7th boy) for 8 dates and then spoke about 3 times a week and texted whenever we felt like it.
So, basically, I think it depends on your upbringing and your cultural norms.
I’m taking the Design Alive course right now. I had some prior basic graphics training but this is very intense and very thorough. I’ve been feeling way more confident and my work is looking so much better and I’m just half way through the year. I actually like it that it’s live- I can ask the teacher questions on what she’s teaching when she’s actually teaching it.
I would highly recommend 🙂
a tuna bagel is someone who totally does not look chassidish, dresses in a cool way, haircut etc. someone who you would never be able to tell was chassidish but when he walks into a bagel store he asks for a tuna “beigel”. ie. he still has his VERY obvious chassidish “accent” although he’s covered everything else up.
Hope this helps 🙂
Are you looking for appliances- I found some very good deals – I’m moving so I need everything.
If ur looking for appliances I can let you know what I found.
My friend thought of my shidduch and her father redt it so my father gave $750 to each but I think her father ended up giving her his half too.
Hope this helps!
I didnt figure out which appetizer for which meal yet but this is what I’m planning:
APPETIZERS:
sweet ‘n sour meatballs on rice
veg/ meat knishes with mushroom onion sauce
salmon
fruit salad
MAIN DISHES:
brisket
apple kugel
carrot kugel
salads- deli salad, potato salad
sweet n sticky green beans (from short on time)
DESSERTS:
PB ice cream pie
honey cake
When I was dating I used to fly in from Canada with a US passport and they would always get suspicious abt why I would need a suitcase and a suitbag for a 2-3 day trip. So one time I got pulled over and they found some stuff I bought in NY with the tags on…
They let me go 🙂 but after that the next couple of times I flew – I always got sent to the person who searches through your bag.
Totally forgotten, Bemused…
Dont worry about it 🙂
I was outta line too.
Everything must be in moderation, I was a MAJOR book reader- my parents used to tell me I had to finish my homework before I could read any books. And mi keamcha yisroel, I wouldnt say that books are always educational- not quite. Maybe vocabulary wise- but a good book can make you think about it for a while. When I was into the Harry Potter’s – thats all I could think about for a day or two after I read them.
I think electronics are fine, good sometimes even but it must be in moderation.
actually, I work 8 hour days everyday so I DO know what its like and I would die to be able to complain about having to take care of my kids for an extra week… that’s the point I was trying to make. and mazal – I’m sorry. I knew you didn’t mean it and I’m sorry ur in that situaion it just makes me upset when my friends complain abt taking care of their kids when I would do anything to take care of him for a whole week…
Is it so terrible that parents actually have to take care of their kids for a week??
I’m sorry- Mazal, you make me angry. Any extra time I can spend with my kid- I love.
I know you were joking but its still sad…
btw, if i was the mother of that boy id probably get all freaked out 2. Even if you WERE redt to him already- why are your friends offering up info? They should wait until called.
just my 2 cents 🙂
Thats the point- I dont think she even realizes that shes not being a good reference. She’s my age and shes getting calls for my sister- probably hurts so self consciously it comes out in her lack of enthusiasm when she gets calls abt her.
I’m still friends with her.
Either way I would recommend using married friends as references over single. I hear that mothers of boys trust them more and they have nothing to be jealous about. What do you have to lose?
btw, when my father told me who it was- I was totally thinking People Speak story! but i think this happens ALOT more than people realize cuz since then I’ve been hearing a couple of funny stories from people.
Hi,
I dont want to burst your bubble or anything but I always thought that the whole dont trust your friends didnt mean anything. Until…
My sister is still in shidduchim and my best friend is still not married. (I’m a year older than my sister) Anyways, a couple of people were calling my parents and telling them to check their references cuz somethings a little funny. After a bunch of these calls, my parents got a relative to pretend she was a mother of a boy and she called all my sisters references. Turns out it was my best friend. She wasnt even saying bad stuff- she was just not saying good.
Anyways, huge shock for me and definitely a big lesson. There’s no one you can trust out there in shidduchim… 2 much jealousy even if the actual person doesnt realize it. This was my BEST friend- we did everything together…
2008 (?) Bugaboo Cameleon
If you can afford this stroller- its a must! I can walk through the forest in my backyard to get to the next developement without any effort! Its smooth, easy and will last me a lifetime ( if only they had a double stroller 🙁
btw, the bee is just as good and way cheaper if you dont mind not having a bassinet.
does anyone have a yummy sweet potato kugel recipe?
Also, can you keep posting more recipes? Im writing them all down to try this week!
Thanks!
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my husband thinks so
I buy frozen vegetables alot. It tastes really good in soups or stir frys and they NEVER go bad so i dont end up throwing out a half a pepper.
I trust myself cuz as I’ve said I’ve been on it for a yr and have no interest in being friends with someone that’s inappropriate. I have a stable marriage built on torah values, good group of friends and live in a good neighborhood. i’d say I’ve built a good couple of gederim with just that.
bottom line is that you have to know yourself. there is no blanket statements. I have had facebook for over a yr and use it exclusively for keeping in touch with my married friends (basically no single friends have it) and showing off my baby :). to each his own… if u can’t trust urself with facebook then I think u have no business being on the internet either. so maybe avithedemon2 should ask his rav what he thinks of a yeshiva bochur being online- I can prob answer that 4 u myself but anyways…
I don’t really know how your friend has friends she doesnt even know on facebook. How did they find her? You can only become friends with someone if you search their exact name, put in a request to be their friend and then can be friends ONLY if the person agrees.
And, bored@work, I have some of those kind of friends on facebook too. As do alot of my friends- they’re def. not inappropriate types but people I might even not cross the street to say hello to (girls a couple of years older than me that I knew in high school…) Whats the problem?
I agree that some relationships that should not be happening are happening because its over the computer and easier BUT the kids that do these kind of things are just using facebook to do it (altho, facebook makes it kind of hard.) You have to realize that these kids would find a different way to do this anyhow. I have cousins who have inappropriate friends on facebook and guess what- its for the world to see because I can clearly see their friends list because I am friends with them. The kids that do this are the kids that are openly doing this anyway because facebook is not the most sneaky way to do these things.
OMG! seriously,bored@work… how many times do people have to say this. Facebook is NOT for meeting NEW friends. That is MYSPACE. Please, do us all a favor and before you go on and on about something you really obviously have NO clue about – do your homework. This is what made me so nervous about my BY teachers… they would preach about something being wrong and at the same time sound so silly to me and my friends because they very obviously had no clue what they were talking about and just ended up sounding ridiculous.
Also, how shallow are you to think that EVERYTHING in life is wrong and right. There is so much grey involved in most decisions I make in my life. Wow, must be real easy to just see that oh, thats wrong and thats right. It must feel good to be in Gr. 1 again.
Thats ridiculous, smart cookie. MOST people including myself would never accept a friend that they don’t know. And that person who went off the derech – don’t fool yourself, with or without facebook they would find someone.
As for freezer, I don’t have time for meaningful, long conversations on the phone. I have a 6 month old baby… 5 minutes on facebook is all I need to keep up with a whole bunch of friends.
i keep in touch with all my friends on facebook. I love it that I can approve who I want to be my friend and who sees which pictures I put up. But then again, I can see the cons of high school kids going on and stuff but as a young recently married girl it’s great that I can still be part of my friends lives and they, mine.