People and their ways

Last night my d.h. went with Claire to someone we love very dearly's house for a visit while I was out....and they were giving us pointers on how to do things. Here were some of the suggestions made:

1) They always freeze their chicken bones overnight so when they are put in the trash can, the trash doesn't smell
2) Instead of putting potatoe peels down the disposal they put them in a bag and flush them.
3) ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS turn off your air when you are serving dinner so your food doesn't get cold.

These were the highlights. We absoluetly love these people to death but they CRACK us up how they do some things. I know we crack them up with stuff we do, so it does go both ways but I had to pass along a chuckle.

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Neither my husband or I do well with change. I was the child that had the mother that had a spice rack that hung on the end of the kitchen every day of her life until she was like 14 and when her mother removed it went hermentile. When there was talk of us moving to Germany I literally wanted to bring the globe from my bedroom fan with me so I could reinact my room across the ocean. I do not do well with change. My husband does not do well with change and would rather leave everything the way it is and not move it.......so yesterday when we got a LARGE brown envelope in the mail it rocked our boat.

We have been blessed with the best insurance under the sun with his company. THE BEST!!! I am a sickly person and have been my whole life, our daughter was until we got tubes in her ears and has remained relatively healthy ever since, my d.h. jokes that he has been to the hospital twice; once to be born and once to watch our daughter be born. Our big brown envelope was notice that the company was switching insurance, dentist, and prescription plans. Seriously I was crying hysterically in the car and J was in the drivers seat discussing how this was not going to be good and getting very fussy himself. Claire was in the back wondering what the heck was wrong with her parents for getting upset over mail!

After reading all the paperwork in our car in our driveway, it "appears" most things will remain the same except our co-pays......those are going up and up and up AND instead of a $75.00 ER co-pay it is now $150.00 (guess we might use those horrid night care clinics we have always avoided now). Dentist coverage will actually be 10% better as they will now pay for 60% of whatever we need. and our RX will go up a bit too. We don't know if our doctors are going to have to be switched so we are still stressing. In my head I am making a list of ALL of our crews doctors and I am going to start calling them this week to make sure they take our insurance and if not we have until January to find a new doctor.

The best news that will come out of all of this is that we are still on a PPO!!! HURRAY!!! WHAT A BLESSING!! With all the doctors we need it is a HUGE blessing that we are able to keep a PPO and we wont have to do the trail of paperwork!!! HURRAY!!!!!

See my d.h. and I have our own way about things as well. Most of you reading this I know have switched insurance a half a dozen times and you think we are nuts......we probably are, but everyone knew that anyways!!!

Have a blessed day!