The Jealous Bully Strikes Again

If you read my first post about the girl who threatened my daughter, this is a follow-up. Less then a week later, 2 more threats came to my daughter from this "girl". We in fact did end up speaking with the police and also with the school. We are not pressing charges yet because we want to give her one more chance. How do other kids and students deal with this type of ridiculous, life-ruining behavior? Do you try to ignore it? Do you confront the kid yourself as a parent? In reality, we just want her to go away. We are not vengeful people and do not wish the worst on her but if she doesn't stop then we will have no choice but to press charges. Any suggestions?

What's for Dinner?

My least favorite question from my daughter and husband is "what's for dinner"? No matter what my answer is, one of them usually either makes a face or a noise...signaling that they don't think it is worthy to be their dinner. My daughter used to eat almost anything until the past few years. My husband is less picky but is still not the easiest to satisfy.
I would love to get some suggestions for new, easy cheap meals that I can offer my family that they WILL ACTUALLY LIKE!!!

How to deal with a jealous bully.

Today my daughter (in picture) received a threat (in writing - not very smart) from a jealous bully. She told my daughter that she is going to "curbstomp" her. Now, my daughter isn't a wimp by any means but she is not one who has any interest in fighting... She is a good student and a nice girl. She is not perfect by any means but was not looking for trouble. She has been trying to ignore the silly comments and childish taunts from this girl and I give her a lot of credit for it. It is very apparent from the incidents that have occurred that the girl is extremely jealous and comes from an extremely dysfunctional family and does not know how to deal with her emotions properly. She used to be a friend of my daughter and became jealous because of the normal teenage thing....a boy. Now for someone to be upset is one thing but to threaten her is another thing. At first we felt that we didn't want to get the girl in trouble but enough is enough.
How would you deal with this situation? Going to the school is the first thing that I am going to do because I don't want this to affect my daughter's good grades. Should we go to the police? Any advice??

Another murder in Spencer...

Once again, not even 6 months after the first murder/suicide in Spencer this year, another has occurred. What is this world coming to? Are we living inside of a Stephen King horror story?