AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Did anyone take a fall break? I think we should have had a fall break. Unfortunately, we have enough different things going on we couldn't have gotten every thing on fall break at the same time. (It was fall break this week for local public schools here.) We will be taking a break of sorts next week. We have Columbus Day off, longer activities days on Tuesday and Wednesday, the usual activities on Thursday and Friday (including Park Day, on Friday the 13th!) AND I have a fasting blood draw that Friday morning. Oh, yeah, Thursday does have something extra -- I have an appointment that morning. We are going to all paid-for activities. I am going to my appointments. We are attending Park Day. We are not having official class time, but the girls do have some work they are expected to get done next week. I have declared the not-eaten-up-already portions to be catch-up time and independent work time. Even I have homework to do; I must plan out the writing progression, because we have just finished the grammar book. I guess it's a broken break. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I took Sanctimonious Savages since no onr else wanted it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I want a schmancy name! Slashie's scintillating scene! Why else would strangers be hanging around outside your window to chime in on lessons? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 There are no pants at Spud’s School for Sanctimonious Savages. :ohmy: Not even the under kind? :svengo: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 We wear leggings on our legs. We cut holes in th3 crotch and wear them as shirts. We wrap them around our heads like turbans and our shoulders like capes. 😜 This must be for Fashion camp! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I want a name. [pout] 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I almost forgot! The optometrist complimented me on DS's pencil grip and stellar handwriting. It made my day. (Then he made a dig about public schools not teaching that stuff well these days. :D ) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I'm still Team Leggings. But I'm hiding on this side of the computer so that I won't offend anyone. (Though today I am wearing holey sweat pants. ) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I have been reminded quite successfully by my girls' choice of attire just how many pair of leggings there really are in this family. They get worn more often than I realized. At least my girls' shirts are mostly long enough. None of us look good in shorter shirts -- we all look like we are wearing outgrown clothes. And lo and behold, I actually DO have leggings that I wear. Out in public. With longer shirts (thank you Duluth Trading Co.!). I've just seen them as pantz that fit a bit snugger (though I do prefer looser). Anybody got a good recipe for crow? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 So, apparently DS's eyes don't play well with each other, especially 10 feet away or more. And other stuffs. So glasses for minor nearsightedness, and vision therapy. DH is not happy about the money for VT, but I didn't ask his opinion. I just went ahead and made the therapy appointments. He can read the report when we get it. Hooray for getting the issues identified and treated! Tell your DS I hope he has fun with VT. My eldest certainly did! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 So we’ve gone from JJM’s Camp for Persnicket Children to Lynn’s Learning Lockdown...desperation is clearly mounting. By February we might be sending them to Spud’s Sewer for Savages! I read this while I was out and about, running errands. I snorted and laughed in public-and pretty much looked like a lunatic! :lol: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 :grouphug: Yesterday evening I was so tired it was like a physical thing - like walking into a wall of blankets or something (I'm butchering the poetic way someone has described extreme exhaustion before, but I hope it at least conveys the idea). That said, I at least know the cause, albeit not necessarily the solution (repeated extreme tantrums and meltdowns from a 6yo are exhausting, as is catching a cold or something, and I woke up way too early yesterday morning (okay, not super early, but significantly earlier than usual, just from the stress)). So, self-care, and somehow getting the 6yo to move past all these tantrums and meltdowns, should do the trick. I went to bed early last night (along with some medications), and woke up late, and have spent part of today in bed. I did manage to do 2 chapters of LOF with Celery yesterday evening though, and 1 chapter and 1 bridge today (and 1 chapter of LOF with Broccoli today, which is 1 chapter more than I felt like last night), so, that's a win. And, Broccoli hasn't had any meltdowns/tantrums yet today, other than screaming at Celery once for taking his pencil, which was brief and fixed by telling Celery to return said pencil. I even managed to get him to do Dutch grammar without him throwing a fit. I have heavily resorted to bribing though (as in, if you do this, then you can do that, where, for the most part, 'that' (watching TV) is stuff I probably would've let him do anyway today since I'm not feeling great, but turned it into a bribe instead). You were just repeating your humanities lecture for us, twice, obviously. At least you're not on Venus (where days do eventually end too... after 5,832 hours): https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/days/en/ Is that a phone thing? I just click on MultiQuote as I read stuff, and then at some point I just decide to reply, at which point it takes me more than the mandatory 10 seconds to write a post like this. :grouphug: :grouphug: "like walking into a wall of blankets" is very apt! And turning stuff you would have allowed anyway into bribes is entirely a legit strategy, especially when the kids think they have really scored a concession for not much work. It's not when I click on the button to quote or multi-quote, it's when I click to post my response after I have written it. If I don't wait enough seconds before clicking to quote again it won't let me. Try this: immediately after you reply to someone's quote go click the quote button on another post (or the same one, it doesn't matter). Do it immediately after posting, though. You should see that pesky message then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I want a schmancy name! Well, you WERE The Original Booya Babeâ„¢... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I want a name. [pout] Ikslo's Institute of Ingenuity! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Hooray for getting the issues identified and treated! Tell your DS I hope he has fun with VT. My eldest certainly did! Well, we both really liked the optometrist. After two minutes with us he said, "I can see we're going to have fun together!" Hopefully we like the therapist, too. What issues did your dd have? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I was halfway out the door when I thought of Ikslo’s Ignominous Institute for Ingrates. Now I need to go live my life, people! Okay, between your suggestion and mine she has the bases covered for whatever kind of school day they might be having at her house. :laugh: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) Ikslo's Institute of Ingenuity!Argh! It's an III Booyah! Edited October 6, 2017 by ikslo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I read this while I was out and about, running errands. I snorted and laughed in public-and pretty much looked like a lunatic! :lol: :D I can just picture it, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Well, you WERE The Original Booya Babeâ„¢... Aww..... Slashie, go put your title back! You can stick your school name in your siggie! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paige Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 :grouphug: :grouphug: I guess the rest of the family will have to fetch and tote laundry for you until then. It's better than going pantzless (assuming this also means skirtzless) for another week. They would, but I'm honestly a bit of an independent control freak. I Hate Help!! I'm not the skirtz type, although I may be by Weds! If I wear skirtz I still don't feel right unless they have pantz under them. I should just throw a couple pantz in with the kids' laundry when they do theirs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paige Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Teenagers are awesome. They made brownies and I get to eat them. They subbed the chocolate chips for butterscotch chips and it kind of works. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I'm having fun playing with various "beat sheets" designed to help you write the most structurally sound novel ever. They remind why I am not, and never will be, an outliner. It's not in my ink. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Well, we both really liked the optometrist. After two minutes with us he said, "I can see we're going to have fun together!" Hopefully we like the therapist, too. What issues did your dd have? Let's see if I can remember them all: eye teaming eye tracking very slow change of focus between near and far distances farsightedness (that cleared up along with the other things during VT. Nearsightedness won't, however.) Dang it, there were a few more but I can't seem to recall them right now. She had about 32 weeks of VT with appointments twice a week and homework exercises to be done daily. She also had sensory integration issues that were first spotted during the vision function eval, so we went to an SI specialist for eval and OT concurrent with the VT. Her proprioception was near nil, her balance was off kilter (which the vision function made worse), she had a lot of tactile sensitivity, visual and auditory stimuli could distract and override other input -- there were other SI issues, too. They also recommended she go for allergy testing, so we took her and discovered just how many things she's allergic to. It's a wonder she can breathe and function during spring and fall, and there are still other things during summer and winter, just not as many. Basically most pollens (especially live oak, and guess what is EVERYWHERE here), molds, fungi, weeds, cats, dogs (thankfully fairly mild on the cats and dogs), NOT guinea pigs (we had one at the time so they tested for it), dust mites. But no specific food allergens. He still recommended we eliminate artificial red dyes, and cautioned us that other allergies, including food allergies, can develop over time. Later in 5th grade she was evaluated by a developmental neuropsychologist, who diagnosed ADHD-Primarily Inattentive, very slow processing speed, dysgraphia, difficulties following lines of dense text (they had a name for it but I can't recall it right now), very poor short-term memory (which I suspect goes hand-in-glove with the slow processing speed), strongly visual learner (not a problem, but handy to know), and a few other things. Basically there are so many different identified issues I can't recall them all without digging out the old reports and re-reading them. What I find very interesting is how many of these issues I also have. I've never been tested and diagnosed, and didn't know these were recognized issues or things other people didn't have to contend with. I might not have had much in the way of vision function problems (though I did fight for years to follow dense text and will still employ a paper edge or a finger from time to time, and I used to be strongly near-sighted), but several of those SI issues are definitely me, and I'm likely the same flavor of ADHD that DD is. When I found out about dysgraphia I felt vindicated for all of the handwriting trouble I had growing up. It cost me my special library privileges in grade school. (I read so fast and readily I was initially allowed to go spend the class's reading time in the library. Then they took that away to send me to remedial penmanship lessons.) It never did get better. When my high school English teacher gave us permission to stop writing in cursive I reverted to printing immediately and never looked back. I could at least make my printing legible, if not straight and of uniform size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Argh! It's an III Booyah! :hurray: :hurray: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I'm having fun playing with various "beat sheets" designed to help you write the most structurally sound novel ever. They remind why I am not, and never will be, an outliner. It's not in my ink. For academic papers I could make a ______ outline just to get me started on the basic structure, but if I tried to flesh it out it would always become paragraphs turning into chunks of text. When that happened I'd just start writing. My best papers in college were written largely in one long flow, or one flow with an error or change causing me to start the retype and changing the direction of the flow. Dang it, I can't think of the word. "Remedial" isn't quite right. My brain insists it begins with "r", but it means more like basic, not fully grown/developed, "vestigial" isn't quite right either.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I'm just resistant to outlining, and that's just all there is to it. I do best if I just consider the first draft a massively huge outline and go from there. Ironically, as I look at the basic beat sheets I have for different ways of evaluating story flow and plot, by page number, I'm very, very close to where I should be. Go figure. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Neko appears to have another cold. I have had cats all my life and none have ever had a cold. Now he gets two in less than six months? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Poor Neko. I wonder if his immune system is down for some reason. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 :ohmy: Not even the under kind? :svengo: Savages who go Commando. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Let's see if I can remember them all: eye teaming eye tracking very slow change of focus between near and far distances farsightedness (that cleared up along with the other things during VT. Nearsightedness won't, however.) Dang it, there were a few more but I can't seem to recall them right now. She had about 32 weeks of VT with appointments twice a week and homework exercises to be done daily. She also had sensory integration issues that were first spotted during the vision function eval, so we went to an SI specialist for eval and OT concurrent with the VT. Her proprioception was near nil, her balance was off kilter (which the vision function made worse), she had a lot of tactile sensitivity, visual and auditory stimuli could distract and override other input -- there were other SI issues, too. They also recommended she go for allergy testing, so we took her and discovered just how many things she's allergic to. It's a wonder she can breathe and function during spring and fall, and there are still other things during summer and winter, just not as many. Basically most pollens (especially live oak, and guess what is EVERYWHERE here), molds, fungi, weeds, cats, dogs (thankfully fairly mild on the cats and dogs), NOT guinea pigs (we had one at the time so they tested for it), dust mites. But no specific food allergens. He still recommended we eliminate artificial red dyes, and cautioned us that other allergies, including food allergies, can develop over time. Later in 5th grade she was evaluated by a developmental neuropsychologist, who diagnosed ADHD-Primarily Inattentive, very slow processing speed, dysgraphia, difficulties following lines of dense text (they had a name for it but I can't recall it right now), very poor short-term memory (which I suspect goes hand-in-glove with the slow processing speed), strongly visual learner (not a problem, but handy to know), and a few other things. Basically there are so many different identified issues I can't recall them all without digging out the old reports and re-reading them. What I find very interesting is how many of these issues I also have. I've never been tested and diagnosed, and didn't know these were recognized issues or things other people didn't have to contend with. I might not have had much in the way of vision function problems (though I did fight for years to follow dense text and will still employ a paper edge or a finger from time to time, and I used to be strongly near-sighted), but several of those SI issues are definitely me, and I'm likely the same flavor of ADHD that DD is. When I found out about dysgraphia I felt vindicated for all of the handwriting trouble I had growing up. It cost me my special library privileges in grade school. (I read so fast and readily I was initially allowed to go spend the class's reading time in the library. Then they took that away to send me to remedial penmanship lessons.) It never did get better. When my high school English teacher gave us permission to stop writing in cursive I reverted to printing immediately and never looked back. I could at least make my printing legible, if not straight and of uniform size. I'll update with details when we get the report. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paige Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Neko appears to have another cold. I have had cats all my life and none have ever had a cold. Now he gets two in less than six months? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Could it be allergies? Poor Neko. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 My oldest DD accused me of treating her like the cat. Hmph. Well, maybe I do treat her like the cat. I like the cat. How's the cat doing with her schoolwork? My new washing machine comes today! :hurray: I got a top loader instead of a front loader (disillusioned with those) and now I think DD(10) may not be able to do her own laundry anymore. I will need a stool to reach the bottom. I recall a thread where somebody was saying that (on average) the low-income kids came into K less prepared for academics, but tended to have more life skills, such as knowing how to climb on top of a washer to do their own laundry. Not that I'm recommending letting your kid climb on top of the washer... just a thought (we have a front loader, but the basement floor floods, so I have no particular desire to let my kids take clean clothes out of the washer or dryer to just accidentally drop them on the floor, or drag them across the floor, or w/e... I just can't imagine that floor is very clean, nor obviously worth bothering to clean). I should maybe make them load the washer more often themselves, but it doesn't matter all that much. They occasionally did their laundry at the previous place we lived at, and will again at the next place (I'd imagine)). Today is my baby's birthday. She's 7. I have so much to do. Bake the cake 🎂🎂, wrap the presents. Grandparents are coming over tomorrow, though. Congrats! :party: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Did anyone take a fall break? I think we should have had a fall break. Unfortunately, we have enough different things going on we couldn't have gotten every thing on fall break at the same time. (It was fall break this week for local public schools here.) Ours is in November when ILs visit. I feel like we're just really getting into the swing of the new grade now, so I'm glad I didn't have a break planned. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 So, apparently DS's eyes don't play well with each other, especially 10 feet away or more. And other stuffs. So glasses for minor nearsightedness, and vision therapy. DH is not happy about the money for VT, but I didn't ask his opinion. I just went ahead and made the therapy appointments. He can read the report when we get it. So glad you went! :hurray: I almost forgot! The optometrist complimented me on DS's pencil grip and stellar handwriting. It made my day. (Then he made a dig about public schools not teaching that stuff well these days. :D ) You are awesome! :hurray: (oh, and ds is too. :laugh: ) I was halfway out the door when I thought of Ikslo’s Ignominous Institute for Ingrates. Now I need to go live my life, people! Yay for I's III. :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Just saw my favorite scene from Overboard! Buh buh buh buh buh buh buh..... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Just saw my favorite scene from Overboard! Buh buh buh buh buh buh buh.....Oh, I just love that movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Okay, where is everyone? :toetap05: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Sitting with a heat pack on my neck, watching it get dark very early. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Eating gummy bears. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Oh, I just love that movie. Me, too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Sitting with a heat pack on my neck, watching it get dark very early. Eating gummy bears. Both are worthy endeavors! I'm watching the rest of Overboard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 I taught DS to wash/dry the sheets. I still do his clothes. Ours together makes one load of lights, one dark. So no need for him to do his own. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 I've never heard of Overboard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 I'm debating the structure of the middle of my book. It's pretty clear I have more than an A and B story. There's a C in there, and I'm going to go back and look for the theme sentence for that one to make it easy to have the scenes revolve around that. They all tie together so closely, teasing them apart is quite difficult. It's a good weave. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 I'm grilling hamburgers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 I've never heard of Overboard.:svengo: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell? I've seen at least part of it, but I think I was still in high school. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Overboard is funny. John does laundry. He started rotating once we moved here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 I've never heard of Overboard. It is a must see! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lots of little ducklings Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Dang it, I can't think of the word. "Remedial" isn't quite right. My brain insists it begins with "r", but it means more like basic, not fully grown/developed, "vestigial" isn't quite right either.... Rudimentary. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 What is Overboard about? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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