The police CAN request the phone records from your phone company. Call the police back and request that they do this and find out who is making the phone calls. Just because the name/number does not show on your caller id does not mean that the police cannot find out who is calling you. You can also add the following to your answering machine message - "Due to harrassing phone calls, this number is now being monitored by the police". Sometime that will stop the crazies from calling you.

I like Henry. All four of our children have "old fashioned names".

I'm a professional part-time computer nerd. I work 20 hrs a week from home. I do my work while my kiddos are do their school work, so we all get done about the same time and can go play!

The price of a nice ham here is now higher per pound than steak. :confused: I would guess we are going to have steak or possibly ribs. Potatoes Bread and ...of course....devilled eggs.

While I would love to offer my money to local small business owners and entrepreneurs, I have yet to find someone that is reliable and returns my calls in a reasonable time frame. We end up going with a large plumbing firm here in town - not cheap, but at least things get done.

Our insurance offers a really good mail order option - the drugs are cheaper and the ins. covers more if you use it. It's worth calling your ins. company and see if they have it as an option. I didn't know about our until someone I work with mentioned it - it was buried in small print in the paperwork...... For things that don't go thru the mail-order, I have found that the big warehouse stores (Costco/Sams Club) are much cheaper than my local Rx. You can also save some if you can get the dr. to write the Rx for 90 days instead of 30 on the name-brand stuff.

I have tried to explain to my cat that I would appreciate it if he killed his gifts before bringing them in the house. He just looks at me. Sigh. My problem is that he leaves them on my keyboard or in my chair. Thanks, Cat.

Well, he shouldn't play in the infield either because he could hurt someone if he tagged them out and hit them with his cast. I speak from experience - that really hurts. That leaves the outfield. Not so much fun, I think, to be stuck out in right for the whole game. Our baseball league has a "no casts" rule. If you can't take the cast off to play, you can't play at all. You might need to check with your league. It's a bummer to have to sit out. My DD8 broke her collar bone half way thru the season and had to miss the rest. Which was a bummer for everyone since her dad was coaching the team!

Those spin-type tooth brushes are saving the day here! DS14 wasn't a great brusher before and "things" get stuck in braces. Yuck! We're at the bands stage now and it's not so bad. DS14's ortho gave him a list of candy that was OK. DS has to slice up his apples because biting down on the apple was not working. oh....and he sounds terrible when he plays his trumpet for a day or two after his braces get tightened. Poor kid!

Runescape. That's all I'll say. Except that I have a farming cape and a quest cape. And yes, everyone in the house plays it. Even the cat would playt if he could figure out how......

During baseball/softball season, we eat dinner twice. Dinner #1 gets served about 4pm and is usually soup/sandwiches. Dinner #2 gets prepared by whomever gets home first from the ball games (8pm?) and is usually a lighter version of our regular dinner - pasta/salad, chili/rolls, or something from the crockpot are all favs. Since the bigger kids sometimes don't get home until 10 or 11pm, having something prepared for them really helps keep the grocery bill under control.

It says the Estimated Value of my house is 1M+ !!! ;) I only wish...........

Which ones are you taking? I had a problem like this when I first started taking Yaz because I was not taking them with food. Turns out it was really important to eat a good breakfast with them - not just a cup of coffee. I would call the dr's office and describe the symptoms. If they prescribe these often, they should have some tips for patients.

DS14 is using Alice 2.0 this year. It teaches object-oriented programming. It's a good course - good for high school. The software is a free download. We picked up the "Learning to Program With Alice 2.0" book nearly free used (though I suppose you can pay more for it). This is a great course for getting started with programming techniques.

Mine is a fish caught a couple years ago by DD16. This fish looks amazingly like me in the morning before my coffee.

It says they offer an assessment with the free trial. http://www.aleks.com/homeschool/getting_started

DS15 is using Saxon Geometry. We are on lesson 80 (or there abouts). It's a good formal geometry course, but it's hard. Those proofs are not easy. We are past the proofs now, thank goodness! DS is working sin/cos/tan now and doing very well. It is set up incrementally just like all the other Saxon books. We have found a few errors - not surprising because this is the 1st edition. Someone asked why you would use it - DS14 will be starting high school with his siblings next fall for 9th grade. They accept Geometry for 8th graders without any problem. but if he had done Saxon's Algebra 2 this year, he would have still been required to take a formal Geometry (even though it's built into alg 1/2/adv. math). You might also use it if you had used a different program for Algebra 1 (one that didn't include geometry).

For an 8th grader, I would be fine counting computer science as science. Have him read a few biographies of scientists to go with it if you are worried about it. In high school, computer science would be a technology elective, but I'm alot more relaxed for 8th grade.

My DD is eagerly waiting for the next unicorn chronicles too!

Your real bank and financial accounts will NEVER ask for the type of informaiton you listed. Your machine has been hijacked by something that is "phishing" for data. Unless you want some stranger accessing your financial data, DO NOT GIVE THIS INFORMATION TO THEM. :confused: Update your virus stuff. Boot to safe mode. Run your virus scan. Just thought of something - are you accessing the financial sites using bookmarks? One of the phishers' tricks is to hijack your book marks in your browser and change them behind the scenes to go to fake websites that look like your bank but really are evil. Type in the full address to access the financial system and see if you get a different result.

I started DD8 towards independence by having her read the directions to me. Pretty soon, it was less of a hassle for her to read them quietly to herself than aloud to me. But it took practice - maybe a couple of weeks to wean her off my explaining things. She still has to work right near me - at my desk or at the table right behind me or her brain wanders off. This will improve with age.

No tomatoes here! You are so much better of a mom than I am. I probably would say those things if one of my kids pulled this one out. Kudos for you! :grouphug:

When we use a table cloth, it's usually one of those flannel-backed, vinyl ones that wipe clean easily. I got tired of sliding table cloths and I duct table my table cloths to the underside of the table for a tight fit. No one sees the duct table except for DD8 who rolls around under the table alot still.

DS14 is doing Alice. He has had so much fun with this! I picked up the "Learning to Program with Alice" book for next to nothing used and it has been great for walking him through it.

I vote for the pigs. Cute. Cuddly. And totally great pets. You can always get a dog later on if the pigs aren't enough! LOL!