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I'd like to know this too. I don't have, nor do I want to have an audible account. Idon't mind doing a free trial to get the books, but I would need to cancel before I get charged.
You can have an audible account without subscribing to their service.
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I have a young 5th grader who struggled for years to learn to read. He and I put in a lot of hard work and now he can decode on grade level (maybe even a little above.) However, reading is still slow going and he still balks at reading anything other than very easy "Step into Reading" type books. He has read a couple of Magic Treehouse under protest, but he refused to read more than a chapter a day instead of letting himself be drawn into the story.
He loves stories. He loves for me to read out loud to him. He loves to listen to audiobooks--the more dramatic the reader/s the better. He loves movies. He loves for my DH to tell stories about when he was a little boy. I know that he will love reading once he gives it a real chance.
I would love any ideas on how to get him over that hump? Books that he may enjoy? Tactics or techniques I can try?
TIA
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I'm the oldest and have three younger brothers. Now I have three little boys. One girl and three boys has been a way of life for me for a long time. At least when I still lived at home I had my mom. Now it's me, my DH, our three boys, and a male cat.
There are advantages to being the only girl, but it can get lonely at times.
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I tend to be harsh in this area. I would submit them as is.
Same here. You're just the courier service. Let the judges decide whether or not to allow the incorrectly done entries. Not your job.
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:grouphug: Please update us when you can.
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Getting info from my director has been. . . like pulling teeth, so I thank you for the information! I will check with the local music store and also Amazon.
Here's another question - are you CCers on CCConnected yet? My director keeps telling us that it isn't available yet, even though the blogs are saying differently. I'm getting frustrated in that regard. I want to see what's available there before I buy more materials. (Half a Hundred Acre Wood blog has soooo many good ideas!)
Anyway, thanks again. That relieves my stress a bit.
I'm a director and I want to address the CC Connected issue. Your director has to enter all of her families into the portal and it's a time intensive, un-intuitive process. It just opened within the past week and she may have other things she needs to spend her time doing right now. Since your community is about to start, she is probably busier than at any other time of the year and has had to put off entering families.
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Weighed in again yesterday and I'm down another 1.2 lbs for a total of 14.2 lbs. I was pretty excited and surprised by the loss because I didn't feel like I had a good week...I discovered that I'm more of an emotional eater than I realized. We're leaving for the beach in three weeks and I'm really hoping to be down another 5 lbs before then.
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Anki looks nice, but it is pricey. I'll check out Flashcards+
One other think I would like is something that supports multiple users.
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I'm looking for a flashcard app for the iPad. I prefer one that uses the Leitner Box or some other kind of system that weeds out cards as they are learned. I would also like one where we can enter the info from our laptop and then access it on the iPad. Any suggestions?
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That would totally grate on me. I look around at the proud displays of ignorance, and wear my snob hat proudly, though.
I un-joined a Freecycle group BECAUSE...EVERY MESSAGE...FROM THE LEADER IS...ALL CAPS AND...FULL OF MISPLACED ELLIPSES!!!!!
And it made me freakin' nuts.
I hear you on that one. Most of the communication from by son's gym IS IN ALL CAPS!!!! DRIVES ME BONKERS!!!! PLEASE STOP!!!
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If people's knickers are twisted about the outfits just say so. I don't see any complaints about what the divers are wearing.
Speaking of the skimpy male divers uniforms, I give you The Unnecessary Censorship of Men's Olympic Diving.
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No, Princess Diana's title was not Princess Diana. She was just called that in the press and popularly. She was Diana, Princess of Wales.
:iagree: From what I've read, you have to be born a princess to be called Princess FirstName.
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Iveheard that the fresher the egg, the harder it is to peel.
:iagree: Fresh eggs are a pain to peel.
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Just wanted to point out that these are not contradictory statements, lest anyone is confused. A carrier of hemophilia has a 1 in 4 chance of having a son with hemophilia: 25% chance of having a girl who is a carrier, 25% chance of having an unaffected girl; 25% chance of having an unaffected boy, and 25% chance of having a boy with hemophilia.
The chances of her SON having hemophilia is 50%.
It is carried on the x chromosome, so the only way a female could have hemophilia is if the father had hemophilia and the mother was a carrier.
I know this confuses some people, so I thought I would clarify.
Thanks for this. I'm typing on my iPad while watching the Olympics, so I wasn't very thorough. :001_smile:
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One thing to keep in mind...for many genetic diseases it takes both parents to be carriers to produce a child with the disease, and even still then it is a roll of the dice. I know this is the case with CF and possibly hemophilia as well, but i'm not sure truly. I would be very careful not to put any carts before horses, here. :grouphug:
This is not true of hemophilia. It's an x-linked disorder which means only the mom has to have the gene. If she's a carrier, then each of her sons has a 50/50 chance of getting hemophilia. (I'm a carrier for a different x-linked disorder, but the hereditary pattern is the same.)
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Thanks. Does it need to be in color? Our printer just broke and I was going to buy a b&w laser printer...
There are pages that absolutely must be printed in color. There will be questions that refer to the color of maps and pictures.
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I was really planning on printing it in chunks and having it spiral bound...but it doesn't look like it's set up to be done that way. Any solutions? Maybe print it all up and organize then bind? Is this a feasible way to work through it?
We do like she suggests. We print in color on one side only and three hole punch the pages, set up the dividers in a three ring notebook, and then place all the pages in the very front of the binder. As a page is completed, we file it behind the appropriate divider. Easy peasy. :001_smile: If you do it this way, then you have all the completed pages organized by category and it makes it so easy to refer to when you need to find a particular piece of info.
It does not work well to print it double sided or do any kind of permanent binding ahead of time.
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Here's one of me in 1989, fall of my senior year in high school. (Spiral perm/big hair alert!) I'm on the far left.
Here's one from college, junior year 1992. I'm the girl in the middle.
And here's one of my boys at me at Epcot a few years ago.
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As an aside, I've seen more than one person not count SC as "Southern." I think it's strange, considering this state started the Civil War, but obviously we all have different ideas about what makes a state "Southern."
:iagree: When I moved from GA to SC as a teenager, my cousin said that now that I was moving north she supposed that I was going to be a Yankee. I had to laugh because there are few states that are more southern than SC.
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Thanks, GM! I use my WW points similar to the JUDDD way of eating...bare minimum some days and splurges on others. So far so good.
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The only other thing I find strange, happens to be a Southern thing which I've always seen growing up, but never understood. Boiled peanuts. Seriously does anyone eat these things?? LOL There are boiled peanut stands all over the place in Alabama and Georgia and yet I never EVER have seen a single person buying them. :lol:
Boiled peanuts are awesome and I eat them every chance I get. However, those stands are for tourists. No self-respecting southerner buys them from a stand. :D
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I had my weekly weigh in today and was down another 1.8 lbs. Down a total of 13 lbs since June 22.
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I started Weight Watchers on June 22, and as of my weigh in this past Saturday I have lost 11.2 pounds. I'm so excited! I really love this newest WW plan (points plus).
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"I don't know how much our utilities (or other bills) are, my husband pays the bill."
DH and I talk about all of these things.....down to the last penny almost! AND I know all our companies and policy info. I would hate to think something happening to DH and me not knowing where that info was and how to handle my own affairs.
I couldn't tell you many specifics about the amounts we pay different utilities each month. However, I do know who all of our utilities, insurance, etc are with and I'm perfectly capable of doing the job if needed.
I lived on my own for two years between college and marriage and I took care of all the bill-paying for the first five years of our marriage.
I need a gentle way to say no...
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:iagree: Granny might appreciate a little break during the week. If Granny doesn't want a break, then tell SIL. "Sorry, Granny is in charge that week and she's packed the schedule full already."
ETA: Should have read the whole thread before I responded.