I work in Foster Care. I do the supervised contact visits with the bio parents. I would NOT foster unless you had the full support of your husband. It is very challenging to parent children that have been damaged. You can not parent them the way you would your own children and it can be very very disruptive to your other children. I would suggest waiting until your children are older and "have their own lives" because foster kids take up a LOT of time. It can be hard for younger children to understand why this kid gets "all the attention". In saying that fostering can be very rewarding. I have some great foster parents I work with who do an amazing job. I LOVE the foster kids I work with.

I prayed for him. :grouphug:

I would never expect a restaurant to accept responsibility for something my child did. I probably would have apologised to the waitress for the mess on the floor and corrected my 2 year old. Just my 2c.

Our lounge room is tiny! We have a large L shaped sectional with an ottoman, a tv cabinet and a large 2 door cupboard. I love our sectional as it fits all 5 of us on it and we can move out the ottoman out for extra seating if friends come over. We had 2 lounges in that room originally but it took up much more space and the corner was just empty space that I had to clean. ;) Are your hallways wide? Could you fit the bookcases there?

I love watching the videos. I love how some actors are challenging the entire cast and crew to complete and donate. See Hugh Jackman's. I have had several friends and my brother complete it. Raising awareness and watching people get iced is awesome. I hope they raise lots of money and even if people don't donate just to ALS various charities are benefitting.

Have they tested for Cystic Fibrosis? My nephew has it and malabsorption is a big part of that. He has to take special enzymes to absorb his food properly.

Aww hon I am praying for you. I am so sorry for your losses. (((((((((hugs)))))))))

Happy for you!! Winners are grinners. :D

I went overseas with Dh for 6 days when my youngest was 22 months. It did no lasting harm to the kids and it did wonderful things to our marriage. I say honour what your husband wants and go!

Hot Air Balloon ride Helicopter ride Drive of a Ferrari Night away at a hotel with you New laptop bag/Briefcase

My dog was very sad when we first brought her home. She came from a large litter and it took her a while to adjust. We crate trained too so I would say keep that up. It took Tash about 2 weeks or so to settle down in the crate at night. I covered the whole thing with a blanket at night and would bang the crate once and say, "NO!" if she howled. It would usually shock her into stopping for a short time. I did not let her out for howling and would only let her out of she stopped. Sigh, it was a pain and exhausting but she turned into a great puppy and dog. I think your dog sounds like a dominant dog so I totally would have done what you did when it displayed aggressive behaviour. Not ok. It needs to learn its place in the pack. A dog trainer told me not to give a dominant puppy attention straight away if you have been out. Always feed it after your family has eaten. Even pretend to eat some of its food before you give it to it so it learns it does not come first. I would probably feed your other dog first and separately too. Hope this helps.

My son is doing a foundational university course and they have required him to hand in an outline for his major essay. I guess you can say I am glad we didn't skip that stuff. ;) He got 9/10. In saying that I would not require outlines for creative writing projects in younger children. I think it would disrupt the flow of their writing.

This thread made me smile. My d is at a sleep over right now. We have never had any problems other that a bit of crankiness the next day. All my kids have been allowed to sleep at friends houses where we know the parents really well. Most of their friends are homeschooled friends from church where we have known their parents for 20+ years. They have had wonderful times and I have never had to deal with the kids learning anything they shouldn't have. I am trained in child protection and that taught me that abuse can happen in a matter of seconds. We cannot have our eyes on our children 24/7. We just can't. We need to teach our kids about how to protect themselves as well as us watching out for them. I do not want my kids to grow up with the message that every adult is a potential abuser. I do not think that is healthy or realistic. The majority of adults are not abusers.

I would move the mill out of the house. Do you have a tool shed or some place you could put it where ds does not go? Can you grind when he is not at home? :hug:

Jaws

Yep. I do not like the lumpiness.

Adele

Winters Promise uses MOH as a spine so you could check out some of their literature books.

Othello?

My son (16) has done panneling work for a radio station. He has worked at an ice cream shop and done office work at a gym. My D 15 is just about to start her first job at the gym where Ds worked.

We have quite a few people at church that are sensitive to perfumes. I never wear it and have told my girls not to as well. I get it. :grouphug:

:grouphug: I am so sorry.

OT I was hoping to do this next year. How did you find it? I trust your WP judgement.:D

I have used Orange LLATL-Gold British LLATL so I might be able to help. I have always used another grammar and spelling program alongside LLATL because I think most kids need a bit more reinforcement. I have used extra study guides for some of the higher level literature books. My son finished all the LLATL books by year 10.

My youngest stuttered at around that age. I took her to speech therapy and as well as the normal ST stuff we had to take her off all red and yellow food colouring and chocolate. Something about those effecting young brainwaves or something like that. I was pretty sceptical but it actually worked. We noticed a difference pretty quickly. After a several months with therapy her stutter pretty much went away and we reintroduced the colouring and chocolate with no other ill effects.