I use cash but even when I don't, I still... 1. Go to the store with a list. 2. Assign one child to round the price up to the nearest ten cent and jot it down next to the item on the list. 3. Keep a running total in my head. I don't want ANY surprises when I get up to the cashier.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a movie on Queen Elizabeth Tudor that is appropriate for a 9yo and 12yo? The cleaner, the better. Otherwise we are going to watch our favorite movie, Errol Flynn's The Sea Hawk, and call it good.

LOL. Uh, this all reminds me of how we divided things up when I was a kid. My mom would ask one of us girls to cut the portions and the other girl got to choose the first piece. We ever so carefully measured with a ruler. I think part of it was just our general cattiness and had nothing to do with actually being greedy. We were 10 months apart and EVERYTHING was a competition.

My kids wouldn't want them evened up. "HE touched them when HE counted them!" (Horrors) I'd just say, "Oh well." If you are still hungry you can have some of my...whatever.

For real? Never. I don't care what the leadership wants to say it is about. Not in a million years would I ever allow something like that.

Ours is up. http://daisyhomeschoolblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/week-in-review-1911-11311.html I also wrote a quick post about the skip counting fun we had today. Might be a good idea for teaching skip counting to younger children. http://daisyhomeschoolblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/fun-way-to-practice-skip-counting.html

My husband helps me out with this twice a year. Once during the summer and again during Christmas break. He takes the kids to the zoo, bowling, movie, whatever, while I plan. I LOVE IT. Having a few hours block of time really helps get the bulk of it done.

I live in a place with less than 19% humidity. My clothes dry faster on a line than they do in the dryer. Honestly, I just use the dryer if my clothes were taking that long. Oh, and I don't hang clothes on the line. The kids do that and they LOVE it.

I think an "I'm not interested" would be clear enough.

I desperately want those close to me (friends and family) to hear the Gospel message before they die. I'm not going to go beyond what the person is willing to listen to, but I have no qualms about bringing up the topic even if the timing is viewed as indelicate. My husband and I still regret not having sharing the Gospel more clearly with our elderly neighbor before he died. It was so much more comfortable to skirt the issue. I realize that God is sovereign over all of that but still regret the missed opportunities.

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Sovereign Grace

I would have had my son write as much as he could and then I would have finished it for him but without punctuation. Then I'd have him put in the punctuation. He would have agonized over just writing the bit your son got down. We dropped WWE2 though because the dictation became just too much too fast for my son. About 2/3rd of the way through WWE2 it becomes two days a week of dictation (at least I think I'm remembering correctly). I use the dictation sentences in AAS with him now and it is a much better fit.

No, we love fish. I don't overly think about all that stuff though. If I did, I'd freak out about every single thing I put in my mouth. It all has issues these days unless it came from my own garden and even then...

I like how C.S. Lewis put it in his book An Experiment in Criticism... Using it would include developing a personal philosophy of life from a work, using it as a means to call up memories, etc. I think a lot of time when people say they derive an interpretation from a book that differs from the author's intent they are doing the above. They are "using" the book. I don't necessarily see that as bad, but I think one should recognize it for what it is.

:iagree: I weigh once a week. Can you just cut back?

I pop in everywhere. I needed this post though. It reminded me to chill out about my son. I need to just forget about what everyone else is doing and focus on what HE needs. I think the biggest problem I find with myself and reading the K-8 board is that I read that stuff and then start pushing my son beyond his abilities because of my own feelings of inadequacy. Sigh. Anyway, thanks for keeping it real.

That sandwich looks GOOD. Voted for him. :D I'll try to remember daily.

I yell (raise my voice) more often than I lose my temper. I see them as two completely different things. Sometimes I have to yell, "QUIIIIIIET! EVERYONE DO YOUR WORK WITH NO TALKING!" just to be heard over my kids laughing and goofing off. They know I mean business at that point and they pipe down. I'm in complete control of my temper. We are just a loud family. The loudest one gets listened to. LOL. I'm kinda joking...a little bit. Losing my temper happens when I'm emotionally unstable one week before my cycle starts. I have to just retreat until I'm a decent human being again. I voted other because while it may only be once a month, it is usually several episodes over a few days until I realize what the problem is. I have irregular cycles and don't always get a clue as to why I'm acting so irritable.

Two neighbors have given us keys to their houses. We watch the pets of one neighbor on a fairly regular basis and the other routinely locks himself out of the house (absent-minded professor). We don't have multiple copies of the key to our house. We have one extra and we leave it with whichever neighbor is watching our animals when we are on vacation. The key stays here the vast majority of the time. We would NEVER go inside a neighbor's house without their permission. The absent-minded professor has often called and asked us to put his FedEx in his house or whatever, but we'd never just WALK in. Wow. And we are friends with all our neighbors so it isn't like complete strangers are key-swapping.

I know women who are under the false idea that breastfeeding will ruin their breasts. There is no talking to them about it. I've never met anyone who thought it was gross though (other than those who thought so after a certain age).

I cook every bit as healthy as my mom did. She definitely passed that on to me. I am more adventurous than she is though, as she doesn't like anything spicy. Our family loves ethnic, spicy foods so I cook quite a bit of that. Generally we eat a greater variety of produce then our parents do/did (both sides of the family), but we live in CA and that wide variety is available locally grown.

That's hilarious. I need the homeschooling police to stop by here this morning. I'm dragging.

LOL. I used to think that was normal, too, but surprisingly some folks just don't think to do it.

LOL. We can disagree. I just think the writing lessons need the variety of being used across curriculum. My kids have seemed to need that. I definitely don't think you need to buy anything else. Just make the curriculum work for you. I don't see how doing one research paper in R&S is going to be enough practice. So once we cover it in R&S, I start assigning them regularly in history/science. Same goes with the other forms of writing taught.