I think I'll plan ahead for Homeschool Week next year and do EVERYTHING! Just a week of field trips. It would be expensive and exhausting, but fun.

Yeah. I'm gonna pass on the iron egg. Not as bad as the century egg.I have made tea eggs. They taste a bit breakfasty.

ah Rosie! You did the eggs! And you ate them. You are a brave soul. Could I have a bit more detail on the cheater kombucha? How long does it sit? How much sugar? Does it fizz? I did a chai kombucha, but I did it wrong and it never fizzed, and I did n't drink it :(

I'm thinking about doing a mexican carrot salad with milder peppers than usual so that my kids will eat it. I would be iffy about lacto fermenting eggs. D does refrigerator pickles with his eggs. I haven't started fermenting yet, as my kitchen still isn't finished and We're just not there yet. I do have seeds sprouting right now, so that's a bit of a start, right? EDIT: I haven't started fermenting in our new house. I have fermented many things in the past.

yes, my oldest. He's getting better at washing the dishes and actually getting them clean. and finishing all of them. I went over the sink this morning. He did a good job, but I think wiping the counters and scrubbing the backsplash and all of that will still be my job. We have tiled countertops and they just need more attention than he's going to be willing to give them. Honestly, I never was that invested in the shiny sink. I'm notorious for always having dishes in the sink. I don't care. I have chronic pain. I'm coming out of remission. I think I might just have to work around this level of pain. One of the reasons I liked Flylady years ago is because I could mange my house and my pain. I might need some adjustments.

Scrap, I have the japanes e festival on my calendar, but we've not been yet. I'm looking forward to it.

It's slightly cooler here. 104 today. It was nice to sit outside on the front porch this afternoon. 95 this weekend, then under 100 all next week for the first time since May. Hallelujah.

I just instructed Ben in how to clean the sink. I'm about to go check it out. We do not wear shoes in the house. We wear socks And/or slippers. But everyone gets dressed every morning unless sock in bed. No lounging around in pjs. I Bookmarked The Babysteps, But I Havent Read Them All Yet. Im Feeling Badly And Im too Tired Just Now.

I only use mine for groups and events. I went through yesterday and hid everyone. They can see what I share from Instagram. We are still friends. They can message me. But I only see stuff that's happening near me.

we are planning to go to Legoland on Friday for their homeschool week class. We do roughly one trip per week, but sometimes just one kid at a time. I have a long, long list. Next week we are doing Urban Jungle in Mesa homeschool PE. I think they will love it. If it works out for us, we'll do it once a month. They offer it every thursday. We have a zoo membership this year. They have a special day about once a month, and we are enrolling in Wild Science academy for the second two sessions of the year. This also gives us access to South Mountain Environmental Education Center, and their educational opportunities. We will do these for the first session, then zoo classes for the second two sessions. We want to do a beach trip and a I want a lake trip. Where are you going? We will either end up at Oceanside, with my family, or Ventura with my BFF. Or both. We're in the market for a camper. Ben has been on a few field trips without me through Parks and rec. It's a small group that goes. They are big teen trips to Phoenix, Mesa, Tuscan to places like waterparks and trampoline parks and lazer tag where I can't take my little ones. My little ones have done smaller trips to the movies and the like. I would love to take my kids to Japan. I'd love to go see the houses where we lived, to eat at the yakitori stand where daddy ate chicken tail, to a festival to eat okonomiyaki, To see Bonodori dancing, to play taiko drums. to the amazing arcades where we used to meet for dates. to Meiji Shrine to meditate in the quiet meadow in the heart of Tokyo.

Definitely more than just anxiety. In addition to a full medical eval, she need a psychiatric eval. This is not a small thing. Give her the antibiotics. Don't tell her why. "We want to make sure your body is as healthy as it can be." Treat it like a preventive. edit. :grouphug: for you and your girl. I'm sure this is terrible for both of you.

In addition to the tips above, use a row counter. you click it after each row so you always know exactly where you are. the pattern is not difficult. It's repetetive and simple. The biggest problem is losing count and having to start over, or messing up the pattern. Silk is slippery, as mentioned, so wood circs are best. Hiring out knitting is not inexpensive. Especially not a project of this size. But you might ask at your local yarn store.

I use baby wipes. We have a pack in each bathroom. I'm the past, I used a rag or a microfiber cloth with hot water. No need for harsh cleanser when you wipe everything 5times a day.

Yes! This is just what I need. I started it just before I was married (part of my personal premarriage preparation) but I haven't referenced it in almost 20 years. Is there a website, or something?

i came back to say that you should definitely let them know what the expectations will be. our initial lesson of any new thing is generally just going over expectations, both those put forth by the program, and my own. I'm not sure you mean by rubric, I have not used that program, and I generally don't use formal marking. They may not need to understand weighted averages or whatever, but they should at least know that they are being graded and how to score well.

This. I explain as I go, or I pull out one or two topics to discuss.

i have a friend in Pennsylvania who named one of her daughters Violet. They call her Vio. She's 8. Edit: I love the name and would have happily used it. My Luna's name is Victoria. I also know a Nova. That's a new one for me, but she's one of 5 girls, all with unusual names.

sandwiches would be the obvious choice. Everyone could just make their own. soups, stews and casseroles would be your best bet. Any kind of one-pot meal that people could just serve themselves from as they need.

i have travelled out of the country in the past, and will in the future, but have not in recent years for financial reasons. Edit: My passport is expired and my family members do not have them. we travelled on military IDs, and before they were as necessary as they are now. We will get up to date passports soon so that we can at least go to Mexico. It's a day trip from here.

this week has been torturously long. We are having a terrible time settling in to our new life. Now that all the stress and drama is over, I expect my kids to fall into line. Not at all reasonable as the little ones have never had a line to fall into. I forget that their entire memory has been of disrruption and chaos :( I would love to sit on the couch all day and finish knitting a fuzzy little capelet for my bff's daughter. I have wanted to make her something forever, but this is my first project for her. if I have enough yarn, I will make a matching hood. I'm using yarn that was given to me by her grandma, so that's a little extra special. i'm freehanding it. I'm new to freehand and I LOVE IT! I think I have found my place in the crafting world. We had a huge monsoon last night. It's wet out, but the heat is so much better now. Since having our windows installed, our house is so much cooler. I love it. Now we are talking about stuccoing the outside, which will not only make the house cooler, but also so much prettier. It's a really plain block house. kind of sad looking. I now have a lovely view out the sliding doors. I can enjoy my yard without going outside. So, yeah. sit on the couch, knit, enjoy my beautiful view. i've never been rafting. I've never felt one way or the other about it. I'm a skilled swimmer, former lifeguard and ocean swimmer, so I have mixed feelings about fast moving water. We used to take Ben canoeing regularly when he was small. we could never take Jeff, though. He's too wild. I want to take up kayaking. I have scheduled a couple of trips, but never followed through. soon. Canoeing would be good too, especially with the kids.

we have almost always had our laundry in the kitchen or outside. I much prefer it in the kitchen. So convenient. Our last house had an alcove in the hall near the bathroom. It was odd. Still better than outside. EDit: I have lived in Japan, Hawaii, nevada, Louisiana, and Arizona. Other places, but we didn't have a laundry/lived in alternative arrangements.

it sounds like you want your husband to agree with your far off future plans, and he wants you to agree to his, with little room for compromise. agreeing to disagree is not something that either of you are comfortable with? I think you win this one by default, because he can't *make* you homeschool. If you have talked about it and he knows your stance, he can prefer that you homeschool, but it only takes one signature to enroll the kids in school. as others have mentioned, if you feel like he is trying to force you into this, or force a commitment from you, or that he will mistreat you if you disobey him, then that is a bigger problem. In the past, when we have had disagreements, we handled it..badly. He would try to dictate what I should do off of assumptions. Because he had zero interest or involvement in what we were actually doing, he had no idea what we were doing, or how. He would have an idea, assume I had never considered it, and come to me with demands that I found insulting. One day he came home and told me that he wanted to send our small children to a tutoring center for math and reading because "they are really important, and we want to make sure they are learning." I heard "You are messing our kids up and you can't do this, because you are stupid, a failure and bad at life. also you have no idea what you are doing, no common sense, and you are putting no effort into this", which is not exactly the same thing. someone at work had suggested sending our kids to a tutoring center, and it sounded like a good idea to him. He thought it would take a little pressure off me and give me some "free time" (it wouldn't. It would cost a bunch of cash we didn't have, and give me an hour drive with a car screaming baby and an hour or two wait in a boring waiting room with said screaming baby. oh, and no car :confused1: ) In retrospect, I should have calmly assured him that I was aware that reading and math are important, that is what we were working on, and that our 4 and 7 yos did not need tutoring in basic skills :rolleyes: but I would keep that in mind should it become necessary in the future. But I didn't do that. I completely freaked out at him, leaving him feeling like I was super unreasonable and he could never, ever be involved in any way. I don't recommend this method of negotiation.

One of our libraries is hosting a viewing and supplying glasses.

I voted always, but not really always. If I am Writing on lined paper, I use the lines. But I often sketch a diagram or a pattern design. Then I write all around it and pretend the lines aren't there.

i agree. I got my period at 10 and my mom didn't even make me go to school during my week until 7th grade. I'd ask for a doctor's note.