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  1. It looks like we will be traveling to all three locations this fall. Please share any favorite sites to see, places to stay, and restaurants to visit. Also, any other travel tips for those locations would be appreciated too. I'm always a fan of hearing about the best way to do things and what to avoid, especially as a tourist. I'll be traveling with my dh and dd. Thanks!
  2. Yep, it happened to me as a young teen in the 1980s walking into the downtown area of a very quiet and "safe" town. A guy in his 30s or 40s pulled up next to me and asked for directions. I started talking and he said he couldn't hear me so I walked closer to his car (stupid) and could see right into his car. His pants were down and he was....you get the drift. When I immediately backed away, I remember him smiling and laughing about it. I never told my parents about it. I also remember feeling ashamed like I had done something wrong. Another friend told me about a similar incident that happened to her and I don't think she told her parents about it either. How do we get our kids to open up to us about these things?
  3. My ds is recovering from being very ill from Lyme. I would recommend going to the doctor and possibly getting the tick tested. Lyme is awful and a preventive dose of doxy might be in order until you get the tick results back.
  4. What about listening to the audiobook together? My dd and I just did and it was fantastic with Nick Offerman narrating on Audible. It moved onto my list of favorite audiobooks :001_smile:
  5. Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and advice! My plan is to sit down as a family and sort through all the issues that were raised in this thread. Thankfully, my dc are older and can help both with figuring out a plan and implementing it if we go ahead and take them. I greatly appreciate everyone's help! :001_smile:
  6. We're considering a rather lengthy, 3000 miles round trip, road trip. My dc really want to bring the two dogs. They are both pretty small and have no issues in the car. BUT we've never done this before and I'm nervous about all the potential problems. Anyone have any advice for making a road trip with dogs a success? Any tips about how to find hotels that allow pets? Are we nuts?
  7. I've just been planning that out a bit. Right now, I have several books that I want to tackle this summer. Here's what I have so far: Books Teaching from Rest - this is a reread The Well Trained Mind high school portion - another reread Charlotte Mason, A Philosophy of Education - first time The Liberal Arts Tradition - finish this one as I'm about halfway. How to Read a Book - I've been intending to read this one for ages. I signed up for ClassicalU through Classical Academic Press and will be working through those courses. That's it for now! I hope you receive many responses that will prompt me to explore other things! :001_smile:
  8. :grouphug: Prayers for you and your family. :grouphug:
  9. Good to know! My dd is signed up for Algebra 2 next year with Mr. Reini. It's been a good year in Geometry with Mrs. Smith.
  10. We drove from PA to WA and back a few years ago and it was a fantastic trip! I did plenty of prep beforehand and that helped. We knew where we were going to stop each night and I had found various interesting places to stop and see during the trip. We stopped for lengthier stays at Yellowstone on our way out and Park City, Utah and Boulder, CO on our way home. We were gone for about 6 weeks. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
  11. Thanks texasmom33! I will explore this option and see if I can put together something doable that isn't crushing.
  12. I don't mean to derail this thread, but I do have a question for texasmom33 about how you combined HotAW with RR. My daughter doesn't want to spend more than one year in the ancients. I have RR Greeks and Romans. Is it possible in your opinion to combine the two and add in HotAW during one school year?
  13. Great advice! She is all geared up to study French starting in 10th after another year of Latin next year, but we could add Spanish on Duolingo pretty easily.
  14. This is encouraging to read! Especially the possibility of transferring the CA classes for credit and receiving training in business too and achieving a BS. I will start looking into this option. Thanks!
  15. We'll look at CIA - thanks. I've just focused on local options for the next few years. We have been talking with her about pursuing a business degree as well as good prep for starting a business but also to have something else to fall back on. I agree that we need to get her into a professional kitchen asap and see if the dream remains. Thanks.
  16. She has done some reading online and at this point, isn't scared off by the hardships involved. She hasn't ever worked in a professional kitchen though, so it sounds like the next step is for her to find a job or internship that will give her real world experience. We haven't looked at the cost for the good schools yet - I will check that out. Thanks for the heads up!
  17. My 13 yr old dd has been at home in the kitchen since she was little. She's been baking amazing things for us for years. My dh, our resident chef, taught her knife skills 2 yrs ago and she can now cook anything too. Her true love is baking though and her desire is to open a bakery one day. I looked into our options and discovered that she can take culinary arts classes at the local tech institute and the downtown cc. She'll only be in 9th grade next year and I'm not sure she's ready for the dual enrollment experience. If you have a child who shares this passion and pursued it, or is currently pursuing it, I'd love to hear about the path you took. When did you start culinary classes, did the child go to college, how did that work out? Anything you'd be willing to share, I'd love to hear.
  18. I made the transition from Prilosec to Zantac back in Jan. It wasn't too bad. I did have to cut way back on garlic and salt and pepper when seasoning my food for about a month, but all is good now. Good luck!
  19. Add my vote for All the Light We Cannot See! Another WWII book that I enjoyed recently and found to be very moving was Everyone Brave is Forgiven. People of the Book is a fascinating story that I found very satisfying about the travels of the Sarajevo Haggadah and the people over the centuries who both preserve, interact, and are effected by this special book.
  20. :iagree: Poorly edited and organized sums up well my feeling about General Science and Physical Science. Plus, they are so dry in my opinion. We had the Chem and Bio books as well but I didn't teach from them - my son used them through an online class. He really struggled with them. We're just not fans up their upper level books. At all. My dd will be using other things.
  21. Praying for you! :grouphug:
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