Praying hard

I don’t know of a source for homeschool grads. But I’m a homeschool mom who has completed her task and is looking for work. I’d be interested to hear what type of work you’re hiring for . You can message me Kim

I’ll mask once I start teaching. Maybe 30% of students mask and I’m usually one of the only faculty masked. I’m decades older than the faculty so they leave me be and are respectful but many of them have had Covid 3-4 times already. If I get it, I get it but I’ll do everything I can to try and dodge the bullet. My family masks almost all the time. Not outside. Too hot but definitely inside unless actively eating. My son is a T1 diabetic. We don’t know how it’ll affect him so we’re cautious. If people look at me funny I just smile and move on. I have no problems with others not masking as long as they are respectful of me., but I do think wonder if masks hadn’t become so political if we would have seen the back of this a while ago.

I completely agree

Ok. I’m truly an idiot. I must need a long vacation on a beach. I confused CC-Community College with CC - Classical Conversation a popular homeschool organization when I was schooling my kids. If you could see my red face 🙃🙃. Disregard my post. It has been a real benefit to my kids to have plenty of night class options at CC (hee hee). Gave them more flexibility to work. But it is nice when they have multiple time options for classes when they can. I better go to sleep. I clearly need it.

I feel for you. I remember the Tetris days and I get hot flashes. Lol. CC was always during the day when I was homeschooling. I’m sad that they are moving to the afternoon/evening. I liked classes class that were during school hours that wouldn’t conflict with extracurricular activities. I wonder what their reasoning is. Maybe trying to meet needs of school kids who want to participate? Discouraging.

Under the guidelines you’ve listed, I would have no problem with any of my kids going. You’ve covered all the things I’d be concerned about.

Same here. Our biggest problem is marital privacy. 😇. We can’t even have a private conversation without hiding. Our house is small. Which is fine. But it feels like it’s getting smaller. Lol

I did the same And knowing what I know now, I wish I had had the money to send them away to school 😂

I remember older women telling me don’t sweat the baby/toddler/teen years….that the adult living at home years are the worst. They weren’t ,kidding We raised our kids on a steady diet of discussing and working out conflict and processing emotional stuff. I’m glad we did but I am so throughly exhausted processing with my 3. I’m glad they value my opinion but half the time they get frustrated with my input and I end up saying, “then don’t ask me!?!?’ I also know far more about my kids ‘Lives’ than I wanted to. 😂. I’ll always be there for them but some days I wished I lived somewhere with more affordable housing so they could get out. Lol

I’m a Questioning RC 🙃, so I’m not sure I’m the best person to give advice, but I will say one thing. Organizations including churches do not do a good job of protecting, validating or being in reality about volunteers. Especially when it comes to Childrens or music ministry. I second all the people who said establish what you can/can’t do for your church and sooner rather than later inform your vestry. Outline the scope of what you’ve been doing. Make informed recommendations for going forward and let them know what you’re willing to do starting X date. Do this now. Before you “go round the bend”. I wish I had. I saw some very ugly behavior from my leadership because I wasn’t able to handle the meeting with grace after some things were “said” to me and about me. It has opened up a lot of pain. I’m coming out from under it now but it has damaged many relationships I had at my church for me and eroded my faith in my parish’s ability to be involved in my spiritual leadership. My jobs were part paid and part volunteer so it may be not truly apply, but this is a way to long post to say……speak up before you aren’t able to do so in a calm, deliberate way.

Had my second in 2000 also but he was such a nightmare I don’t remember much of that year and wasn’t really in the place to do anything but survive. Lol. My organization came 2 years later after #3

I still have all sorts of playmobil in my house. My 24,22,20 year olds won’t let me get rid of them.

2004. A playmobil catapult knight and dragon. Oh….simpler times 😂

Each of my kids have a night to cook and they get to choose the menu. If they get me the ingredients before I shop, I will get the stuff, but after they have to. My two meat eaters are not required to cook food my Vegan can eat, but it is sweet that they try to rotate between meat meals and vegan meals. My Vegan has made some AMAZING meals but they are time consuming so she's getting more simple now.

If he has any pain after the first couple of days it may be infected. My kid just went through this in December. I thought it was normal pain until she woke up with a second head coming out of the side of her cheek!! Great mom moment. LOL Heavy duty antibiotics and she was fine in a couple of days but it was bad!!!! Lots of gross puss. ETA: This also happened to my nephew a couple of months earlier. Different dentist, different city...it turns out infection is a lot more common than I thought

I think is extremely important. Just recognizing that I have had privilege based on my race has helped me see some of the systemic discrimination I didn't recognize before. I have two friends. Friend A is white and her husband is black. She has 3 very LARGE sons. 6'6" and UP. It's crazy how tall they are and they are very dark skinned. When they are walking down the street in the city ,she said she can't even count how many times she has been stopped by white men and asked if she "needs help" and "everything ok?" I had this conversation with her and another friend who ALSO has 2 sons that are huge!!!! Not quite as tall but definitely over 6ft and the mom is TINY so they totally dwarf her. She/hubby/kids are all white. She told us she has never had the experience of Friend 1. Its not that Friend A's kids are scary looking and B's kids are sweet as homemade apple pie. Actually Friend B said her kids are more apt to be scowling. It's the perception that a white woman walking down the street with 3 large black men must be in trouble. That's the privilege I've never had to experience.

I'm not 😉 It's none of my business and Rosie said she can leave it here if we keep it nonspecific so I am not crossing into the politics line lol. But thank you for your answer.

This is interesting to me. Really...not snark...I'm curious. So if a candidate lined up with your important issues but you found out something they did that was completely illegal and immoral that would not change your opinion? What if it was something that they could potentially do in their new position and could have dire effects on their constituents.

Thanks Rosie...so far so good 😉

I don't think individual schools should be allowed to raise money or request grants. My sister's public school in a wealthy neighborhood raised over $400K every year. How is that fair to the school down the street in a middle to low income area? This was an elementary school!! Not even a high school!!

You're absolutely right. I am so sorry. I thought that was the room I was in at the time. Ive been flipping back and forth so many times I forgot where I was. So sorry about that!!!

I am absolutely certain that this question has been asked so if someone just wants to link me to it...I'll just go read it 😉 but here's my question: I am trying to understand how people who try to live their lives as their best selves, try to make choices that are moral and loving and decent..people who put a very high price tag on doing the right thing with regards to society and individuals can support a candidate who doesn't. I am NOT trying to be snarky. I know some amazing people who appear to really care about living their faith or living a moral life who support some of the candidates/politicians who say the most heinous things and do the most heinous things. I am trying to understand how they can accept/tolerate it. Again...just direct me to the thread...don't want to start a fight..but yes I know this is not a topic that can stay instructive. It will probably become destructive, but I just want to understand the thought process.

I think that this is easy to say for those of us who have generally lived a life of privilege. I don't mean we are necessarily wealthy. And I don't mean that we haven't had our own horribly destructive history but if I was to say to someone "don't dwell on your past" and their past is continually brushed aside as in THE PAST, how are they expected to feel. And often times it is not their PAST it continues to be their PRESENT. I can not move forward until I have contended with things that negatively shaped me. I was raised in a family where you didn't talk about it, you didn't tell anyone about it and you moved on from it. It doesn't work. I believe in Christ and that belief and a lot of therapy has helped me heal from much of it, but A) not everyone believes in Christ and that is ok with me and B) that doesn't mean we can just forget the past.

First section deleted because it was in response to the deleted post. I'm more speaking to the exchange between you and Dreamergal. Did we always assume that a comment or response had aggressive/passive aggressive undertones? I'm a lurker turned "putting my toe in poster" so I don't know all of the dynamics between people here, but as an "outsider" it seems like there is more jumping to conclusions and less asking for clarification. I'm not trying to be snarky or condescending..I'm really trying to understand. I don't know how you do add the highlighted name thing. LOL But I tried to add Dreamergal to this.