[Church Nursery Policy?]

Small church. Hard to find volunteers. I want to have a 2 adult policy but it just won't work. We put one adult and one teen in the nursery. This after I was the one holding a baby who would not stop crying. You simply can not take a crying baby into church to get his mother. Oh and right now, no babies. No one under the age of 4 truly.

Our church is like this. We always have two people, but it's usually an adult and a teen. Children ages 3 through 2nd grade go to children's church which always has enough volunteers.

[Would you have answered the phone?]

We had a PHONE SCAM a few weeks ago. I was very tempted to answer it.

[Your Favorite Exercise/Activity...]

I picked running and yoga. I don't really like to exercise, but I've been able to stick with these.

[Cool Wind Map]

We're studying wind this week, and I thought I would pass this along.

 

Wind Map

[Workbox drawers]

I bought one very similar to the multi colored one from Michaels....so bad. I agree with what youve heard about them. The trays are just barely wide enough to fit in the tracks and if you don't slide them right, they slip right off the tracks. DS can't get them in half the time. Such a waste! I haven't found another solution so I just pull out what he needs and stack everything on the table for now.

We have a set purchased from a thrift store. I'm glad I didn't pay full price. They cannot take anything heavy. Some of the knobs have pulled off. My dd now uses it for craft supplies.

[Prayers please- dd at ER after seizure led to fall on left temple]

Praying. :grouphug:

[GE Dishwasher--do you have one?]

We got rid of GE about 6 months ago. I hated it. It never really worked well in the five years we had it. It could only handle almost clean dishes. Near the end I was using it as an extra dish drying rack since I had to hand wash most everything anyway. We have a Kenmore now that does a decent job.

[Ugh. Gallbladder issues. I don't know what to do.]

FInd a doctor, and make an appt asap. That may be a few weeks. In the meantime, pray that you don't have another attack!

 

I went to the ER and they scheduled my gallbladder to be removed the next day but then I had a liver infection. So several more ER visits and a few months later I had the gallbladder out!

 

:iagree: Gallbladders can turn from chronic to acute very quickly. A lady from my church died from complications of a diseased gallbladder.

[When did your son stop wearing character underwear?]

Ds just turned 9, and he still likes to wear them.

[I am soooo freakin' sick of...]

Amen and :grouphug:

[Could your 8th grader spell this word?]

Mine couldn't. Sigh. She spelled it "squalled". Maybe she would have done better if she had written it down. She could never be in a spelling bee.

[JAWM...]

Let DH go for an hour and let you stay home and rest. You are sick! Period, end of story. Be strong... :grouphug:

 

:iagree: Hope you and your children get better soon.

[Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters movie]

We'll either wait for it to go to the cheap theater or see it on DVD. My oldest hasn't forgiven the damage done to The Lightning Thief.

[Nature Study- What cool stuff have you seen lately?]

We have at least 20 turkey vultures (aka buzzards) that have started roosting in the pine trees across the road from our house.

[Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight]

We just came in from looking up. It's an awesome show since it's a new moon. We saw lots of little ones, several "good" ones, and one fire ball. I wanted to stay out longer, but the kids were cold.

 

http://earthsky.org/...d-meteor-shower

[What are your favorite little-known vintage Christmas books for all ages?]

 

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Amelia C. Houghton is one of our favorites. It's a Nicholas story.

[Free Physics Quest Kit - hurry!]

Thank you!

[Making your own laundry detergent]

I've tried both liquid and powdered versions of homemade laundry detergent, and it just doesn't work that well here. We have hard well water, and I even increased the borax in the recipe. But I noticed that the clothes still smelled after being washed. Even a not-really-sweat-in shirt of dh's still smelled very strongly of his deodorant after being washed.

:iagree:

Dh's clothes were stinky. Sometimes I would have to wash them twice. The rest of the laundry did okay, but I had to use hot water to get it clean. Soon I realized that with all the presoaking, pretreating, extra bleach, extra oxyclean, and having to wash in hotter water, I wasn't saving anything. One scoop of decent commercial laundry detergent in one cold load is better for the environment and my pocketbook.

[Favorite ways to eat cabbage (with recipes please!)?]

I'm making this now. Kielbasa Cabbage Soup

[3 calls so far today!]

We have political robo calls starting at 8:30 in the morning and going until 9ish at night. I would unplug the phone, but my father in law is in poor health.

[Bizarre Phone Call]

This is a scam. They called a friend of mine who is in IT. He played along for a while to see what was up. Total scam.

[How to make multiplication stick?]

We use Timez Attack here. I also ran across this video on Pinterest:

[Why oh why?]

My youngest stuck a plastic bead up her nose. Our doctor told me to close the nostril that was clear and then blow into her mouth like you were doing mouth to mouth resuscitation. The bead popped out on the second blow. Saved us a trip to see the doctor.

[Are you scientifically literate?]

This quiz is going around Facebook.

 

Are you scientifically literate?

 

I got 45 out of 50.

[R&S Grammar bogs down in 6th/7th grade??]

It bogged down for us. We were able to keep up until the middle of sixth grade. Then we slowed down. My dd is starting 8th grade with book 7. I was panicked that dd was behind, but a freshman English teacher said that book 7 was close to what she taught in ninth grade honors English. I plan to keep plugging away with book 7 this year. After that, I may switch to Analytical Grammar for high school.