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What is the difference between picolinate and chelated zinc? Is one better than the other?
I would like to know this as well - and I am wondering, for those of you with teenagers, how long did it take before you really saw improvement?
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Gosh, I am blubbering mess and I'm not even all the way through these amazing pictures, but I have to pull myself together for a meeting, heh. Thank you for sharing - I will be back later with kleenex to see the rest.
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How often do you use it?
What kind of water do you use i.e. regular tap, bottled water, filtered water, distilled water?
How long have you had it or how long did it last?
What's you favorite coffee flavor? Where do you buy your k-cups from?
1. Multiple times a day by all family members, both for coffee and for hot water for tea.
2. Bottled distilled water - we started out with tap water but we have much less scale with distilled. We go through 3-4 gallons a week. (!)
3. Bought it at Costco last Thanksgiving.
4. Donut House/Starbucks Verona bought in bulk at Costco.
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Thanks for the link to Unrefined Kitchen - that looks like a great blog with lots of good recipes!
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good lord. Can someone please make an awesome, inclusive-simply-homeschooling conference?????
Oh, imagine... a conference with Susan, AND Julie, AND MCT, AND Jim Weiss, AND Peter Enns, and...
*swoon*:001_wub:
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Yes, I saw the email and the facebook posting. Disappointing, but unsurprising. I agree that it's awesome for SWB to again stand up for sanity and reason. I enjoyed the Cinci convention (and Julie, and Susan) last year and had such hopes that the GHC people were going to promote conventions that were diverse and broad-ranging, but alas. :(
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MrTea is an old softie, and I voted that he cries "with some frequency". I consider it crying if he is tearing up to the point that tears are rolling down his cheeks and he reaches for a kleenex. He'll sniffle a little, but not sob. He cries at movies, concerts, church, and if a little kid he loves is being extra cute. My dad always did, too. :001_smile:
This sounds a lot like my husband. He tears up at movies, things his kids (and other peoples' kids ;)) do that make him proud, the first time he held his children and his grandson, patriotic moments, stuff like that. Sometimes when stress and frustration boil over. Actual crying I have seen only rarely, but he tears up with some frequency.
And I wouldn't have it any other way - I love that he's a softie.
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very slow here, too.
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Thank you for posting about this and all of the encouragement.
I am one of the girls mom and coach of the FLL team. I am so proud of all that they have accomplished.
I know my daughter is excited to see her LIP friends again at worlds.
We can use all of the votes we can get so please spread word for us with anyone you think may be interested. Everyone can vote once a day till April 3rd. The contest is set up to allow for 200 votes per IP address so everyone at one location can vote. Vote at http://www.wouldntitbecoolif.com/ideas/813
GENIUS Coach
Linda
Yay Coach Linda! :) I'll definitely post to facebook, and my guy is super-geeked about seeing his GENIUS friends at World Festival, as well. We have been voting every day!
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I totally agree with you!
But, for example, my umbrella school will not let me use my ds's Intro to Basic Conversational Spanish as a semester elective and then take Spanish 1 as a Foreign Language credit next year. They said that that is like getting 2 credits for the same course under a different name. OK, I can KIND OF understand that because in conversational Spanish my ds is learning some Spanish conversational words that he would probably learn again, in more depth with grammar, etc., in his foreign language credit. But, they really are different programs geared toward a different end. ANYHOW, I caved to that pressure and am instead including his semester of Conversational Spanish as part of his Spanish 1 grade for next year. No way am I letting him complete all that work and get no credit for it. :glare:
So, I am wondering how they would react to a Intro to Literary Analysis elective, knowing any literature course should include analysis... Arg. But I know they can't say no to an extra Lit class for an elective. So, if I name it something "literatur-y" (haha) like, even, Literature of the Middle Ages, they have no reason to poo-poo it. Right? Right! :lol:
Oh, I see. Well, I don't know how creative they let you get with course titles, but what about something like "Literary Influence: The Impact of Classical Literature on J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings"? That would focus more on literature than analysis, anyhow.
I don't have an umbrella school to answer to, so I'm afraid I'm probably not a lot of help, sorry. My course titles so far on our transcripts have been singularly boring and direct.
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I have that as a possible title. My question is, wouldn't that title SOUND redundant when one is already suppose to be learning analysis in their English [british Lit] credit that same year?
I mean, I don't see why any college, or my umbrella school, would have issue with my ds taking another Lit class as an elective concurrently with his British Lit. I just don't know how best to title it or if they would question an elective titled Intro the Literary Analysis. I just don't want to have any red flags on my ds's transcript.
Couldn't I title it Literary Lessons from The Lord of the Rings, or Literary Lessons from Middle Earth, or Literary Lessons from J.R.R.Tolkien? ;)
Also, would one consider this a full or a half credit?
Hmmm... well, bearing in mind that I am not a draconian homeschooler and so might answer differently than many here, I can see lots of places where high school work overlaps: you can study a Shakespeare play or two in your "regular" English class, yet also take an in-depth Shakespeare elective, for instance. I doubt an admissions officer would consider that a red flag, would they? There are plenty of elective classes that are designed to take a more specific look at a general subject the student is learning (our local high school has an elective class titled "Math of the FBI" that my son would love to take if the guidance counselor gatekeepers were not such poopypants about working with homeschoolers... :glare:). If you are writing course descriptions you could use that space to explain that LLLOTR takes a more in depth look at literary analysis by using a single, complex piece of work, and in this way it reinforces concepts, vocabulary etc and helps train the student to look for the ways that themes are threaded throughout the work. Or something, I dunno... I'm just making this up off the top of my head. ;)
Personally, if the student did all the writing assignments (or at least many of them), did the unit studies well, participated in discussions and did all the quizzes/tests, I would (and will) count it for a full credit.
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I don't know anything about MFW so forgive me if it sounds like a dumb suggestion, but what about calling it Introduction to Literary Analysis? Is that too redundant with what MFW already does at this level?
(We love this curriculum as well - among other things it sent my guys off on a rabbit trail searching for and discussing the merits of various translations of Beowulf. Which does a nerdy humanities mom's heart good. :))
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Hey! These girls made friends with my son's FLL team last year at the World Festival, and they've stayed in contact ever since. I agree, they're a great bunch of kids and we've been voting for them every day. We're going back to World Festival this year and they're planning on getting together (the reunion tour, lol). Small world!
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We have a local auto repair shop that advertises on their sign that they do "alinements". Gah. Also, it's congraTulate, not congraDulate, regardless of whether it's May and there are lots of people matriculating from their educational institutions. Don't. Put. Misspellings. On. Your. Signs.
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What an amazing accomplishment! Thanks for sharing - it's a good reminder to me today to work on cultivating a positive, strong family.
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We're pretty demonstrative here, too, and my boys still initiate plenty of hugging and couch-snuggling, but when we're out in public they are much more self-conscious about it (15 yo especially), so I respect that and keep to myself, or to fist-bump kind of stuff.
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I so hope it's Richard. I despise him. :glare: Plus, it gives him a reason to keep Mary's secret forever, as it could reveal motive.
This. I'm sure he didn't trust Vera not to try and sell the story to someone else, either for profit or spite. And he's got some teensy control issues.
I love O'Brian's "grayness", and I think Branson and Sybil are a good match. The character I can't stand is Cora - so insipidly whiny and willfully dumb. Blecch.
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Who do you all think killed Vera, anyway? I have a wild guess.
Hubby's theory is that Richard did it. I don't know what to think about this but Richard certainly is nasty enough to have pulled it off, and he was late getting back from London around the time of the murder.
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Only if it was Hogwarts!
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We have appreciated bravewriter.com for writing instruction. The classes are not cheap but they've really encouraged my reluctant writers, and have honed their essay writing skills in particular.
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Hubby says thankyouverymuch. Router is now fixed. :001_smile:
(He's also an IT guy, so he very much enjoyed reading the articles you linked and has been talkingtalkingtalking to me about the technical details all. morning. long.)
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May?? Sigh. And BBC is showing it in the UK on New Year's Day? :glare: Jealous. Waiting for Sherlock and Dr. Who is starting to make me twitchy.
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West Michigan
No homeschool regulations.
Snowy winters, fairly nice summers.
Rural areas very close to the city.
Lots of trees, lakes, rivers...
Major medical in Grand Rapids, including recent expansion of Michigan State's medical school.
I second this. Great sandy beaches, family friendly culture, zero homeschool regulations, affordable housing, terrific museums and culture, expanding medical opportunities.
NOT sorting laundry
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All these non-sorters are making me twitchy. ;) We have three hampers in the laundry area and my guys have all been trained to sort their dirty clothes right into the hampers and do a load when necessary, so it's pretty easy to just dump a load in the washer when someone happens to be downstairs. We have one hamper for whites/lights, including rags/sheets/towels - it's all getting washed in hot water, so I don't see the point of separating. Another hamper is for reds, and the third is for darks/brights, both of which get cold water loads. I've never bought a color catcher.