I know you found one already, but next time try Panache High Impact Sports Bra. https://www.barenecessities.com/panache-ultimate-high-impact-underwire-sports-bra-5021_product.htm?pf_id=Panache5021 Until I got this bra, I always had to wear two sports bras on top of each other in order to 1) get enough support and 2) not have “headlights.”

@Lori D., thanks for linking the longer discussion. It was very enlightening and helpful. I see I was not alone in my initial reaction. It was also helpful to hear from the author of the curriculum. I think she could use better sources in her treatment of this topic, if indeed the aim is to educate vs indoctrinate.

Ugh ugh ugh…I just bought their geography curriculum…I don’t want to support these people any further!!

I'm dealing with a similar quandary as you: My mom died of breast cancer(age 69, diagnosed at 64), two of my 4 female cousins have had breast cancer (not in touch with the other two, so I don't know their status), and now my sister just got diagnosed with BC (age 58). She had genetic testing done and she has none of the 90 or so genetic markers for cancer. Yet, she still got it... Like you, I have a lifetime risk of 30%. I am also, now that my sister has been diagnosed, contemplating a prophylactic double mastectomy. My sister (the one with BC) thinks I'm crazy for thinking about getting a preventive mastectomy, but the way I figure, given the track record of the females in my family, I can either have my bosoms cut off now, while I'm healthy, or wait till I already have cancer, and then I'll have to have surgery AND cancer treatment at the same time, which I think is a stupid idea. So, my thinking is, I might as well get my bosoms cut off now, to prevent cancer. I've spoken with a on oncologist, and the two courses of action she proposed were a double mastectomy now, or yearly mammograms and MRIs and possibly 5 years of treatment with an estrogen suppressing agent (like tamoxifen I think). But that's only a 50% risk reduction, whereas the surgery is 90%. I suppose really it comes down to what DH's insurance will pay for, which we're kind of waiting still to see.

So is there gonna be a place to share recipes for all these yummy-sounding dishes?? Mine are bean dip (recipe stolen from my sister, who was the famous cook in the family till she went gluten-free 🥴); Swedish meatball recipe from high school Home Ec; chicken vindaloo.

I learned how to knit from YouTube. I make hats and gloves and sweaters. I’m currently working on my 6th sweater. I love it!

My dad was born when grandma was 43 and my grandfather was 53… I had my first baby at 39, and my 2nd at 41…

I’m afraid I’m not going to be much help, but we’re also looking at Wayfarers for next year and I would love to see some recent reviews.

Well, I suppose I might as well start: After last year's failed attempt at the Alveary (we lasted all of 6 weeks for all subjects, dropped the worst subjects (science and geography) and then did a more thorough switch at 12 weeks), I'm a little trepidatious to try another curriculum, but I'm looking hard at Wayfarers. There's just not a whole bunch of recent reviews about it on here. I'm nervous about the geography (it seems all over the place) and I really don't know how we'll do with Quark Chronicles. My kids love learning through reading, but I really can't stand Aliens, space travel, etc., so I don't know how we'll do with Quark Chronicles. But I do love that it's built around Story of the World, which I've been DYING to do with my kids since we started homeschooling. Math: We may continue to do Right Start, so that will be RS E, or we may try Apologia's Math for 4th grade. I'm not sure yet. Grammar: We're doing CLE grade 2 now and it's going well, so I would think we will continue with grade 3 next year. Writing: Writing Tales 1 (finish) and begin Writing Tales 2 Handicrafts: whittling, felting, sewing

I’m in the same boat as you—my 1st grader uses MWC and I LOVE it! My 3rd grader has toiled through Singapore Dimensions and Primary Math (mom didn’t get it enough to be able to teach it!), Math Mammoth (UGH!!), and now we’re trying Rightstart D, because it made me so sad to see her watching her brother do so many fun activities with MWC, meanwhile she was handed row after row of numbers on a page to solve. So we’re trying the abacus and the games with RS…but I’m finding she’s not getting her multiplication facts very quickly. And RS is introducing order of operations already, and factors and so on and she hasn’t even memorized her multiplication tables. People in a Facebook group for MWC have recommended over and over Apologia as a good option for kids too old for the latest MWC release. So I’m looking at it for next year, despite the fact that people on these boards have told me I mustn’t switch up my children’s math curriculum after like 2nd grade…???

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My kids are just not connecting to the source texts. In Science, form 1 reads from 3 different books a week, each reading about 5 minutes. That in itself makes my kids crazy. I thought it was awesome at first bc it went so fast. But my kids were always wanting me to read more, or asking when we were “ever” going to finish reading x,y,z. Also…examples of deep dives they go into: snakes(ugh!), corn (???), insects’ eggs freezing over winter…I think the grade 1-3 science is on a three year loop so maybe if we’d done all three years, it would make more sense. The geography, again, is so short—they’re drawing out a year long course into two years, so it moves extra slow, but at the same time, they’re expecting kids in form 1 to understand the global grid system…I really love their art lessons, and their handicrafts lessons. Also, their online training is very good for people who don’t know much about Charlotte Mason. They have some good helps for neuroatypical learners also.

I switched Singapore Math 3 for Rightstart Math D. We just that, so we’ll see how it goes. I’m also dropping The Alveary’s Science, & geography courses and going with BF books new geography and science for littles. I’ll be dropping The Alveary’s French but not sure what I’ll replace it with.

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