Yes but it's not beautiful and I don't think anyone else would ever read it. I organize it as bullet journal, but plain and I don't put everything in the table of contents. I keep notes from books and things I read in there. my thoughts on things, my rough drafts of things, recipes. event plans, to do lists etc. I have it handy and just jot things when they come up. I did this when I was working and I just continued with it because I loved it for work. At work I did keep a larger but less portable notebook because I needed that, along with a smaller sized notebook.

DH and I dealt a bit with my attachment/abandonment issues before and in the beginning of our marriage. There is a lot about telling him how I feel when he did certain things and telling him what I want/need from him. I do have to be open to him saying no to my requests, because some of them are unreasonable. From there we work out a reasonable plan. This looks like him giving me a deadline of when he will contact me next, that he knows he does have to follow through on that and he has to be OK with the possibility that I'm an emotional mess in the meantime (while I'm giving him space). Yes I know I have no problem with DH not calling me all the time, but mine more looked if he wasn't where he said he'd be, home by when I expect him to be, or if we are in a space and he isn't next to me.

I have been to her site, which has also been immensely useful. I haven't watched a lot of the videos because it's easier for me to process via reading rather than a video.

I'm thankful that my in-laws have embraced holidays should be enjoyed by everyone.

Yes, but I do love all the nitty gritty details. There are never too many books! I could easily be convinced to read your book too.

As a person whose hobby is calligraphy (I know slightly different, but I started also going for doing cursive), I really don't see a point of teaching everyone in the general cursive. Sure, for some it's a tool they need for reading and spelling. In terms of reading, I don't believe it actually takes that much instruction to learn to decipher cursive. To the point that you should have the capability to just look it up, along with things like s also look like 'f' or the integral sign in some historical documents.

"He looked more like a ball than a bird." - Round Robin I've read this book a few too many times this week.

It is a dense (a lot information) book at 300+ pages, I also skipped past the initial stages of reading because both my children can blend letter sounds into words. It seems to me the basic premise is to get students to notice letters and the ways they interact to make words. So it advocates for teaching the generalizations (he wants to stray from calling them "rules" even though he does refer to them as "rules" because most people do and it may not be a book people read cover to cover), via application versus just having children be able to verbalize them. It does not have a definitive list, instead it gives you lists of most frequently used generalizations and how effective they are (so a lot of phonics books have a lot of "rules" that are "may" be this, thus it's how often that "rule" actually happens in words). For example it shows you a chart of the most frequent spellings of the 44 sounds of English, but also shows you how often each spelling pattern is used to symbolize that sound with a percentage based on the 17000 most frequently used words. Same with phonics generalizations (like "... g often has a sound similar to j in jump when it comes before the letter i or e") and how often these generalizations are utilized. These charts are there to help you decide what is best for your student and when. To the camp of reading instruction he leans towards, it would be to have children learn spelling and reading at the same time, because children remember best when they can apply their knowledge. Since he wants students to apply their knowledge every step of the way the sequence of when you learn the generalizations, phonemes and morphemes are based on how frequently they are encountered. For example this book is geared toward K-3 grade and while it has information on teaching student how to prefix and suffix words this book doesn't cover Greek and Latin roots just the most common prefixes and suffixes. There is a next book that I suppose covers word study for older ages.

I just borrowed the book Phonics From A to Z by Wiley Blevins. It is strictly about reading and touches on spelling, however it combines a lot of research on how children learn to read/spell with research in orthographic rules and word frequency in English. In a way it highlights what are the most effective things children should memorize/internalize to learn reading and spelling. (A word of warning though, he wrote a curriculum so he does shamelessly plug this curriculum and other books he's written.) That book bought me to another book about research on reading and spelling called BrainWords I haven't read this book just yet so I'll come back to update once I've read it. (This book advocates learning spelling and reading at the same time because research shows that it's more effective.)

I'm more done with people ruining a perfectly good drink to make it more "milk"-like. Especially soy milk and rice milk.

Mojo was not the problem of the text. Any other word replaced in that text would be problematic.

Currently a rolling cart. Every homeschool Pinterest I see has it and there is a small area of my brain that thinks I'll be that much better of a teacher if I had a rolling cart.

My substitute milk/cream with butter sweet potatoes turned out really really well.

Also there have been studies that show, for the majority of people learning to speak a language before the age of 11 they will be able to speak that language without an accent and if they learned to speak after the age of 11 they will have an accent. The study was conducted on children immigrating to a country (perhaps only the USA to any country, I learned this over a decade ago so...), even siblings.

3 homes, 1 apartment in 2 countries including the one I currently live in.

I'm not sure but I may have spent the first 6 years of my life in a place that does this. It's hard to say cognitive benefits because in this particular area it happens because there is a practical need at the time, most official documents were written in the second language. (Technically, I think they do get some education on how to speak/converse in that language, but definitely there is more emphasis on reading and understanding vs. communicating - if you had to choose.) Reading @HomeAgain's post it might depend on the languages on how helpful it is. Maybe there's some it makes your brain smarter just to know more things that might happen too. I've seen the reading translate into speaking but also not, depending on the person and the need. When you are speaking to a whole population of an area there is a lot more moving pieces.

Night Tree by Eve Bunting, and The Emperor's Egg: Read and Wonder. A new one I found this year is Bright Christmas An Angel Remembers. I like doing Unwrapping the Greatest Gift by Ann Voskamp. It has pictures but you are suppose to read it through advent/month of December (usually we go into January).

I think this tidbit belongs on this thread. https://pambarnhill.lpages.co/language-arts-together-bundle-one/ is having a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale.

I like it. This year I feel like it's a little too much science for us. We have a membership to a science museum, and a Kiwi crate subscription. So I feel like we need to do an easier routine science. The science museum started to rotate their exhibits more often and put in more things this year. It's bringing a lot of science to the table. If I didn't have the science museum I think I would stick with SCI. I think it's solid and pretty painless to implement. I would print as I go though instead of printing it all out in the beginning.

FYI I have dumped guys over needing me to text/communicate with them everyday. Some of them were fine men just not my style and one was borderline abusive. Especially, if we are maybe dating or just dating and haven't moved into bf/gf or exclusivity. Of course I was in my twenties so maybe the dating world is different later in life ...

SCI and BFSU is the same content. SCI just schedules it for you, gives you worksheets/printables and links to some videos and extra materials. Elemental Science didn't work for us because there is a lot of writing or "writing"/drawing in that and my eldest didn't want to do that.

I just did. I looked at the price, I'm sad my mom didn't take my advice of keeping it.

Coffee: $20/month I like hanging out with friends and ladies like to hang out at coffee shops. Tea: Hard to put a number here, although wouldn't be surprised if it's high. I only like high quality tea and I will spend for that. Definitely spent $20+ on 2 oz of tea leaves. I'll definitely buy Bobas and milk teas. Soda: $20-40/year I'll drink a soda that comes with a meal, and we like to do Italian soda for parties so we have a collection of Torani syrup and buy or/make soda water (we had a kegerator for a while). Alcohol: $50/year We keep some beer on hand. So I buy a case from Costco probably once per year or less. Sometimes DH will buy alcohol that looks yummy like a cider or something. Smoothies: $500+/year It's great that there are no smoothie/Boba shops too near to me. I mean if I lived down the street or something from one, it'd be trouble.

I'm of the opinion no adult and person really including children ever really need a "taste of their own medicine". The consequence of me having certain feelings because of what they did, yes. Me doing something in revenge for their behavior no. What DS said is great advice. It may not mean he is a bad person (or you are a bad person) just that you aren't on the same wavelength. If it takes that much emotional energy for either of you to date I don't think you all are compatible. DH and I are also both people that a lot of disengaging behavior would be lost on us, we'd probably just think you were busy. We didn't respond in time last time because we got busy at work. We responded quickly other times because we weren't busy. It's actually why I knew I wanted to marry DH early on, because he was the first male who stated what he wanted from me and I was fine with what he wanted from me.

I'm so bummed for you. You have to be aware (I think) of all foods that have that umami taste. It's totally possible to make soy sauce and miso without gluten, but it's more expensive to make that way.