Watching the GOP debate and yelling at the TV while drinking a refreshing root beer that dh brought home for me after his class.

I'm about 45 minutes from you. We head up there to go to Wild Oats every 4 months or so.

Our kids are expected to contribute to the upkeep of the family. Our oldest girl and oldest boy asked us to write down their "morning chores" (making the bed, bringing laundry down to the hamper, etc). They love being able to check things off of lists. Otherwise, they are expected to help when asked or if they see something that needs to be done. I actually wrote a blog article early last year about this same subject after I learned that we apparently were the only family we knew (well, in our son's cub scout troop, anyway) whose kids were expected to work around the house regularly. You can read it here if you are interested.

This semester, about 9 or 9:30. It usually changes a bit depending on my dh's semester schedule. I am NOT a morning person and generally stay up until at least midnight and get a lot done after the kids go to bed.

I think it is also important to keep in mind while reading the article that the author is the headmistress of a school. She obviously would like to promote her own school and her own philosophy of education in order to gain students. I read this article awhile ago (I think we discussed it here, too). I don't have time to reread it now, but just keep in mind the worldview from which it is written (objectivist headmistress of a non-classical private school) and understand that perspective as much as possible before writing your response to the article. Hope your research goes well.

Nope. I go into the nearest no appointment walk in place with my girls and get our hair cut all at once when we are out running other errands. $12 for me, and $8 for each of my girls. We bring photos and are generally pleased with the results. I only go a couple times per year to get my haircut.

Dawn, where are you? Any other Mississippians hiding out there?

I have a fear of falling (thus, I never learned to ride a bike) and of spiders (too many legs and too many are potentially lethal for my liking).

We usually have a large-ish breakfast (sometimes I don' t eat because if I eat too soon after waking I get sick) and a large lupper. Everything else is healthy (and some not so healthy) snacking.

I have never asked to link to someone's page. I assume that if a blog is public, it is okay to link to. If it is private, then I don't link.

I'm not in favor of forced redistribution of wealth. If someone wants to stop by and give me a few hundred dollars, fine (that actually happened this past Dec.; we were floored), but I am not happy that a government is taking money from taxpayers and giving it to other taxpayers. I benefit from this scheme, and I wish it were not a reality.

I'm Tutor (dropped the "The"... original, huh?). My family just moved to Dixie this past summer and I am missing the snow this winter. We have 4 munchkins... 11yog, 9yog, 7yob, and 3yob. My dh is a full-time PhD student and a part-time teacher at a local private school. He also helps with homeschooling. (I could care less whether my kids know grammatical terms, but dh loves that stuff, so he took over). I am currently writing a science curriculum for grammar stage students aimed toward homeschoolers and smaller classical schools. (I am currently suffering from writer's block, so I thought I'd hang out here a bit.) I also take care of a majority of the homeschooling. We've been homeschooling since our oldest was born. We aren't involved in many outside activities right now since we only have one car and our schedule changes every semester, but a member of our church offered our oldest free horseback riding lessons, so we are in the midst of arranging those. We are also trying to get our son back into the swing of Cub Scouts before he falls to far behind. We are active in our church home and are so thankful for a church home that has taken us in so lovingly. We attend a PCA church, btw, but my dh grew up Baptist and I grew up alternating between the Unitarian Universalist and United Methodist churches. My dh and I love to discuss religion, politics, movies, books, music... whatever, so we invite people over regularly to just hang out, eat and talk. We love inviting strangers over to hang out, talk, and tell us about their lives. We try to have a movie discussion night once per month. That's all I can think of right now. Shorter is probably sweeter, but, as I said, I am procrastinating, so you got the long version. LOL

We're using LFC A.

These are the exact same reasons we love Latin for Children. I had some Latin in college, but I have probably learned more this year that stuck while listening in on my kids LFC A lessons.

My 11yo dd does this periodically... more often when she is stressed or in an uncertain social situation (especially within hearing of adults she doesn't know well). We have been told that it is a form of stutter that she will most likely grow out of. There are therapies available but they are not always effective. We were told to discuss it with her when it wasn't happening and have her try to listen for it. We did, and she did notice it. She said it happens most when she's nervous or excited, but if she stops to think before she speaks, it usually doesn't happen. If she thinks about the stutter too much, it gets worse. We had a neighbor with a more traditional stutter, and she said the same was true for her (if she thought about it, it was worse). That's all the info I have been given. Glad you have received some encouragement from others.

and I am feeling very lost myself. I was "scrolling" through (let's face it, I was clicking through 'cause I can't just scroll and skim anymore; I'll miss that) looking for familiar names, and saw "JenniferLost" and thought "I wonder if that's Jennifer GWOTN" and was so glad to discover it was you and that I wasn't feeling alone in my lostness. Thank you for embracing the lostness. I think it's going to take my rebellious/ change-hating nature a bit more time to get used to this. I really liked being able to skim through discussions to get a flavor of what was going on in each thread. Now I'm gonna have to commit and let many discussions go un-skimmed and that makes me sad.

I listed it in my signature.

There are LOTS of pages to scroll through to scan the subject lines. Guess I've gotta stop being lazy and begin clicking away, huh?