I agree with Christina, We lived in Northern FL and adjusted to where the 50's were chilly and if it got below that we were freezing. When we moved to VA it took a few years to get used to the temps getting below 45 in the winter and I had to keep the heat in the house at 74 for us to be comfortable. Now that we've been here 5 years I can keep the heat at 69 during the day and 67 at night, and we're comfortable. Here 40s are chilly and 30s are COLD.

I didn't just wash socks this week, I Laundered socks. :w00t:

I would die if I only washed the socks twice a year. I have to do them at least twice a week. :tongue_smilie:

I understand that they aren't exactly the same as my restaurant example, but the parent corp of Sonlight has said that they and brightflash are free to hire their own management. I still don't see the uproar if it's not affecting the Sonlight cores that are being sold, why would a Sonlight user care that they are branching out? I could see the problem if they suddenly said that all Sonlight cores would now be secular only so that they can be sold to PS charters as well as the homeschool market and that any bit of religion would no longer be available at all, but that is NOT what they are doing. I know I'll never get you to change your mind, just like you'll never change mine. It just seems that things have been blown way out of proportion when it comes to Inquisicorps actions.

I still don't see that they are making a product they swore to never make. SONLIGHT said they wouldn't make a secular version, they have now licensed their product to Brighflash Learning who will tweak it and make it secular. They may be owned by the same parent corporation, but SONLIGHT isn't the company putting out the secular material so they haven't gone back on something. Maybe they've decided to market to charters to see just how it will do in that market, and eventually they'll release it to individuals. Just because many have said they'd buy Sonlight if it was secular doesn't mean people actually would. This may be there way to see just how popular it will be without having to take quite a big a risk.

But from what I can see they aren't changing the curriculum one would buy as an individual from Sonlight. So how is it not getting what they say you're getting? If the secularized version is being sold as Brightflash or whatever, and they haven't changed the product going out the doors in the big white Sonlight boxes, what's the big deal? Maybe after being bombarded with requests to make a secularized version they finally decided to jump into that market which hasn't had a whole lot of things to pick from in the curriculum arena.

Maybe they realized that they were losing out on a certain market, and this is their attempt to break into it. Maybe putting it out there for individuals would be too much of a risk. I know after the core changes last year there was a big uproar, and many said they would be leaving Sonlight because of it, so maybe things aren't as peachy as they used to be and they are looking for a way to turn that around.

I guess I view it no different than I would the restaurant group that owns both Olive Garden and Red Lobster. Yes they are both owned by the same company, but the restaurants are vastly different. SO WHAT? It doesn't seem that they are going to stop selling the current Sonlight cores/sets, so I just don't get what the big deal is.

I've had almost all of mine for a few weeks now. I will have a 2nd/3rd grader, 6th grader, and a 9th grader. 2nd grade: LA: All about Reading 2, All about Spelling 1 (maybe start 2), start cursive writing Math: Teaching Textbooks 3 Science: Nancy Larson Science 2 History/Social Studies: unit studies ala mom Maybe Song School Latin not sure on that one yet. 6th Grade: LA: Barton Reading and Spelling, hopefully we'll be in level 4 by the time fall comes and I'm hoping to get through levels 4-6 by the end of the year. IEW SWI A Math: Teaching Textbooks 6 Science: Nancy Larson 4 History: SOTW 4 Foreign Language: LFC A The 9th graders things are on the High school board in a thread there about 9th grade plans. Art isn't listed because we just have a Home Art Studio as well as Meet the Masters that we do when we have time to fit it in and my 6th grader takes an art class at a local home studio twice a month.

Just to let you know they are Pink in color (like a dark pink, not baby pink) and they are slightly taller than the rest of the tiles (I believe this is to show that they are different because they aren't phonograms like the rest) The TM should also have a list of them in the first few pages.

I've never been mommy. My kids called me mama, until about 4.5 then I became Ma. I'm good with that. I call my mom, Ma. The kids call her Mamo (mah-moh) because her nickname is Mo and they always heard me call her Ma, so they put the two together. I called my dad Pa, so the kids called him Papa. My dh was called daddy until about 5, then they switched to Dad.

Margret, Any chance you'd be willing to share some of your excel templates or a sample of them?

Or a wire connection may have come loose.

RIght after Dh and I got married I had vanity plates on my little compact car that read NUKESWF, it was all good until I got pregnant and couldn't fit behind the wheel of that car anymore so he had to take that one to work. He caught a lot of crap for that from his shipmates for a while.

Yes, I said it was easy to figure out.

It's not a bumper sticker but I have a sign hanging in my kitchen that says "If aliens are smart enough to travel through space why do they keep abducting the dumbest people on earth?" I have a vanity plate that is for homeschoolers in our state and is says- TCHNR3 usually it's pretty easy for people to figure out.

Alright you got your Star, now move over It's MY TURN :lol:

No, no, no I'm next!

Hey, now. I'm next after Swellmomma. It's my turn Darn It!

Seriously if you're going to have a 3rd adult in there I'd go with a full size van or SUV, those "extra" minivan seats are just not comfortable for a full size adult.

There should be instructions for putting it all together in lesson 23 or 24 of the CD you got. I gave each of my kids a big plastic envelope (similar to the ones they use for interoffice memos) and they keep everything in that until the end.

I've been saying this for weeks now. "Will you all please pick up your bullets" Apparently when I was out one day last week there was one heck of a nerf battle through out my house.

I guess it depends on how often you're making bread and how big a batch you want to make at a time. I have an Artisan (it's the apple green one) and have had the Pro 5 and a Bosch. I found the artisan is my go to mixer. I make bread or pizza dough in it with no problem, but we don't eat a lot of bread so it's not like a few loaves a week, more like a loaf maybe 2 a month and pizza maybe 3-4 times a month. I can put my paddle in the dishwasher (dough hook too, but mine are the white coated ones) I can't put my whisk in there though or the top parts gets all yucky and needs to be rewashed until the black powdery yuck is all washed off.

I went to target last year and looked in the athletic/work out section. They had tops that were made of the same stuff as rash guards but they were advertised as "workout wear that keeps you feeling dry" I think they were like 20 each tops. They had lots of different colors in short sleeves. They had a tag on them that said something like "Dri fit" or something like that.

I have a 13 year old boy and an 11.5 year old girl. Yes what you're listing is pretty normal here. I have to remind them every morning to do their chores. I have to remind my 13 year old daily to brush his teeth and I have to check to make sure he's done a good enough job (he has braces) Yes I have to remind my 11 year old to shower daily. I have to remind them all to pick up their clothes or to put their laundry away. If I don't specifically ask them to take out the trash or empty the dishwasher it will just sit there until I do. I have to check on them repeatedly when they are cleaning their rooms. The only thing I don't have to do is actually wash their laundry. They asked to be able to do it themselves and I agreed. So if they want clean clothes and don't want to run out they have to deal with the timing of washing and drying their clothes. I know you said that your 8 year old can do a lot of this stuff, but in my experience teenagers are inherently lazy, they are trying to figure out just how little they can get away with doing and need just as much reminding and prodding as toddlers many times to keep them on task.