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About Moonbeam Jones

  • Birthday 03/14/1977

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    Irish Music, Bluegrass Music

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  1. @Parrothead - I think I am getting brakes for Christmas too and maybe a tune up too! I guess it just depends on how good I've been :lol: Oh well, safe driving and Merry Christmas :001_smile: :grouphug: @Truscifi - :auto: is my sons favorite too!
  2. So how did it turn out? It sounded like you were set for a pretty fun time, especially if you made spiced wine ;) :cheers2:
  3. Wow, this does seem pretty neat. I cannot tell from the videos, so I thought I would ask, what arithmetic skills should the student have before beginning? :bigear:
  4. Hi, I hope you don't mind me posting on your visitor page, but I think the Breaking Dawn thread is pretty much ended and I didn't want to restart it. I just wanted to say that I now understand your point. I didn't see myself attacking the books and movies, just referring to someone who did. However I should have just left the discussion to those with first hand knowledge, not argue using secondary sources. I just wanted to let you know that your point has not fallen on deaf ears and that I will use better discernment in the future.

    Also, I hope to get Jane Eyre from our library tomorrow. Would it be okay if I 'talked' to you about it a little? I do appreciate different points of view and I think it would be fun.

  5. I made an account on LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com/) for my ds. I don't know if it can be as detailed as you are looking for, but I think you can set up categories for the books. I honestly haven't gotten past adding books, which is really easy.
  6. :iagree: I have a Nook Color and the brightness is adjustable. There is even a background called 'Night' where the page is black and the words are white. I have read it many times in the dark while dh sleeps. It is my understanding the the regular Nook is e-ink and the brightness is not adjustable at all.
  7. First I want to thank you Jenny in Florida for you thoughts and comments, they have given me things to think about. Not only in your response to me, but throughout the whole thread. I appreciate your point of view. I understand having precious little reading time, however I would like to address the question you asked of me. Why? I am not sure if you are asking why I have not read the books or why I am abdicating the argument to others, so I will address both: Why did I say argue with them? Well, because I haven't read the books nor watched the movies and I was just trying to reassure the poster that I quoted that she shouldn't be ashamed about not having heard about Twilight. I had watched a review and was paraphrasing what I had heard and added the link as my source so others may watch and decide for themselves. Isn't that we all do sometimes? We don't have time to read a book or the money to check out a certain curriculum, so we post on these boards to get the opinions of others who have. If the reviewer I watched had not seen the movies, I would not have repeated their message nor would I have added the link to their review. Why haven't I read the books? Well I haven't read them because I heard they are ripe offs of Bronte novels and with the facts that I don't have much reading time and not into Vampires, I just thought I would read Bronte instead. Which would you recommend, Charlotte, Emily or Anne? Don't feel as if you need to respond, although I would like to hear your answer about which Bronte is your recommendation, as you express no desire to continue this discussion. To the OP, wendymb1120, I want to apologize. Rereading the posts, I realize mine had nothing to do with your original question. As I do not have an eleven old daughter, I have no wisdom to pass along in your situation, so I should have silently agreed with how you handled the situation and left room for the readers and posters who are truly interested in reading about how to say no gracefully or had wisdom to pass along. Please except my apology. Jenny
  8. Don't feel bad, from what I heard it is just bad ripe off of Bronte novels. Note to Twihards - I have not read the novels nor seen the movies, just heard this point on a review. Please argue with them ;) http://americanvision.org/movieology/3208/twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-1-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%c2%bd/
  9. :iagree: I laughed when I read this. I could teach, read and do experiments all day, but housework :glare: Thanks for this thoughtful post - keeps me grounded. As a mom just starting out I have already seen some of the points y'all made.
  10. I have no input about your question, I just wanted to say Hi and welcome! :D
  11. I got in the habit when I was working that I always took my birthday off. So I have extended it to the boys, everyone gets a holiday to celebrate their or a sibling's birthday :)
  12. Okay, it was my understanding that through the years classical education meant specific books and subjects studies. For instance, someone classically educated would have read x, y, z, etc. books and since they were only written in Latin and Greek, the student would have to be learned enough in Latin and Greek to be able to understand and discuss those texts. I was always under the impression that classical education that Augustine receive was the same that T.S. Elliot would have received. I am right in this assumption? Therefore any deviation from that course of study would be something new, like the Well Trained Mind or neoclassical - taking some methodology and appling it to different subjects as might better benifit the student in their current time and culture. Am I incorrect in my thinking? :bigear:
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