UnsinkableKristen
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I am so sorry. My prayers are with you today.
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I've just put a load of books on reserve from this thread :). My DD loves the rainbow fairies books, but she can read 2 or 3 of them in a day. It really is pure junk. But, it keeps her reading, and so when she has run out of the ones from the library she moves on to what is in the house. And I try to keep good stuff at home :).
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My dad lives there in the Mount Pleasant area and it is *beautiful*. If you like the ocean and history, I can't imagine a better place to live. Mt Pleasant is nice and safe and very close to the downtown area. And downtown Charleston is amazing. Fort Sumter, the aqaurium, Battery Park, all the shops and parks and little museums. Just wonderful. If we weren't so rooted in Texas, I would love to live there. :)
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Our AHG troop is Catholic and we are not, but feel very welcome. They are well run, do lots of things, and are leaps and bounds more "scouty" than the GS troops in our area. :)
DD got tired of only doing crafts and wanted to get outdoors. Our AHG troop does a good mix of both. And personally, I think the badges in AHG are completely awesome :)
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Thor.
Thor, Thor, Thor.
*wiggles eye brows*
:D
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Ha! I want to run away, but return home later to find it cleaned out, organized and decorated exactly the way I want it to be done. And with the kids schoolwork finished. And dinner on the table. And some wine.
That isn't too much to ask, is it?? :p
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And you could certainly do the process without the WWE workbooks, but if you tend to forget to do it while doing your other subjects (like myself :)) then having all of the selections laid out for you is nice. My kids have also really enjoyed the literature selections and we've followed a lot of them by reading the whole book.
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We love WWE2, but had a hard time with WWE1. I will say that listening to SWB's lecture (after giving up on WWE1) on Elementary writing was a HUGE help in understanding *why* we were doing all of this. It (along with the hardback WWE manual) gave me a lot more background info and helped me teach WWE2 much better. I will certainly be using the series with my younger kids.
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I'm not on here as much as I was, but that is probably a good thing :). When the boards went offline and while I was waiting for the speed and bugs to get ironed out, I got out of the habit of checking in here all day long. Now I spend more time actually homeschooling my kids instead of talking about it - lol :D
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The disorganization is astounding.
It truly is. I can not believe how awful it is when compared to organizations like Boy Scouts, that also depend on volunteers. We eventually gave up and joined American Heritage Girls which is *amazingly* better.
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We did last year because I was exhausted and overwhelmed after having our 4th baby, and I felt I was giving them a sub-par education.
They were in PS from the end of January until the end of the school year in May, and by the middle of April we knew that they wouldn't be going back again the following year. It was good because it gave me a break when I needed it and because it reinforced that our kids do best at home and that our family is meant to homeschool. I would do it again because of those reasons. However, unless our circumstances dramatically change again, we plan to homeschool for the long haul.
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I am excited to join! I'm downloading Last Child in the Woods right now :).
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I don't actively hope that people call me those, but it never bothers me when they do. It's just how some people pepper their speech. You know, like some women call other women "chica" or "girlfriend" (which I could never do, I do not have near enough sass to make it sound anything but silly)? I'm sure it can be condescending, but I usually assume the opposite - just an extra friendly person :).
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My DD8 is really, really interested in spiders. We have quite a few kids books on them, but she is wanting to find one that is more in-depth and that has better photos. I can't seem to find any that don't include insects and other bugs and she is insistent that it is *only* about spiders.
Does anyone here have a recommendation??
Thanks!!
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I am totally crying right now.
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Maybe you should ask if your Dad could come stay with you for the three days your Mom is gone. See how it goes, what it's like caring for him, and maybe just get him set up and see if she really arranges to get him moved back after the three days are up.
When my Dad was enfeebled (I am trying to figure out how to say it, because I didn't think he was dying, even though he did end up dying, and he wasn't really "sick" with Alzheimer's and his other problems) I sometimes resented my Mom. Sometimes it seemed like she found easy ways out of spending time with him, or made excuses, or chose her desire to put her feet up and relax over his need for company and care.
But caring full time for someone over the months is really exhausting. I remember at one point my father's neurologist took me aside and said, "You have all but lost your father to this disease, but you don't have to lose your mother to it too. You need to really look at her welfare." And the thing was, during that time, I was visiting my father EVERY DAY and doing a lot for him. I wasn't just expecting my Mom to handle it while I waltzed in whenever it was convenient for me. I gave up huge chunks of my life and my family time to help with him. And the neurologist wasn't implying otherwise. But he had a lot of experience with the toll an illness can take on a spouse. In some ways, after my father died, I got my Mom back. I didn't realize how incredibly stressed and overwhelmed she was until after he died. I mean, intellectually I totally understood, because I was also overwhelmed. But I didn't recognize that some of her personality changes were really just a short term stress reaction.
All of that to say that your parents may have already had a fractured relationship, and you may not have the whole picture of their marriage, but you can be pretty sure that caring for someone in your Dad's condition is really difficult, and when you didn't have a good relationship to start with, it's got to be even more difficult. It may not be fair to blame your Mom for having a hard time caring for someone who maybe she didn't have a happy marriage with Or maybe she had a happy marriage with but she's suffering under the strain. Obviously, I don't know, but I am just saying that her current circumstances are very hard, and I would go easy on the anger if you can. It's so easy to get angry during tough times, anyway. It sounds like your Mom probably could really really use three days of respite. I think she may be wise to ask for it. It sounds like she's barely functioning around the house.
I'm so sorry for your situation. I hope you can figure out how to help your Mom as well as your Dad. It's such a difficult, draining, exhausting thing to do, and I well remember the moments of anger and frustration with my own mother and sisters, whom I absolutely adore and who were very good, wise, loving care givers.
:iagree: and :grouphug: :grouphug: . Offer grace to your mother, even when you don't think she deserves it, because she very well just may *need* it.
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Yep, it is me at midnight with the lights out. I was having a bad hair day so I darkened it a bit. -_-
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You really are being a good sport out of all of this. I hope you get some rest soon, I would be out of my mind getting up that early - even with the Barnes and Noble perks! :grouphug:
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Keurigs are the apotheosis of waste.
The machines are absurdly expensive, but the real financial bleed is the per cup cost of using kcups. Absurd. And the refillables negate the "convenience."
The amount of physical (plastic) waste with kcups is obscene. Terrible for the environment and a waste of precious resources.
And for all the waste (financial and physical) what you get—at the end of the day—is really lousy coffee. Only "instant coffee" competes for the bottom of "brewing" quality options. The preground coffee is stale to start with, and is no way comparable to freshly ground brewed coffee.
A big waste.
Bill
It just isn't a thread about Keurigs without Bill saying how much he hates them :D
We love ours. We use it ALL the time, buy our KCups in bulk from amazon and we have our refillable KCups to use when we want to use our fancy whole bean JamaicanBlue Mountain coffee. The convenience outweighs the cost for us, but that is a personal decision, of course. And our machine has lasted 2 years now, no issues at all.
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This is fantastic!! I am loving the discussion. I have found that we seem to be at a sweet spot in our schooling. I've found materials I love and the children love, I feel like each day we are doing what we are supposed to be doing. I do see that I could be education myself more and perhaps being a little more intentional in making sure certain things get done. I need a good checklist, but that is about as far as I need to take planning. I get sucked down the rabbit hole of list making and planning way too easily.
Again, thanks for the well timed words!!
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Hmmm - the link isn't working for me :(
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Our elf has taken hostages (stuffed animals or the cat) and left behind sinister, threatening ransom notes. He also decided to end it all once, when he hung himself on the Christmas tree with a long piece of silver garland. (He left a tragic suicide note behind.) One night, he left a blackmail note, demanding cash and goodies from ds in exchange for a "nice" report to Santa.
In case you haven't guessed, our elf is immortal, so no matter what hideous fate befalls him, he's always ready for more action the next night.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I can not WAIT until my kids are old enough to do this with. Oh the fun we will have. Ours just does mundane things, like sneak my coffee, make snowflakes and leave the mess everywhere, etc. I LOVE the random note idea!!
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I laughed so hard my kids wanted to know what I was reading. "Nothing, guys, just something about a maw and a saddle."
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:iagree: Thank you so much! This was a lot of hard work and expense and I appreciate it very much :)
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She thought you should spank a THIRTEEN YEAR OLD? :001_huh:
That is hilarious. :lol:
For SpyCar, thinking of you and your dad
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Glad to see you and I am glad your dad is settling in well. I almost started a thread on Keurigs just to get you back :D