at my sister's while I ran to the store. My sis, mom and some relations of my bil were there, apparently they were talking about public school because Dee-Dee piped up with "Public School, that's where people who don't want to take care of their kids send them during the day!" Now, I have never said anything of the kind. That I can remember...... One of the ladies is a teacher and my sister and the other lady send their kids to ps. I was thinking about making a T-shirt that said "The opinions expressed by my children do not necessarily reflect the views held by their parents." Sort of a disclaimer for Mom's.

the ad again and I was so flummoxed the first time I heard it, I missed that the new school was funded by a bond issue. So that means the voters decided to give them money by raising their taxes for a time or perhaps permanantly, and they have the gaul to ask for more?:confused::glare: The library thing is wild too. Where does all the money go? Or do they just not plan these things out very well?

The first was that my cousin has a friend who teaches Remedial Reading at a College. :001_huh: Shouldn't someone be able to read well to even get into college? The second was that while listening to the radio I heard that a local public elementary school, that has torn down and rebuilt it's school, is having a fundraiser for their Kindergarten playground. :001_huh: Shouldn't this have been in the budget for the rebuild, that they used tax dollars for already? Anybody else have any things that make you go :001_huh:

If that's standard, then they are all burnt.

one of those tandem things you can attach to the back of your bike? Like this.Then you could bike as a family and she might feel safer(if that's a proper word)until she got the hang of it.

When I was working at our library we had an ongoing booksale and I sold some on Amazon. The way it works is, Amazon takes a certain set amount from the total amount you get from the sale.Then if you ship the books media mail you are usually left with some money(when I was doing it, it ended up being about $1.80). So if you sell a book for a penny you still make money on the shipping.

:lol::lol::lol: Did you coin that one yourself or is it an actual word? :001_smile: I have nothing useful to add except to ask, don't people lost at sea get ill or go mad:willy_nilly: from drinking seawater. Maybe I'm thinking of eating human flesh:confused:

but it's similar, maybe? Homemade Laundry Detergent I've made it with Fels Naptha, the smell always reminds me of my Grandma!

This is my policy. One bite. Don't like it.:ack2: Fine, no probs. Sometimes they even like it. Tonight we had curry. Dexter tried, didn't like it and ate yogurt and a glass of milk. No fight!:D Dee loved it! She even added Sriracha Hot Chili sauce to hers! :lol: IMO it isn't unreasonable or cruel to ask(non sensory issue) kids to try new food that you have prepared for your family.OTH if they are freaked about it I wouldn't want to ruin dinner/family time with a big fight.

I designed my own very small home and had most of it built last summer/fall. I designed it to be passively solar and to have things close to one another to save time and my own energy . I'm waiting for spring right now so I can pack up and move to an unfinished house without any electricity or inside water(yet). We stayed on and off at our field in a shed this summer and fall while the house shell was built. I'm missing the simplicity of no mod cons right now.It's sooo quite there, aside from my own hollering.;) I read a book by Steve Saint in which he says(this is a very loose quote mind you) "All these mod cons are great for saving time, but are you doing something that matters with all that time you save?" That has really stuck with me . I also love this book, I check it out from the library often, not for the recipes but because I wish I could be self sufficient and raise all my own food. I just need a Handsome Hubby to kill chickens and clean fish and such;) I dream of having a milk cow or goats. :lol: On the subject of school, I think next year will be more CMy or AOy with my own twist of course. But definitely less workbooks(they are the bane of my existence)and more living books. Well, this turned out to be longer that I intended:001_huh:

I don't have health insurance and can't afford to buy it myself. So I was looking at the medical/health care discount program but wasn't sure if it would be worth the money I would pay for it or if I should just get some other dental/health discount. If no one uses the Sam's one. Does any one use any others? I need to be better about scheduling dental/health stuff for kids and I, but I put it off knowing it will cost me an arm and a leg.TIA

Mine is of the Mom and kids form Dexter's Lab. While I was lurking, reading through posts I couldn't for the life of me figure out what a dd, dh or ds was. When I finally did catch on I thought of Dee-Dee from Dexter's Lab, and how my kids are rather like Dee-Dee and Dexter. Sort of arch-nemisis'(sorry if I killed any kittys with that apostrophe). I have red hair and am sometimes lost in my own world like the mom. I did have to edit out the dad, because I am, alas, unmarried.

I just had to post these music videos and share. They are so fun! Enjoy:thumbup1:

He was scary smart as a young man, unfortunately he developed paranoid schizophrenia after he finished college. Nobody understands anything he is talking about, not only because he's so smart but because he has obsessions/fixations and takes them to an extreme extreme. It makes me sad that he was never able to have a even halfway normal life or to follow any logical research because his illness makes him focus on things that are not true. He spends countless hours researching and writing and trying to get government officials to take an intrest in his "theories":crying:

:blink: That explains alot. That explains (not justifies)the extreme lengths he is willing to go to get his children to be "perfect". If we are able to acheive holiness/perfection on our own that sort of chucks any sort of propitiaton on the part of Jesus or grace on God's part out the window doesn't it? :001_huh: Without those two things I feel like I might as well pack it in. Why bother trying to attain perfection without grace? Random thoughts from a random person.

(you know Alton Brown)on fudge making that could explain why you ended up without crystals. Apparently you have to stir vigorously at the right point in time to get the crystals to even begin to form. I found a sort of transcript of the program here. HTH. Looking at that makes me want to watch them all over again and use them for some sort of science curriculum. It also makes me want fudge.

Saw your post after posting mine. Mine would not have been what you were asking about. PUL would be the best I think. You could make some panty liners with it as the bottom layer for every day?

:lol: I think it plugs into the wall and warms the seat as well as the water. There are times in the dead of winter that I would really appreciate a warm potty seat. They also make them with remotes. I had wonderful visions of practical jokes:rofl: (Me outside the door with remote in hand. Unwanted guest enters bathroom, lifts lid on toilet. I push button!):lol::lol:

pads that were shaped like the "Party In My Pants" pads. So the layers were(from bottom up flannel, flannel backed vinyl, several layers of flannel or wash cloth then another layer of flannel. These work very well especially if you don't sew through the vinyl, except before you turn it(if that makes any sense. They hold alot more than disposables. I don't think I'd want it sewn into my undies<that might be a bit sweaty> The "PIMP" shape works a lot better that the other shapes that I tried. I love my Diva Cup, my only wish is that it had bigger capacity. I think I got the vinyl from fabric.com. I could scan the pattern I made. PM me if you want me to send it to you.

:iagree:Or the toilet seat bidet thing I posted above. It might even save me some head scratching and bleaching when laundering dc undies.

I have used it both in raised beds(too many rocks, no soil) and in the ground with boards around with gravel walk ways. I like using it pretty well, it cuts down on weeding. You'd be suprised how much you can grow in a small space. Start small if you've never had a garden.

Okay, I put cloth napkins in with my other laundry,no problem there. I do not put my cloth pads(the few that I use) in with other laundry and would certainly not put cloth wipes in with other laundry:ack2:. To my mind that is like putting cloth diapers in with everyone else's laundry. Unsanitary! Maybe I'm just being OCD.

Sorry, just trying to get my head 'round this. Where I live in a rural area(read "the boonies")everyone has septic systems. Since the "system" breaks everything down by anaerobic whatsit, what difference could not using tp make? Besides the cost of the tp itself and the extra laundry(water cost,time etc.). I think I'd be tempted to go this route http://www.totousa.com/Default.aspx?tabid=226 the water for this and the laundry would probably even out.

I'm driving from the wrong side of the car!? This thread reminds me of when I was in HS. I took a dream interpretation class. (I went to an Open High School in case you're wondering) My dreams are always way weird, no explaining them. I haven't been remembering them lately though. Reading this thread makes me miss them. One I remember from waaaay back is- I'm on a school trip to some kind of aquarium/Sea World type place and everyone is eating in the cafe. I go up and order a SEAL BURGER:ack2:, sit down and start to eat it. Everyone at my table is, needless to say horrified at what I'm eating. But I just can't understand why. :lol:

before the last few weeks. Reading the articles that I have, makes me ill. I could see that their reasoning for their methods was wrong, but this article http://www.equip.org/articles/christian-families-on-the-edge helped me to organize my thoughts on the Pearls methods of discipline. As an adoptive mom I can relate to the blog post. Adopted children(or really any) cannot be measured by the same stick and be given a blanket "fix" to turn them into perfect little automatons. Any way I just had to stick my oar in.