I'm putting in lettuces, spinach, broccoli rabe, and broccoli today and tomorrow :)

Good morning :) Today looks like --farmers' market, grocery store, library --make frozen pie for dinner tonight --marinate chicken --bag sliced peaches prepped yesterday (5 trays in the freezer!) --send some AP syllabi to WTMers --work in the garden: pick, weed, pull spent plants, plant fall seeds --plan week --plan meals for week

How wonderful :party:

My college kids have used/still use flux. I'm trying to convince dd15 to install it.

I am 49. My worst period of insomnia occured during the years I was 42-45. During that time my mother was ill, she died, my father died unexpectedly, and I was executrix of their estate. Fun times. I believe my symptoms during that time, like insomnia, anxiety, hot flashes, and panic attacks, were all related to the stress I was experiencing. I cut out caffeine, with the exception of chocolate because life necessity. I cut out all sodas. I started to exercise regularly, 30+ minutes to being very sweaty and out of breath. I made an effort to brew and enjoy tEa with dh. After the house sold and I closed the estate, my symptoms all disappeared. Since that time, my cycles have become wonky (4-17 weeks!). The two nights before my period starts I wake multiple times at night. I can get back to sleep by listening to a travel or book podcast on my ipod. I have no other symptoms of perimenopause (knocks wood). I work with a personal trainer at the gym. We joined a gym for the first time ever this past January. I decided I needed the accountability of working with the trainer twice a week. I can lift heavy weights now :D I lift three times a week and do a minimum of five hours of cardio a week (machines at the gym, hiking with dh on the weekends when possible). The money is well-spent. I feel strong and confident. I am nervous of hormonal supplementation as that is what most likely contributed to my mother's ovarian cancer. Other people are different :)

I wish I would have started sooner than fourth grade, but life didn't allow (my mother was ill and then died). I wish I would have let her take off in math during fifth grade (I was uncomfortable about gaps), but she's made up for it :lol: lewelma, I forced a calendar on dd at 12 and 13. She rebelled last year at 14 and only wanted to know a week in advance, though she managed to plan long term for her two outsourced classes. So I gave up. But now at 15, it's like a switch has been flipped! She returned home from the Arabic immersion camp (four week, for credit), bought a planner and a monthly calendar whiteboard, designed a weekly schedule (color coded!), and communicated with her new Arabic prof at the university without freaking out. I don't know if it was the prospect of beginning "real" classes at the university or if it was being surrounded by an incredibly ambitious, slightly older cohort at camp, but I'll take it :D Of course, she still hasn't written the paper due on Monday, the first day of English class...

I checked four units for APHG. First of all, the material is presented in bullet/outline form which would drive me crazy, but might work for someone else. It appears more like a review, instead of initial presentation. I like that previously-released FRQs are included for each unit. I don't see any links for how-to-construct-an-FRQ, so would that come from the teacher? (Is there a live teacher? I am unfamiliar with GaVS.) I cannot view the in-page activities because I'm on an ipad. The "projects" are some typical school assignments I encountered during my research when writing the syllabus. Some are very necessary (you have to be comfortable with the Demographic Transition Model and population pyramids, for example) and others seem kind of busy work (country reports) but necessary for large groups. I think dd learned the most from discussions with our small group (the two of us, my sister, her son lol) held after the textbook chapter was studied, the additional reading from newspapers/websites, amd short videos from news and other sources. I chose the extras to demonstrate the concepts using (at the time) contemporaneous material. I thought they would have more impact by being topics in the news (for example, the migration of unaccompanied minors inti the US last summer).

We call it "breakfast" (or in my case, "third cup of coffee while dd joins the land of the functioning") :lol:

I wish I could like this 10,000 times. Thank you.

wth? I just don't understand some people.

:) --physical therapy --daily things --Friday things --gym: training plus cardio --freeze more peaches --make another appointment --more emails, good gravy --work on personal daily schedule for the academic year (dd and I planned our together times; I hope I don't need physical therapy after next week...)

We're not doing animal dissections either. Dd has been adamantly anti-dissection since her brother took bio eight years ago! We will, however, dissect the heck out of flowers and fungi :D

We're using a few this year for bio :) (Adding) http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron/

Argh--ran out of "likes" two three four pages ago!

I let dd chose what she will study each year, with the understanding she will have world history, US history, and US government at some point. Dd will likely head into a field that relies on a lot of social science. Her transcript contains more than just history. Ninth grade • Ancient World History based on the "History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective" lecture series • AP Human Geography using An Introduction to Human Geography: The Cultural Landscape by Rubenstein Tenth grade • AP Psychology using Myers Psychology • AP Comparative Government and Politics using Intro. to Comparative Government by Kesselman et. al. Ideas for eleventh and twelfth grades (she'll have at least two credits per year) • AP US History • AP US Government • AP World History (she suggested this) • anthropology at the university • AP Macroeconomics

Good morning :) --eye dr 12:30 --adjust AP Psych syllabus for dd --discuss the schedule she worked out yesterday (we need to add meeting times for psych and comp govt) --look at calc info w dd --schedule allergist appt for dd15 --more emails... --change signature --work on first draft of homeschooling philosophy statement etc for dd's application --exercise (gym late w dh?) --and the usual daily things

Not moving into college but... Ds will be arriving in the Bay Area sometime today after a cross-country drive. He begins work on Monday :party:

Thanks--that was my first thought.

The applications have opened for a very competitive program to which dd will be applying. She's filled in the demographic info, asked the potential recommender, and has made notes for the essays---all within hours of the email :lol: There is a special homeschool transcript form for me to fill out, with such gems as "please explain your home achool philosophy and why home schooling was chosen for this student" :eek: Two years before I thought I'd have to answer this! The actual transcript is a chart by subject, asking for course title and level (AP/college), dates, grade, and primary text used. My question is-----do I list the highschool courses she took before ninth grade, the AoPS algebras, geometry, and C&P? This is not a STEM program. She will be competiting against current juniors and seniors. Thanks :)

I know someone who studied Mandarin through The Potter School (Chinese 1 and 2). I'm not sure if he's registered for Chinese 3 as I haven't seen his mother in months. They were happy with the class.

Oh, so wonderful!

Good morning :) --accompany dd20 to her allergist appointment (she doesn't want to drive home after the testing) --continue to adjust syllabus for AP Comparative Politics (I wrote an official syllabus for College Board approval, now I need to adapt it for dd15's use) --science festival planning (read: much email and FB group time, sigh) --daily and Wednesday tasks --exercise (gym because of humidity level? walking?) --physical therapy 1:30

Just physical therapy today----two hours of my day sucked up. But it's working so no (well, few :lol:) complaints.

She easily placed into second semester Arabic :party: and is now working on her time schedule :D

Oh sweetie :grouphug: