Now that sounds nice!

But just think - your house is clean and you get to enjoy it! It's about the only time my house is ever truly clean.

Mine too! ;)

I feel like I need to make a LOTR joke, but I can't think of one.

Ha ha, LOTR! I am going to have to think of. a good line to use with Dh about this when he is in a better mood. ;)

Yay, you found it!

I am getting tons of phone calls from organizations that I have never heard of asking for money. I have already given generously for the whole year.

Not to mention on facebook people being sure to let everyone else know that they donated to this or that charity. My family is very happy to donate as we can.

ah yup...

Cool!

I use Anki but I review daily.

Yes! The Latin ones have been fantastic for us!

Amen!

At least you had the courage to 'fess up! No one here does! ;)

See, that is just wrong.

Revenge: have to eat the rest of the plain trail mix.

Yep, got that plain trail mix packed for the pool this afternoon!

Thanks! Max McLean does an excellent show and we have not seen the new one, about C.S. Lewis' conversion, yet.

Dh is not big on planning dates, and we are seriously no-spend this month, so this is lovely all around.

Yay!

Sounds really special!

whoa. Ours has a check out of 8 but she always overrides that for us! lol (rural small library!)

That is...that is...I don't even have words. That is so awesome. We have a check out limit of 10 books a card.

I could get in a lot of trouble with that many books :)

How fun that you get to go! Enjoy!

Wow! Have an amazing time!

Thanks! Hoping for a nice, relaxing week.

Definitely no formal schoolwork!

Only when they jump into my 6 yo's hands and run down the hall!

As fast as can be, you'll never catch me! Gingerbread is my favorite.

exactly!

Ahh, the benefits of living in the South. I grew up in OH and I don't miss the winter!

Well ... we had the fridge die and a sick kid, so it was kind of a not so fun day. The cold should kill the bugs anyway :)

So sorry!

I wondered how much of an impact it would have.

Oil rigs off the Tx coast have been down because of hurricanes so production is off some. Then a pipline burst near Birmingham, AL. Many gas stations here are closed and others have very long lines. Prices have gone up over 40 cents in two days.

Is that what's going on?! I went to Costco today to fill up and was baffled by the long lines.

hooray for the bees!

We usually have lots of big fat ones but not many honeybees.

Our grass is going green too! Winter is coming! lol

Hooray for green grass on both sides of the world!

I saw forsythia in bloom down the road! It's very early for that.

No forsythia here yet.

So. Jealous. Snow on the ground here and COLD. Wah. Enjoy it for me :)

I felt that way with my 2nd. I tried everything I could think of. What finally worked was having him fill out a multiplication chart daily for months. I let him use the chart for his schoolwork but only if he filled it out completely first.

One of my boys learned them while bouncing on the trampoline reciting the times table with me. Some studies show that memorization works better when doing something physical while reciting.

Reflex Math - DD finally learned at 13.

This is awesome. :)

No such thing as too much Harry Potter! lol

I'm tempted to make Harry Potter book covers for DD's books...hmm...

Thanks for the reminder... mine came last month and got buried... The Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening is my latest book.. I haven't read many books on gardening.

Dh had a major haelth crisis last summer so I grew mostly weeds. Hoping for good health and lots of veggies this year!

My Square foot gardens and herb bed did great last year.. everything else suffered... raised beds were made but still, bugs and too much rain here did us in.

Oh, that stinks.:( How many miles does it have?

Is is covered under the Transmission recall? I had an '01 that was six years ago.

120K miles. It's an'03. No warranty or recall coverage. I'm thankful that we have the $ to have it fixed. DH found a transmission guy to do it for half of what the Honda place charges.

Glorious, indeed :)

Glad to hear it! May recovery go well!

My DD likes making her own games on Quizlet-awesome site :)

We've been on Quizlet lately too, for Apologia Gen. Science!

Wow, already? Lucky! Our plants are 3 inches tall.

These came from my CSA farmer, who starts them early in tunnels. Mine are about 2 ft. tall, but no tomatoes yet.

Congrats!

Let the summer fun begin!

Yes--once when I was about 5, I had the same thing happen, only instead of cars, it was rocks.

L!

Ouch! Hope he's feeling better soon!

I let him watch Liberty's Kids most of the day - drugged with a screen - to keep him still!

I've GOT to try that!

I cannot tell you how much we miss bacon! Have a piece for dd and me. Have two.:-)

Yippee! My son did that recently, he's so excited to jump off the diving boards!

It's so cool once they all pass.