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If you're interested in checking out my blog, I finally posted something new (my last post was in May :D). Now that Goopy is sleeping 7 hours at night and sometimes napping somewhere other than my arms, I hope to actually post semi-regularly.
My blog is going to be an assortment of random musings, homeschool topics, baby pictures, reminiscing, etc. Check it out if you like.
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You mentioned in your post that dyeing hair took time and money. I just wanted to emphasize that letting one's hair go grey is okay, a woman can still "look good".
But, if you feel better dyeing your hair, then go for it! :) My MIL and one of my favorite teachers have both said they will be redheads until their dying day so long as Revlon makes red hair dye. :D
My 72-year-old grandma is still a redhead thanks to some chemical help.:D My 55-year-old dad is completely gray. This drives Grandma crazy, and she says she won't let him introduce himself as her son when they are together because people will know how old she is! (As if they couldn't tell already :lol:)
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I'd start with Jane Eyre. It is one of my all-time favorites and easy to get into. I've started War and Peace several times, but haven't gotten very far.
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I always use Checks in the Mail http://secure.checksinthemail.com/
My favorite feature is that you can get checks with your own personal photo on them! When I was newly married, I put our wedding photo on them. I'll probably order ones with the baby next. http://secure.checksinthemail.com/line.aspx?lineid=375
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When I was teaching 3rd-4th grade Sunday School at my church, I encountered the same problem with shallow Sunday School materials. I was sickened by the low level of material that these kids were supposed to "learn" from. Since our Sunday School was comprised of mostly church kids who knew all the basics anyway, it was not challenging at all. I also hated the shallow little "discussion questions" to which 75% of the answers were "God", "Jesus", and "prayer." I knew the kids were capable of deeper thought than that. Instead, I modified and used homeschool Bible unit studies from Heart of Wisdom. We did units on Creation and Wisdom.
Unfortunately, in my experience some Sunday School teachers spend 15-30 min. Sunday morning prepping for their lessons, so a curriculum with meat probably wouldn't work. If you have teachers who are properly motivated and willing to actually prepare, however, I bet you could sell them on a good homeschool curriculum.
One thing I also changed with my SS class was the format. We had a nice long 1.5 hour block, but they were used to spending 30 min. of that playing around with no purpose, 15 min. snacking, and a large chunk doing a coloring sheet with a short lesson thrown in.
I changed it to:
5 minutes of attendance, getting settled, reciting last week's memory verse
10 min. of soft worship music playing while they sat around the room in corners, under the table, etc. and had a quiet time with God--reading the Bible, prayer, and & writing or drawing in prayer journals
45 minutes of lesson time which was varied enough in activity that it didn't seem too long to them
20 minutes of a game, project, or exercise related to the lesson. Some of these were ongoing from week to week, as we were doing unit studies instead of individual lessons.
10 minutes of memory verse practice games
I completely removed the snack time, as they would have presumably just had breakfast, and there was a whole-church fellowship time with sweets immediately following. There is no way that an 8-10 year old needs graham crackers and apple juice to get them through 1.5 hrs. of Sunday School!
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I've been reading reviews of this online. It is on sale this week at Staples for $149 and I have over $20 in rewards coupons, so I could get it for a good deal. Anyone like this for homeschool purposes?
TIA
We have this one. While I love the wireless and the print quality, I think it goes through ink pretty quickly, though I don't have any other printers to which I can compare it.
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Merry Cranberry Freeze
1 bag cranberries, finely chopped
1 ½ cups sugar
1 8 ¼ oz can crushed pineapple, undrained
½ cup chopped walnuts
1 8-oz. pkg cream cheese, softened
2 cups thawed Cool Whip
Mix together cranberries, sugar, pineapple, and walnuts.
Gradually add to cream cheese, mixing until well blended.
Fold in whipped topping. Pour into 1 ½ quart bowl or lightly oiled 6 ½ cup ring mold; freeze until firm. 10-12 servings.
I freeze in individual portions in muffin tins, then pop them out and put in freezer bag to enjoy whenever I want! They are fairly tart and make a great snacky alternative to ice cream. I got 18 individual servings.
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I didn't vote in your poll because I have only one child, so no basis for comparison, but he's a boy and I had no breakouts.
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Did you get one? My Walmart had two left last night. They were $35 and there was a dark brown and a light brown one. If you still need one and this is an OK price (factoring in shipping, of course), I'd be willing to pick one up for you.
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I have another question -- after reading these posts -- there are doctors who will perform circumcision in the office or whatever, instead of doing it in the hospital? How do you find out about this? (Probably the answer is....just ask.) Are these just regular pediatricians or did you go to some specialist or something? I am talking about still newborns, not a 6 year old, but not at 1-2 days old.
I would just call and ask. My regular pediatrician did it. He will only do routine circs on infants up to 2 months. Older than that it must be for medical necessity reasons.
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My boy was circumcised by his pediatrician at 2 weeks, as we didn't want to put him through it while he was still in the hospital with an infection/IV antibiotics.
My husband I were both in the room while it was done. He was given a shot of local anesthesia and drops of sugar water. I nursed him immediately beforehand to help with the pain as well. My husband watched the procedure, but my view was obscured which was fine with me. The doctor used the cutting procedure that does not involve the ring. My husband made the decision to have it done, and thus felt it was his duty to be there for it. We talked to Goopy the whole time, and he didn't even cry or squirm. Our pediatrician only restrains the legs so the baby is more comfortable. The hospital restrains their arms as well, which generally makes them angry. He was mildly more irritable for the next two days, but not much.
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My 2nd grade class had a "100 Piece Feast." We each brought 100 small edible items to mix in a big bowl, then each got a cup of it. Some of the items I remember are mini marshmallows, raisins, peanuts, Cheerios, M&Ms, etc. You could do this at home as well, though I'm sure you won't end up with 30 items like in a classroom!
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I just wanted to add that you are correct that you are dividing 1/5 into thirds, then taking 2 of them. Multiplying by 2/3 is just the one-step way to do this.
When you split something into thirds, you divide by 3 or multiply by 1/3, right? This gives you 1/15, which is 1/3 of 1/5 (1/15+1/15+1/15=1/5). Then, since you want to know what 2/3 of 1/5 is, you would need to take two 1/3 portions of 1/5 and add them together or multiply by two. (1/15 + 1/15= 2/15 or 1/15 X 2 = 2/15). Multiplying by 2/3 just simplifies multiplying by 2 and dividing by 3 into one step.
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It seems like many people think of 17 as the "right" age for HS graduation. However, when I lived in Idaho, the K birthday cutoff date was September 1, meaning that only those with June, July, and Aug birthdays are still 17 at graduation. Is a cutoff date of December more typical in your area?
Both my sister and I were technically "redshirted" in one way or another. We were living in Okinawa when I started K, and the cutoff was Dec. 1. With my Nov. 15 birthday, my mom chose to wait even though I could read and was mature for my age. She wanted me to have an extra year at home with her and hoped to someday move back to Idaho where the cutoff was Sept. 1. Later, my school wanted me to skip 1st grade, then 6th, but my mom never told me this until I was an adult. I am glad I was at home for 18 years, though I could have handled college academics at 15 or 16 and wish we'd had a community college.
My sister is 22 mo. younger and has an August 24 birthday, so she started K the year after me. She passed K just fine, but when we moved to CA and started attending a private school, they suggested she repeat K for maturity issues. They were so right! Throughout her growing up years, her friends have been 1-3 years younger than her. That extra year was necessary for her. Thus, she was already 18 when she began her senior year.
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My Big 5 Sporting Goods usually has goggles as cheaply as $18-20.
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My dh's 3rd grade teacher took his personal copy of The Hobbit away from him because, "This isn't a third grade book!" Some people just don't get it. Evidently you're supposed to stunt your little precocious reader to save her from more mature content, rather than just keeping an eye on what she reads! Maybe it's supposed easier this way because then it's an academic immpossibility rather than a parenting issue?
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Open a new Word document. On the Insert menu, select Object, then Microsoft Excel Worksheet. I hope this solves it!
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I had a clementine, a glass of orange/pineapple juice, and an all-beef hotdog w/cheddar cheese.
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My UPS guy literally throws my packages at the stucco wall by my door from 10 ft. away. I've caught him in the act before.:glare:
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I voted for the cheesecake, but could only vote for it once. DH would order the same, so you can add another one to cheesecake.
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When I lived in rural Idaho as a teen, I got quite a few Christmas gifts/tips from families I babysat for on a regular basis. However, I was the "mother's dream" kind of babysitter who washed the dishes, helped the kids deep clean their rooms while making it a fun game, brought arts & craft supplies, played "imagination games", and kept the TV off. If I had a babysitter like that I would tip her, but I haven't left Goopy with anyone but family yet.
If I did have extra money to tip people (which I don't!), I wouldn't tip the UPS guy who bounces packages off my stucco wall or the mail carrier who intentionally won't deliver mail on Mondays if my neighbor's trash cans are in front of the mailbox because she would have to walk an extra 5 feet. I've had my hair cut professionally once in the last 2 years, and don't have a doorman (unless you count DH, who gets his rewards!)
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I'm with you! I live in CA in a town of about 25,000 which is 1.5 hours from anything else except a poorly staffed Kmart. Our store is clean, the staff is generally friendly, and the shoppers don't seem crazy or harried to me. I like running into friends from church or just browsing as a way to relax and kill time with my 3-month-old, who enjoys looking around.
I used to work at a Walmart in Idaho few years ago, and I had the same experience there. Maybe it has to do with the location? When in lived in Santa Clarita, CA, the Walmart there was crazy because there were just too many people in that town to only have one Walmart. There were 300,000+ people in the surrounding area, but only one (non-super) Walmart.
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We never did Santa when I was growing up, but we did pretend that there was a Tooth Fairy, though I never really believed it. When I was 7, my tooth was under my pillow 2 nights in a row because my mom forgot. The third night, she remembered, because I put a Post-it note on her mirror that read, "I sure hope the Tooth Fairy remembers tonight!" She got a good laugh out of that.
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Here are our two family favorites:
Little Smokies wrapped in small pieces of store-bought crescent dough. Bake at the temperature on the dough roll for a little less time that you would bake just the rolls.
Salami/peperoncini rolls. Cut off the tops of the pickled peppers, slice open, scrape out seeds. Soften cream cheese and spread on a slice of salami. Roll a piece of peperoncini inside (depending on the size of the pepper, you may get 1-3 out of each pepper). Place rolled side down or secure with a toothpick and refridgerate for at least 1 hr before serving--longer is better.
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When I was 12 we watched the practice session of several famous figure skaters in Sun Valley, ID. Afterwards we got Oksana Baiul's autograph. My mom was sitting in the bleachers near a woman who she thought looked like a not-quite-as-pretty version of Maria Shriver. It turns out it was her!:D
When I was in college I taught a group tutoring session for economics. One of the students in the group was Patrick Levis.
Anthony Tyler Quinn of "Boy Meets World" went to the same church as me for a while. It was easy to place him as he often wore a "Boy Meets World" letterman-style jacket to church.
When dh was a kid, he met Bill Nye the Science Guy in an airport.
My mom won a drawing for a pony at a rodeo when she was 10 or 11. The prize was awarded by Michael Landon and she had her picture taken with him for the paper. He must have been having a bad day because he made a rude comment about her glasses looking ugly on her.