Egg-less chocolate chip cookie dough - I curse the person that originally put it on pinterest.

Here's ours - Not much school done this week but a lot of fun at the zoo!

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If you have an ipad or tablet, xtramath has a number pad rather than having to type them on the keyboard. My DS (2nd grade) likes xtramath as long as it's on the tablet. We had the best luck with getting them memorized and a quick recall doing fact worksheets and flashcards. It's not the most fun way to learn them, but DS memorized them quicker when he realized that we had fewer cards in the stack each day as he memorized more and more of them.

Ours is up here - Crazylifehomeschool

The one thing I wish I would have had with me on our latest cross country 3 week trip was a box of gallon ziplock bags. With all your beach time make sure to bring some baby powder to help get the sand off. Also bring more sunscreen than you think you will need. Don't forget to bring sunglasses/hats for everyone too.

Congratulations!

If you were to sign her out AMA talk to your insurance company first. When my DS was in the NICU and I wanted to sign him out AMA my insurance company told me that they might deny some of the claims if he was signed out AMA. It's easier to fight for a transfer.

Congrats! I'm a little jealous since we are currently trying for #5.

Mine is up here

Love the cat! Reminds me of one of ours. I need to get some pictures of him trying to "help" with school time. Here's our update

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My DS 22 months sounds the same. He babbles and talks in his own language but only has a handful of real words. This past two weeks he has suddenly added about 5 words. He has randomly said words like cracker or cookie one time well before he ever started calling me mama. This week he added magnet (as he is walking around the house smacking a magnet wand against the wall) yet he still doesn't call DH dada. We are going to do a speech eval once he turns 2 and we are back home in our home state. He is improving as he gets closer to two but I still feel that he needs some EI.

The best thing I did when I started homeschooling was to tell my husband that I got one night a week off! Some weeks I don't use it but most of the time I do. DH gets home and the kids are his. I go out and do anything but think about the kids. Sometimes I get coffee with a friend, other times I go have a peaceful dinner by myself and wander a book store etc. That time away is so important to keep me from burning out!

Another one that would suggest Huntsville AL. Huntsville is not like most of Alabama. With a large group of defense contracting companies having sites in Huntsville the population is diverse and not many people are originally from the area. I was not looking forward to moving to Alabama when my husband suggested it, but Huntsville has been an amazing place to raise a family.

I've been eating (not always strictly) this way since January. I need to get better, but I fall off the wagon occasionally. I can tell the next day when I overdid it with sugar or grains the day before. I wake up feeling like carp. I've lost 13lbs without working out. I had already dropped soda before I started eating this way so this weight loss is from dropping the grains/processed foods. More importantly the weight I have lost has all come from my middle. I've lost almost 5 inches from my fat roll measurement! (I measure my normal waist measurement and also lower on my lovely fat roll from the kids)

My best find of the summer was a light meter that I have been looking at for awhile. It's listed on Amazon for $300. I got it for $2!!! The thrift shop I found it in supports a kitty rescue ranch. Little to say they will be getting a nice donation from me this year. If they had any idea what it was they could have gotten a lot more for it. So I'm going to donate to them what I was willing to pay for it used.

We started using IP 1B when DS started 2A and have continued to use them 1 book behind. We started CWP 2 when he started 2B. For the IP he does 20 minutes twice a week as a math reveiw. Some topics we get through quickly and it takes us just a few review days to finish the topic. Others drag on for weeks. The other 3 days a week we do one random CWP problem as part of our normal math time. We are still working our way through CWP 2

:iagree: Thank you for posting this! I have been trying to think of how to say exactly what you did but it never came out as nice as your post. My family has been involved in raising and showing dogs for almost 20 years. In that time there has only been 2 litters that my mom bred (and her first litter produced two top breed winning dogs!) I think most of these "breeders" are just upscale puppymills that farm out the dogs so they aren't classified as puppymills because they are not listed as the breeders of the resulting litters.

My almost 5 year old DD is the same way. She has a hard time writing even with it in front of her. She can do dot to dots and mazes but just has a hard time with copying letters. We have continued to work with dry erase cards that have letter and shapes to trace and it has improved her ability to copy letters.

My DD likes to do all of these plus - puzzles, cutting worksheets, stamps/stickers to decorate a sheet, games she can play by herself like Memory or chutes and ladders. She also like the Kumon dry erase tracing cards that have shapes and letters on them.

Here's a very old picture of my Irish Setter named Porkchop with my first born son

Here's Zoey my Lab/White Shepard Mix

Contact Amazon - Did the inside invoice have your name on it? I had an amazon package sent to me where the packers messed up and put someone else's address label on my package, but the packing slip had their name and order info. Amazon was great and told me to just keep the package (bonus it was some children's books) and resent my correct order.

We just got done with a 4200 mile road trip with a 21 month old. Things that kept him happy - Magna doodle - Stacking pegs - we had a bag of them and he would stack them up and try to hit things with it - travel hungry hippos game - Glow sticks at night - a magnetic mosaic thing like this - Snacks! Lots and lots of snacks!