I was sick over the Christmas hols. and my MIL sent a bottle of this stuff over for me to try. It truly worked though I admit I hadn't expected it to. I'll link to the site so you can check if it's available in your area. http://www.hylands.com/products/bronchial.php

LOL@ the idea of one lonely sprout on each plate. Roasted sprouts are our favourite as well. We all fight over them when they're roasted nutty and brown. YUM!

And well done him for keeping cool in such a situation. That takes some cool headed, quick thinking. My dd (17) was in an accident a few months ago. Her friend (also 17) was driving her home. They were waiting for oncoming traffic to clear enough to pull into our driveway. A guy coming behind them at 50 mph (busy road where folk are always speeding!) was not paying attention and slammed right into the back of them without time to even apply his brakes. An oncoming car had predicted by the guys rate of speed that he might hit the girls, and had accordingly reduced his own speed just in case. How thankful am I. If he hadn't done so he may well have hit the girls head on as their car was pushed 50' completely across his lane and into our yard. As it was, the third car barely missed the girls as he also swerved off the road into our yard. The emergency personnel were all surprised he had avoided hitting the girls head on which in turn would have made a bad rear-ending accident into a potentially devastating rear and front end one. Everyone was very lucky that day! The girls received minor whiplash injuries, both the impacted cars were totalled and the third car received substantial damage underneath. Both drivers of the other cars were okay. It was scary to have it happen right outside our own home, but at the same time we were able to be there and assist immediately. There are minor accidents here all the time thanks to a very busy road, a stop light, and impatient drivers. Thankfully they aren't usually serious. Give your ds a double-extra hug tonight. Not only because he is okay, but for saving the other driver from injury as well.

Ds(15) will be making his choice of burger, a spicy jalepeno burger. He'll also do a cheese dip w/ corn chips. Dh is blowing his low carb diet for the day and has requested chex party mix. And... as if the previous stuff weren't enough... it's younger ds's 13th birthday so we'll be diving into a huge chocolate cake as well! I don't care who wins the game, I just like watching good plays and shouting at the tv. :D

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This has been one of my ds favourite studies. I had him study types of castles, how they evolved, specific building materials, etc. He then made his own castle with his choice of defences. (Painted cardboard on a sturdy base) I used this lesson plan as the foundation for his study. http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/castle_builder/

It's happening here as well! My youngest turns 13 this weekend. What a year this will be, it's full of milestone birthdays. ds turns 13, older ds turns 16, dd turns 18, I turn 40. EEP! :) Enjoy the ride is all I can say.

Our local schools use Latin for Americans. My dd17 attends latin classes at the local high school and is doing fairly well using the LfA text and perhaps the best part is guidance from a teacher who knows and loves latin.

Yes! Though usually just the birthday child has the day off. Dh takes the day off work to spend doing an activity with the birthday child. Usual choices are movie, bowling or min-golf.

What a shame but don't give up. Can you get word to the sellers you're interested too? (or is that illegal? I have no idea but I'd be wanting to try if it were me).

Truly, deep down phobic, irrational fear? Driving. I've lived here (USA) 20 years and stay home always because I cannot drive. I do get a bit woozy when up high or towards edges of cliffs, etc. It happened once while visting MIL at her job at a local hospital. There's a walkway between buildings and it's about 8 floors up, glass floor to ceiling both sides. I almost couldn't make it through even though it's totally enclosed. Icky. I hate crickets. They totally creep me out and my dc know it. They're good about rescuing me. Unfortunately we have tons of crickets in the soil around certain parts of the house perimeter and in our partial-dirt basement. Not good! In movies, I get grossed out at gore but what truly freaks me out with chills and all is floating or a person 'crawling' across a ceiling. Odd, weird stuff like that is far more heart-stoppingly fearful to me than the special effects type boogey-man. Now I need some chocolate to chase away the creepy images in my head!

My dd is using the same text as the local high school. It's called Civics Today and is published by Glencoe. http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/govciv/civics2003/

Aww, that's just precious! I'm thankful I've never found anything gross in any librarybooks or previously owned books. Library printouts are about the norm here. Phew! :)

It's always hard to say about a home "take it/leave it" via a messageboard without knowing or seeing the many variables that are involved. If the updates were well done, I'd probably choose the older home over a newer one. I live in a craftsman style bungalow built in the '30s and I love the character of it. I love the well sized rooms, most newer homes of similar overall size to this home have tiny rooms in comparison. I love that the rooms are equally sized as well. The three bedrooms are the same. The living and dining room are fairly similar as well. The layout of our home is odd, some things I would love to change if money allowed, others are easier to live with. We only have one bathroom. Dh and I have no closet in our bedroom. We enter through the dining room, which is also a main walk-through for the whole house. Our kitchen is very old, the fridge does not fit in the kitchen, instead it's in a small 'nook' just off the kitchen. I'm not even sure exactly what purpose the nook served way back when the house was built. My dd's bedroom has two doors. One leads to a hallway, the other into the living room. Weird... but a great shortcut during the day when the doors are left open. :) But all those add to the homey feel as far as I am concerned. I love the details of this home. The brickwork outside, the original picture moulding (dropped slightly below the ceiling, really was how pictures were hung). The old timey air-vents, and the beautiful oak floors. What you've described of the home you are considering sounds just lovely. Good luck making a choice!

Thanks for your response, Jann. It's comforting to know I'm not the only person around who might be confused by various highschool math course names :) I think I have a better grasp of the typical course progression now.

My dd is using ALEKS for math. She completed the Alg.II so I recently bumped her to Pre-calc. I just now noticed it is Pre-Calc without Trig. Should she be doing a course with trig? There are alternatives choices I can place her in.. ie: Precalc(doesn't specifiy 'no trig' so I presume it does have some), Trig, College Alg.w/Trig, and then there are also some levels titled 'prep for college'... Alg, PreCalc, Alg.w/Trig Which should I have dd do? I'm totally lost. I'm not even sure what is considered a normal or necessary sequence here in the U.S. (I'm English and had a most pitiful math education. I'm totally clueless here :o). She'll be graduating this summer and uses ALEKS as her primary math. Plans to attend local CC for 2yr Assoc. in nursing, then on to a better college for a higher level degree. Which would you suggest?

I'm having such a fun time being more guided with a list this year. Problem is, I keep noticing more books I want to read. :D I'm starting an alternates list in case I need to play switcheroo with my 888 list later in the year, or perhaps to kick start next years reading list. Finished: Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen) A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Distant Echo (Val McDermid) The Story of My Life (Helen Keller) The Two of Us (Sheila Hancock). Reading: A Confederacy of Dunces (Robert Kennedy Toole) Murder Most British (Various) The Fellowship of the Ring (J. R. R. Tolkien) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) I'm also reading The Time Machine (HG Wells) and All Creatures Great and Small (James Herriot) with ds12, so I've got some great options anytime I find time to bury my head in a book.

I have 3 children. The youngest, ds 12, is homeschooled. The middle child, ds 15, attends the local public high school. The oldest, dd 17, attends a few classes at the local public high school and homeschools for the remainder. Why? Well, we began hs'ing because of the youngest. He has ADHD and school was becoming more of a battle (for everyone involved!). That was 5 years ago when he was just starting 3rd grade. After the first year of having him home, my middle ds asked to come home for the remainder of middle school. Then my dd had some problems in high school so we brought her home as well. My homeschool 'student' attendance list looks like this.. yr1 3rd grade ds yr2 4th grade ds, 7th grade ds. yr3 5th grade ds, 8th grade ds, 10th grade dd. yr4 6th grade ds, 11th grade dd yr5 7th grade ds, 12th grade dd. If I had the chance to begin their education all over again I'd have hs'd from the start and never stopped. As it is, especially with my older ds, he was set on returning to public school for high school. It's not my first choice but we try to make the best of it.

I enjoyed it though it does differ from the book. The key plotlines are the same but many details are switched, combined or altered noticeably. I read the book a couple of weeks ago and found the story simpler than other Austen works, and this translated into a more enjoyable film adaptation because there wasn't a need to cut anything out. I tend to prefer viewing Austen's stories more than I do reading them. The screen adaptations add excitement I sometimes find lacking in the actual writing. Last night's show was a good example of that. All the extra scenes showing Katherine's imagination really added to showing how naive and romantic she was, and for me that was the key part of the story. Perhaps it's because my own imagination is lacking while I read? ;o) I did find John Thorpe wasn't portrayed nearly as beastly as I had thought him. Henry was great. Well chosen and his character came across true to the book. I liked Katherine, she seemed much as I expected, though I had imagined Isobella slightly different in looks and less 'obvious' in her behaviour. I am going to have to watch it all over again now as I found myself comparing book to movie/movie to book the whole time.

Today I'm on a lot more often than usual because for every thread I read, I then get a 'server is busy' signal and have to leave and return later. It's a slow day at home and I had hoped to use my time to become aquainted with the format here and check a few of the message threads. The busy server is putting a stop to that idea today, though I don't plan to change my habits and hover on the board all day during the week either. I hope the server issues will be sorted soon.

Okay, whatever I did differently that time... it worked! Yay!! If only I could work out *what* I did wrong before so I never make that mistake again.

I've tried both the links and uploading. I've checked each picture attempted is properly sized. I've tried both profile picture (or whatever it's called) and avatar. Either I'm missing a step somewhere or this is a glitch between my pc and the board.

This time lucky?

testing a third time...

Hmm... still no picture!