We will definitely stay with the US edition.

over 4 years, probably closer to 5 years..

I thought that was the quick way to paint the kitchen :tongue_smilie:

We homeschool one and public school one. I tried to keep them both home this year but youngest dd was miserable, totally not wanting to learn from me and rocking the boat for any reasonable learning experience. So after much soul searching, dh and I decided she really did do best at school and returned her there, and she is thriving. She has a totally awesome teacher and she is thrilled and I'm too! My oldest is an over achiever and homeschooling works for her. It is kind of a pain doing both types of school, but we have done it 4 years now with one in school and one homeschooler and it works well for us. I see it alot now with parents homeschooling one and having one in school, it really isn't that odd. I can certainly see where the highschool years would eat up all your time, and I think it is neat you have a nice private school close by.

Our dear boxer did this 3 months ago, when we took her to vet they found an inoperable tumor and we lost her shortly after. She was almost 9 or 10, not sure as she was adopted from Humane Society. I would suggest a vet.

have no desire to go. Now alot of that has to do with my youngest has sensory issues and any type of crowd totally drives her crazy and makes her highly unpleasant...thus theme parks are not fun for us. Given the cost there are more enjoyable family vacations for us given her reactions to large crowds.

Your daughters attitude is wonderful! I think your schedule looks great!

you a giant hug :grouphug: I know all to well how a sweetie can turn into a monster when they are having breakthroughs with seizures. I suspect the same for my dd as her mood has been awful the last few days and her clumsiness is highly exagerated. We just went to neuro last week and she was doing great, this week, not so great

Ours will go to savings, but the way things usually go around here, some "catastrophe" will arise and it will get spent on that. But for now, the game plan is savings account.

say the biggest "looser" for us was Saxon math. I love it, and think it is a terrific program for me (if I were taking math again I would love it). However, it made my dd hate hate hate hate math. It was such a struggle to return her to "loving" math which she does now. We are currently using Singapore along with MUS and she really enjoys math now. So for us, it was a failure because it caused my child to hate the subject as a whole.

totally awesome!:D

I do hope that the place these young mothers along with their children in foster care together. The Texas foster care system is strapped, so I am sure there is no way these children will go into only similar style religion, etc. I feel so bad for them, I know the State is saying they will try and keep siblings together. I am glad this raid happened, these children do not deserve to live like this, the underage girl "brides" and the young boys practically discarded out the door...it is all so wrong.

home safe and sound!:001_smile:

As usual, you ladies rock! I now realize I am going to have to be much, much more "forceful" in getting her to read her notes. What I mean by forceful is that I'm going to have to force myself to take this on and faithfully follow through that each day we practice the notes. I do feel better that she is "not alone" in that many other children do this, but it makes me realize that I have alot of work to do! I do appreciate all the advice!

My dd is 10 and is begging the same thing, but has only been at it 3 years. I will not let her quit. My best friends plays so beautifully and she always tells me "I HATED my lessons, all 10 years of them, but I LOVE LOVE being able to play the piano". So my way of thinking is that sometimes we must endure things we don't like, perhaps like learning to like spinach or broccolli. Keep her going if you can!

in our house and I love leather. Well honestly I love upholstery, but with 2 kids and 2 big dogs I think leather works best for us. We used to have a white leather sofa before my oldest was born and it worked great (even when she took an ink pen to it as 1 year old...rubbing alcohol took it right off). Then we moved to a medium brown in living room and have 2 dark brown ones in game room...they look brand new and all are about 5 years old. I don't find them sticky and I live in hot Texas...but we run our a/c. My boxer is all over ours and still it looks great.

I would encourage you to consider Singapore. Don't let the outside pictures of the books or the price (they are priced very reasonably) fool you, these books are top notch and can be accelerated easily for an advanced child. Have you checked the gifted board...you might post there as well, but many use Singapore on their young gifted math students as it is adaptable to being accelerated.

I know it isn't the exam, but Zenni Optical has great prices for childrens glasses and the optics are very good. (I've had my daughters Opthamologist check the lens specs and he has been so surprised at quality, much nicer than the Sam's ones I had been getting). http://www.zennioptical.com

My dd 10 is driving her sweet music teacher nuts. Her piano teacher is in her 70's and has been teaching many years, and is very sweet. The problem is that dd repeatedly now insist she can not read the notes. She has been taking lessons almost 3 years so this is hard to believe. What she likes to do is for the teacher to play the song and dd copies it. If she has trouble we notice she twiddles around and then plays it correctly...so we do know that she is playing almost all songs by sound. She will hear a song on the radio and go tap it out on the piano after a few tries she has the song down, so I'm sure the teacher is right. How can I break her from just going by sound and get her to actually read the notes? Do I start her from the beginning? I am talking every lesson I hear "now A you know that note..what is it? Okay, lets go with GBDFA or F-A-C-E or whatever it is... I purchased a note reader book and she seems to do fine with filling in the blanks correctly when she has a pencil and is doing it, but comes to playing she melts down. I hope I am explaining this somewhat correctly as I have had no musical training. DD does play beautifully, but teacher is concerned that it is all "by ear" and not by reading. Any of you have any advice how I can help dd? thanks!

and combine it with MUS, however Singapore is my main math program. I first started using Singapore when dd began to loathe Saxon. I don't feel it overwhelms my daughters to do both, we just make sure we do about 45 minutes a day...if one program takes longer, we cut time off the other. Sometimes we do one 3 days a week and the other 2 days a week. I think Singapore is such a great program, you can easily work 20 minutes in it a few times a week and still "get" the program.

Definitely can happen, my mom was 4'10" and my dad 5'7" and I am 5' 7 1/2".. I am the tallest of the six kids though.

at least $100 a day.

absolutely amazingly cool...I love it ( but I don't want to dust it)

I started two weeks ago and am almost done. I still need to narrow the girls clothes down and pack up the winter clothes, but it is coming together. I have worked so non stop on this house that I am going to stick with the FLYLADY routine and not let this happen to me again!

I have read a few of your intro's etc...youare some really busy ladies! Glad you are here!