It is possible. If you are parked next to the door, the store is small, the item needed is by the register, and no one is in line, it could take less than 5 minutes. I can be in and out of our grocery with a loaf of bread in less than 5 minutes. I personally wouldn't leave a 4 year old in a car to run into a store.

Thank you for posting this!

Unfortunately, the nearest Costco is 2 hours away. I may just give the Innovera a try and keep my fingers crossed. :001_smile:

I noticed our Sams carries Innovera toner as a replacement for Canon. It is about half the cost. Does anyone have any experience using the Innovera brand?

Where I live, 100 would be considered small. We routinely go to weddings with 500+ guests. I think we had roughly 350 guests.

Yes. I use it with my youngest daughter, and she hates the tiles. I just use the TM and a whiteboard. She does like the flashcards, but those could easily be made with index cards.

Doesn't bother me. We live in a small town, so everyone knows I homeschool.

You homeschool? Your kids seem normal. Aren't you afraid they will miss out on something?

Have you tried bluing? I have never used it, but it's supposed to make whites look whiter. I don't think it will remove stains, though. I found this link: http://mrsstewart.com/

This is my kind of show! Thanks.

We like the Palomino Golden Bear Pencil http://pencils.com/product/golden-bear-orange-2-pencils-12-pack-made-in-the-usa/

I am going to pretend I am sick and tell the girls no school today.

I buy Fantasie bras from a specialty store. They run $60.

My dad will work in the garden with my girls, and other outside stuff. My mom does nothing with them. A few months ago, my mom was working on a jigsaw puzzle and my 8 year old wanted to help. My mom's response was "Grandma likes to do puzzles by herself. She doesn't like to have anyone help". She honestly didn't even see that she hurt my daughter's feelings. My mom was like this when I was growing up, so I knew what to expect. My DH's mom passed before we had children, but she would have been the cooking baking type of grandma. His dad, however, hands them money for their birthday, and that's about all the interaction he has with them.

I totally get where you are coming from I have just had to let it go. I either send my kids over to my parents, knowing they will sit inside watching movies, or I don't send them. I can't change my mom. There are far worse things than my girls watching hours of movies at my parents, so I have just accepted that is the way it is. (My parents don't have any TV service, only a DVD player, so I do know the movies they watch are approved by me.)

I only have two. Most families in our homeschool group have more than two.

I think if you add too much baking powder, they will over rise, then completely fall. Plus, you can taste baking soda, so it would make them taste metallic and bitter. 1 tsp doesn't seem too much. Is there baking soda and an acidic ingredient in the cupcakes?

My hands down favorite is the Vietnamese Cinnamon. I also like the ancho chili powder.

I would probably still focus on credit card 2, even though you have a longer grace period. Is there any way you can get it paid off before October? If you pay the $1700 in car repairs, the $2100 on credit card 1, and put the remainder on credit card 2, you would owe $1900. If you can get that paid off before Oct, then you would only have one credit card that will start accruing interest. I would then "snowball" these payments toward credit card 1. Either way, the more you pay off now, the less interest you will pay in the long run. I do think an emergency fund is important, even if is only $500. Sure, $500 doesn't go a long way, but it will replace a battery in your vehicle, get your washing machine repaired, and little things like that.

I would pay the $2100 credit card balance first, then the $1700 in home and car repairs. I would probably put $500 in savings, then apply the remainder to either of the credit card balances. Which credit card would depend on the future interest rates. I would be inclined to get the smallest balance paid off first, then roll that into the bigger balance. But, that would depend on what the interest rates will be. Kind of a dumb question --if you don't get the balance paid off in the interest free period, are you charged interest on the entire amount put on the card, or just the portion that remains? I know furniture stores do the zero interest for so many months, but if you don't pay it off, you pay interest on the entire amount. I don't know if credit cards work the same way.

We call then flat dumplings in my area. If done right they are tender and light. Flat dumplings can be difficult to master. If you overwork them, then you will have tough, slimy things. I always make mashed potatoes with my chicken and dumplings. I would probably also make green beans and a salad. Fried apples, as the PP mentioned, sound good too.

It was a normal Sunday night for us. We went to church, and I watched Downton when we got home.

It would give me a good excuse to buy whole milk, and then I could make chocolate pudding out of it. Yum!

I know! I have all these visions of them coming in from the snow to steaming hot cups of delicious, homemade cocoa.

My kids are this way too. They prefer any store brand cocoa over my homemade. If the OP wants an easy solution, you could just heat up water in the crock pot, then mix the packets in. That way the kids aren't individually opening packages, and making a mess.