#5 ... Pepsi

#4 ... toilet paper ( LOL! )

#3 ... yogurt

here's #2 ... my instant coffee - Cafe Francais by International Foods (I think!)

oh, this should help get me halfway there ... here's #1 - chocolate candy bars

Good luck with the financial stuff. It's a tough time for a lot of people.

I work part-time from home for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine - it's a great job and I count myself lucky to be able to stay home and work for a decent wage.

oh, that's funny! Actually my kids will be going to public school in the fall and I wasn't looking forward to getting up early. Now, we have a small do that has to pee by 6am, so I guess I'm good to go now!

I like teaching the "extras" the least ... fine arts, etc. because my kids have no interest in them!

Ok, I have 14 posts ... here goes 2 more! I like history the most which is funny because I hated history when I was in school.

My dream vacation would be another trip to Great Britain with my husband. We had a blast the first time!

Heart of Wisdom and Teaching the Trivium - it's a tie!

My husband and I just saw Reservation Road ... pretty intense!

Oh, I'm with you on this. I have a TON of stuff to sell and was really hoping to be able to list items here ... drat!

We switched from Saxon to TT and my daughter HATED TT ... we actually ended up not even finishing the Algebra I book. I didn't like the answer key because it doesn't show the problem worked out like Saxon does. I'm good at Algebra and could work 95% of the problems off of the top of my head most times, but my daughter had a really difficult time with it. She felt like some of the problems just sort of came "out of the blue" and she wished that she has stuck with Saxon.

I did this last fall ... my daughter also has a December birthday. The idea was to be able to give her high school credit for high school level work. Our umbrella school has a 5-year high school option so we knew that we had that to fall back on. As it turns out, she wanted MORE challenging work and made some decisions about classes she wants to take. I honestly didn't feel that I could handle it and so we took a look at the local high school and she enrolled a few weeks ago to start high school in the fall. She is sooooo excited about the computer classes and the art classes and all of the Honors and AP classes that she'll be taking. It may sound like the easy way out, but we both are happy and that's what matters!

It is a bit scary to consider sending our children to public school, but both of my kids will be entering the public school system in the fall. My daughter will be a freshman in high school and she is actually VERY excited by the challenging classes that she'll be taking. 4 of her 8 classes will be Honors and 1 class is AP. We had LOTS of reasons for turning to the public system at this time, but my husband and I are feeling very positive about the change. My daughter admitted that she wanted more challenging work than she was doing plus she wanted classes that I just could not provide her. Good luck with your decision!

Congratulations! I hope my kids are as lucky as that!