Yes!! I have been in freakout mode all week. I feel a little better this evening!

(((HUGS))) I'm only 26, and DH is 30, but he says he is done. I'm taking the praying route. I know his reasons, and I understand, and logically he is right, but my heart and my body want another. So I'm going to pray for God to open this door, and DH's heart. Or, to put me at peace, if this is not His will.

I wish I knew they did this!!!

I'm terrified of tornadoes for some reason! Yet I'm so fascinated by them! Glad you are all ok!

Maybe she is a reputable breeder that happened across this litter from someone that didn't know how to care for them? I know that if I knew how to properly care for puppies and someone I knew didn't and asked me for help, I would. I could be naive though.

Very Scary! Where are you?

:D Ahh! Me too! I live in a "doublewide" actually its a single wide with additions! We love our hound dogs, and we had an opossum on our porch before that my friend tried to hit with a frying pan! Gotta love it! To the OP, yes, every day. I can't wait for my Mansion!

I've never owned a beagle, but I have owned a lot of Basset hounds. I LOVE them!! The trailing and baying doesn't bother me at all. Though...we live in the country! We no longer have our basset hounds, but we are getting a blood hound next week and I'm super excited! I hope you love your pup and that he is a wonderful addition to your family!

Howdy!

Sounds like it went well. I have only confessed to a few people sadly! I need to post to my FB, but I'm afraid my Dr. Brother is going to have something to say. He always did growing up.

Not running away, thanks!

I love all the ideas in this thread! We will be starting our first ever school day soon, and I really hope to remember to make it special, and to start some traditions!

I'm super new around here and came over to get away from some heated stuff in my usual forum, and well..LOL I'm just staying out of certain ones and not reading them!

This is our first year homeschooling and we are doing LHTH with my 4.5 year old DD! I'm so excited. I had read about HOD when I first started looking into HS, and for some reason the past 3 months it escaped my mind! I finally came across it again and I ordered it last night. It wasn't even exactly what I thought I wanted, I was almost settled on MFW, but I clicked order last night on LHTH! I'm very excited to get started!

(((HUGS))) and Many Prayers for you!

Thanks! I ordered it, I really hope she enjoys it! Now that I've settled and ordered I feel more at ease! Can't wait for it to get here so I can start getting ready!

I think I'm going to do the LHTH 4/5 :001_smile:

My DH works in Fairfield! We go up there a lot to visit is that close to you? I am in Central Texas. I'm about an hour from everything..lets see an little under an hour west of BCS, and hour north of Brenham, and hour NE of Austin, and our SE of Georgetown and hour south of Waco, and Temple! LOL

WOw! Lots of advice here! Let me first address the speech issue. Alyssa has been in Speech since she was 2. She just DIDN'T talk at all until she turned 3 and a light turned on. Now she is talking in sentances, and having conversations with her dolls! She is amazing to watch! She is sooo eager to learn, but in HER way! I love that about her. Which is one reason we want to HS, I believe that PS just won't be able to meet her needs. She started at 3 with the PS - speech, well, she was about 3 yrs 3 months old. So in those 3 months before she was officially in school (and out of ECI) she did amazing. I know that there was just something that had to click when she was ready. Since then she has learned so much and a lot of it is just "when she is ready" with help from her 1 hr/week speech class. She goes 30min 2x/week during the school year. Right now her speech is just needing to learn how to properly pronounce words, and she leaves the ends off a lot of words. Which is why it is so hard for some people that don't know her, to understand her. I know she still needs to work on her speech, and I know she isn't done, but I was just thinking that she is doing so well working on it at home, I wasn't sure that that 1hr/week was going to hold her back if she didn't go. KWIM? I am thinking that since we are always home on Sunday, for church, we just signed her up on monday mornings to go to Dance class so she can get out and be active and interact with other kids, that we could still do speech on monday mornings before her dance class. I will be talking to her speech teacher about her schedule to see if we can work that out. Other than that, we already do a lot of working on words together. When she says something not quite right we repeat it until properly, stuff like that. Alyssa also has moderate hearing loss in her Right ear. Her audiologist told us when she was a newborn that it wasn't something they could fix, but that since she has 100% hearing in her Left ear, it might not affect her too badly. She didn't think at the time that a hearing aide was something she needed, so we didn't get her one. Now looking back, I'm wondering if we should have. Maybe that one ear did affect her more than we thought? I don't know, and I'm not sure I ever will. I'm going to schedule her yearly audiologist appt in the next week, and I'm going to talk to her about it. I'm not sure if getting her one now would help or not??? I'm not sure she needs it, she hears us...but how well? I worry about the decisions we make as parents, are they the right ones? Ya know? LOL I was thinking of doing the MFW K because I had read it was pretty in between of PreK and K. And she knows most of what they offer in their PreK program. This is our first year, and for DH my "trial run" so he wants to see what we are doing and see her learning, which she already is just by playing simple games and such. We already do all the home learning like counting foods, cooking, arts and crafts, we live in the country so nature is at our fingertips! We have a bird farm down the road that we've visited once (to buy chickens) and its on our "field trip" list! I just wanted to add just a little "structured" work because she really enjoys it! She loves workbooks, and educational games on my iphone! I certainly don't plan to move her "up a grade" to K, I just wanted to meet her needs where she is craving learning. I have always 100% planned to go at her pace, and let her learn what she is ready to when she is ready to if she needs extra time, she will get it, if she excels in one subject we will do the best to move that one up. KWIM? These are all reasons we want to homeschool, DH being gone all the time just solidifies that decision because Family is very important, and not only do I need my husband to succeed in what we do as a family, they need their Daddy, so we have no choice but to go visit him. Ahh, that got long, I'm sorry.

Hi, thank you! Yes, DD is in Speech with the public school, although I'm not sure I want her to continue this year. With her taking speech at school she wants to be there full time, and I don't want that. Also my husband works out of town and we come visit him often which if she goes to public school, even for speech, we won't be able to just get up and go whenever we want to. The kids go crazy if they go more than a week without daddy so we spend a lot of time out of town.

by behind, I actually mean she is behind in speech, she didn't talk at all till she turned 3, and now that she is talking and doing well, she isn't understood by most people, and she has communication issues due to this. So yeah, she is behind in some things, but in academic things I guess she would say she is doing everything she needs to be...when it comes to letter sounds though...her speech slows that down. KWIM?

I'm going to be HS my daughter and this is our first year. She is currently 4, but she will turn 5 Oct.3rd. She is behind in some areas, and right where she should be in others. I'm torn between preschool which looks like she knows most of, and K. She is behind in speech and some fine motor skills. Anyway, I was first looking into MFW, and asked my pastors wife to look it over for me...and she handed me a list of other things she likes better, and it was an entire list of pick and choose from here and there....which is great except I feel so lost. I'm so new to all this that I'd love to purchase a curriculum for our first year and go from there so I don't get overwhelmed. Although I know that we may end up purchasing something that doesn't work for us. Then I looked at Heart of Dakota-little hearts for His Glory, and I'm really liking the look of theirs too, along with HOP, and possibly HWT. I don't know..how does one choose? I'm getting down to the wire, should have already ordered and started setting up and I haven't...any advice for a newbie?