bumping just incase anyone has a great atlas they just want to talk about!

I'm looking for a great atlas. Do any of you have an atlas that you love? or one you hate?

We are doing Chem I this year with an 8 and 6 year old. They love it. We also don't fill in the lab reports. Experiments are great. I did supplement it with real science 4 kids chemistry as well. Plus, the game Elemento which is monopoly but using the periodic table. That game is available at Rainbow Resource http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/ElementO/002169/1238631612-1818984 I do recommend NOEO, but I have never tried BJU.

I use their catalog to find good read alouds for the kids. I love looking through it, but it would be too much for me too! I tweak everything too much for SL to work for me.

just for what it's worth...a few other items that are toxic to dogs: onions chocolate macademea nuts grapes raisons those are the ones I know about. I love dogs and just thought I'd share this knowlegde just incase. again, I sure do hope Milo will be fine.

I've heard the same thing about Xylitol. I sure hope he is okay. My thoughts and prayers will be with you. Jenny

I used to get up and make him breakfast and a lunch to go...make coffee and all that. Now, we have a Keurig coffee maker so need to make the coffee and since the last baby (3 years ago). he gets up and makes his own breakfast and even makes the kids their breakfasts if they are up (goodness I love that man). I am up by 7 am. We don't usually go to bed at the same time, unless, like someone else noted, TEa is invloved.;)

I am so sorry for your loss.

we vaccinate for most everything... My daughter will not have this vaccine while she is in our care. When she is an adult and living elsewhere with her own insurance...she may do what she wants.

I bought one at Christmas time. I was in need of the largest one I could get. This is what I found. I love it! http://www.overstock.com/Crafts-Sewing/Suzys-Extra-Large-Square-Sewing-Basket/3291158/product.html Hopefully that link works. I found it very hard to find much out there these days. I hope this helps.

I find it sad when a mother won't let her kids be their age. I also find it sad when mothers or fathers live through their children...whether it be a stage mother or a mother who gets mad because her little prodigy isn't up to her expectations all the time. Actually, i feel very sorry for any child who might think that their parents love or approval depends on their ability to do anything at all. Thats it for me. I need to go hug my kids just for the fun of it.

:iagree: call after 9, their time!

I have two all time favorites: 1. The Cremation of sam Mc Gee by Robert servive. " There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold; ......" That one is really long and my dad taught it to me...I love it! 2. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas. It makes me cry every time.

:lol: Aw, the walnuts feelings are now hurt a little.;)

If you had a ton of walnuts to use up...what would you make?

No! Way too young...nothing good would come of that.. at 17 we can talk.

I have not read all the replies...next, I am Catholic...although raised by atheists....all I can say is run away as fast as you can! I would not let that woman near my child! That is just too creepy! That blog post was scary! I am so sorry that you have to go through this with her and with your children. I would not let any memeber of my family near that family...I would cut ties. anyway, that is my 2 cents. good luck to you! Jenny

For our our dogs, even snow fence works fine. little critters aren't a problem here bacuse we have dogs....dogs kill the little critters etc... deer and moose can be a problem here...don't really have any good suggestions for that.

I love mine! I have cooked pot roast in it and quite a few other things. We spend the summer in Maine so we are not in the tropics or anything either. I cannot recommend them enough. In summer power outages they are wonderful too! You just need to have a black cooking pot to cook in, and mine came with large plastic bags to keep all the heat in.

Oh thanks Colleen! These sound yummy and now on tonight's to do list!

What wonderful advice!

The parents are in the middle of a divorce and the father is against the mother homeschooling...so there is more to it than meets the eye...not that i am happy about the descision, but thought I'd offer what I know about it!

Hoenstly, I have no idea who this man is, and how he would be in possesion of such knowledge. I do not overly worry about that which i cannot control. That being said, i think it is wise to have a month or more of food supplies and other essential things. Not just for terrorist actions, but just think, "Katrina". (and for us this year the ice storm that had most of NH without power for one week to one month). There are quite a few survival threads and stockpiling threads here, i suggest you do a search for a few. But, just as how to do it...if you have the time, and an extra $5 to $10 a week, use that amount of money to buy things like tuna fish, peanut butter, dry beans, rice, nonfat dry milk, and paper plates and paper cups incase you have no running water for a time. and we store water in rinsed out milk jugs etc... it is a lot easier to do all this if you have a place to store it all. Oh yes, and don't let the stuff just sit on your shelf for years and years, make sure that you use it and replace it so that if in 2015 say, we have a disaster happen, all your canned goods are not expired!;) HTH