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Just my 2 cents and may not apply to you but ime school speech therapy is worthless. My children have been in it for 10 years (including the early childhood education and early intervention). When I was finally able to take them to a private speech therapist and have them assessed at the local children's hospital by a team, I was told that pretty much everything that had been done was a waste of time. Your school district could be much better though :)

I cannot repeat STAR WARS enough! OMG Star Wars books, Star Wars visual dictionaries & encyclopedias, Star Wars Legos, Star Wars movies, Star Wars action figures, Star Wars ships......

Praying!

WOW! The worst part is I could see my DSS doing the same thing and it never even crossing his mind that it might hurts someone. ETA: I am not pardoning what they did at all BTW! My dss has prenatal exposure and seems to have no cause and effect understanding. It was just the first thing that crossed my mind when I read the story. I printed it for dss to read.

You definitely don't need to but my kids would love you forever and ever if you did! :D

I would let them in HS go with their friends to t-o-t as long as they dress up. :)

Yay! I am going to go "follow" you now!

1 or 2 days. We have a lot of special needs and I can't do more than that without going nuts. Back in Oregon they had lots of friends on the street and we daycare kids but here in Utah...

I'm thankful for Halloween candy :D No, really, though I am. I LOVE candy and my son is allergic to chocolate, after I trade him out, I have tons of candy. Many people in the world don't have chocolate, so although it seems silly, I am truly thankful for candy!

We got tons of candy and my kids spent the morning counting, sorting, organizing and counting again. Good math activity right? :D Now that they have it all figured out (and my one over-the-top child made a chart for all of his candy in categories) they are calm and eating lunch. After lunch we will start school. I don't know why playing with it for three hours wears off the enthusiasm but it does. Every day my kids are allowed to have a small un-healthful snack after they eat a healthful one. After Halloween they usually choose a piece of their Halloween candy (and after Christmas they choose Christmas candy, after Easter...). I still get the annoying questions the first couple of days but then they give up. Before I had my step-children I just let my kids eat the candy when ever they wanted, they self-regulate very well and always the day before Christmas I would throw away a huge bag of Halloween candy they never got to. My step-children though have FASD and don't self-regulate at all, so we had to set up a system. My children don't react to sugar, they are just always full of endless energy lol

Yes! We got through... Bible. That was it. We will never accomplish anything with my kids this distracted. They won't remember what I taught and I will be frustrated today AND tomorrow instead of just today.

What's for breakfast/lunch today? We had cracked wheat for breakfast and for lunch the kids had leftovers. I still haven't decided what I am eating for lunch. What's going on in your world today? Apparently not much because it is Halloween. When my kids are distracted it is virtually impossible to refocus them. I thought we'd push through school anyway and then I remembered that every single time I do that I have to re-teach whatever I taught that day because no remembers any of it. Is anyone getting snow today/this week? It is forecasted for tomorrow. I'm trying to adjust from winters in the PacNW. It does not seem right that it should snow in Oct or Nov!

The twins have a phone they share. We got it because of health issues. It makes it a lot easier if he can text me while I'm in service if he has hives or I need to pick him up from Sunday School for any other reason. I hate being hunted down in the sanctuary by a teacher, really embarrassing. lol ETA: Now that we have moved they use it a lot to keep in touch with their god-siblings, Papa, uncles and aunts, all much older than them. I would be worried if they were texting constantly to friends but I figure texting 75 year-old Papa is good :) I am so glad they aren't tying up my phone that would drive me nuts. It has really helped with the transition of seeing relatives almost every day to living 800 miles from them.

Oh my goodness! What a beautiful baby! Congratulations!

That's crazy!

You could easily add in those books. We are doing MFW-ECC right now and I am adding in VOM's Kids of Courage activities. It is working out great. Sometimes I substitute it for one of the worksheets that is too hard for my kids and sometimes I just add it in :)

Pizza! Order early though, everyone else is too!

WOW!!! That is all I have to say to that link! I agree with PPs, just forget the receipts :)

YES! I just thought my kids were little freaks lol. They get all nutty and yell and jump. All of a sudden they have "tricks" to do and amazing abilities they just. need. everyone. to. see. OVER AND OVER! We usually make the kids leave the room after a few minutes it is so loud and crazy and we can't even talk! I am SOOOO glad they are not the only ones!

My DH has been told. I don't know how much he remembers. I feel like I should type something up now... lol

Our family does. My aunt distributes info on the family to the heads of all the families and they spread it within their own families. We do it for important prayer requests or when someone has cancer updates, etc.

My twins were 10 :( I don't know what the issue was! I showed them over and over but they just couldn't get it. They could do buttons and everything else buy tying bows eluded them.

We use Pacific Foods vanilla low-fat rice milk. Even my kids who aren't allergic want to drink it. We weren't a fan of coconut or soy either.

I use my son's special vegetable protein "butter" no milk or gluten. I can't remember if it has soy or not and can't check now. The twin says it is called Earth Balance and I get it in Fred Meyer's natural section. I swear it is basically vegetable or canola oil solidified somehow though lol