I make felt food. I'm guiding my sister through her first felt food gift-making session this holiday and making a few pieces. I made my niece quite a bit a few years ago. I've gotten great patterns fom Etsy, though you could easily design your own. Have fun! I don't have any good pictures of recent work, but here's what I did a few years ago: http://thisordinarytime.blogspot.com/2010/01/wool-felt-play-food.html

That was happening to me yesterday and this morning on my desktop (not the iPad, though). Clearing my cookes solved the problem. Hope that helps!

Recently I've been saving some to frame and hang. :-) Otherwise I leave them on. I've been known to add Mylar covers to absolute favorites. I still remember the day I learned to cover books from my librarian mother. :-p

I have a marbled pumpkin cheesecake recipe with a ginger snap crust from All Recipes I've been making for years. I can't find the exact one on their site, but we've always loved it. I usually make it for DH's birthday.

:bigear: I've been wondering the same thing. Also, has anyone used Daily Georgraphy? Wondering how it compares to Beginning Georgaphy for K-2. Would we be repeating a lot to start with Grade 1?

:iagree: We only have the iPad version (no toddlers to disrupt the game board), and I find it a nail biter. My husband and I play each other, but we also play online, and it can get testy! We have the USA and Europe expansion.

I regularly make felt food and use a wool/rayon blend or 100% wool. The food I made years ago still looks as good as new. :D I'm actually in the middle of my "Christmas orders" now. The synthetic felt food I bought from Etsy when my oldest was young looked beaten within a few months. I tossed it and remade the pieces. The only downside to 100% wool felt in my experience is that it can be pretty tough to sew through if you're using multiple layers. I'm especially thinking of a banana peel I made that was lined. When I stitched it all together, that was four layers of wool! I buy my wool blends here: http://www.prairiepointjunction.com/woolfeltcentral.html

I know exactly what you mean. I sometimes watch the first half and skip the rest. :tongue_smilie: An Affair to Remember is better, of course. But the repartee between the two in both movies is fun. I also love Mr. Blandings. So does my dad. Must ring true for him. :lol:

Same here. He didn't really need any guidance. He's six now and ready for a bigger set. The 4yo uses them too.

Not my favorite either, but I do love him and Deborah Kerr together.

:iagree: I really, really love Holiday. I love Katharine Hepburn in that too. Or Charade. Or Penny Serenade. Or Suspicion. Forget it! Impossible. :001_wub:

http://www.elizabethfoss.com/reallearning/2012/10/sad-news-.html Many prayers for the Curtis family. :sad:

I was just able to access it, but no updates. Nothing new from Elizabeth Foss either. They might not have power after the storm, though. I'm just heartbroken over this too. I stopped reading Mommy Life regularly when it became very political, but I just love Barbara's book.

:iagree: I love both of these! I usually watch them both when I'm on a Jane Eyre kick. I watch this one too, although it's not as good an adaptation. I love Ciaran Hinds though. :tongue_smilie:

In our family we have a few Tuesday birthdays! DH- Monday (no induction/c-section) Me- Sunday (spontaneous labor, emergency c-section) DS1- Thursday (no induction/c-section) DS2- Tuesday (no induction/c-section) DS3- Tuesday (no induction/c-section)

I've started too. Just finished putting away summer shoes and tossed the holey rain boots. I reorganized winter wear to see what (if anything) the boys need. I have some extras to donate, and everything is packed back into its bin in the basement (summer) or put into the basket in the coat closet for easy access (hats, mittens, wool socks). I'm not sure I'll have a chance to tackle more today once school and piano lessons are done, but I'm glad that chore is done!

I rarely post, but I'd like to join in/lurk along! I have lots I want to declutter so we can (possibly) list our house in the spring. We've also been pondering disrupting the schoolroom so we have our fourth bedroom back. In order to do that, a LOT of our miscellaneous craft supplies/games/puzzles/manipulatives would need to be pared down. Not to mention, we are growing out of certain toys, that I'd like to donate or sell before Christmas...

:iagree: Also they are part if Amazon's 4-for-3 so you can compare prices there too. I've been working on that the past few days too. :D

We love: Mousekin's Golden House Pumpkin Moonshine The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything Too Many Pumpkins The Biggest Pumpkin Ever The Pumpkin Patch Parable (Christian) The Dancing Skeleton (The boys act this one out all the time! "Oooweee! Ain't we having fun?") Hope that gets you started!

It seems a bit excessive. At our Y, kids under 8 can be alone in the shallow end with parent watching once they can touch bottom. My 4yo just meets the requirement, but since he's just barely swimming I don't let him go in alone. My 6yo is very tall, and a good swimmer to boot, so I watch him. At 8, the parent doesn't need to be in the pool area at all. To swim in the deep end, everyone under 16 must pass the deep end test. This really irritates me. It means I can't swim WITH my six year old to practice his lesson skills. His class is is held in the deep end, but is still an advanced-beginner level (stroke development) so he's not ready for the test. I've watched him struggle in the water while the teacher was otherwise occupied, yet I'm not qualified for one-on-one guidance/instruction outside of class. :glare:

OP, I love that you asked this today! I am in the midst of a science crisis, and was contemplating this very thing yesterday. I did some unsuccessful board searches about it. :tongue_smilie: Um, yes. This exactly. DS 6 loves astronomy so much I thought I could look past the worldview stuff and make this work for us. Nope. So now I'm looking for beefy astronomy resources for him to explore and planning to do something like others have mentioned in this thread with other topics. Love this! We have many of these books, and I can see this working for us for several more years and allows the younger boys to participate as well. I have been way overthinking science for the early school years!

Thank you, all! It's funny, because I was thinking an Usborne book would be good, but when I was searching I couldn't find exactly what I was envisioning. Then I pulled out TWTM because I KNEW I'd read some good recommendations somewhere! Yes, those two look like what I want! :tongue_smilie: We have the Usborne book linked here, but I wanted something even a little "more." I'll check out all the links. Thank you again! ETA: The H.A. Rey books look wonderful as do the Seymour Simon titles. I feel so silly for not checking TWTM first! I've been so focused on the 3Rs, I barely registered other recommendations.

My DS 6 loves all things space. We have a few Usborne books (both recent and older titles) that we enjoy and do cover a decent amount of ground, but I'm wondering if there is a good "comprehensive" encyclopedia-type book anyone would recommend. Almost textbooky, but not quite. Perhaps something you would as a spine if you were designing your own science for the year. Our library is fairly decent, but I'd also like him to have something he can read/explore over and over. He's the kind of kid that likes to sit and read the encyclopedia. :lol:

We used to belong to the same co-op. ;) For us, no, it's not worth it anymore. Part of my decision also had to do with rules involving teaching. We'll get involved again when the kiddos are older. I see our kids are the same ages (but mine are all boys)...PM me sometime! Always want to meet more Syracuse-area HSers! :001_smile:

I've had carpal tunnel that keep me up at night during several pregnancies. It's horrible. :grouphug: The one thing that helped me and kept it almost bearable was wearing wrist braces at night. I didn't sleep too long one one side if at all possible, and often slept propped upright to keep pressure off my arms. Beyond that, I'm not sure what else you can do. :grouphug: again. I know how excruciating it is.