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For me too.
Am I the only one who owns zero shirts with words on them? My shirts are shirts, not signs. There are too many people staring at my amazingly fabulous bOOks already!!!
I've always had plain shirts too, but this spring and summer I bought a bunch of tee shirts from Out of Print and Zulily. I have Mike Mulligan, Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Jane Eyre, HP, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Oz, Elephant and Piggie, and one with a picture of Pete the Cat that says, "I still read children's books." :D
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We have the bird clock too, and my sister has one that's all animals. A lion roars at 11:00, for example. It's great, lol!
If you're musical, we also have this music note clock: http://www.zazzle.com/the_original_music_note_clock-256978609089311925. It's my favorite!
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We never got 2 weeks for xmas or any break other than summer.
In our area of NY, it's the best when Christmas/New Year's Falls on a Wednesday. Then everyone will get two weeks. Otherwise, no way. With the holidays on Sundays this year, most places will probably go through 12/23 and be back 1/2. :(
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I think your son is amazing. Maybe he would feel a bit better if he found a way to share all of his water-saving ideas with your community?
Perhaps he could get permission to put up posters with his suggestions up at places like libraries and parks.
I'm in your state. We haven't had rain since the first of June.
Oh god, June? I am so sorry. We had one day this month, July. So we got 1 inch... But not since June? How are you all doing? I am used to daily afternoon thunderstorms around here. It just feels so weird to have dry weather in the summer.
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NYS weather strikes again. The rain is missing us today, but we are in the pocket of the state that's hovering between normal and abnormally dry.
I remember a summer in the mid-90s when the drought was horrible. Our well dried up, and now we own the house I grew up in... Needless to say, I've been watching the weather very anxiously.
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This is also my personal experience. I used to be a librarian in an elementary school before staying home with kids. Several years ago my local school district let go most of the librarians and replaced them with paraprofessional staff. Many of my friends were old enough to retire, but others were left scrambling for jobs. Unfortunately, there were not a lot of jobs in the public library and the salary was pitiful. I would be very leery of going into this profession unless you really specialize (law or medicine).
The good thing about NY is that certified school librarians are mandated 7-12. Most elementary schools in the areas I've worked have them as well (central and western NY), or share one librarian between two buildings.In our area the school districts dropped their librarians at the very first whiff of budget cuts and had teachers and volunteers filling in. I talked to one who was leaving and she said the job market was incredibly tight and she was going to try to be switching fields. Just anecdotal.
I don't know anymore how many graduates in LIS there are in NY right now, but I do know there are only three (I think) library schools in the state. (ETA: there are more than three. I was only thinking about upstate, I guess!) The library resource council always has a steady stream of support and librarian jobs posted, both in NY and occasionally in other states.
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My 12 year old dd wants to be a librarian in a grade school. Anyone know what that schooling process would look like?
It's going to depend on the state, but a MLS/MLIS is likely needed. In NYS, I needed a series of education classes along with my library coursework (literacy was a huge part), did a semester of student teaching (both elementary and secondary), and had to pass the three teaching exams NYS requires (liberal arts and sciences, teaching skills, and the library content test).
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I have an MLIS (library and information studies), and am a certified K-12 school library media specialist in NYS.
I was in an elementary school, so a huge part of my day was reading, but I also managed all the technology for my building and there's a huge push for integrating media in the classroom, as we know. So I worked collaboratively with the part-time technology teacher, as well the classroom teachers.
My mother was also a SLMS, and she had additional cerification as a teacher, N-6.
When I first started library school, I wanted to be a performing arts or film librarian. My mom also says if she could do it again, she'd like to be a documents librarian.
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My mother retired 11 from years ago from teaching, and she and my dad have been super involved with all her grandchildren. She spent 1-2 full days each week with me and my kids (doing fun stuff or helping me around the house), and babysat for my sister twice a week so she could work part time (substitute teacher) for years. When my sister got a full time teaching position last fall, she eventually transitioned into babysitting my younger niece and then my newborn nephew full time (they also do school drop off and pick up for my sister's older child).
She's always refused any kind of compensation. They LOVE spending so much time with us and our kids. My mom always said she hoped her children would settle close by because she wanted to know us as adults. My parents' parents all live(d) across the country, so having all this extended family now in the same school district is wonderful.
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From Destiny, you could also shoot up the parkway to Onondaga Lake Park and go to Heid's for a hot dog. :D
At the mall, there's lot of "entertainment" options: puzzle rooms, Wonderworks and the ropes course, go-kart racing, etc.
Also down in Cooperstown is the Farmers Museum. You could go out to Auburn or Seneca Falls for the Harriet Tubman Home, William Seward House, and the Women's Rights Historical Park.
Skaneateles is scenic and not too far. Sightseeing or dinner cruise, maybe. Dinosaur BBQ has a cruise on the Erie Canal, I discovered yesterday. Lol!
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Yes and we did. We bought the house from my parents. Many things went into the decision: we were looking for a house at the time, we wanted more room and ground, we still lived in the same city, and the price was right. So, it all lined up. If it hadn't been the right decision for what we needed, then no I wouldn't have done it. Even though I have nothing but wonderful memories growing up here and love my childhood home. It it wasn't a good move, it wouldn't be right.
We did the same thing. Been here five months now...my sister lived here with her family before we did. None of us could bear to see the homestead go, I guess! It was too big for her, but it's ideal for us and our homeschool/musical lifestyle. The built-ins are to die for. :D
Being rural again (we both grew up in this town) is a little bit of a challenge, but it's not really cut off. Thruway is right here, and it's 30 minutes in either direction to a good size city (where we used to live and my husband travels for work), or a mid-size city with all your typical options.
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I sent this to my husband, and he said it sounds like a case of not fully understanding how iTunes Match (now Apple Music) works. We've used Match for years (definitely not without issues), and he said that when we set it up it he remembers having to delete the files or create another library. We have several iTunes libraries on both computer and external hard drives. Not all of them use Match.
It's been great for having cloud access to our music without using up storage on phones, but it also means I can't access audiobooks I've purchased via iTunes. :/
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We've been playing the free version with individual logins to track progress, but on a computer not a tablet or phone. I installed it about a month ago.
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University of Nebraska has been selling secular homeschooling materials as far back as 1988, because that's what I ordered for my oldest ds for the 6 months that I attempted to hs him.
http://highschool.nebraska.edu/About-UNHS/Who-We-Serve/Home-School.aspx
Calvert was available, too, as others have said.
I used UNL for one year of high school before my parents sent us to private school.
My sister used Calvert. 😀
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My husband is an organist, and he and his colleagues tend to roll their eyes at Cameron.
His chapter of the AGO has hosted several Pedals, Pipes, and Pizza events, and they are always FULL of kids eager to learn about and try a pipe organ. No flashiness needed. 😀
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For the past couple months I've been ordering next year's books from Amazon. Last week one of the books (Art of Argument) came filled with writing. Writing in bright ink with terrible penmanship. There is no way I can just have DD ignore the writing on the page and write on separate paper, because you can't look away from the large, brightly penned responses! It's like not looking at a flashing neon light! I totally thought this was a textbook and wasn't expecting writing to even be a possibility or I wouldn't have bothered ordering it used. I only saved a few dollars on the cost of new, so this was a total bust.
Next I ordered Building Thinking Skills: Primary and received a teacher's manual/lesson plans for BTS 3. How do you manage to confuse these two books? They look nothing alike! I really want this book, don't have the budget to order it new, but I"m afraid to try a different seller and waste even more money. Now I have a teacher's manual for a program that I'll never use. I can send it back, but my refund probably wouldn't cover the cost of shipping.
I'm pretty irritated that my last two orders are pretty much unusable. At least the logic book's description stated that it had some highlighting/writing in it. I was just expecting it to contain a bit of highlighting.
Ugh, I'm sorry. I always hold my breath when I order used from Amazon too.
Regarding the bolded, since it was a seller's error, they should cover the cost of shipping back. I would at least notify them about the mistake.
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*deep breath*
When we were first married, I had a little homespun style sign that said, "My laundry room helps keep American clean." It was before they were super trendy, but even so, I CRINGE now to think about it!
I will admit to having one propped up in the living room that says, "Mothers of little boys work from son up to son down." It still makes me smile, but feel a little weepy these days since my boys aren't quite as little anymore...
Most I cannot stand...when we got married, someone gave us one that says "Love is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." My husband wanted to hang it up recently, and I vetoed it. Why do I still have it?!? :ack2:
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The Boston relatives had money. Her father didn't start out with much, but he did work up quite a bit before he was killed, and then bam, financial woes. But Holbrook - the step dad - went on to be successful.
That De-Laine dress that was described in Big Woods? It was confirmed that Ma did own that gown, and even if her mother, a very fine seamstress, made it the fabric and buttons were super expensive. So at that point, Holbrook must have been doing well.
Almanzo's parents were solidly middle class on the farm in NY, but something happened, not sure what, that made them go west. They didn't do as well, and then Eliza Jane got it in her head that there was going to be a fortune to be made rice farming in Louisiana, convinced them to invest heavily, and they lost their shirts. They were practically destitute after that.
I'm following you around on this thread, Faith!
We went to the Wilder farm last summer, and this is the very first question I asked. Why in the world did they leave NY?! Pretty typical answer...several years of bad crops, and the promise of more prosperity in Minnesota.
Also interesting to note is that hops were the primary crop on their farm. Not a fact that would make it into a children's book published during Prohibition! ;)
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The timeline does seem to indicate this.
Still, there was the first time that pa went to Kansas before Ma was pregnant with Carrie, and I am not certain if there is overlap there. They went back to Wisconsin because the money they relied on - payments from tenants who were buying the Big Woods farm on land contract payments - stopped paying. So I was trying to figure out if the Benders were there during that first time he was in Kansas. They didn't go back until 1870/71 but were there in 1868.
I need to look at that.
At any rate, while he probably didn't have anything to do with that particular incident, I could so see him being involved in something similar. He was magistrate in De Smet before there was even a sheriff, and illegally posed as an officer of the court when Mr. Boast needed to recover money from a scheister.
I think it would fit with the adjusted timeline of the books which may be part of the reason Laura told the story.
Let's see: they left Pepin in 1869/1870?, Carrie was born there in mid-1870, and they returned to Wisconsin in 1871. The Benders were discovered in 1873. Pioneer Girl discusses the case as well.
I agree about other incidents being possible! Although none probably as sensational as the Bender Family. Scary group!
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Here is an interesting story from their time in Kansas which included living not all that far from a serial murdering family that later disappeared. Possibly Pa had a hand in the fact that the Benders were never seen again.
This is of course speculation, however, that would not shock me either. Ancestors of ours that took homesteads a few years later in Kansas were actively involved in vigilante justice in the Wild West as the nearby town was without sheriff or magistrate and well, the townsfolk simply took matters into their own hands.
Although I believe the Ingalls family had neighbors that were (or possibly were?) victims of the Benders, they had returned to Wisconsin several years before the Benders were discovered to be serial killers.
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I haven't had any issues until yesterday. I ordered around 9 AM, and my "two-day" guarantee is Thursday. 😒 (ETA: hoping it's just the storm delay that's causing it.)
Last week, I had an item guaranteed for Saturday actually arrive Friday since UPS delivered it instead of transferring to the PO. I was frequently getting Sunday deliveries at our old (suburban) house, but I'm guessing that won't happen in our new rural location.
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The only complaint I have against it is the mother is really monstrous. She's almost like a caricature of abusive parenting rather than simply being abusive. She'd be right at home in the Dursley's guest room, she's that bad.
I haven't handed it over to my nine year old yet for that reason. I don't really heavily censor or preview everything he reads, but this is making me hesitate a bit... Maybe we'll read it together, or at least start it that way.
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Apparently, The War That Saved My Life also got a Schneider award. So you should *definitely* get around to reading it soon!
I hadn't read that one either, but I read the little sample on Amazon, and was totally hooked! Ordered it on the spot.
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I do think it's interesting there were two picture books on the real Winnie-the-Pooh in the last year. Gearing up for the centennial, I guess! :)
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It's been quite the conversation over the last week in several of library groups- especially about Last Stop winning the Newbery. Not too common, but not too unusual either, although it's been a while.
A Visit to William Blake's Inn won the Newbery in 1982 and was also a Caldecott Honor.
One of the Frog and Toad books was also a Newbery Honor, as was Docto DeSoto.
ETA: Autocorrect doesn't like "inn!"
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I want a zip-up hoodie with fleece on the INSIDE
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I was going to suggest L.L. Bean, as well. I bought two there last fall/winter.
Lands' End is at Sears, though, not Bean. :)