You can watch the movie for free on hulu now (don't know how long that will be true, though) and for actual menus/juice plan the guy has a website with tons of info. OP: I just finished up a 5/10/5 fast. Are you in a part of Montana that has an Azure Standard route? I got the bulk of my stuff from them. Kale and other greens I googled to find a farm stand. That was a bonus, as we found a farm that I'd not known about before that was amazing. We must have a pukey Costco, because the only organics I found off my list were the big spinach packs and carrots (and I got much nicer and cheaper carrots from Azure). I didn't total up the cost because it was expensive and I didn't want to know :tongue_smilie:. I agree that the whole enterprise would've been much cheaper and easier in summer! The thing is, I didn't want to juice produce, particularly off the "dirty dozen" list, that had pesticides, since those would be concentrated in my body while juicing. I did use cheaper conventional items off the "clean 15" list.

- airfare is expensive. There were times in the first year that we had to fly him home for short breaks simply because his dorm closed down and he had nowhere to go. After the first year, he had close enough friends that took him in. Even so, I don't know that we sat down and thought that out, that we'd be paying $400 repeatedly each year. - he met someone there and got engaged, so he's staying there for forever. Yeah, I know that's real life and I should get a grip . . . but he's graduated now, and has a job and all, and well, we haven't seen him for two years :crying: because he can't get the time off . . . - this depends on your financial situation, but for us, we couldn't afford to all go out there for anything, including his graduation. His dad went out and the rest of us watched it livestreaming, but that hurt. We're saving up to attend the wedding. But how many other things will there be like this? Grandchildren? If you have a financially comfortable situation, then the impact would be far less. We have a tight budget that has had trouble absorbing the above hits.

Well, just the 5 year old today, but there are still a few days for the good times to really get rolling . . .:tongue_smilie:

If you want to go longer, I did the standard reboot but did days 6-10 twice. That gave me a 5 day run-up, 10 days of juicing (I'm nearing the end of that) then days 11-15 to come off the fast gently. I would think about day 9 or 10 you could decide to redo the days 6-10, keeping on doing that as long as you wanted. Plus the experts blog has a bunch of other juices you can sub (I tried to sub equivalent calories and protein - there were a couple that I just couldn't stomach).

I'm getting ready to come off a juice fast, too. The Sick, Fat, and Nearly Dead guy's website has menus for coming off the fast, so I'm planning to use those or similar. Here is a link to the page with all of the days; you would want to look at days 11 - 15 (scroll way down). 51 days? You're amazing! I'm doing mine to help heal newly diagnosed ulcers and will only do 20 days total with only 10 of them purely juice (what I'd intended) and I have much respect for you doing it that long! I'm with you on the fruits . . . after awhile it's just hard to choke down that sweetness.

That would totally feel like a love letter!

Oh mannnn . . . I had no idea, either. I've got to get creative, then. Thanks, hive. I decided to assign her every-fourth-question, which makes 25 per lesson. She's still pretty depressed about how far behind she is, but at least this takes it out of the realm of impossible.

I'm about to have a rebellion on my hands! We switched from Teaching Textbooks to do Lial's Precalculus. I was worried that TT wouldn't be an adequate preparation for dd going into Calculus in community college next year. I've been having her do every other problem, but as she points out in utter frustration, that's still 50 problems per day, and she's falling farther and farther behind in the ability to finish by year's end. She just said, "I'd so much rather just do Teaching Textbooks and at least make it through the material rather than getting so far behind in this one!" I'd love input on what others are assigning from this book. She's got other challenging material to cover, as well, and is getting buried.

:grouphug: Just had to do that a couple of weeks ago. Torture. I think I still taste it. Dh, who's a nurse, says, "You should see trying to get little 70 year old ladies to drink that whole thing"

I do the same as other posters, and we did remove all of the carpeting from our house (one room where it is impossible to have anything else that wouldn't be hideously expensive, we ripped out old carpet/pad and got new), as well as installing a whole-house air filter and we have room air filters as well. <-------whoa, run-on sentence, much? But you know, I wouldn't be doing such extreme things without first confirming that dust is a problem by allergy testing. What if dust isn't a problem and it's some other trigger? It wouldn't hurt to have a cleaner house, but before going to the big expensive stuff, I'd want to make sure . . .

If you want to have a bunch of choices, this book exists - it's available at my library, maybe yours as well? I just noticed it last night and placed a hold on it, so can't review it for you (yet).

Congratulations, so happy for you :001_smile:

My four mixed daughters have a range of curliness and thicknesses and all use no-poo routines. The younger ones just need it once a week, but with the changes of puberty there comes a move to more frequent condition-"washing". Curlier older dd probably 4X/week, straighter older dd more like 2/3 X per week.

Ours died early this year - like yours, ours was fairly new. That was so irritating that we didn't replace it. We had a couple of weeks of a learning curve, but don't miss it. We did end up getting a toaster oven for heating up leftovers and baking potatoes, and that works really well for us. Takes just a little more counter space than the toaster did, and far less than the microwave.

Microfiche! O my gosh the memories :tongue_smilie: I was thinking that if she knew about some aMAZing early black Friday deal on a gadget she's longing for that went online on Thursday, she would not be complaining about spending 5 minutes online, eh? T/F question dd: value of gadget < value of next semester's classes :D

Wow, weird timing - I was just diagnosed yesterday with one stomach ulcer and "a few" ulcers in the ileum (by endoscopy and colonoscopy) and came here to do a search to see what Dr. Hive had to say about ulcer treatments :auto: <----(Dr. Hive makes housecalls) I've had hideous abdominal pain, and have had anemia. Thing is, they didn't really send me home with any advice or meds beyond "the little purple pill" but said they'd phone in 3 weeks when all the biopsies get back. Guess they're waiting to see if it's h. Pylori before sticking me on the triple treatment. FWIW, I was reading at nih.gov that the blood test for h. Pylori is not that accurate - strangely, the accurate test for it is the breath test. Or of course biopsies if they're in there scoping anyhow. :grouphug: hope you find answers. Even though it doesn't change my pain, I'm so relieved today to know and not just have a painful body mystery.

Hobart, who makes commercial mixers, made KitchenAids until 1985, but lawsuits held up the transition until 1986. The wonderful reputation the mixers had was developed during the Hobart era, and you'll still find many of those mixers going strong today. Sadly, what has happened to the brand since then is why you see all of the complaints.

Online, Dick Blick usually. But definitely I work the JoAnns and Michaels coupons, as well.

:iagree: This! This would still give you the scheduling aspect of MFW, keep your dc together, and be solid high school material, too! We've been using Lightning Lit to go along with our homebrewed history off and on over the last couple of years, and really have enjoyed it. I don't feel passionately about having my high schoolers working from a different textbook, independently, but what I've valued over the years about having them all on the same cycle is the continual conversations they have with each other. The youngers will share some bit of trivia they picked up that wasn't mentioned in the olders' material, or an older will be involved in a conversation with me about something in their work and a younger will listen in and have a comment or question. One of my fav parts of homeschooling, actually.

I think this is smart. I'm really visual, too - but here's a definite clue to if this is the problem (being visual): when he does a story problem in math, does he figure it out in his head or with an equation, or does he need a little visual? When I help one of my children with a story problem beyond the most basic addition or such, I either jot a little visual doodle or "act it out" with my hands. Like making groupings with my hands in the air sort of thing. Something to see. And as an adult, if someone asked me to narrate back, I'd be doing a visual breakdown in my head into actual brain pictures of paragraphs. If he does math story problems with equations or in his head, probably the issue is something else.

:grouphug: Thing is . . . nobody could have done that for you, exactly. For sure if you'd had a friend to help you sort out how you envisioned teaching, what methods would work best for you, etc, maybe you wouldn't have spent quite so much. But it's not like someone could have let you know about the good, simple, inexpensive way to homeschool that you've worked out. Because you've found the way that is personal to you, your teaching style, and your children's learning style. It's great that you're helping your friends to find their best teaching tools, as well, and it will be fun for you to see the different styles and tools they end up with, most likely looking different than yours. FWIW, you've done really well to do this in 2 years! Takes many people way longer.

We have a Lodge similar to the one you linked. Use it probably once a week. As a pp noted, wonderful for roasts or other dishes that want a sear, then cooking. We do all roasts in the dutch oven. Also whole chickens - they come out more tender in the dutch oven for us. My dd likes to make bakeovers, and the dutch oven is also just perfect for those, although when it comes time to flip the bakeover onto the serving dish, that puppy is heavy and we're glad for our older boys :)

:iagree:We've handed Hanna tights down through 4 girls! And their underwear is wonderful. I sew my little girls' undies, but made my pattern off of Hanna unders, as do many sewing mamas.

:iagree: seems right to me, but I'm finding this thread interesting seeing how relative this distinction is. Kind of like, "how many children makes a big family" which has been polled here before.

I just always cycle everyone together, so when one of my guys hits 9th grade and we're in early American, so be it. Over the years my opinion has become that starting in 9th grade with ancients isn't the ideal sequence in some respects, anyway. Can't help you with a curriculum, though, as I home brew ours using Paul Johnson's "History of the American People" and Spielvogel as spines and book lists from WTM the book and this board, and others. The nice thing about doing 3rd cycle in 9th grade is that the reading material is in language more accessible than the first two cycles, and not so dark and depressing as the fourth.