Junie is really sleepy, so hopefully by this 3rd post, she's having Third Sleep. 🤣

"The Farm?" As in, Ina May Gaskin, midwife, The Farm? I like her birth story books. Off to look...

Explorer's Bible Study is also daily, so may not fit your needs.

I have a kerfuffle in my throat, ears, head, and chest that I'm trying to sort out.

Outschool has policies for teaching copyrighted material (fair use, student copies, permission, etc.), and a teacher group on facebook that gets questions answered fairly quickly.

You would think it didn't matter. "People" made a big deal out of it. It was in the local paper. "People" can be so dumb.

Gymnast is deciding whether to stay in Prelude orchestra for another year, or audition for the next level up. If she practiced more consistently, I'd totally encourage her to go the next level up. She is capable of it. Especially if she practiced. The best Italian restaurant in town is owned by a Mexican chef. It's what he was trained in, like trained and worked under an Italian chef for many years. People were so skeptical when he first opened a few years (a Mexican surely can't cook Italian, he should open another of the billion Mexican/New Mexican restaurants/cafes/trucks we already have). Now, there are no doubts he has the best Italian in the city. Today was a little busy. First, we started at Gymnast's dance rehearsal/stumble through this morning. It is an 11am to 4:30pm affair. I volunteered to help out there. We left 2.5 hours early to get to orchestra dress rehearsal and concert. I had dropped her off, then went home to get dressed and pick up the landlady and her car. Her car was dead. Dh did a quick pick up of his broken down car, and we arrived at the concert about 13 minutes before showtime. It was great! Tomorrow is mariachi concert. She is so stressed about it. I think it stresses her to be the only trumpet player in her band. There was another player this year, but it seems she dropped out just last week. 😲 Monday is a rest day. Tuesday and Wednesday she has work hours for dance dress rehearsal (9-5 and 10-5). Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are dance performances, morning and afternoon and/or evening. Sunday, we are on the train to LA. I'm already tired.

It's the same on my Android phone - passcode, cvc code. Also on my laptop, (Macbook Pro). I thought it was a Google thing to verify with cvc code. Or, perhaps it's setup on the websites.

SAME! It was so stressful, especially because we had GROUP papers in my graduate education program. I lost so much sleep going through and editing those stupid group papers. Grammar, coherency, it was all terrible. I purposely volunteered to put everyone's parts together and edit because there was no way I was putting my name on crap. It was awful.

I wasn't trying to be rude, just show what I see on my device.

This is on the laptop. If you click on the dropdown tab on the upper left side, you can look at meals without picking out a plan. If you push the green button in the middle of the page (View Plans), then you go through their process of subscribing. The second picture (dates, pics of food) is what I see after clicking the dropdown. The third picture (selecting preferences, etc.) is what I see after clicking the green "View our plans" button.

They started shortening lunch/recess because there is this fallacy that more academic work with little brain rest is the best way to bring students up to par. Never mind that in the younger grades, children learn through play...

I got to that page too. But, then I re-entered the home page address and started from the beginning. I'm on my laptop and see on the left side of the page "Our Menus." I was able to look at several weeks menus from there.

I know virtual isn't the same as in-person, but have you checked Outschool for robotics clubs and such?

Yep.

My elementary school years are decidedly NOT vintage! Yeah, I thought costumes after I posted, but then the female asked, "Wait, does that mean *I'm* vintage?!"

What did she decide to do?

1981 is VINTAGE???? svengo

Tsk tsk tsk. 6 hours since last message (not including mine).

A lot of nurseries do it this way now, I think. I remember working in a daycare years ago and a noncustodial parent took the child out. The custodial parent came to pick up the child about an hour later. All heck broke loose. Apparently, the custody agreement had changed and that information didn't get shared with everyone who needed to know, even though it was on file. Since then, the strict on "who's allowed to pick up who" list with required ID became a thing in most daycares, as well as the importance of sharing information. Another time, after the changes, a parent called and said someone on the list was going to pick up her child. We didn't recognize the person (1st time picking up), so the teacher asked to see the ID. They said they left it in the car or something, and couldn't they just get the child to the mother. The child didn't know the person either, and didn't want to leave with them, so I told the teacher not to let the child go (I was working admin at the time). I called the mother back, and she confessed it wasn't the person she originally said would be there and it was actually a co-worker of hers who was not on the list. We didn't let the child leave with that person because oral permission isn't enough. And, frankly, I'm not going to make a child go with someone they don't know and is scared of, regardless of what the parent says on the phone.

Everyone is probably asleep. I'm about to now. Good night! er...morning. It's 1:38am...

I'm the mean one here. I turned the heaters all the way down. In the old place, they would be turned off by now and we'd wear sweaters if it happened to be cold on the random day. Here, dh doesn't see the pain of paying for electric, but since the landlord does, I'm weaning the family off of the heater. They can handle it. (or maybe they're spoiled babies. Dh turned the heat back up to 85 the other night!)

7 HOURS??????? (svengo)

Speech to text is your friend. He has the ideas, and will probably be able to speak them a lot faster than writing. I remember when my oldest was introduced to it in middle school. It was a game-changer. I've used it with my youngest (now 6th grade) for her endless storytelling (and the fact that she seemed allergic to a pencil), then go back with some (not all, usually ones she wants to clean up) and work on grammar, wording, organization, the usual editing things. We also use this for nonfiction, and learning to narrate the main ideas and details. Since she is dyslexic, Language Arts is centered on reading and spelling, but editing brings in grammar and vocabulary so we don't even have separate curriculum for that right now. Some things may need to be consolidated and used for more than one purpose, or it will become overwhelming for the both of you.

I'm reposting the link just in case anyone wants to drop in and watch. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/merriemonarch/