First when I was young we went to a church that wearing makeup and cutting your hair was against the rules. Later after my parents divorced and my mom started dating she'd wear some makeup but nothing that required a lot of time or effort. She's now so far removed in her lifestyle (farmer Jo) from needing/wearing makeup I doubt she owns any. I wore plenty of makeup in my 20's but by the time I got to 30's I couldn't be bothered. DD used up all of my foundation playing around with makeup back in 2013 and I haven't bought any since. If I really needed make up I could borrow some of DD's she's got a ton. Clothing- Pretty much fits the makeup trend. My mom's in Industrial Maintenance (sounds way dirtier than it is, she works in a clean room). She wears jeans an tshirts, as do I. She's always had long hair, she's very proud of it (it's mostly silver but in excellent health) and while I've cut dyed and even shaved my head in the past, I've left it shoulder length to long for about 10 years.

Yep, I would sell it. If it's really sticky for you then trade it to someone it might work for.

:iagree: I'm also going to add that if it was me I'd want to see my child for every moment I had prior to major surgery just in case things went wrong. I probably would have trouble expressing this to DH I wouldn't want to make him feel bad or worry more.

:iagree: X1000+ Enjoy the time with them now, relax and have fun. The less you try to teach them the more they will actually remember. I'm a box checker too and what I had to do was find a different set of boxes to check.

Smithsonian Archivist. But Dh would never have found work in D.C. (he's in manufacturing) and going to Grad school would have seriously hampered my ability to parent, so instead I'm crazy happy as a SAHM.

Here in TN in my district (don't know about anyone else) they will only let you come back if you have taken your courses from approved providers (most of which use the same program as T4L but charge a lot more). So my first step would be to call the local district and even the future district to see what they accept as far as credits.

I get a lot of ads based off of goggling topics and issues from here! I also get quite a few from religious organizations and for religious fb groups, I'm agnostic/atheist... so are they assuming since I go to HSing sites I'm religious? I mean I go to atheist sites too you'd think one would negate the other.

Yeah, I'm with PP and would allow them to hang out in the basement but I'd probably check on them randomly (if I didn't know the girl). DS had a "gf" at 12-13 and she hung out upstairs and spent the night (she was dd's bestfriend) all the time. I was never overly worried, I tend to trust my kids to behave and amazingly they always have.

Really easy to do up is pre-cut broccoli (either by you or bought that way), sugar snap peas, bell pepper sticks, celery, baby carrots. I do 2 things with these. I either eat them with hummus and or ranch or I stir fry (takes 5-7 minutes) with soy sauce and seasoning (I like Sprouts szechuan spice mix) I either use brown rice I've made previously or simply microwave a bag of frozen brown rice (birds eye from Walmart $1). I often have chicken breast leftovers that I'll toss in the stir-fry or I get a low carb tortilla and put the chicken, veggies, and hummus in it. If we did a poll then I'd have to say Red bell peppers are my favorite. Them and sugar snap peas are the only veggie I can eat plain.

My sister is coming down (about 5 hour drive) the night before. We're in the 99% range and the local library is even doing a big thing all day with glasses! (Everywhere has been sold out for awhile)... not good enough for her I guess, she wants to drive farther North (longer viewing time) there is no way I'm going to hit the interstate that day around Nashville, I expect it to be crazy (it's already 1/2 crazy on a good day). So we'll be driving 1 mile and hang out at the library, I expect she'll see sense and do the same. * I clearly remember watching Haley's Comet and seeing a partial Eclipse when I was a kid so I made DS request the day off and we're going to make a big deal (for us) out of it.

I always wore my PE shorts under my skirt and a tighter t-shirt under my normal shirt. No need to actually go in the locker room where the mean girls were and no teacher to protect me. There's no way I would try to force my kid to undress in what amounts to a (single-sex) public place if they weren't comfortable with it.

try education portal, that's what it was called when it was free. I like it but I don't think it's worth the cost. They do have a deal at homeschool buyers co-op I like Shmoop better but the kids like Study.com better, it's easier. What I'd like to do is combine the videos from Study.com with some/most of the assignments from Shmoop but that's way to much work.

Dn 16 who lives with us on/off won't eat leftovers so at least 1-3 lunches/dinners a week he doesn't eat. There's always other things but they usually require a bit more effort than sticking it in the microwave and he refuses to do more than that.

I am often astonished that the person I was at 15-20 turned into the person I am today. Which kind of worries me because I really like who my kids are right now.

I named DD Aubrey Ellen back when it was still an old lady name... now Aubrey has become very popular :glare: . Audrey is due for a resurgence soon too I think. Also I like the nickname Audie for Audrey.

Love Vivienne (Vivi). Second choice would be Penelope cause I love the name Poppy but I'd be worried someone might call her Penny and it would stick (except personally I like Pen and Penny too but if you don't....).

Mine, jokingly, declared yesterday that "I am a grown man", I guess because he's adult sized and has a job now? :glare: I will say that he asked me what I wanted for my birthday (in November) and he hasn't even got his first check yet (he's a sweetie, stubborn but definitely sweet).

Also check out Homeschool Minder. Personally I liked Manager the best for scheduling but it doesn't seem to have a student login and we have to have a student log in, printing is not going to work.... I'm almost thinking of going with it anyway and just letting the kids log into the main planner part to mark off and enter grades. Does have some kind of student log in so I just need to figure it out, lol.

Never but DH works the 12 hour night shift so when he gets up I'm either just finished making dinner (so he can take it for lunch) or still cooking. I've adjusted and it's normal for us now.

I have a family member who sounds very similar. The more you do the less appreciative and ruder (not quite the word) critical may be better. It's a manipulation technique in the case of my family member. They see me being nice and wanting to help them and somewhere in their brain they either can't take it for what it is or think they have to be shitty to get me to keep giving them "things/time/love" (not DH or kids, so no day to day). I think your plan is the exact right thing to do, good luck.

DS really likes Thinkwell, especially for reviewing or in addition to another program.

Education Exploration Advanced might work. Some consider it light but the publisher says it's high school level.

Thanks, I spent several hours looking at all the choice (except HSTracker since no free trial :glare: ) and decided Homeschool Planet is too difficult for me to figure out... computers/programs and I usually don't get along. Seriously, I tried for over an hour trying to input DS's math and could never figure it out, I was about in tears. I like HS Manager the best (it's really easy) except it doesn't have a student login. I think I'm going to go with HS Minder which is similar to the other one except it does have a student log in. The thing it doesn't have that HS Planet does is that students can not input their own info. I'd like if the kids could enter their own grades from online work or stuff they self grade.

The kids and I occasionally will eat dry spaghetti if I am making pasta, more so when they were younger.

I've decided after going through several different paper planners over the years (purchased and homemade) that we really need to get online (should save me a ton in ink and paper). I'm looking at Scholaric, HST+, HSP, HS Minder, Planbook, and HS Manager. I'm having a lot of trouble determining if they have what I want and while most have a free trial I'd love if someone could help me whittle the choices down a bit. What I want: 1. a drag and drop calendar with a simple title to assignments but can access a more detailed lesson plan-instructions. 2 I want my students to be able to access the planner to get their daily assignments and to be able to mark off when done (so the access to detailed instructions is very important). 3. I'd like to be able to link web pages and videos directly in the planner so they can watch/read (this is the #1 reason paper no longer works) 4. I want a grade book where I can list assignments that have different point values 5. it needs to be somewhat easy to navigate because I hate Technology that causes my bp to skyrocket (but I'm willing to compromise on this one, lol). 6. I'd like it to be reasonably priced per month... around $5 but I'd pay more for something that works really well. Suggestions?