Also, if you are ok with faith based education,have you looked at Schole Academy. Please check them out. Excellent, excellent. Deep reading and discussion with a goal of meaningful assignments and not busy work. ETA: We are not Catholic and most of the students in DS's classes have not been Catholic either.

Omnibus is a ridiculous amount of reading. My kids are smart. Not average. Unless your child wants humanities to be their life and all they breathe and they plan to get a degree in classical literature or something, please don't. Just save yourself and don't. We made this mistake twice and my kids wanted a life and to, you know, do math.

I don't think so? But maybe? I need to look into it more. Would they evaluate him for this at the therapist?

I know this thread is old but I wonder if either of you tried this class? We love Schole and I'm thinking of putting DS in his class next year. I would love to know your experiences.

DS (9th grade) is super intelligent and a good writer, but he also struggles when answers aren't black/white, this might be why he loves math and is math strong. He is really struggling this year with some assignments for an online class. I know he has a decent reading speed/comprehension (he took the PSAT for this first time this year and literally made a perfect score for the reading section). He simply way, way, way overthinks open ended writing assignments, questions, or things like dialectic notes that are turned in. He spends far too much time trying to find the perfect answer. He is doing really well with the assignments, but they take him so much time that it feels like school is his life. We have battled through this for an entire semester. I've encouraged him, really pressed him to just get it done and not look for perfection, etc. He is just stuck in a rut with this and it is making my kiddo hate school. I found a therapist for OCD for him to try and his first appointment is in 2 weeks. What else can I try to help him with this? Any resources or thoughts y'all have are greatly appreciated. Thank you so much

Define replaced vs upgraded? We replaced all of our windows over 15 years ago and on the south side of the house (where the sun is very strong) some of them are failing. They are clouded between glass and it’s driving me mad. We are looking to completely replace a few of them with larger windows when we remodel.

Our 15 year old Windows are starting to fail and this thread is scaring me 😞

They don’t sleep as much as they’re supposed to and get a bit overtired at times. They usually take a decent nap in the crib in the mornings. Other than that, naps are hit and miss and not more than 20-30 minutes each. They sleep great at night with mama though so 🤷🏻‍♀️ I think they’re developing and eating fine. Great head control, tummy time is good, and they are strong. They are pretty quiet though. By now I think my babies were babbling more and putting together sounds like ma-ma-ma-ma and such. They don’t blow raspberries either. They make some sounds, just not like my babies did lol. It is so common for identical twins to have speech delays and researchers can’t figure out exactly why. So I chalk it up to this? They’ll get there in their own time. ETA: eating has been great ever since the tie releases

How many acres did you say it has? Just curious 🙂

We are having a structure moved from DH's work to our own property. They needed it moved, it is a very nice building, and they couldn't get anyone to pay the moving fees, so we're paying the fees and having it moved here. The driver will need to move it about 25 miles-ish and put it in place here. He will need two flagger cars. He said to have $2,200 cash on hand at delivery. We were originally quoted $1,200 a year ago when this first came up so it is already more than we really planned, but will still be worth it. It is a set fee for a job. I don't need to tip, right? or do I?

It is ok if they change but I think they will keep them. Mostly because they were dark and they changed on us. Also, they don't have brown flecks in the blue (usually an indication) and they just get lighter each week.

OR, simply saying "we need privacy, our daughter needs to heal" just fuels the speculation. People and media are vicious and you know that they have been torturing them for comments, begging for just a small interview....maybe this is their way of getting some peace. I love that you are so confident about what should be done or what you would do in these sort of situations. I have not a clue what I would do! I know how I would hope to handle it. The emotional load alone is enough to leave you at a loss or confused. Sometimes, if you don't speak up, others create their own reality in your absence.

Mentioning that there was a kidnapper isn't giving any case details. If my daughter was kidnapped (or I truly believed she was kidnapped) and she didn't have any history leading me to believe she was making it up and others were blaming her for a hoax, you better d@mn well believe I would drop, in passing, the mention of a kidnapper. Just to get people to chill. ETA: Nothing has been mentioned about this girl having a history of this sort of thing. She seems like a very together person. If it were one of my dd's I would be so angry at people for assuming this about them.

Idk y’all … I have no clue what happened but I’ll stand by my original sentiment - I just don’t get a hoax vibe from this family at all. I may eat those words later but my gut is pretty accurate 95% of the time. I guess we’ll know when we know 🤷🏻‍♀️

We have no idea if they’ll stick lol They started out brown and changed to blue and seem to just get more blue with time so it’s likely they’ll stay blue but it’s really a gamble at this age.