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I knew early on when I had a tubal reversal in 2001 that I would have early menopause. I went on to have 2 babies my surgeon didn't think I would have.
I didn't notice anything at all until just after my 41st birthday. Then my cycles went nuts, 19 day, 28 days, 13, days, 12 days ( I was always exactly 28 days before ). I was on edge, easily irritable, felt like crawling out of my skin. Hot flashes, my electric bill doubled. Insomnia.
Then it was over.... my doctor back then wasn't lying when he said it would be early and most likely rapid. My next cycle was 70 days. Who knows what is next, but I don't have any of the earlier symptoms, except the insomnia. I alternate sleep aids. And wait for the next round.
These are about the exact same symptoms my mom had, except that she went through Menopause over a 10 year span. I feel lucky in a way, this seems pretty easy compared, I am sure my story is almost ended.
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After reading the rest of the posts I am guilty of giving too much information about why we hs.
I know why I do, too - the Tourette Syndrome. It is difficult not to see and hear the TS and I don't want that to define DS so I usually state how smart DS is. Over compensation on the part of the mom.
(hanging my head in shame)
Hold your head high mom. You are doing the best for you son. I think all kids are bright, some just pull harder than others. I know my 18 year old would not have accomplished half of what he did, if I hadn't homeschooled.
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If the wrinkles are soft, I'd hang it in the bathroom while I took a shower without the exhaust fan going before I tried anything else.
Jean
I was wondering if that might work. :001_smile: Great idea.
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LOL over 2 hours of my life I will never get back!!!! Thanks for letting me know it was down hehe. Restarted, and it says now it will only take 3 hours. Will leave it for overnight.
5.44 KB per second, blazing now. I HATE DIAL UP !
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I think you just took down the peacehillpress.com site, lol! It is down now. That could explain the slow download. Their server has always been very slow for me. I've downloaded SOTW AG, as well as Writing With Ease student book, and it takes soooo long that it took me a few days to successfully get the downloads. We have DSL in the mountains.
It is a good thing I wrote blog posts in advance. I am good till Wednesday !
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I think you just took down the peacehillpress.com site, lol! It is down now. That could explain the slow download. Their server has always been very slow for me. I've downloaded SOTW AG, as well as Writing With Ease student book, and it takes soooo long that it took me a few days to successfully get the downloads. We have DSL in the mountains.
It wouldn't suprise me, with my luck lately hehehe. Goodness, see ya next week on this slow connection I have. JOY ! JOY ! JOY !
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The PDF file for SOTW 1 Activity Guide is 59,546 KB.
Thanks Angela. One of the downfalls of living so far out in the country is dial up LOL. I have been looking at this file download for 2 hours now, wondering if it will ever get done. Maybe I will just check it in the morning. ;-)
But being as I am going to use it up to 6 times, the file will be very handy. So I will suffer through.
I am hoping for better internet next year, or I may have to move closer to town.
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We have the Textbook, Activity Guide, Extra Student Worksheets PDF, and the Audio CD's are in the mail. I plan to do an abbreviated version for the next two years. Listening to the chapters on the CD, and coloring the maps, following along on a wall map with my son. Adding in the easy books that are suggested. Maybe doing some of the easier activities.
Then in 2 years we will start again with SOTW and do all the work in the Activity Guide, and the readers that we more difficult adding in the readers already done. So my son will be exposed 3 times, the first audio, then in 1st, then again when his sister does it about 2 years later. We are focusing on overview and geography to get the bigger picture.
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Does anyone know how large the PDF for the student pages SOTW 1 is ?
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LOL I might read Pilgrims Progress at http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/ for TWEM yet, well listen to it. Now where is Don Quixote ( I read it already but didn't take notes ), I could use an audio for the second reading hehehehe.
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Hang it up, perhaps on a shower rod, and hold your iron vertically, not really touching the fabric, with your steam setting on high but temp as low as it can be to make steam. Just move it down the fabric, and the wrinkles will fall out.
This is how I iron all of my delicate clothes. Or non-delicate clothes when I am just too lazy to set up the ironing board.
Terri
Hey !! Now that sounds like a deal ! I might try that if they don't fall out in the next couple of days. I have read you can steam, but I am afraid to touch it hehehe.
Thanks !
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On the subject of the children dragging us along in their eagerness to learn, I used to worry that I was trying to cover too much material and do too many things in a day. My son would look up at me at the end of our day and ask, "What else, Mom? Let's do some more!"
For now, I'm just trying to enjoy the ride!
I learned these lessons, thankfully, many years ago with my now 18 year old. This second time around is so more relaxed !! I will follow his lead, no matter what anyone thinks. The ball is in his court.
Enjoy it while you can, they will be teens soon, and most likely it won't be as easy then. :001_smile:
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LOL That's what I am thinking, she had it made in Japan and shipped here, I don't think I dare mess it up. Even on polyester setting and a towel between. I would croak if something happened. heheh
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Can I iron it, HOW ? There are very soft wrinkles in it. Nothing hard set as it was just made and shipped straight to me. Or must I take it to get dry cleaned ?
TIA
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I have a stand that you put sheet music on, that way I can read while folding clothes, washing dishes, eating, while on here answering you LOL etc.
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We are going to do a geography with a wall map and on the maps in the Activity Guide, as we listen to SOTW CD's 1-4 over the next couple of years. Not real detailed, as we will start SOTW really in 1st. It will give an overview without to much work.
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my dh says that if you were really THAT concerned about safety, you wouldn't be publishing anything about yourself on a blog. If someone really wants to find you, they will. i use first names in my blog, but then again, no one reads it.
:D I am no one, geez and I thought I was someone...... hmmmm.
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I have three older children who did Saxon K - Calculus. They all scored very well on the SAT's. I have a second chance with little ones now, I will be adding in some other stuff with them. I will not however get rid of my Saxon.
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I just finished correcting my 10yo's textbook review from 4B of Singapore Math. Ugh.
He got nearly all the fraction review problems wrong....all the estimating problems wrong. and is consistently getting problems involving the calculation of the passage of time wrong.
I just want to cry. I feel like we have to go back and practically redo all of 4A (we used it last spring).
I have to look on the bright side....with homeschooling I have the ability to slow down, re-do, and teach to so that my son learns something. If he were in government school (or even private school), he'd be left behind.
But, really I just need a hug. I feel like I've failed him.
Thanks.
I have not read the other responses. But you have not failed him. You don't know how many times in the last 20 years, I have had to back up and revisit something with my children. It really is a blessing that you are paying attention and can catch these things before they get out of hand. He is lucky to have you !!!!
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I get ideas from Tot School blog. 1plus1plus1equals1.com/TotSchool.html
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Actually, I think hsing is becoming more and more mainstream. As more families opt in and out of psing and hsing, it becomes more familiar to everyone. I think this has already happened in my part of Texas because there are so many hsers so lots of people have met one. As hsing becomes more normal, I think it's less likely to be challenged. It's easy to try to suppress a fringe movement that few people have heard of and whose members they've never met. It's harder to convince people to rescind a well established right, at least as long as no hser blows up an airplane or shoots up a post office. If something like that happened, we'd probably face a lot more government oversight.
I agree, I also see the schools moving more towards lessons on the computer. There will always be schools, but I can see more kids working from home as latch key kids too.
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I use my kids names, for the simple reason that I have been on the internet a very long time. Anyone can find me, I have researched genealogy for years.
But if anyone ever wanted to mess with my kids, they would have to face my momma bear temper, and 45 caliber gun. ;-)
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I was one of the jailed, along with my step daughter ( juvenile hall ) in the early 1980's in Texas. She was a truant, and I would not force her to go to school. She left school in 8th grade, she was adopted a few years earlier, and couldn't do basic math and read at a 3rd grade level. A couple of years before the Austin Tea Party and Arlington vs. Leeper. We were proud to be on the front lines, and are still proud today. I would not put my children in school, I would do whatever it takes to fight again.
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I am not sure mine is always coherent, it does have lots of pictures and small posts. Sometimes I prewrite many posts....... so on days when I can't get to it, they just happen to be there LOL
Ok, now what?
in Accelerated Learner Board
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All you can do is meet each child where they are. If one wants to move ahead in math, or science by all means let them. It is easy with these children to do the basics, but follow the interests too. Talk to them, get their opinion of what you are doing, and see if there is something else they would rather do.
They are the same children !