What is note booking? I just started using EverNote as part of my Homeschool planner and I'm so in love. I'm intrigued by this idea that I could use it for something else

For me, three is easier than two. Again, it depends on the kids. Digby was a miserable sleeper, waking five to seven times a night. Chuck was a dream sleeper her first six months. It's busy now, but Digby had learned a little self control. Not much, but enough to keep me from crying everyday. Pigby is seven and a HUGE help.

I'm using the Homeschool Helper app on my tablet. Best five dollars I ever spent. I'm also using EverNote to keep track of somethings for Homeschool. Best free app ever. Many moons ago, I tried HST and a month of HST+. I was not a fan at all. The interface is anything but user friendly and intuitive. Homeschool Helper is pretty easy to figure out, plus they have several videos. I prefer keeping things on my tablet as opposed to my desktop or laptop. You can email yourself checklists if you like to have the physical paper in front of you.

I think I have about 20 on my Coursera list *sigh* You can download the videos, but that sounds like it would almost be as much work to organize as it would be to just watch the dang things.

They were any book that we'd tried reading before but couldn't get through. Didn't necessarily have to be a classic. I started out with Wuthering Heights, but that made me ill so I purposefully gave up and switched to Jane Eyre. That one was boring so I skipped to the "big secret" and just kind of flipped through the rest. I believe there were some Moby Dick, Les Mis, and Don Quixote in there. Oh, and an Atlas Shrugged.

Glad I'm not the only one. I find Shakespeare really boring Before I got the book, I'd been frustrated to the point of making pages for it in my notebook. Maybe I'll make a little video demonstrating how I use it and post it on FB. I'm a visual person, so while reading Mystie's book is helping me figure some stuff out, it's really really taking a concentrated effort to do so. Videos would be so much better.

Like any goal, it gets done when I'm being held accountable to someone else. So friends and I have a Charlotte Mason discussion group going on FB. That helps me actually read the words of Charlotte Mason. Another friend challenged us to read three books that would have been feats of strength. I got partway through one. Last year, I did buy LOF Fractions and Decimals and Percents books to work through. That was fun, though I only got part way through one. I gave up on actually earning a certificate through Coursera, but right now when the boys do quiet time while Chuck takes a nap, I watch some of the videos. My art one is really cool, the demonstrations more than the history lectures. I wish I were artistic, but I am one who gets scared of doing weird stuff, so I just stay inside the box.

Rosie gave me a nudge to come back and post some more :D All my thoughts today haven't really been high reaching. I went to a gluten free cooking class at the Bosch Kitchen center. The lady who taught is not as good as the one who used to teach. She made bread and pancakes. And all I could think were, "The GF bread and pancakes I make are better than these." But that seemed rude to think, so I just smiled and nodded a lot. And ended up buying a cutting guide for homemade bread. Dh was less than thrilled, but he's not the one cutting all that GF bread, now is he?! Also, on Lexi's blog, I saw a review for Mystie's book. (those are both the sn of people on this forum. I just don't know them personally) So I bought the book. It's about using your tablet as a home organization binder. Oh my freaking heck. My tablet was of major use to me before. Now it's even better. I highly recommend it. I got it off Amazon for the Kindle. Here it is for anyone interested. I am so not technologically savvy, but I'm floundering my way through to get some basics and even that is incredibly helpful. So that's on my mind. I'm also using her tips to organize my lesson plans on Evernote. I have one notebook dedicated to SOTW. I have a note for each chapter. I'm going to put all of the project ideas from Pinterest on there. All the books from the library that I want to use for those chapters. That way I can add or delete the good and the bad and have a record for when we do this again with Digby and Chuck.

What Rosie said.

I've been watching the children's nutrition and the art technique classes on Coursera. I've pretty much given up on ever earning a certificate, but watching videos is easy enough. We also like to get books from the Make It Work series. We just received our photography one today. DH wants to do some projects from them with Digby and he explains a lot of them to me. Those things are always fun to learn about

WWE could help, but I'll share why it didn't work well for us. Same when doing narrations with SOTW. Granted, my son is younger, you might not have the same problem. But for us, the passages were too long. He would zone out, I'd ask the questions, he'd have no idea, I'd read him the part that answered the questions, he'd answer the question. There was no real incentive for him to pay attention to the whole thing because he knew I'd help him after ward. With the method I described, there was no negative consequence for getting it wrong, but he got to say whatever he felt like, not just the answer to what he thought was a boring question. The first few days, he didn't even realize it was work. It was fun. But it got him in the habit of paying attention to what I was reading. His scores on his reading comprehension went way up. It was an oral test, so that might have made it a bit easier, but I really think it helped in the long run. If your son could learn how to do that, then eventually you could have him start writing down what he told you. That's essentially what WWE does, but you can tweak it as you need and go at his pace

Read him a paragraph, have him tell you what just happened. If he doesn't know (most likely because this is new and his mind will wander), do not read it again, do not give him hints, do not ask questions to try and see if you can help him. You want to get him to focus and pay attention. If he doesn't remember, say "try to play attention so you don't miss what's going on in the story." Hopefully by the fifth paragraph or so, he'll catch on. Practice this fifteen minutes a day. Use a fun book, not something dry and boring. If he hasn't read Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians, I highly recommend that one. All this is assuming he's a neurotypical kid, with no learning disorders.

A bell is what I was thinking. Our door is right next to his and always open. His door even drags on the carpet, yet there are times I don't hear him. I need something that will wake me up without waking the other two. Is it possible to have night terrors without their eyes being open? I'm really trying to remember what they're like. Most of the time, they seemed to be closed because he was just crying and crying and crying and completely unresponsive to any help. That seems to be what happened. At least what I think. DH opened the door and he ran because he knew something was wrong, but was so out of it he really seemed unaware of what was going on. Thank you everyone. I'm going to try to pay better attention and see if I can see a difference.

How do you go about "catching" them if they're sleepwalking? Last night happened to be an issue of DH being in the right place at the right time, but we've never actually seen him do it before. Do they always respond if you talk to them? He's always been my worst sleeper (waking 5-7x/night his first year), I'd always just blamed his eczema for bothering him. I wonder if it's possible that it's carried over? Or just genetic? Extended family members are sleepwalkers. Do you do anything to keep everyone safe? The door has a chain, so he won't be able to escape. I'm thinking of putting a bell on their door so I will wake up and be able to keep tabs on him. I do worry about him turning on the stove or something.

We've suspected that Digby is a sleepwalker. We've found him multiple times sleeping in the laundry pile in the hallway. He is most definitely a sleep talker. He has had very common occurrences of what we think are night terrors. I had always thought they were allergy related as he'd be screaming his head off and itching all over like crazy. And they've practically disappeared since we cut gluten and dairy. And they would usually occur between 12-3am, not shortly after he went to bed, so I'm not actually sure if they were night terrors or something else. There was one incident where I heard him close the bedroom door and wander around in the hallway. I went out and found him asleep in the laundry. There was one time when he was talking to me from his bed while I was trying to calm a crying Chuck (they all sleep in the same room). I could have sworn he was asleep, but he was talking to me. Last night we caught him peeing on his bedroom door. For now, I'm just going to assume this means he really is a sleep walker. When DH opened the door, Digby ran back to his bed and sat. I got him and took him to the toilet to finish. That whole time his eyes were opened and he kept saying, "Mommy" over and over again. I kept saying, "What? Yes? etc" but only got "Mommy?" I'm just going to assume he is a sleep walker. My question is, how do I tell the difference between sleepwalking and being awake if his eyes are opened both times? He does frequently come in my room and ask to sleep in our bed. He comes in to tell me that Chuck needs me. The other night he asked to sleep on the top bunk with Pigby and at some point decided to get down. He's only three and asking him if he remembers certain things that happened the night before isn't met with very reliable answers.

*IF* they are like this when you are homeschooling them, put the game away. If they'd rather roll around and giggle, let them roll around and giggle. *IF* they do this when they are supposed to be "doing school" start setting the timer for short increments. Five minutes of good behavior, five minutes of running around. Gradually increase the sitting still length. In our house, if they are disrespectful (and I don't consider wiggling and giggling disrespectful, just signs of little boys, but YMMV) they go to timeout until they're ready to apologize. When they are ready, they apologize, they ask again nicely or do whatever was disrespectful in a respectful way.

We considered it, but DH has a condition that while not dangerous, might have made it permanently ummmmm....not sure how to phrase this, permanently damaged down there. Now forget you ever read that. :D

Now you tell me! Oddly enough, it was the OB who discouraged it. I think he's seen too many people wanting reversals. Plus I'm young or something.

While pregnant with Chuck, I was considering getting my tubes tied. A friend told me about this, so I went to the Bishop. Poor man had the biggest, "Why are you talking about this with me?" look on his face. He even looked this section up in the handbook. Poor man. He said the decision was up to me and DH and we'd be supported either way (not like he'd go around gossiping about it, but that it wouldn't keep me from callings, etc) I told my mom about it and she was very surprised too. She and lots of her friends had all had their tubes tied w/o ever talking to the bishop. Never had it affect anything either.

I don't know about *all* businesses or even just because of Obamacare. DH had this happen when he worked overnights at Target (long before Obama was even president). He wasn't even anywhere near 40 hours, but they dropped him lower than 20.

Official LDS doctrine taken from the LDS website It is the privilege of married couples who are able to bear children to provide mortal bodies for the spirit children of God, whom they are then responsible to nurture and rear. The decision as to how many children to have and when to have them is extremely intimate and private and should be left between the couple and the Lord. Church members should not judge one another in this matter. Married couples should also understand that sexual relations within marriage are divinely ap - proved not only for the purpose of procreation, but also as a way of expressing love and strength- ening emotional and spiritual bonds between husband and wife. -Handbook 2 Section 21.4.4

In conversations like these, I can't help but be grateful for grocery stores! Oh my heck, I can go and pick from a wide variety of meat and produce not to mention all the luxuries. I thoroughly enjoy not having to butcher and pick my own dinner. Don't even get me started on the laundry

The biggest thing that's in the manual that's not in the DVDs is the mental math. I'd say there were about 10-15 per lesson, getting progressively more difficult. Other than that, I mostly just used the DVD

Crap. I find carp annoying, because then I'm like, "Huh? That made no sense. Oh wait, the poop, not the fish."

I'm no expert on medical events, but offering you hugs and good thoughts.