We are enjoying spelling (How to Spell, but I think he would enjoy any program) once we decided to drop ETC and OPGTR, which was NOT enjoyable. He will put away all the dishes in the dishwasher in exchange for another spelling test. :001_huh: Also popular are the Story of the World activities - especially painting his own hieroglyphic messages and reading the Ludmila Zeman books about Gilgamesh. Starfall and XtraMath are big hits, too.

I've never had that happen to me. Lately, it wouldn't even be possible. My son unloads from the foot of the cart, and I unload just the front basket, so we take up the whole area anyway. I think it's rude. The "offender" doesn't get checked out any sooner.

I don't see how it uses any extra water/energy to throw it in the dishwasher with the other silverware, so I usually do that. Now, if the dishwasher is empty (because all the dishes are clean and put away) and I cut myself a piece of bread, I am likely to just wipe the crumbs off and put the knife back in the drawer.

I've never filed a claim with Progressive, but I did have to file with Geico and it was a total nightmare. I ended up having to pay my own medical bills out of pocket (well, I am still paying, LOL). My coworker was in an accident recently and unable to get them to pay claims either. I've heard all kinds of stories since then. Apparently they spent all their claim-paying-funds on idiotic gecko commercials. I have never heard any complaints about Progressive paying claims. ETA If either Geico or Progressive has a local office where you can deal with real people (and even have an actual agent), I would choose that option.

I have used both, and Robeez seem popular, but I don't see too many people using babylegs.

I think this is a good faith issue. The vast majority of stores would have been happy to exchange it, and most would have allowed you to refund it as well - policy or not. The general rule is "make the customer happy" with a few rules in place to keep people from getting away with dishonest nonsense. I know what my husband would do... he would bring in the OTHER $2500 worth of merchandise and say "fine, I'll keep the pillow... but you'll have to refund me for this stuff, because I'm buying it somewhere else."

We have activities on Sundays, but nothing that would require us to miss church.

1B it is - thanks so much!

I have been looking at Math Mammoth samples and can't decide between 1B and 2A to start. I'm leaning toward buying 2A and then if it's a mistake, I can go back and buy the previous book. Still, I know there are parents who have probably made this same decision, so I thought I would ask. Horizons K will be ending with double digit subtraction and addition - no borrowing or regrouping. He understands the ideas of addition and subtraction and can figure the problems out mentally, with abacus or fingers, using a number line, vertically, horizontally, in word problems, whatever. His math facts are still a work in progress. The other concepts- money, time, measurement... I am not so worried about being in the right book for those.

They generally handled it well, but occasionally would talk for me, or share things which I assumed were private, which I found mortifying. i.e. "Oh, yes I've heard ALL ABOUT YOU! Hwin talks about you ceaselessly!" When I really hadn't, or if I had, it was supposed to be something privately shared with Mom, and not shared with the whole world. I was more likely to want to keep my thoughts private, so even if it wasn't something awfully embarrassing, I would have liked Mom (because really, my dad was never guilty of this!) to keep it to herself. On the flip side, she never enabled me, either, by handling things for me because I was too shy to talk to someone. If I wanted to sell Girl Scout cookies, I had to knock on the door myself. If I wanted to buy something at the store, I had to march up there and pay. I now appreciate that.

A small loan paid back over a few months will help establish credit. It stinks because then you are paying interest for it, but it worked quickly for us.

I shower for a long time, I voted 20+ but it's more like 20 even. Showering is how I wake up in the morning to get going for work, and it's the longest part of my morning routine.

The middle of the earlobe is generally going to still be the middle of the earlobe but since a baby's earlobe is so tiny, it's usually a little farther away from the face than the middle. Yes, you can tell on some people. I don't think most people regret it, though. I can't speak for the grown women who were pierced as babies, since I'm not one, but I have pierced many, many ears, and many of them were 2nd or 3rd holes (because that was popular back when I used to work at that cheap little jewelry store!) and I would ask when the first hole was pierced, so I've had hundreds of conversations about earring hole placement LOL :tongue_smilie:

My son is/was a sightreader in spite of my best efforts, but is learning spelling phonetically. He continues to get better and better at learning the rules of reading and writing, so I haven't found it be the monumental task that I feared it would be. i.e. that I would have to undo all the "damage" from his sightreading... there really wasn't any damage.

I wouldn't get it done on a baby. Even if there was no other reason, you're just going to get a better piercing on a non-wiggly, bigger earlobe.

I hope your husband is more comfortable with confrontation than you are, because this is a weird situation! I live fairly close to my parents' and I wouldn't dream of just borrowing their stuff without asking, or hanging out at their house when they weren't around (unless, I guess, my car breaks down in front of their house lol). Would they care? Would they say no? They would not have a problem with it at all... it's just rude not to ask.

I prefer having a landline - we have a prepaid cell phone for emergency purposes. We actually dropped the landline for a while, but it wasn't any cheaper, and we don't get great reception in this area. I also just don't want to be accessible 24/7.

As far as I know, he did not ask. I was 19 and we were living together. We had already had conversations where I had been a bit snarky about women who take their husbands' names, so I think he understood quite well that I would have been offended. Now that I've mellowed with age, I see where it can be a sweet gesture. (If all is well and the fiance-to-be can 100% expect to get the future-father-in-law's blessing...)

We have motion sensor lights, and my husband is a night owl, which means there are often inside light on past 1AM. We leave our car unlocked and were one of the few people on our street who weren't robbed when a group of teens went on a stealing-stuff-from-cars spree. I think the lights get the credit for that, but if my hubby was up playing Call of Duty with the windows open, then perhaps they were deterred by the sound of gunfire and cursing. Yes, we try to remember to lock our cars now - it's a hard habit to learn when you live in such a small town.

If no one is being straight with you, maybe call the fire department? I would definitely have a carbon monoxide monitor in that room.

My family lives very close by, so it's more like a day here and a day there - but that adds up when you are talking about every week. It also was getting frustrating to always be rescheduling my lesson plans. I would never deny him his grandparents, but I do have times blocked off. Well, blocked off unless it's a REALLY good alternative to schooling ;) In your situation, I would keep school going during their visits, but keep it as basic as possible. If it's only 2hrs a day, is that really hurting their quality time?

Starfall is like crack for my little guy. ETA I meant that in a positive way.

I would just go in anyway. Politely. I have declined to follow a lot of policies by simply saying "I understand. But that doesn't work for us. Sorry." FTR both the orthodontist I went to as a child, and the pediatric dentist my son goes to now have rooms with 4-5 chairs on them, where a bunch of parents are sitting with their kids, and children are all getting their teeth cleaned/examined at the same time. Probably a little dicey from a HIPAA standpoint, but it's about as transparent as you can get.

Yes, in terms of the child and family needing specific types of support. I have a son who has high functioning autism and we don't need a ton of extra help, but we do need SOME, and we definitely need extra patience and understanding from our church, friends, sport groups, etc.

I like both, but I tend toward cooking lately.