My husband is allergic to Penicillin, and that's how his starts.

A club sandwich. I toast my bread with cheddar and moz. cheese. Add turkey, ham, lettuce, Miracle Whip, bacon, and tomato. Dip in honey mustard dressing.

All my kids have been strong math students. I used ABeka Math with all four of them through 4th grade. After 4th I changed to Rod & Staff.

I bought this curriculum before they changed it to online. We loved it. The things we learned about the different artists seemed to stick with my younger boys moreso than other things I had tried.

I'd go with SOTW for your kids. I liked TOG, but I would use it with older children.

We've used Math 7, Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, and will be trying out the Pre-Calculus this fall. It has worked well for us.

All four of mine learned with ABeka kindergarten program.

The Landmark History of the American People by Boorstin. This was part of one of Sonlight's history programs. I found it absolutely fascinating.

My son has a blood sugar meter called the Freestyle Flash. It only takes a small amount of blood and he can prick the top of his arm. It gives his fingers a rest. Sometimes you do need to do a finger stick, but for other times it helps to use another site.

My 13yo son was diagnosed Type 1 five years ago. We received very thorough training while we were in the hospital. He's on an insulin pump now. I highly recommend that you find a good pediatric endocrinologist to follow up with and see regularly. I do know how overwhelming it is in the beginning. When they discharged us from the hospital I cried because I was so scared to bring him home. I know you probably won't believe this now, but it will get easier. Keeping blood sugars stabilized is a process. Don't go home and expect them to immediately stay within range all the time. There will be ups and downs because lots of things affect blood sugars.

My inlaws hardly call my kids and they're the only grandchildren they have. I understand about the hurt. Even after all these years it still bothers me. (By the way, I noticed we have the same quote by Jim Elliott)

I didn't know such children existed!

Keebler Danish Wedding Cookies (very nutritional :D)

I am the 4th and the youngest. I also was a spoiled brat. My mom said that after the first three, she and my dad were "just tired" and didn't feel like doing anything with me. I would like to say, however, that I am much improved!:)

We're going to use it this fall. We have used several of the TT courses. I'm disappointed that the CD lectures aren't ready yet to go with the book, but we're going to use it anyway. My dh (who is the math person in this household) had looked at Thinkwell, but was really put off by the price.

All my kids like this (and that's saying alot!). Their favorites are: Fruit Punch, Grape, Berry.

We're pretty selective in what we allow our kids to play. We absolutely don't allow the violent stuff (Grand Theft Auto, etc.).

We hung up those bags one year and I think we started attracting beetles from all over the neighborhood (in addition to ours). We did decide it just made the problem worse. I think you're better off spraying your trees and plants that they like to eat on so much.

I'm sorry, I'm trying not to laugh too much at your post. That just sounds like something that would happen to us. Anyway, thanks for the late night chuckle!!

I think the experiments with Apologia are a little more "home friendly." That makes it much more appealing to me.

We always used ABeka through 4th grade.

I use EG and supplement with some books called "Better Sentence Structure Through Diagraming." I ordered these through Rainbow Resource.

My 17 year-old ds has been at my inlaws in another state since the middle of May. He is working for my FIL (okay, be patient with me - I'm still learning to use some of these abbreviations:)) for the summer. My 16 year-old dd has gotten a full time summer job for the first time, and is driving herself, so I hardly have seen her this summer either. While I'm excited they're maturing and working, it has been kinda sad for me around here. They're my babies and it's killing me to see them getting this old and staying away from home more and more. I know, I know, this is a fact of life with kids, they do have to grow up sometime. I just miss them being around all the time. Do you think homeschool moms feel this moreso than moms that don't homeschool? We're so used to them being at home all day.

This past November we left our church of 15 years to join a family-integrated church. The youth group (and a very immature youth director) were the main problems we had with the former church. All four of our kids just felt "beat up" all the time there because the other kids treated them like they were freaks for being homeschooled. I know there's probably some good youth groups out there, but that was just not the case where we were. We love being where there is no age segregation. We are all in Sunday school together so we can discuss as a family what we learned that morning.

I had posted a few weeks ago that my husband and boys built a potato cannon they saw in a book called "Backyard Ballistics." I've got to say, this thing is pretty awesome! If you've got boys that love stuff like this, you should try it.