[Can Penicillin make you itchy? Is this the start of an allergy?]

I was put on penicillin for strep throat last week. I started taking them last Tuesday night. In the last day or so, I've realized I'm a little itchy. It started in the bends of my elbows, and then also the backs of my knees. There is no rash or anything, which I think is why I really didn't notice it at first. But then I realized I'd been itching for awhile.

 

I haven't been outside, or doing anything different or changed anything soap wise or anything. So all I can think of is the penicillian.

 

Anyone heard of this?

 

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

[What's your favorite homemade sandwich?]

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.

[Please Help Me Choose A Math]

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.

[Free- Meet the Masters- online]

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.

[Hello, I'm a new HS mom, looking for advice on history curriculum to use]

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

[Teaching Textbooks, the good, the bad, the ugly!]

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.

[What curriculum/plan/outline did you us to teach your preschoolers to read?]

All four of mine learned with ABeka kindergarten program.

[What is a good book for "ME" to read about American History?]

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

[Help please! Dd in hospital diagnosed with diabetes ketoacidosis]

We were in the hospital for 2 days, but most of that was in ICU and they had her on a insulin drip. Today, immediately after being discharged at the hospital we were expected over at the diabetes center for initial training. They talked me though tonight and we have to go back tomorrow morning, first thing. I will be checking her sugar during the night and am supposed to call if it goes to high or too low. This is scary because she is nowhere near being stabilized and last night her sugars were high enough to need more insulin.

 

Thanks for the tips on the Lantus. We'll try them tomorrow night. She did give herself her shots one time and she handled it well, but today her fingers were so torn up and so sore she couldn't even pick up the syringe. The diabetes center was shocked at the condition of her fingers.

 

The insulin pump sounds like a great idea but they want us to start with manual injections. As soon as we can we'll get a pump.

 

How long did it take you to get your child stable enough that you felt okay letting them go away part of the day. I am so afraid of low blood sugar and maybe no one would be able to help her, even if I did give them instructions. I just want to tie her up right now and keep her within arms reach and I don't think that is going to work for very long.

 

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.

[Help please! Dd in hospital diagnosed with diabetes ketoacidosis]

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.

[So sad...]

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)

[Who has a kid like this?]

My daughter (11.5) is attending a camp this week, which obviously means we've got to be up and out at a specific time each morning. I'm not terrible at this, but I'm also not the world's best. My daughter has already:

 

1. Laid out her clothing for tomorrow

2. Filled a reusable container with a plain yogurt/maple syrup mix and stuck a note to herself on the fridge so she'd not forget it in the morning.

3. Filled a water bottle

4. Packed up some potato chips and a few cookies

5. Knows what she'll put on her sandwich

6. Scrubbed out her lunchbox for reuse tomorrow.

 

I did not ask her to do any of this. It's just how she is. I think she was born to the wrong mother. :blush:

 

I didn't know such children existed!

[Comfort Food!]

Keebler Danish Wedding Cookies (very nutritional :D)

[What is your position in the birth order of your siblings?]

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!:)

[TT Pre-Calc]

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.

[Juicy Juice - do your kids like this?]

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

[Opinions on video games]

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

[Japanese beetles]

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.

[Our potato cannon is up and firing]

Oh my! Dh and my sons did this about 2 years ago. The cannon was kind of amazing - but they made it WAY too powerful. Me, being the nagging wife, kept asking dh to take them somewhere less crowded to shoot the dang thing off. Him, being the guy, ignored me. Until the cannon misfired and blew out the windshield on his car.

 

Hope your experience is more fun and your neighbors don't mind the random potato growing in their yard next year.

 

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!!

[Apologia Science VS Switched on Schoolhouse]

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

[What are you using for math in grades K-4?]

We always used ABeka through 4th grade.

[Easy Grammar question]

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

[I feel like I'm losing my two oldest children]

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.

[If you don't do youth group could you tell me why (much more inside)?]

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.

[Our potato cannon is up and firing]

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.