I think 9 or 10 is pretty good.

Yes!! I am so glad that there is a significant gap in between our two batches of children. I have a whole year here with no high schoolers. I'm loving it! Next August we are back to having a high schooler in the house, but for now life seems easy by comparison!

I have an 8th grader doing algebra 1 with Teaching Textbooks and LoF decimals and percents. He just does one lesson of each every day. I also have a 6th grader who is doing Horizons 6, LoF fractions, Rightstart geometry and Math Doesn't S*ck. She does one Horizons lesson per day, one geometry lesson per day and then EITHER a LoF OR a Math Doesn't S*ck lesson per day. That's how we roll.

Yes, I think the writing formula it uses is very good, especially for writers who lack confidence. If they can just follow the formula for a few years then they can let go and write naturally. My now 18 year old struggled terribly with writing. She would stare at the computer screen for hours, type a few paragraphs and then delete the whole thing. I think IEW helped her and while she still had self doubts when she started her first dual credit class, she quickly overcame them and now she churns out papers at college and is making good grades.

My husband would not wear that if you paid him. Okay, maybe for a minute and if the money was significant, but not in public and I would not be allowed to take pictures.

My son was rough handled by a Boy Scout leader a few months ago. This was a very young leader, recent Eagle scout himself, who simply does not belong in leadership. He was a bully as a scout and he is a bully as a leader. We made a huge deal of it with my husband going so far as to say that if this young man ever touches our son again the police will be called. We were taken seriously because there were several BSA policies broken when this young man approached my son, alone, behind some buildings and out of sight of other leaders and boys, and physically picked him up and dragged him inside. (My son was being a pill, but this still violates BSA policy) I believe that if you checked into this further you would find that BSA policy was broken in this case as well. Those policies exist for a reason; the protection of boys.

I received helpful criticism from my oldest child. I asked him what he wished I'd done differently and he encouraged me to be tougher on his siblings. And so I am.

I am on a beta blocker and the first couple of weeks were rough, I was exhausted and dizzy. But those side effects were short lived and now I have no side effects at all.

All of our kids so far have begun working at 15. With our first two, we let them work way too much; probably 15-20 hours per week. With our third we kept tighter control and she worked much less. Probably about 10 hours per week or less. It's hard to say for sure, she mostly babysat and cleaned houses and such. But the schedule was more manageable for sure. During the summer between her junior and senior year she worked two jobs, probably about 25 hours per week and took a college class. That was pretty rough. This past summer she was on staff at Boy Scout Camp for six weeks. I think she is pretty well rounded. She did well getting into college and she knows how to manage money and what money is really worth in terms of the labor that goes into a dollar. She was able to work, do well enough in school to be one of 15 students accepted into the scholar's program at her college, play flute, volunteer as mentor to a child, volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center, volunteer on Teen Court, be in 4H (though not very well the last two years of high school) and help around the house a bit (though not by cleaning her room, ever).

My daughter took her first dual credit class at the CC the summer between her junior and senior year. I wish we'd started in her junior year. She was a bit overwhelmed but only because it was a summer semester course and crammed a whole credit into a month. It was a lot of ground to cover very quickly and the three hour lectures were tough.

I was still nursing #5 when I became pregnant with #6. I went ahead and nursed her until she was ready to wean herself.

http://www.reincarnationbank.com/index.html You can't take it with you, but perhaps you can come back and get it later?

That is an awesome facility if your troop wants to do their own thing. We stayed a week and had a blast. I assume your troop goes to Kia Kima Scout Ranch? Isn't that your council camp?

We are talking about more than s@xual needs right? I read it to mean emotional, spiritual, physical (other than s@x), and s@xual needs and/or wants.

Probably.

Gah. My husband is not expected to meet my every need. I am an adult, I can learn to meet my own needs or I can learn to live with some unmet needs. Does anyone really go through life with all their needs met? And are they really needs or wants, anyway? Maybe we should define needs and wants first.

I've never been in this situation, but my husband was recently. He called the police. It was in the high 90's and the windows on the car were rolled up tight, engine was off and the oldest child looked to be about 3 or 4. We would not leave our dog in that situation.:glare: It's really not THAT hard to take your children into the store with you.

I grieved for several years after our decision to stop having babies. I agreed with the vas, as pregnancies were getting so much harder for me. But I grieved anyway. I found that time, and tons of prayer, helped me let go of that and learn to enjoy the here and now without regrets. I can honestly say that God has lifted all that regret and grief from my heart.

I agree with the posters who suggested getting it done by a salon. I had both of my girls start with salon waxing when they were about 12 and I stood over and watched after clarifying to the beautician that we wanted a very natural look appropriate to their age. After that is was up to them to maintain it. As they grew older they both ended up going with a much thinner brow than I allowed at 12, but it is fitter to their young adult faces now.

NO WAY!!! What are the odds? I have a Hannah Shalom and a Justice Gideon. What are the odds???

Mpix is my favorite.

Great advice, thanks to all of you. I think the party pursuing reconciliation was looking to buy time, a few months perhaps. Certainly not years. This party has a counselor, a very good impartial counselor. The party figures this is prudent whether reconciliation becomes a possibility (to smooth that and make it successful) or divorce is the reality (to cope). I was not aware that lawyers gave free consultations and I will pass this information along to my friend!!

With these friends, the party pursuing the divorce left the house a few weeks ago. The party pursuing reconciliation is still in the house. The party that wants reconciliation has no interest in keeping the house, but does need a little time to find a place to live if the divorce does indeed become final.

We got my daughter's Ipod Touch at Best Buy. I can't imagine it would matter.

I need to gather a little information about divorce. In the case of a couple with no children when one party wants the divorce and the other does not, is there anything the opposing party can do to slow down the proceedings? Also can the opposing party require marriage counseling before the divorce is filed? If the opposing party is still residing in the couple's house (the party who wants the divorce left the property), how long would it be before that party must vacate the house if the filing party is going to receive the house in the settlement? This would be in Tennessee. No lawyer yet, just trying to get ducks in a row before the lawyers get involved.