I offered my girls the opportunity to buy a class ring. Neither of them took me up on it. Now State girl is getting info from her college to buy one. She still doesn't want one. :-) But it got me to thinking, did you buy one? And if so do you still wear it? I bought a high school ring and a college ring. So did dh. I wore my high school ring until I got my college ring. I don't know how long I wore my college ring. But I haven't worn it in years! DH's parents even spent big bucks on his college ring - I think its 24 K gold. He hasn't worn it in years. So how about you?

I was driving our church youth once and the male chaperone had my phone texting with my dh. The chaperone called my dh sweatie pie and dh still thought it was me. We did it again last year. Same male chaperone with my phone calling my dh sweatie pie. This year when same male chaperone did it, dh finally caught on. (This male chaperone and I seem to end up in the same van alternating driving a lot.) I know I don't spell the best but I never call him sweetie pie!

I put an "X" where the grade was supposed to be and then an explanation. Something like: X= current or expected future class. I did go ahead and put how many credits I was granting for the class.

I'm sure most of us have heard this at one point or another But it's not just when they are little. I took two to college this fall. It's still true. I may not be rocking them anymore, but time spent with them is still priceless. My boys - well, dh and ds - went to an out of town chess tourney this weekend. I stayed home. I had a list a mile long of cleaning chores to get done. I think I did two. Instead I drove 3-4 hours to pick up both college girls. We went to a movie and dinner and ice cream. Then back to school they went. Cleaning can still wait. I'm spending time with my "babies".

Talking with my girls last night, my freshman was saying how everyone is on this online thing and announces parties. The first 2 weekends the parties were broken up by police, I don't remember if it was campus or town police. So like Thursday someone went on this thing and suggested/told everyone not to go because... Well, he got blasted, lots of "Don't tell me how to live my life!" Guess what, the parties were broken up by police again.

Sorry, I had to vote other cause it depends on if it's my parents or his. If it's my parents, my folks tend to pay or sometimes we split the check. If it's with my MIL, we pay. *We* have a better idea, no make that more realistic idea of how much money she has. It's funny too, most of the time she won't even notice that we paid until we get up to leave and she asks where the check is.

Thanks. I was confused cause I went to JoAnn's last week and found nothing. So I wasn't sure the others would have it. I want to start with small batches, see if I like it before I buy big and in bulk.

and want to go to a local store, what local store would you go to? Beeswax shea butter pure aloe vera gel unflavored gelatin The places I've found the recipes on-line have affiliate links. But I'd like to find it locally, even if it's from a box store. I want to go look at it, feel it. I just don't know where to even look. Thanks!

This is what I have found as well.

You know those "spiral" bound cookbooks your church sells, the ones with the plastic binding. I have several of those that people have given me over the years but the plastic on one is completely gone - it's being held together by bread ties. Then one other is about to go. None of them have the plastic binding complete anymore. How do you rebind them? Other than bread ties. Comb binding! I think that is that it is called. Ideas?

I'm getting going (again) on making my own natural cleaners and such. And of curse add this or that essential oil comes up. Trying to get it all in my brain and why this one and not that one is getting confusing. (Tea tree? I thought it said Eucalyptus. What's the difference anyway? Besides smell. And sure lavender is calming, but what else?) So a nice book with an overview but with much of the space devoted to reference. Easy reference. Thanks!

It was the only way we got through dd being in Germany for 6 months! Facetime every Monday! (sometimes) technology is awesome!

I did once. Well, sort of. I replied something like "That's why we homeschool!" I don't remember if it was the mom or the dad or both that liked it.

DD will have them this year. I think it's mostly for fire issue things. Like Creekland said. There may be some cleanliness stuff as well. She goes to a small Christian college. Personally I think it will be good for her. She is messy and has a home reputation for not putting things away.

I just use the calendar that came with the iphone. It syncs to iCal on my Mac. DH has access to it. I think we "share" it or something. I have different colors for the whole family.

A week before we took Campbell girl to school, they changed her classes - after I had ordered her books! They finally decided that yes, the bio 101 she took at the CC was good enough and put her in the anatomy class. (200 level bio class) It's a night class and met for the first time last night. She called while walking back to the dorm. The whole class was jr and sr. She is intimidated. Can she switch back? Yes, switch back, we're fine with that. What about the books? (I had just dropped the bio 101 rental off yesterday!) Yes, go to the bookstore, trade your books. But I already opened them. At orientation, they said they would take books back with full refund if you drop a class. So all seemed good. She will email advisor about switching, talk to an RA so she knows how to do it. It sounds like there is ONE day of drop/add. Today from 3-5 pm. And she has a class 3-4! (It's the add part. You can drop a class later.) Ten minutes later I get this series of texts: I sent an email to Miss G. Made her day as well. :001_smile: (Any high school moms looking at this, Miss G used Apologia for anatomy in high school.)

Our co-op started yesterday. You serve one hour and then Bible study or personal time the other hour. I usually choose a Bible study. I went to the Bible study, we go around the room and introduce ourselves including how old all our kids are. BOOM! I have the oldest kid in the room. I knew it would happen. I had my kids "young", but I didn't expect it to happen so soon. I'm only mid-40's! I don't think I'm the oldest mom, though. Just that I have the oldest kid.

My dd found this especially true among Americans overseas. Even more so with the Americans who were not legal in the US. (She was in Germany.)

Good topic Nan! I'm wishing we had talked before dropping them off. Gramma was in the hospital the week before they left. (As in she has been home a week.) It looks like she may have to go back again. She is that anemic. State girl will be fine either way. Campbell girl has a special place in her heart for Gramma.

Definitely not baggy. They are supposed to fit well, close to the body so that the pads stay where they are supposed to if you ever wreck/fall off. (Pads on back, elbows, shoulders.)

Is there any reason I couldn't just take the pads out of my motorcycle jacket and wear it? Instead of buying a "moto jacket" that is styled after a motorcycle jacket? I mean why spend the money if I don't have to? And still be "cool". Of course min isn't leather, it's a mesh/fabric kind of thing. And it's not all black. Black with girly swirls of color.

For the schools my daughters applied to, only one used the Common App, one that wanted course descriptions. I don't remember how we did it, so don't ask. Everyone got a hard copy of the transcript even the school using the Common App.

For course descriptions, definitely ask the college. I don't think I sent any for Campbell girl. For State girl I sent them to 2 colleges. When State girl was looking at colleges, one of the big state uni's told us not to include descriptions for "normal" classes. There is a usual plan for classes like biology, chemistry, algebra 1, geometry, etc. But our history classes and literature classes had titles like "History of the Middle Ages". They wanted a description for something different like that.

We dropped off my junior this past Friday. Then dh made a second trip to her school because she forgot things. Then we dropped off my freshman yesterday. That one was hard because she cried 3 times in 20 minutes driving down. Then was fine for hours until we left. We weren't planning to go back today for the medallion ceremony, but with the tears, we felt it best. (an hour drive each way) DH picked up boy from camp and I went to see dd. I'm glad I went. She is doing much better and I think she liked having me there after all. DH and ds were actually done soon enough that they could have gotten there in time (squeaked in the door at starting time), but dd said she'd rather us come next week for lunch or dinner - as a reward for making it through the first week. I need to keep remembering that she is not her older sister. If it takes baby steps, so be it. Actually dh was texting oldest dd (State girl) about her sister (Campbell girl) crying and State girl not. State girl's answer was something like "not on the outside". <sniff, sniff>

I would say you need more to go on. One teen does not make or break a program. It could be a bad day. Just because a family is "heavily involved" may mean little to an individual teen. One example is Franklin Graham. If there was a godly set of parents, he had them. He had his rebellious years. He now leads the ministry, but for years he was called a prodigal. You can pour everything into a child but they can still walk away. So don't throw away a whole program based on one instance with one teen.