The Soudan mine is a must do. They have 2 different tour options. A mine tour and a physics tour.

Molar pregnancy?

I'm curious as well. I see them as an advertiser in my Facebook feed.

Can you share your recipe?

Letters from a skeptic by Greg Boyd Surprised by faith by Don Bierle Both come to mind in addition to others mentioned.

The airport has volunteers as do nursing homes to be companions to residents. Kids at an elementary school could read to her, our locally schools have programs for that.

Yay! Happy for you!

Right, but the op was asking about enrolling in a charter school. Again, Anyone who makes a choice that is different shouldn't be made to feel wrong. Each family can research what is the best option for their family at any given time. If they don't research what they sign up for that is ignorance, not getting "sucked in".

I don't think it is fair to say that homeschoolers get sucked in. People homeschool for a variety of reasons. Not everyone is opposed to all things public school. The OP was asking about charter options, thus would know that a charter student is not a traditional homeschool student.

Here is some of what I sent to a friend. The girls are enrolled in the distance education part of the Worthington, MN school district known as VIBE. Harmony Education is the curriculum provider for them. Each student gets enrolled in 4 core subjects: math, language arts, social studies and science. For each of the core subjects you get to choose from a few online curriculums or choose their FLEX program. The flex program gives you $125 for the subject with the requirement that you submit a worksheet every 2 weeks. The worksheets follow the schools approach of a survey of subjects each grade. So with the girls, each had a worksheet or 2 at their grade level on plants, and a couple on basic physics/gravity, etc. They jump around and follow more of a traditional school method of covering a bunch of subjects a little bit each. You can mix and match, if you want to do science using an online option and then do the rest FLEX, that works, or any combo you want. If you do use FLEX, you can combine the funds among students and subjects. So for example if you spend $25 on math, you can lump the remainder into science and then have $225 for science. So, in addition to the 4 core subjects funds ($500 total) you get $300 for general education expenses/extras. We bought a bunch of art supplies. And you also can get an electives kit or participate in the options day. We chose Options Day. This school year it is weekly from 10-2:30. The kids have Karate, art, music and science labs. So to recap. If you do all FLEX option, you get $800 per student (it is less for kindergarten). And the weekly options day. You have to submit one worksheet in each core subject (math, language arts, social studies and science) every other week (18 days total per school year). 1st semester was crazy for us, but I have liked our approach so far 2nd semester of just doing worksheet after worksheet until we are done. My goal was end of January, but with my mom's health, it will be pushed out to a couple weeks into Feb. But once they are done, I will feel like I can focus on some things I want like Logic of English, Bravewriter, using some of our science kits, building model rockets and having American girl doll get togethers with friends. So if we continue with the program next year, we will do all worksheets ASAP to get them done and then proceed with what I'd rather do. We do come across some things like fractions for example that we just haven't hit in our math sequence so I just teach to the worksheet knowing we will come back to it when our math book says to. Le t me know if you have other questions

Alaska might. This year MN has Harmonyed.Com we do their flex program and receive some funds through that. Harmony is in 3 other states too, I don't recall which ones off hand though.

I learned 1 1/2 years ago. It is super awesome to have your kids shout "killed it mom" from the back seat and keeping track of how many times I did so.

The piercer we used was really knowledgeable about different metals. We got the captive bead rings almost 2 years ago now. My holes weren't closed but I stopped wearing earrings so at age 6 (the minimum ) and 8, my girls were pierced. Neither flinched buy the big one had to be held down for shots. Piercer all the way. Expect to pay closer to $75- $100 than mall prices though

That is fantastic! He is adorable!

Are you near costco? I got my girls dresses there pretty reasonable for my brothers wedding last year

We are looking into flYing delta for an upcoming trip, the cheapest option did not allow seat selection. The next level up (main cabin) does, you have to get further in the process to see the seat map.

We feed Fromm food to our yorkie

Happy birthday!

I am working on digital clutter currently. I have been tackling my email (deleting thousands of emails). And need to start on picture and file organization next.

Ours came down today! Excited for the new year!

laundry tree down (today or tomorrow) work on cleaning up files on the computer work on cleaning up my e-mail inbox make ninjabread men

Kids are outside playing in the snow. Dh and I are doing digital clean up and backing up of files. Not sure what the rest of the day will bring.

Ours will probably go tomorrow or Tuesday.

Thanks, it is still free!

We went and ours didn't have them...boo. Can you tell me how much they were there?