We are about to do this, and I have done it once before. Blech. I am prepared for the new ortho to say start over, but I sure hope not. Our current ortho is going to give us a refund if our deposit exceeds actual treatment.

:iagree: I know that many people successfully use steroid creams, but I have been suffering from topical steroid withdrawal for 2 years eight months and twenty-three days... Just be informed about the possibilities, OP. :grouphug: UVB light therapy and going dairy-free have helped me the most.

:grouphug: :grouphug: My pain is not too bad on the scale, but it is chronic. I got some good advice on this thread: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/564158-managing-chronic-pain-wo-medication-any-success-stories-tips/ Maybe you will find something helpful in there.

Lisa, we are about to move back to the states after five years in Europe. I am heavily involved as a volunteer here. I have already been on Volunteer Match loooking at my new city...because I can't help myself. But no boards for me, either!

Ugh. How can anyone call Lochte a kid? He is 32! This is not the first time I have had this thought: If I ever am the mom of a famous offspring, I will not be talking to reporters. It seldom goes well for the mom.

I think it took us six weeks including the Vandiver lectures. Maybe more because we didn't get to it daily. Excellence in Literature schedules it for one week. Not in my world, lol.

Since you have littles, it may not be practical, but...you could find out which local-nonprofits are helping women enter the work force. If you can put together a how-to-dress-on-a-budget seminar, you could get paid by the non-profit for presenting that.

Oh, well now I found this for Stitch Fix: https://www.stitchfix.com/careers/styling I did not think location matters, but perhaps it does. If they are not in your area, maybe a competitor is!

A friend of mine's daughter has your special talent, and she works from home as a stylist. She works for Stitch Fix. I think the money started out slowly at first, but gained steadily. I do not know all the details, but based on what I have heard from my friend it seems to be a real opportunity https://www.stitchfix.com/ I could not find anything on their web site about hiring, but I only did a quick scan. From Google search, I found this: https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Stitch-Fix-Interview-Questions-E783817.htm

Thanks, Lanny. I did not think it would be a big deal, but I wanted to make sure. After all, one of the benefits of building from components is supposed to be the ability to modify.

We are relocating from Europe to the USA, and my son has a tower PC that was custom built from components. Will it be a big deal to have the power supply/system changed from continental European to the USA system?

Critterfixer, is waterfall hunting as enchanting as it sounds?!

We have mixed feelings - buckets of them. But we have been here five years, and I think the timing is right for our family. My mom will be 80 next year, and I will be in a better position to help her if she needs it. Plus, our oldest son is in NC.

Hugs to you and yours.

We are on our way back from a road trip to Poland - (no, I am not driving!). We had tried to go twice before and had to cancel for various reasons. Now that we are moving, it was now-or-never. It has been a lot of driving, but worth it. From an educational POV, we prepared by watching Schindler's List. We went ro Schindler's factory in Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was educational and moving for all of us. Culturally, Poland totally rocks :) We start back with hitting the books tomorrow. And I have to face up to conquering the logistics of an international move.

I did not mean to imply that you would not empathize or that you would be harsh! I was just ruminating on how I try to strike a balance, and I by no means claim to always hit it. Personally, I like moving around. Being positive about moves is easy for me. But if I get too Pollyanna-ish, I think it starts to seem dismissive and/or lacking in empathy to the teen.

:iagree: I emphasize that the skill of starting over is an important life skill. New jobs, new schools, new phases of life...the ability to start over without crumbling is mighty useful. And my kids tend to be the ones to reach out to newcomers because they know how it feels.I do try to emphasize the positive, but still allow for the teen's negative feelings to be valid. For me, this is not a "get over yourself and suck it up buttercup" event.

Obviously, we do not all view moving the same way. I have no idea where my son will go to college; there is no reason for me to assume he will be close to home. For three years now, my three kids have been living in three different countries. The idea that homeschooling would help is interesting to me. Our older boys met people right away and were swept into activities at the school. Not instant friendships, but instant people. I am thinking that homeschooling is going to make it harder, but who knows? Ask me in six months :) At least there will be seamless academics. That aspect will be easier than plunking into a brick and mortar school. In my opinion, your 13 yr old has plenty of time to connect with a new community. Especially if you have extended family there.

We are moving in October, and my 10th grade son is homeschooled. He has chosen to continue with homeschool, and I am hoping beyond hope that he will be happy there. We are also moving to the place where we have extended family, so at least there will be some teenage cousins to jumpstart things. But we will live an hour away from those folks, so it will not create an instant social life. We have the added complication that we are moving from overseas, so there are reverse culture shock / repatriation issues also at hand. I do feel reasonably confident, though. We have a lot of moving experience (ETA although not as much as Amira!) :) Eldest moved between 8th and 9th grade, but he was not homeschooled. Middle moved overseas in his senior year - again not homeschooled. Both moves were, in the end, positive for the teens. But in no way does that mean that they jumped for joy at the idea of moving. There is always a risk, and you trade the known for the unknown. But it can work out splendidly, too.

I have been through a hard thing this week - telling my friends here that we are moving back to the USA. It was a quiet, recovery weekend for us and I spent much of it in planner-nerd-mode :) I am nearly finished making custom paper planners for both DS and myself. Today, I will work on setting up OneNote and I have a volunteer shift late afternoon. Also had a nice long talk with DS22 yesterday :) Am trying to help him plan/brainstorm about his next step - he will get his undergrad degree in May.

We did the Hemophilia case study from the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, and the Allele and Phenotype Frequencies in Rock Pocket Mouse Populations from HHMI. http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=634&id=634 http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/allele-and-phenotype-frequencies-rock-pocket-mouse-populations ETA: We also did a unit on reading scientific journal papers.

Feeling 90% recovered from jetlag. And we got our luggage back - yay!!

Nothing exotic! Miller Levine supplemented with case studies, a marine bio text (Castro), Bozeman Science videos and free HHMI materials. We did solid lab/field work plus a research paper. We read E.O. Wilson and Rachel Carson. And we talked a lot :)

I had never heard of ZeeMee until this thread, so I do not really have an opinion of it yet. But I am intrigued. We use Clonlara, and one of the graduation requirements is a portfolio. I wonder if this could serve that purpose...hmmm. ETA: Do you talk about your coursework or just your activities? Looking at the student samples, I am only seeing info about ECs.

Arrived back in Denmark yesterday after a month in the USA. I spent yesterday feeling like a zombie, but I hit my goal yesterday of staying awake until 9 p.m. Flights were fine, but none of our luggage showed up. :cursing: Hoping it is not actually lost...there is an out of print math book plus its hard-to-find TM in there. Our first official school day is August 10. On tap for today, by category: Basic To-Dos: Start trying to find movers to ship our stuff back to the USA Set up One-Note for 10th grade Set up Master Calendar for 2016-2017 school year Follow up on the missing luggage Self-Ed: Gild my Duolingo Danish Tree Read one chapter in my Danish novel Self-Care: Yoga Nap