oh phew. I was worried I might be cast out for gross ineptitude.

I would riffle (short i) through a magazine, flipping pages quickly without really stopping. I would rifle (long i) through your drawers to swipe your pictures of Ryan Gosling in a kilt. Now I need to go and ready those links and see if I've just displayed a horrible lack of literacy skill.

I think I've shared this before on here: DD was a small baby, perhaps under about 3 months? Certainly under 6 months. I had paperwork to drop off about 5 min drive away, so I loaded my 2 year old in the car and headed around. I walked to the door, handed over the papers and walked back to the car. As I got to the car I glanced through the window and saw the empty baby seat. I had a split second "the baby is GONE!" Followed by a realisation that I had left her at home. I raced back home and she was still sound asleep in her cot. I did have a friend put her new born in a capsule down on my deck while she buckled in her sn, then hop in the car and prepare to drive away. I picked up baby and asked if she thought she might be forgetting someone. And another friend left her baby in the capsule beside the car and drove out of her garage (after strapping in her two other kids) and only realised when she looked back to close the garage door. I can definitely see how it happens to ordinary people - otherwise "good parents".

:grouphug: If it's any consolation my own little Aries (younger than yours) is off to school next term for similar reasons. Enough is enough. We may revisit when she's ready to learn, but right now I'm done.

I'm confused. How can a shirt be long enough to cover ones bottom if shirts have to be tucked in.

Regard these numbers as a baseline measure. And know that if they were in school they would be bewildered and left behind, and in no way learning and making progress along with their peers. Having them home with the opportunity for focused, needs based instruction is a HUGE advatage for them.

I hope you explained why and aren't just getting his hopes up :-) I feel bad for laughing, but I'm afraid I am. I hope doggy feels much better. Poor dolly... scarred for life I imagine.

my husband says they're dairy free he points this out in tones of glee

your poor mum :-( I really hope he gets dealt with appropriately

I would eat them dipped in milk I would eat them dressed in silk I would eat them all for lunch Once they're open I will munch I would twist and lick and suck I would eat them by the truck But 'cos of nut contamination I daren't, or risk asphyxiation Last time, tempted, that I tried My epi pen was quickly plied Alas, my lesson now is learnt Oreos must all be burnt.

We found it dense but interesting. It took us longer than both of the other pre algebra books combined. Definitely not a complete physics programme, but it wasn't designed as that.

I prefer it to the previous version. I waited too, but then I fried my hard drive anyway so had to get a new OS anyway.

yes, no problem, people mover driver. Sometimes I need to straighten up and have another go, but 95% of the time it's all good

I learnt in a manual and drove manuals up until we had to upgrade to a large car when we had the kids. Unfortunately they don't seem to make people movers with manual transimission. I MUCH prefer driving a manual car. Is it the same in other countries - here if you do your driving test in an automatic car your license is endorsed with "auto only" and you're not allowed to drive manual cars anyway.

love that book!

king - ee. Stan says so somewhere in one of the books. And cos that's how you say it :-)

I have one of those... talk you in circles until your head is spinning and there's no time for anythig you'd planned to do. ARGH! Her martial arts instructors have her pegged, but the trampoline coaches are much too nice. One music teacher has her sussed, the other one, not so much. This child has decided she'd like to try school. I cannot see this ending well for any party :-)

Mr 8 plays 2 instruments @ grade 3 level (exam on Tuesday!!) + music theory. He does 20 min on each instrument daily, 10 min extra on scales on odd days and 15 min music theory on even weekdays. Sometimes that stretches to 30 minutes if he's enjoying it. I can't imagine him spending much more time than that for a long time. *he often fiddles with the piano at other times, for fun*

darta and strarta both rhyme with carter but we don't hit the 'r' it's :-)

call and explain before they put it on the shelf!

DS did Miquon all the way through, and DD is currently in yellow. We started Orange when they were ready - about age 4, and they started Life of Fred when they finished Orange, continuing Fred and Miquon through until the end of purple when DS carried on with Fred + Khan and some local curriculum stuff (+ random stuff he finds). I let them set the pace as in how many pages and how often they picked the books up (I would invite, but not insist), but neither one asked to work in other books so I can't help with that - DD does flick ahead and ask to do different sections which is fine, but I do insist she does the section pages in order (so X 1 - 9, not X 8 then X 2 then X 1). I am happy to scribe or they wrote for themselves. In the very early days (Orange in particular, and DS mostly) we skipped page where it was obviously a long way below him).

:mellow: she is not on your side in this.

yes I could pass it, although these days the getting out without a ladder would not be pretty at all. Both children (6&8) can pass (I watched them doing these things today). Miss 6 would find the 25 yards challenging, but if she has to, yes she can.

MIL looks after the kids one day a week while I work. They usually do some kind of exploration (local beaches, walkways, etc) or at home experiences - baking, sewing, etc and then write it up for me. My mother used to but it was pretty much just "eat lots of junk food, watch TV and hang out and get Grandma to do it for you" if I sent any work, and we can't afford that time off now, so that doesn't happen.

that's totally untrue. DO you have STAR up there? http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/aqua/star/ I know of a 14 year old using it. They accepted the application I made for my son (that I accidentally le tthe birthdate off), but ultimately I decided not to go down that path just yet. The 14 year old received an application to study full time after completing her first year of Star. ooh.. math 199 is offered by distance. I should add - I took my first paper at 14 at your local university, then transferred down here. She's lying.