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Berta
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My mom is Doris. My friend has a daughter in her late 20's named Ida. My ex MIL was Idalia, but called Ida.
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We are 10 days into our new year and we are really enjoying Apologia Swimming Creatures and BJU Heritage Studies. This is our 6th year homeschooling and my first year down to just one child. :(
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My grandFATHER was named Irma.
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If you are considering something Christian, we love Bob Jones University Heritage Studies. This is our first year using it and we really like it. Granted, we are only a month into our 2014-15 school year, but it's been a hit so far. For science we are using Apologia Swimming Creatures which is another big hit.
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We did. We went from a 1200 sf house with a $2000 a month mortgage on a 1/4 acre to a 2000 sf doublewide with a $400 a month mortgage on 4 acres (which backs up to 100's of acres of woods). Our initial plan was to live in the doublewide while building a house on the back 2 acres. At this point we have no desire to continue with that plan. The doublewide is fine. Yes, it's cheaper looking, the walls are not sheet rocked but we really don't care. It suits our needs at the moment.
Ours was manufactured in 1999 so it's not brand new but it's not falling-down old either. If in another 15-20 yrs we decide we want something nicer, then we can move this one, sell it for what ever going rate is and put a brand new one up for less than $50,000 in a matter of days. For us, at our age (getting close to 50), and going from having four kids at home to two right now, and one leaving for college, starting to build from scratch, and all the time and hassle that comes with it, isn't worth it.
As for internet, check out http://www.hughesnet.com/ I think this is the company that can get internet by satellite even where there are no other providers.
ETA: There is no guarantee that your stick built house will appreciate in value. I always thought that was true until our stick built house in a very nice/pricey town went DOWN $100,000 in value. We were lucky that we had bought when it was low, before the prices went way up. We sold it 8 yrs later. If we had sold 1 yr prior we would have gotten $100,000 more out of the price. So do what you need to do for NOW, not 20 yrs down the road.
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Depends on what kind of a diet you are doing.
I do LCHF and my favorite snacks are cheese chips. Cheddar or provolone cheese squares baked in the oven until crispy. Add a little garlic salt on top.. yumm. Almonds, sugar free Jello with whip cream, Russell Stover sugar free chocolates always hit the spot (make sure you limit them, they will do a number on your stomach if you eat too many. Ask me how I know.)
Apples and bananas are not LCHF. If you crave fruit, stick to berries.
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I can sympathize with you. My oldest left and went to CHINA for almost a year. If you don't already have Skype, I'd highly recommend getting it. I was able to talk and SEE my son over the computer, which helped immensely.
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I feel like the older you are, the more appropriate they become. I LOVE an old lady that lives at the beach that wears terry cloth tube tops (or my favorite, strapless terrycloth jumpers!!!) And smokes cigarettes and rides in golf carts. She wears a sequined jacket when it gets chilly and always has on bright pink lipstick.
Its a whole lifestyle. It tickles me.
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Thank you! I showed her this thread and she is so happy!
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We just got back from a week in Florida at the AAU Karate Nationals. In March, my daughter won at the State level (NC/SC) and then in May, at the Regional level (5 states) and this past week she won first place at the National level!
She won the gold medal in Kata, and the silver medal in Weapons. She beat out other 9 yr old girls from around the country to become the National Karate Champion!
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I do them in the toaster oven. Once they are bubbly brown on one side I flip them and broil them again for another minute. No gooey centers.
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My niece is Avalon Erin. I didn't like it at first, but it really has grown on me as she is a beautiful little girl.
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Tessa
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We did our first 16 hour road trip (over 2 days) when my kids were just turned 3 and 6 1/2. We had DVD players. Packed little snacks that came out every hour. Game boys, phones, iPads, books, colors, audio books, etc are great too. We'd often making a point to going to a book store and finding some new activity books. We'd give each kid a map to track progress as the day went on. We stopped every 60-120 minutes (or so - depended on time of day and need for bathroom, etc) and did laps and calisthenics at rest stops. We made a point to stop for meals when we could. We've done many long road trips. We've also tried to find things to do en route - museums, national parks (junior ranger programs are awesome!), overlooks, quirky sites, etc.
It's totally doable and I actually enjoy it now. We just did a 17 day road trip to 3 national parks, a music camp for the kids, and I suspect 40+ hours of driving total. I get TONS of knitting done too.
This is how we travel too. We lived between two houses, one in NJ and one in SC. It was a 12 hour trip and I made the trip with my two daughters every 6-8 weeks for over a year.
We leave on Sunday for a week long trip and we are driving from SC to FL.
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My one son has autism and needed to be on a strict schedule. He is 22 now so I don't remember exact bedtimes but it was early. He needed not only the structure of a bedtime, but he required lots of sleep. Bedtime routine was always the same each night or else he would get all bent out of shape, which disturbed his sleep.
My older daughter living at home is 18 so she doesn't have a bedtime, but we do have "lights out" in the main part of the house time, 11pm. At 11 pm the livingroom tv goes off because it's on the opposite wall as our bed. My DH gets up early for work and can't sleep with the noise from the TV. So at 11pm she doesn't have to go to bed, but she can't be in the livingroom watching tv.
My 9 yr old has a bedtime. She goes to bed at 9pm. I need the down time and she needs the rest. There are days when she will disappear into her room and I will find her zonked out in bed already at 8pm.
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I'm in, I need some more accountability. I had lost 60 lbs a few years ago, kept it off for 2 years and then went back to my old eating habits, had to take several courses of prednisone and gained 40 lbs in the last year. I started again April 21st, my DH joined me two weeks later and two weeks ago 22 yr old my son got on board. I still have a good 60 lbs to lose. I have lost 11 lbs since April 21st. My DH has lost 18 lbs with about 20 more to go and my son has lost 9 lbs, with about 15 left to go.
We are doing low carb/high fat. We keep to under 20 carbs per day.
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I have always yawned when I read out loud. I don't know why.
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My house is my children's 'home' while they live here, but this is my house in a different way. I am not particularly authoritarian and definitely would not be in the crowd that expects to know where an adult is all the time (I don't strictly expect that of my teens). I want my kids to enjoy living here, and believe that requires mutual respect. I wouldn't have rules for an adult child that would differ much from what I would expect of any other adult living in my house. If my sister lived here for a while or a friend stayed with me for a few months, it would be the same. Just some basic things like 'no smoking inside' and 'no overnight lovers.' I would not want any adult to live here who stays out till 3:00 or 4:00 as a regular thing. Actually, I am an introvert and would have a hard time with an adult moving in at all. I loved having my son here for a year. If was a great year and I would do it again. But I wouldn't want that to be the permanent plan.
I am 47 years old, and I feel okay about my preferences in my home. Luckily, DH and I mostly agree on them. I love my kids and want them to be happy here, so I balance my desire for things to be 'my way' against my desire to have them enjoy being here. However, if push came to shove, I do feel that it's more my house than theirs. They can smoke inside in their own homes when they have their own homes, but they can't demand to smoke inside my house. They can have four dogs when they have their own homes, but I would not go along with them bringing multiple dogs home while they are living here. I probably would not use 'my house, my rules' as the argument, but ultimately, I guess there is some of that. It seems kind of mean to actually say it, but it is true on some level.
I think when my adult son lived here, he thought it was worth it. Yeah, it was probably nice when he got his own place and could have parties, music, women and dogs. But I think he enjoyed the benefits of living here when he did - the calmness, the food, the people who loved him, etc. I didn't feel obliged to let him have the privilege of living however he might like in my house, but he had that to look forward too and understood that having your own home is sort of liberating.
This is how it is in our house too. Yes, it's their home, but my husband and I pay the bills, make sure all their needs are met and yes, simple common courtesy is expected. I have three adult children, one living on his own, one full time college student who is home for the summer and one that is 18 and will be starting college, but living at home in the fall.
I do think adult children age 18-20 is much different from a 26 yr old adult child. My 22 yr old that is here for the summer has autism, doesn't drive and prefers to spend his time at home. When I go out somewhere I am the one getting texts from both the 18 and 22 yr old asking when I will be home lol, even though they know my schedule and know where I am. When I leave the house I will say to them that I'm taking their 9 yr old sister to karate, run some errands but should be home by XXX.
My 18 yr old daughter has her own car (that she paid for and pays all her own car related expenses) and is free to come and go as she pleases, but she will automatically tell me she is going to XXX. She will normally tell me that she will be home for dinner, or won't be home for dinner. None of this was ever demanded, but she lets us know anyway. The one time she went out with her friends after church and we hadn't heard from her all day and it was dinner time. Instead of cooking my DH and I decided to go to the steakhouse. When she got home and saw the take-home boxes of left over steak she said " I should have called you!! I want steak!!
My 18 yr old does have a curfew, she is in by 11pm. This has been her curfew since she was 15 and she has never asked to not have a curfew. She has never been late, never complained about it. The subject of having a curfew has not come up ever, so we figure we aren't going to say anything until she does lol..
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We have two of them. One is mounted on the wall (approx 3x4) and that has our lessons on it for the day. The other one is an easle, probably 4x5 and that is the one I use when I need to explain math. This is our 6th year homeschooling but the first that I have used a whiteboard. I really like it and don't know why I didn't think of it sooner. I'd love to have a large one mounted on the wall, but I don't have the wall space for it at the moment.
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Fresh Step cat litter is the only litter I will use now. It really does keep the smell down. I'd couch surf for coins to be able to afford Fresh Step.
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I use Deva low-poo and conditioner. I also use Shea Moisture deep conditioning mask once a week. I have curly hair and follow the Curly Girl method. I haven't used a regular shampoo in over a year and my hair is MUCH healthier.
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Or..... cook three pounds at one time and store it in the fridge. I just reheat a few slices when I'm ready to eat it.
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Hits: chucking the workbooks, the schedule, the scope & sequences, credits, requirements and actually stepping back and recreating my relationship with my kids... And teaching HOW I love to teach!
Science kits instead of science books
Reading and discussing like big people... Not over analyzing everything.
Focusing on writing... And teaching grammar and all language skills off of their writing.
Misses: CLE full program with their oversight. Shoot me square in the eye! I love CLE for math, la and reading, but really more for how it lifted dd's self esteem. Took us down a MAJOR bad time!!! Now, I can not even look at a light unit! Ugh!! Their history and science are awful!
We started out back in 1st grade with all CLE and I agree, the history and science are awful. The math is awesome.
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Sorry. I hope you don't think I was picking on you, I wasn't :) I was just commenting on the cereal because you mentioned being in a rut and eating it daily. That just stuck out to me because I have family members who make comments about the fact that we usually have bacon on Saturday mornings, and "bacon is so unhealthy", but they eat cereal like everyday because it's "whole grain" and "low fat" and therefore "healthy".
Even the "healthiest" cereals out there are not good to eat for breakfast, especially for people like me who have insulin resistance (and now diabetes). Cereal is all carbs, hardly any, to no protein. So when eaten in the morning, when you have been fasting all night, it causes your blood sugar to rise very high, very fast. For people with any kind of blood sugar issues, and I suspect for many others, bacon (nitrate free-imo) would always be the better choice when having to choose between bacon or cereal.
Chex and other cereals might be lower in added sugar, but it's still nothing but carbs, and turns into sugar once it is broken down inside your body- and without fiber and protein to slow it down, it will cause a blood sugar spike, unlike bacon and eggs. Bacon and eggs would not cause my blood sugar to spike, would give me more vitamins and minerals than cereal and keep me satiated longer- so I consider bacon "better" than cereal. Even though I wouldn't consider either one health food :)
Eggs seems to be the best for breakfast, but eating them every day gets. so. old. I wish cocoa puffs were healthy :)
Exactly.
It's been drilled into us that whole grains are good, fat is bad. It's the total opposite. "Low fat" usually means higher sugar or more chemicals. We do not need carbohydrates to live, but we do need fats to live. Carbs are the enemy, not healthy fats. The few carbs I eat (20 or less per day) come mainly from green veggies. When you do not take in carbs your body uses fat as fuel. Fat does not spike your blood sugar, it does not "make you fat". It does the opposite. My mom is diabetic and she stopped eating carbs and starting eating a low carb/high fat diet. She lost 60 lbs, went off ALL her diabetes medication and had the doctor sitting there shaking his head in disbelief when she told him what she was eating. Looking at her labs, there is no denying she was much more healthy.
If you were planning a 4 day vacation to Orlando over Thanksgiving break...
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We went to SeaWorld last week and loved it.