I remember having guinea pigs growing up. The work wasn't all that bad and they were very hardy. We carried the poor creatures with us everywhere and dressed them in doll clothes. :D Hope this helps!

Warick can't survive the shot. If he did he would tell Grisom who the real mole is. Never liked the under-sheriff....but never thought he was the mole.

I was quite pleased using Saxon all the way through high school. The kids enjoyed math all the way through as much as you can enjoy math and be a teenager. My son refused to change programs when he reached the higher levels of math. My daughter tried a couple others only to come back. She liked the consistent spiral review.

My kids loved them! They are well worth the investment. And after reading what others said about the computer version, I would definately go that route.

I just learned to answer to every prounuciation of my name. Now I hated my last name growing up....Krebs. I was tease so very much.

My dh gets them in trouble. Like the time he said he wanted to play tag with them. He was it and hid on the roof. When they went by he jumped off and ran after them. Needless to say, I had to watch them after that.

My son just finished the book. But I had him watch a version of the movie two months ago knowing the book was coming. Since he remembered the movie ever so slightly, it made it easier to read the book quickly. Upon finishing, he wanted to watch the movie again. This made it easy for me to assign a paper comparing the two.

I would remail the whole thing, cover letter and resume. If anyone asked, I would explain the mistake.

Just keep plugging at it. It sounds like you have a good plan. Sometimes it takes kids a while for it to click. I can not tell you how many times I changed programs until I found something that worked for me and my kids.

I was born in the late 60's but my mom didn't breastfeed me. It would have stunted her social life. :D

I am so glad this question was asked. Saved me from asking it.

OH....I was totally floored. Parviti did play a better game though. I just thought enough people liked Amanda enough to vote for her. I do not think she would have done any better against Cirie though.

I dito that. It will make it much easier on you if you do one history with all three. My two enjoyed working together.

My hubby just wants all of us to go sailing with him. Is there a hobby that yours would like everyone to participate in for the day?

I just deposit MO in the bank, then take cash out of the ATM. It is easier.

My daughter also just stands in the shower with out washing anything. When I asked her, she told me it was because it was the only quiet place to think in a house full of people. The forgetting what you ask, I get that with both of my teens and with the youth group at church. They are usually thinking about things and are not listening carefully. That is what I have seen in teens around me. Hope this helps.

I look at the books and decide how long I want to spend on each topic based on the interests of my kids. Then I decide what we will do each month, then week, and finally each day. In the end I have a colmpleted lesson plan for the whole year. Yet, I only schedule for 150 days. This allows me to plan 30 or so days. This allows ample time for sick days and field trips to WalMart to practice our consumer math. :D It usually takes me about a month to figure our plans for the year, but it makes the year a lot less stressful to me. I just have to look a week ahead of time to see the topic and a list of items needed to complete the lessons.

Before your student starts Spelling Power, they take a couple spelling tests. This allows you to place them in the correct list. The lists consist of one sound. The first week the lists are usually really easy for the student but as you progress the words become more difficult. The key to learning the words is daily test followed by kinestheitc activities to practice missed spelling words. If this doesn't seem to be your cup of tea, you might try sequential spelling. I liked that this program had long lists for different chunks found in words. (in, fin, begin, beginning) This allowed me to use the same chunk with both students but to give my natural speller harder words. Hope this helped.

WOW!! This is so very exciting!! I truly cannot wait for it to come out. I will be telling the families at the library to look for it.

GO Charlie!

As strange as it sounds, his ex-wife introduced us. We have not been apart since. 18 years later we are still together and happy.

That is when I go hide in the bathtub for an hour or two. If the music is loud enough you can't hear the kids.;) When I get snappy it is usually cause I have not relaxed enough. So a bath work for me.

I have 4 email accounts I check daily. Each gets around 100 emails a day. Only about 15 of those are not spam.

LOL just started replying to lots of polls. Anyways with 10yrs homeschooling, surely you have advice for the rest of us novices.