My kids and I loved the movie. It is one of the very few movies that is not a disappointment after reading the book.

Microwave at 30% power for longer. If I do 1/2 cup of oatmeal with 1 cup water I microwave at 30% for 5 min. Works like a charm.

Doralynn Minda

My son just went in because he couldn't hear out of one ear--it was an ear infection. I didn't realize infections could cause hearing loss either. A couple days later he was hearing great.

Here is my question, and it could be really dumb, but it is something I don't understand. Those who vaccinate have protected their children against the diseases we are talking about, right? So why does anyone say that if you don't vaccinate you are putting other people's children at risk? You are only putting at risk those who have chosen NOT to vaccinate, not those who have vaccinated. But it is the pro-vaxxers that are up in arms about their children being at risk. Am I missing something?

A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears, Jules Feiffer.

What about baking 4 or 5 'cookies' in an 8" round pan and then stacking them with marshmallow in between each layer?

It's ok for them to memorize definitions without fully understanding them :) Grammar stage is for memorization, logic stage for understanding how all the parts of speech work together. When my daughter was in 8th grade I was memorizing these kinds of definitions with youngers and she chimed in, "someday you will really understand what that means!"

Wondering what my 'gravatar' looks like.

IRON!! I was exhausted with #3 and just thought it was just because of the pregnancy. My iron was super low, supplements made a huge difference

I LOVE my air. I have an external dvd/cd-rom drive I can plug in when I need it--doesn't happen very often.

Fleabusters. Saved my life. The fleas aren't immediately gone, because new fleas hatch. But every flea that hatches dies.

Let them play. I would just avoid screens.

I can't compare the two, but I recently got an Air (June) and I LOVE it! I purchased an external disc drive with it -- you just plug it in and go :) I plug it in at night and it is rare that I ever have to plug it in during the day.

Most Latin classes will use American order. My husband teaches in high school and he made the switch to UK. The biggest reason is that he uses Hans Oerberg's Lingua Latina and Oerberg lists everything in UK order. The biggest advantage I see to UK order in terms of memorizing is that dative and ablative (which are always the same in the first and second declensions and in the third declension plural) are together, and the nominative and accusative are together, so the nominative/accusative are the same in the neuter rule is easy to see. That being said, whatever order you use, if you know it well you will be able to function just fine in a classroom that uses another order.