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  1. Very, very normal. I did about a year with a guitar teacher. He taught to play by ear, play chords and accompaniment, and read tabs, which is really more useful if you're playing any guitar other than classical. I already could read music from playing other instruments but I rarely do when playing guitar.
  2. Dh and I just had our 10 year anniversary - we started dating when we were both 17, dated through college and got married at 21. At the time I knew something about our relationship was different. I had dated a bit before, but always got bored with the guy after a few months. He was *different* - even my parents seemed to realize it. But that doesn't mean that I'll be crazy about the idea of my own daughter proclaiming everlasting love for another kid at 17. I would still try to advise wisdom and discretion, and not telling everyone about every feeling you have on facebook (thank goodness I had no facebook when I was a teenager, I'd still be living it down I'm sure!).:lol:
  3. I use this one usually but sub brown sugar for the white. It has a rich molasses flavor. Don't over bake it and you'll get a nice center. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pecan-Pie-II/Detail.aspx Ingredients 3 eggs 1/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup white sugar 1/2 cup butter, melted 1 cup dark corn syrup 1 1/2 cups pecan halves 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie Directions Bake pie shell at 450 degrees F (230 degrees C) for 5 minutes. Cool. Turn oven down to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Beat eggs and salt until very light and lemon colored. Beat in sugar a little at a time. With a wire whisk, fold in melted butter or margarine, and corn syrup. Pour into partially baked shell. Arrange pecan halves on top, broken side down. Bake for 10 minutes, and reduce heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Bake for 30 minutes. I also really like these bars - you can also use the filling with a regular pie crust: Pecan Pie Bars Ingredients Crust 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 cups flour 1 cup butter or margarine, softened Bars 4 large eggs 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla 3 tablespoons butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 1/2 cups Karo syrup 2 1/2 cups pecan halves Directions Preheat oven to 350°F. Prepare and bake Cookie Crust as follows: Spray 10 x 15-inch baking dish with Pam. Beat at medium speed the sugar, flour, salt and butter. Beat until mix is fine crumbs. Press into pan. Bake 20 to 30 minutes or until light brown. While baking prepare filling as follows: Beat eggs, corn syrup, sugar, butter and vanilla until blended. Stir in pecans. Pour over hot crust. Bake 30 minutes. Cool and cut into squares.
  4. I second trying Gap/Old Navy - those are the only ones I get my my girls who need slims. They also have adjustable waists. I can usually get the gap jeans on sale for $15 and the Old Navy can be as low as $10-12 - Old Navy is having a sale right now too. Just watch out if you're ordering online, because sometimes there will be distressing on especially the Old Navy jeans that isn't apparent from the picture unless you look closely. It drives me nuts, since my kids don't need any help distressing their clothes. :tongue_smilie:
  5. I just did this last week to try to prepare for the school year and simplify the weekly planning. This is about a month's worth of meals I know everyone in my family will like. I know its pretty different than most people's - dh is the opposite of a basic meat-n-potatos guy, and doesn't like to have the same thing often. I spoiled him early on when I was learning to cook and working through entire cookbooks (before children lol). I cook a lot of ethnic food, especially asian dishes. It includes easy meals too (ie hot dogs) - I will do one easy meal a week. So between these, eating out a few times, and trying a few new recipes, I have the month covered. Just for fun, here you go: Red Beans & Rice Kogi Korean Tacos Korean Spicy Pork Bulgogi Red Curry Daal w/ naan Taco Salad Chicken Enchiladas (red) Tortilla Soup Smoked chicken/pork w/ cole slaw & mac n’ cheese leftover bbq sandwiches/cole slaw Chicken-corn chowder Bah mi Vietnamese sammiches Sichuan Water Boiled Beef sausage-bean-veggie soup / french market soup chicken soup / asian chicken soup chicken parmesan pasta with basil / italian sausage tomato sauce fettuccine with creamy italian sausage tomato sauce Irish meat pies hotdogs chicken tenders /fries bean tacos pizza (with 5 minute artisan bread crust)
  6. We have the nightstands, which have held up fine for 5 years. They are pine, so they scratch fairly easily, but they're in a pretty low traffic position. I also have the leksvik dressers (because when I went to buy the matching dressers to my nightstands, the Hemnes didn't come in the antique stain) and those have been a huge pain - I'm always having to tighten up connectors and deal with drawers popping apart. However, for me its not too big of a deal, considering how much more affordable they were.
  7. Right now I have three sleeping in one room - dd6, dd4, and ds 3. Ds 15 months sleeps in the other room, although ds3 has his toddler bed and toys in with his brother, the baby waking him up at night was a problem. The girls' room has a bunkbed, and I just tuck an extra crib mattress under the bed to pull out at night for ds3. It is harder to get kids to sleep with more than one to a room, but in time they learn what is acceptable (as in everything, you have to be consistent with whatever correction you use). I let me kids read/look at books with little book lights after lights out, that seems to help keep the chatter down. If someone gets really crazy at bed time, I put them in my bed to fall asleep, then transfer them later before I get in bed. Usually this is the 3 year old. It can work!
  8. I have raccoon eye issues with nearly every mascara I try, except Neutragena weightless volume. Its pretty natural looking, you have to layer it to get a more dramatic effect, but it doesn't come off under your eyes, which is worth it to me.
  9. bare minerals foundation - mascara - dr. pepper lip smacker - DONE!
  10. I would consider that way too much to get everything done well, if that makes you feel better. I can't imagine being able to give the depth we want to bring to our academics, and have time for our kids to pursue interests on their own (not scheduled activity interests) if we were doing all that. I have a 1st grader right now who is doing piano once a week, and they want her to move up in ballet to the level where you have to go twice a week. We are asking her to choose what is more important to her, because to me, even aside from the expense, 3 scheduled activities in addition to co-op is excessive. I think she's leaning toward ballet, which is hard for me as a music person, but I'm learning to chill. :)
  11. Are you familiar with "overexcitabilities" in gifted children? When I read about these, it was like a huge AHA! moment - my dd6 seems to have similar quirks as yours. Especially the emotional and psychomotor issues are constant struggles - it helps at least understanding more where its coming from. Hope it helps!!
  12. I wouldn't skip 1A unless she is very comfortable adding and subtracting (including larger numbers) and has a firm grasp on place value - all of this is covered in 1A. If she's not comfortable writing numbers I might even start with Essential Math K-B, which does a lot of addition and subtraction. My dd did Singapore Math Essential Math K A-B when she was 4 (A went REALLY fast, B had a lot more meat) and then 1A when she was 5, and it worked out very well for her. I think its better to cover the material faster rather than to skip it altogether. If she understands it, it will go fast, because SM does not have a ton of problems to work through.
  13. Is there a reason you don't just want to start with 1A? My dd6 is now doing SM 2A - we started with SM Essential Math K when she was 4. I think 1A has a great approach to place value, adding and subtracting. It would make more sense to me to just do 1A at whatever pace she's happy with. I'm not super familiar with Saxon, but I think it follows a pretty different path than Singapore, and I'm not sure what it would add. I have a math lover too, but she also gets ornery when I try to push her to do too much (even though I know she's capable). I usually just leave up to her how many lessons she does at a time - at least one a day, but many days she'll zip through 3 lessons at a time if she's in the right mood.
  14. ditto - my dd 6 is doing the second grade book. She tends to zip through it, so the challenging problem book is great to go deeper. Also Singapore math doesn't have as much repetition as other math programs, which is great for the gifted crowd that gets bored with too much repetition.
  15. Just checking - is BSFU this? We used Real Science 4 Kids Chemistry, which my husband the theoretical physicist likes - but we zipped through it pretty quick.
  16. We have had a similar experience - mostly people suggesting ADHD and also anxiety because she tends to dissolve into tears easily. One was my best friend's FIL who is a school psychologist when she was 3 - that was one of the things that started me seriously considering homeschooling. I felt like she couldn't really be ADHD if she could sit for 2 hours listening to me read novels outloud, or learn to read at 3. Certainly one doesn't have to have these issues to be "gifted," there just seems to be a strong correlation between OEs and giftedness.
  17. :iagree: My oldest (6) has intense overexcitabilities, and I only recently read about these connected to gifted people. I was worried that she had some awful amalgam of OCD/ADHD/anxiety disorders, but she also works several grade levels above her age. It never occurred to me that she was "gifted" though (I read early and voraciously, and my husband is a theoretical physicist so I figured she had the math genes), but everything made sense after reading about perfectionism and overexcitabilities in gifted children. It also gave me insight into my highly gifted husband, who has just about all of the overexcitabilites in sometimes crippling force. In fact, they way that some of his matched some of mine probably had a lot to do with why we connected so strongly in the first place. But seeing my child struggle the same way has given me more compassion for him and overall. I'm sure life would be easier, more straightforward for me if neither were gifted, but they wouldn't be *them.* I love them dearly and couldn't wish them different. Its not all difficulty; there are aspects of their giftedness that are truly delightful!
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