I agree with the one day. The every morning would get old pretty quickly. I did that for awhile, and it really throws off the whole day. I would do one day.

But in some cases they don't have to honor that. I went round and round on this with our local state police office re such an issue. It's up to the officer on the scene whether or not to ticket. However, I would hope in court it would get thrown out.

That is just nasty!

That seat is the way to go. Other things you can do are a regular potty seat lined with a left over diaper for ease of disposal. One of those foldable portal potty seats http://www.pottytrainingconcepts.com/Travel-Folding-Potty-Seat-PR.html or disposable toilet seat covers like this http://www.pottytrainingconcepts.com/CK-Potty-Protector.html

What have you done? She is ruined forever!! :tongue_smilie::lol:

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umm nothing.

Here is one in your budget The Cruise of Noah's Ark

I did....;) I know there are dh and dw here, so I wondered if anyone could help me.

Caledonia Academy is sounds like you had a bad experience with your community - I am sorry about that! I really wasn't going to reply because I feel like God will lead and each family will make their decision. I like CC. But I had to comment on these just so you know that you don't need a new guide. I hate that to be the reason you don't do it. Most the families aren't getting a new one - they are simply will use the old one. CC just needed to make more due to the increase in families, so they made corrections and improvements. It would be silly for them not to improve the book when needing to get more. The new guide is nice but not necessary at all. You also don't need the new resources - again same reasons for redoing - it's just improving them. I see no need to buy new ones when I have them. If I were buying them, I wouldn't buy the old ones, but I have them... With the cleaning up, I feel like each family is part of making the mess they should be part of cleaning it up. I see no reason why families can't help clean up. Tutors at least at our community have to clean their rooms up (as well as setting them up.) Maybe some directors don't do it, but all the directors I know spend time before the program and/or after program doing work and cleaning up. There is a lot of work that most people don't see. Tutor and directors work hard. And what they get paid doesn't even come close to min wage for the hours they put in to a community. At our location, if we had to hire the janitor to clean behind us (as opposed to families pitching in) it would cost us $75/week. Depending on the size of the location it can take hours to clean the building. I can't imagine leaving that for one director to do. She could make more getting a job as a janitor. I just seeing this as cleaning up behind yourself which is something I would do anywhere. I don't leave junk behind at gymnastics for someone else to pick up. Just for perspective ~ I paid far more for gymnastics than I did for CC. I paid $45 registration for gymnastics, I bought clothes, and paid $13/hour. Plus the cost of practices in addition to classes. At CC, I get 3 hours for $13. Or there is music lessons 15 - 25 (or more) a half hour. In the long run, CC is cheaper than gymnastics and music lessons - way cheaper than 2 day preschool even. (Yes it's one day but here it's way less than half of preschool costs.) It's just you pay it all up front instead of a week at a time. I know not all have the same heart to serve. I am sorry you didn't have a good experience with your program.

We can do that, but some websites track by ISP number. Would that be good enough?

:iagree: Sprial binding drives me crazy! Comb binding is even worse!!

Thanks!

I know we can't have duplicate accounts personally but what about husbands and wives who share a computer/internet connection/email address? How do you do that? We'd love to have him be able to post.

Well compared to CA it's not at all expensive unless you are in the NoVA/Dc area then it comparable to CA. We moved here from CA. It's nice - homeschool friendly. But honestly we'd leave if we could. Our hearts are up north. It depends on what part of the state - is some parts 250 would get you a 1000 sq ft townhouse, but in other parts it would get you 3500 sq ft house. VA is a very diverse state.

We have done Latin for Children (starting in 3rd grade.) And it's been great, but it's not what I would do with a 7th and 8th grader. Latin Alive is their program for older kids.

I would love to order from them, but when I tried to my shipping actually cost more than the item I was buying. There is just no way it costs that much to ship one book - I know I ship books all the time. So unfortunately until they correct that I won't order from them.

And at least at 5 he can't ask how the one baby had a baby when it grew up. :tongue_smilie:

We recently spent a week like this. Although we did eat out a couple of dinner meals. We hit kids night at Chick -fil - A for free kids meals! I let my kids have a lot of things we don't eat at home - chips, juice, treats and such so it makes the meals seem a lot more fun even when they get boring. For breakfast, we did cereal with milk. Single serving shakes (me like slim fast only Costco brand) But we also brought breakfast bars. If you have a coffee maker, you can do oatmeal. Bagels - although these could be a dinner too! Lunch - do hummus and cheese with all the things you suggested. We also add some crackers or those pretzel crackers. Also nuts! Our lunches were mostly snack foods, veggies, fruits, cheeses, nuts, rice cakes, hummus, trail mix etc. Dinners - Here was our menu: Raw veggies and dip (dressing or hummus) at every lunch and dinner. Nachos - I bought corn chips at Costco with salsa. We used them for snacking too. But we make nachos with unmelted cheese, cold black beans, sour cream, salsa or whatever. My kids love it. I prefer the hot variety but oh well. Sandwiches twice ~ any kind you like. I did 2 options for 2 different dinners. Or do bagels either with cream cheese, pb or lunch meat. It gives variety. Cold chicken (cooked ahead of time - my crew likes cold oven baked fried chicken. It's rolled in corn flakes and baked. It's very good cold) with potato salad and chips. Salad - can be combined with the cold chicken. We like chef's salad - eggs, bacon bits, etc Again this was planned to be for 2 meals with different options. Wraps - tortilla or pita and use all left over salad, chicken, beans, veggies, cheese and salsa! With a coffee maker, we can do those noodle cups.

I haven't ordered a lot, but so far they are all hits - here are our highlights Teaching Textbooks (6) is a huge hit!! I bought it for next year, but dd insisted on starting it NOW. (we do school through the summer. But I was going give her a rest for the text book in math and do drill.) But she is on lesson 7 already! She is my reluctant math student, so I couldn't say no the ONE time she's excited. Saxon has about killed her LOL! She's done well but has hated it since we got to 5/4. So yeah! Phonetic Zoo She also wanted to start Phonetic Zoo C NOW too. We love Phonetic Zoo (she's done A and B.) FIAR My 4 year old is loving this - it's completely not my style. But I found it cheap. He was so mad that I bought it he threw it across the room, but man he loves it now. Boys!

What a great idea! I use GoDaddy for my website - $3.95/month. I really need to look at other sites. I think I will have my kids do this too - thanks for a great suggestion!

Absolutely! Watch them everywhere! Here there were 3 teenagers abducted in broad daylight from their front yards. So it really doesn't matter whether they are 5 or 16 it can happen to any child. In the one case, 2 sisters where taken from one yard. And I dont' live in or near a big city...

Hmm I am not sure that person knew what they were talking about, but it's not $600/child for 2 hours for the grammar stage program. (Challenge does have higher fees than Foundations/Essentials) I am sorry you weren't give the best information. That's a bummer... I would be glad to answer any questions if you want to pm me. It's standard community to community. Just FYI - you can see the fees here: Fees and an overview of the programs here: Foundations Essentials Challenge Essentials and Challenge are not supplemental they are complete programs. Foundations is supplemental, but you can make it your whole program. Feel free to pm me or another CC family for details. Foundations is grammar stage memory ~ that's what the program is. It's been very helpful to our family. Foundations is 3 hours, Essentials is 2 and Challenge can be all day.

And you could easily have the younger tag along too. With Lively Latin the 3rd grader could do it too. It's younger, but it's a good beginner program if you as the teacher don't know Latin.

Either Latin Alive or Lively Latin is what I would do. Well what I would do is an online class....but other wise I would do one of these with the older ones.