good lord. Can someone please make an awesome, inclusive-simply-homeschooling conference?????

I got mine today. I don't think I got any other emails from them after I did the digital signature form. It came from RI.

I bought these books a couple of weeks ago after researching Ray's and coming across this thread. They just came the other day and I'm going to start them on Mon. I'm excited. It looks really good.

ooh we got picked! I just got the email today. Cool beans! I hope it's a fun game :D

http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=whitehttp://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf%3Fbordercolor%3Dwhite Has anyone seen this? So cool!!!

I could see us running into that problem if I read aloud. I really hate to read out loud. I am doing some now, b/c of the thread, but the kids just read to themselves. So then they can do that when they are in bed for quiet time after lunch, or before bed. For the school-lit books, like Diddakoi, I pick them out and make them read them, and then I read them on my own and then we'll discuss them when we're done with them, or after a few chapters. There's no way I could sit and read all of that out loud and talk about it as we go....that is all we'd be doing :tongue_smilie:

It seems like it's taking forever for pages to load. Not sure if it's the site or my pc...but I'm not having trouble anywhere else.

This book is a must-read: Introverts In the Church. I just bought the Quiet book too and love it.

I really don't like reading out loud, so I never had that issue. I bought the cds for that :D

I'd say it depends. My ds started reading them to himself when he was 7, and he's re-read the entire series several times. He devours them like novels. He's gotten way more out of them than if I had just gone through them slowly with him.

For me, it's b/c they are just.like.school. And really boring, I think. Also, every single thing is pretty much about Jesus and the Bible, even the math questions, LOL, which just seems super cheesy to me. Not to mention their view of American history.

oh yay. That came in tonight too and I gave that to dd to take to bed. I'm going to read that tomorrow. And I flipped through Little Duke and that looked so good, so ds took that to bed....I would be so lost without ILL. Every couple of years they threaten to cut funding to it and I freak out.

This was just what I was going to say. I don't think they are very cheap either. My dad got several of those books and then finally cut them out of his budget, and then split them up between me and my brother and sister. One of the ones I got was Grimm's, and my dd loves that version. And they're so pretty to hold and look at on the shelf.

My ILL order came thru tonight and I just finished Diddakoi, by Rumer Godden. And cried. What a good and heart-wrenching story. Now I want to read everything she's written. I can't wait for dd to read it so we can discuss it. Thanks to whomever recommended it. That's going on my to-buy list.

You don't get much done :tongue_smilie: :iagree: One of the reasons we're not where I wish we were in math and grammar is b/c I kept having babies. My big focus was teaching the 2 older ones to read, and then they would just read SOTW and other lit books, and that made up most of our school years for awhile. That and playing outside. But now that I've listened to Good to Great, I don't feel guilty at all :D

Oh my gosh!!!! You just reminded me of an awesome childhood memory. One of our chain grocery stores used to do Kids Week during the summer, and you could go around the store and play games, and the prize was always, always a goldfish in a bag. :001_wub: It was so much fun. They usually didn't live long, but we had a couple that would make it for a couple of weeks. I forgot all about that until you said that. We used to do that every year! I think a goldfish is different than a chick, even tho in theory it shouldn't be :tongue_smilie: And I'm with everyone else on the chick as a prize thing. Wowzers.

I'm down by Kalamazoo!

Oh, Bluebeard!! I loved that fairytale as a kid. I'm not sure why. My favorite Bible story was the one of Jael pounding the stake in the guy's temple. That sounds so twisted, haha. I'm a pacifist now, so go figure!

I have the Annotated Anne and Anne's Anthology, so I've been looking thru them, thinking I want to start this Mon with dd. But I have a question or two about other ppl have done it. Do you read a chapter of AGG first, and then explore the poetry? When you chase down trails like poems, do you just read the poems and move on, or do do more research/studying/analyzing of the poems? Do you reread the chapter of AGG after chasing down the trails so then they get the allusions? Do you kust do the trails first and then read the chapter? I'm just looking at the first chapter, noting things that could be possibilities to study, and I have Evelyn Hope, The Brook (and Maidenhood), geography, orphans/orphanages, fishing industry. Which seems like a lot.... And do you really read the whole thing of Marmion?? I think I might skip that one, at least the first time around, lol.

I think if you have accidentally clicked it, it will have a box showing what you've read and what your friends have read, and I think there is an undo button? I think I installed it once to see and then undid it right away, so I don't remember exactly.

I'll link to one my friend had posted earlier. Duggars story At the top, for me, it says "Discover Yahoo with your friends, to get started first login with Facebook" and it has a login button.

Or it could just be mixers and waaay heavy on the alcohol. :D We went out to dinner a couple of weeks ago and I got an espresso martini with dessert. The first half of it was good, and then all of a sudden, holy cow. It became a very stiff drink. I only finished it b/c I paid $9 for it, haha. But wow. I was grimacing with every swallow. I don't know how people can drink something that strong on purpose. :001_huh:

You have to click a box, and physically 'ok' that you want to join Yahoo Read, or whatever it's called. I don't know why people do that. I don't want people knowing what I read. For the Yahoo ones, at least you can click on the article and actually read it. The Washington Post has the same thing, but if you click on the link, you're required to install the reader app before you can read the article, which is so annoying. Sometimes I've really wanted to read the article, so I just go to the WP website and search for it.

Our library is pretty decent but it doesn't have a lot of the older books I want, but Michigan has a fantastic inter-library loan system, so I use that all the time.

So I super-skimmed the article and super-skimmed the comments here, lol, so this might not even be relevant, but from what I gather it is. I'm sick and don't feel like reading a bunch right now. But when I had my youngest, I refused the vit K shot, and the eyedrops stuff, and the Ped on call was thisclose to calling CPS on me. It was horrible. He was yelling at me less than an hour after I'd had the baby and was still all sore and tired and stuff. One nurse, bless her forever, talked him out of it. I wasn't super worried about CPS b/c I had gone into it knowing that was a possibility and even had paperwork with me, lol, but I totally believe something like that would happen.