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  1. I guess I'm lucky. There's a large homeschooling population in my area (Southern Indiana) and it's made up of all types. ETA: I do think the conservative Christian sect makes up the majority here but I don't find most to be uninterested in leaving the house and things like that. I wouldn't even call the majority ultra-conservative.
  2. Here's the link: http://www.homeschoolradioshows.com/111111/ You have to have your password, though. I hope I kept the email with mine. I had forgotten all about it.
  3. If you have an iPhone you can get a free tuner app that works pretty well. It's called tun-d free. If not, I'd definitely get a tuner. It makes a huge difference. I think lessons are a good idea and for some children a must. If your son is self-motivated and has some natural talent he could probably teach himself. There's a great website out there with free online lessons. I'll see if I can find it. We live in the Midwest and lessons run us $35/hour. My kids meet every other week. $50/month sounds very reasonable to me. For now, here's an online tuner you can use to tune it by ear: http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/onlinetuner.html ETA: The site I have bookmarked for online lessons was for the mandolin. There are sites out there for the guitar but I have no experience with them.
  4. :lol::lol: This cracked me up. And :grouphug::grouphug:. He sounds like a pain to deal with.
  5. Here's a chart put out by the USDA for ham storage. http://www.fsis.usda.gov/fact_sheets/Ham/index.asp#10 They say 3-5 days.
  6. My mom gave me the ham bone from Christmas last night. I'd like to cook it with northern beans but I'm afraid it's too old. She doesn't remember if it was smoked but is leaning toward it not being a smoked ham.
  7. Maybe she's a jerk. The whole point is we don't know. I think it's human nature to hear a tragic story and wonder what could have been done differently and since the majority of us are mothers our first line of thinking goes directly to what the mother could have done to save this child.
  8. Wombat Giant....How unattractive sounding. Your Superpower is Super Strength Your Weakness is Handshakes Your Weapon is Your Celestial Torpedoes Your Mode of Transportation is Skateboard
  9. This sounds totally unsafe to me. If you drive yourself to the grave by pushing your body too hard, what good are you going to be to your kids?
  10. It also depends on the size of a persons frame, body fat percentage, etc...
  11. This was my concern. It does sound like she might be having a growth spurt so I'm not going to mention anything but I'll keep an eye on her.
  12. My husband reads regularly but 99.9% of it is non-fiction. The only time he reads fiction is if he's reading something aloud to the kids.
  13. :grouphug::grouphug: I wish I had some advice but I don't. I just wanted you to know that this is exactly how I feel right now with my 14 year old dd. You're not alone.
  14. I think it will give you the option to switch during check-out.
  15. How's it going? I'm thinking about trying it. I have mild chronic depression but really go down hill this time of year.
  16. I wonder if he could have hurt himself when he fell....pinched nerve, herniated disc, etc... The tingling limbs might not be related to the black out. I kind of doubt it, though.
  17. I just measured her (didn't tell her why) and she was 5'5" which means she's grown an inch since the last time we checked a few months ago. I don't know if this is telling of anything but even at a size 1 she was curvy. I think a lot of it was muscle....legs, shoulders, etc...but she recently needed to go from a C to a D cup which makes me think hormones are definitely playing a part in making her hungry. Also, she sometimes complains of being bored so this could have something to do with it, too. As far as family history, my mom and I were both very small until our late 20s. I could stand to lose 20-30 pounds at this point in my late 30s. I'm not going to say anything about portions but I am going to ask her if she wants to do the couch to 5k program with me. I'll stress cardio health, not weight management, and tell her I think I'd do better with a partner...which is true. That's interesting. She was breastfed for 11 months. Not much. She plays outside with the kids some and occasionally shoots basketball or something but not on a regular basis. She used to do competitive gymnastics.
  18. I totally get that she's small but if you could see this child eat!! It's simply amazing. I worry that it will become a habit especially now that she's less active.
  19. DD is 14 and though she's thin she's putting on weight rapidly. She went from a size 1 to a 3 at the beginning of November and now she's outgrowing her size 3 pants. She's a former athlete and is still made up of a lot of muscle but she can seriously out eat DH. It's not necessarily what she's eating but more about the quantity and that makes me wary of broaching the subject with her. If I could just say for health reasons she needed to cut out sweets and junk it wouldn't worry me as much as talking portions with her. How do you tell a young girl she needs to eat less without planting a seed for some kind of eating disorder? I don't know...Maybe I'm over thinking this thing.
  20. Maybe they were talking about the moms. :lol: A friend's pastor said when he preaches he tries to look above the heads of the parishioners because of the sea of cleavage he's greeted with on Sunday mornings.
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