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West Coast, land, four seasons ... you might be able to find something in reach of Portland, OR. Western Washington might also have possibilities, along with the accessibility to military installations where you could still go to the commissary, exchange, etc. as retirees (my dad was career Navy and still uses those benes when he's close, though they picked the town where he did his reserve center CO tour back in Desert Storm, so no base nearby).
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My muscles separated with my third and fourth. Neither baby tolerated the belt well -- both threw major fits as long as I had it on (this was typical for #4, she was quite active and opinionated, but very unusual for #3, who was mellow from the start). So, it gave mild relief on the outside, but I took enough of a beating from the inside that it wasn't a great solution for me.
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One of the families in our small co-op has the dad as the primary homeschool parent. I would feel sad if we didn't hang out with them just because of that.
When we lived in Colorado, this was a HUGE problem for us ... we couldn't plug in anywhere in the homeschool community because I was working FT and dh was a SAHD. He and the dc were really treated like pariahs, and had we stayed in that situation, we likely would have just ended up putting the dc in school because it really got old for him to show up and everyone else to leave or at least huddle on the other side of the room.
One of my homeschooling friends now is a dad of 5 ... we and our dc all train at the same karate academy. We also belong to the same church denomination. His dw works with a male friend of mine (15 years younger than me -- and I'm not the cougar type). Dh knows this guy, but their paths don't usually cross -- just different training schedules at the academy.
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Ok, now, not talking about opposite gender friends who you spend time with would be a problem for me. Dh is very open about his friendships with men and women, and more often than not tells me who he went to lunch with, what they talked about, etc., whether it was in a group or one on one.
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I've been married for almost 18 years and have friendships with several men. I'd say that 75% of them are also friends with dh (probably closer to him in most cases). Probably 35-40% of dh's friends are women. (I don't get out much since I'm home, being an engineer, this would probably be my percentage if I were in the workforce). I really don't have a problem with it. Even when he was having to travel constantly with a team of women. Gender is generally a non-issue in who we choose as friends.
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If he has been like this all along, then I'm thinking food allergy (unless mom is dairy and gluten free). I had a baby who was just lactose intolerant, and mylicon and lactose free formula helped a lot, but her symptoms were not as severe or consistent.
Count me as another one questioning the competency of the doctor she's using.
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That stinks. Stress is a trigger for my ds's migraines, especially the out of control vomiting abdominal migraines. So we get to spend time near Christmas every year seeking treatment. From ages 2-8, it was treatment in the ER. At least now we a)know what it is and b)he know the signs of it starting, so we can manage it a little better.
It's hard to have to temper emotions even when they're good so as to not trigger something, though.
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We did some things with our oldest for a while -- he was pre-term. Insurance didn't cover many sessions, and I never saw marked improvement, so once I was on bedrest and had a newborn (the older ones are 13 mo apart), I stopped, but kept working with the bite sticks and other things they'd had him doing until he was 3-ish. It was odd feeding the toddler/preschooler purees while his younger siblings had (finely chopped) table food. He was still gaggy and texture averse until he turned 7, and then some switch went off and he has been a pretty adventurous eater ever since, and at 14 is working toward becoming a chef (he may well go on for a 4 year degree for something else, but this would give him a career to help him work his way through college).
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We lived closer to Tacoma, near SeaTac mall. Either north or south of town, there are facilities that military/retired military can use.
They had a great public transportation system, with convenient bus and train options.
I loved having mountains and forests and water all so close together (the forests and water for me, the mountains for dh).
We had an abundance of different kinds of fruit trees, grape vines, etc. that grew like weeds (literally in the grape vine's case) in our yard.
Mild climate -- doesn't get too hot or too cold.
Dh hated the fact that we were so far north that in winter, he went to work in the dark and came home in the dark.
The clouds and rain didn't help that.
We were there in 2001-2002 when the dot com market that was big there tanked.
I loved it there and would go back, but dh wasn't happy, so after 15 mo, we moved.
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I've cut it awfully close, but I haven't actually run out before.
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If you don't think you're going to feel ready, I vote to move the start date 2 weeks for now ... you can move it more later.
We've been off since mid to late June (depending on the child) ... this week is VBS. I think we'll do an Olympics unit study next week and the following week. The week after that we have family in town and will go to the beach. Then after that, I'll make a call whether to take another week or to get started back with our regular stuff. We don't align what we're doing to school years, so most of what we'll be doing is picking up where we left off before break.
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Nope, boredom is good. They need to learn to take initiative for their own entertainment. We only take about 6 weeks off, so that we have plenty of time to take off the rest of the year (it's too hot to send them outside all day in July, but October is a completely different story). But one of the things we value is for our children to take initiative and invent their own projects (even if I'm not super-thrilled to have my guest room turned into a tent city).
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MIB is pretty intense and kind of gross at parts, I wouldn't do it with my 7 year old, and she's not particularly sensitive. The Avengers would be great for both in that range.
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To get a general idea, K12 has some placement tests online, as does aceschooloftomorrow.com (though ACE tends to be a little 'behind' most ideas of grade levels). You have to register, but there's no commitment to sign up just to take the tests for either program.
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I've always wanted to use the name Webster. But am afraid people would think it was too weird. Not to highjack another persons thread but if anybody has opinions on the name please feel free to share.
The name itself is fine, but I think that for anyone who grew up in the 80s in the US, there is probably still association with Emmanuel Lewis's title role in that sitcom. (Not that there would be any negative connotations like names like Adolf would have -- it's probably a name more like Kermit, though ... has immediate imagery for most people, not negative, but definitely there.)
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Giles and Yves were the ones that came to me right away.
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I have children a year apart, one who will go straight to community college, while the other will go to public high school at the same time. I'm not really doing anything different for them this last year that they're home. This year is about making sure that the math skills are solid and that they're writing well (especially essays). They're still all over the place as far as 'grade levels', so we will probably spend a lot of time testing at the ps this year to make sure we have good placement for her next year.
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My favorite homeschool project story is Mr. Chicken. When my older dc were 5 and 6 or so, we were co-opping with other families with 6 year olds. So we had each child do an apple mummy, but one friend decided to do the chicken. We followed the instructions in the SOTW 1 activity book, and had a great chicken mummy, wrapped and varnished and everything. I think he even had some amulets of some sort bound in his bandages.
But even mummified chickens don't smell particularly good, so when we were done, my friend put it in the trash (we were meeting on trash day). On the top of the trash in a very full can. So that when the garbage truck came and picked up the can, Mr. Chicken mummy fell off and didn't make it into the truck, instead, he landed in the gutter. The preschoolers were watching the garbage truck because, well, that's what a gaggle of 3-4 year old boys does. So they saw it and there was an uproar. So the host mom goes out and tries to catch Mr. Chicken mummy to get him up to the garbage truck. Oh, and did I mention that it was raining, and that chicken mummies can float (more or less)? Much hilarity ensued.
We had a lot of fun making the chicken mummy and apple mummies over the month or 6 weeks or whatever, but I don't think that any of us will forget trying to get rid of the thing!
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My children have been all over the board on this one.
One ds was almost 8 before he lost his first tooth -- he was my earliest teether, at 5 mo.
My latest teether (11 mo before we saw a tooth -- not that she let that stop her) lost her first tooth at 4 1/2. Her older brother didn't lose his first tooth for almost a year after, but he finished losing baby teeth almost a year before she did (making them about the same age to lose the last tooth).
My littlest brought me her first tooth while I was still in bed on her 5th birthday.
My brother didn't lose his first tooth until he was 9, almost 10. He had his last baby tooth pulled the day before his 23rd birthday.
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It really depends on how much you've had the opportunity to be exposed to Colonial living history. We went as a family, but having been to Williamsburg, Charles Towne Landing (we had memberships for years, which probably cost less), Jamestown, and several other living history sites, it wasn't really worth the money for us (neither was Williamsburg for us). But if you're from some other part of the country and haven't had the opportunity to experience what life was like for the settlers from England in the first few years they were here, then yes, it probably would be worth it.
And, IIRC, it took about a half day. We lived ~ 3 hours away, and combined it with a tour of the Ocean Spray Cranberry bogs and processing facility nearby (which we liked more, and it was cheap to free -- we went back with visiting family members a few times).
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I knew two people who died from TSS (a schoolmate and a friend's mom) when I was a tween/teen, so I have never been comfortable with tampons myself. I do allow dd 13 to use them, but ONLY for swimming and sports, otherwise, it's pads, as the risk is much higher the younger you are, and because the younger you are, the less likely, in most cases, you are to keep up with changing them diligently.
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As a parent, I might offer a baby a sip (1-2 mL) now and then (once each time we were out ~ every month or two), but only as a parent ... I would never give any to someone else's baby, as it needs to be pretty tightly controlled, and a sip here, a sip there adds up, so it's only for the parent to do/control.
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Definitely ... both in Catholic school and in a public magnet for the top 1/2% of our side of the school district (the other magnet took the top 2% of the rich side of the district, but that's another story) ... my kids were bored. When they were in the magnet, ALL of the kids were bored. I guess at least they were bored together with other kids they could relate to?
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I think that the beds our boys have do the mix and match thing, but really, the difference is so minor on theirs (we've had the set for 11 years, so I don't know the brand), that we just unbunked them and left them assembles the same way they were as bunks. If they were right next to each other, it might be noticable, but they're in an L formation and you can't tell.