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That's wonderful news! Praying that something happens sooner rather than later now!
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Agreeing with Betty's options.
Jamestown is cool, but not necessarily a full day, same for Yorktown, and they're close enough to do together.
Williamsburg, you'd want to stay the whole day, partly because there's definitely enough to see, and partly because admission is pricey, you might as well get all you can from it.
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In both states where my dh was laid off, even part time employment would have disqualified him for unemployment benefits. What we ended up doing was having me go back to work to make up the difference until he could find full-time employment.
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:lol: Poor guy. He's quite traumatized this time around, isn't he?
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1704. I'm hoping to get another good writing session in this evening to at least double that. We'll see what happens. I'm finding myself slowing down already, which doesn't bode well, but maybe if I can power through tonight, I can build some momentum.
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Depends on the kid, but they're usually with other kids most days.
Oldest has structured activities with other kids Sunday-Wednesday and Friday, second on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday (I'd love to find her one more, but the right fit has yet to appear). Neither of them have close neighborhood friends.
Little guy has a homeschool religion class most weekdays down the street, and is often out with neighbor boys, as the block is heavy with boys in his age group. (He's an introvert, though, and will usually take a day or two and choose not to go out.) The little ones both have things on Wed-Thursday, and the littlest has a class on Monday nights. She also has a close friend (psed) a few doors down, who she plays with a couple of afternoons per week.
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1,100 ... I need to get going. The years that I've won, I've heavily frontloaded my word counts so that I was done, or almost done, before I had to shift my focus to Thanksgiving prep work. There's still time today, my story is still flowing pretty well, the first chapter is nearly done. The next chapter will be shifting gears, which should keep things flowing.
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We're on a 4 week rotation of zones. My 6 year old doesn't do ALL the jobs in her zone (in a good month, I use her rotation to do a deep clean of that zone), but the parts she does, she has been doing since she was 4 1/2.
Her portion is:
Upstairs Zone:
Clean hall bath
Put away hall bath towels
Vacuum upstairs hallway (I do edges)
Pick up any trash on the schoolroom floor
Take down all laundry in hampers
Take out all trash from bedrooms, upstairs bathrooms, schoolroom
Downstairs Zone:
Sweep entry
Pick up and put away family room clutter
Vacuum Family Room
Straighten Library
Clean downstairs bathroom, check through the week for TP, etc. and replace when needed
Dining Room Zone:
Set and clear the table after meals
Change tablecloths as needed (including shaking out the old one outside)
Wipe down kitchen table
Sweep kitchen eating area
Vacuum the dining room
Kitchen Zone:
Unload dishwasher
Sweep kitchen floor
Wipe countertops, stove, etc.
Wipe appliance fronts
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C'mon, ladies, it's November already. Chop, chop! (I hated end of the month due dates, even though I usually went early ... people always decided I should go on the first.)
Sorry about all the yuck going around your house, Imp. I hope that it resolves itself before the little guy comes.
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I don't see it as a specific age thing, either. I only have a Tracfone for myself, and I have another one for my 10, 12 and 13 year olds to share. Usually only one of them is away somewhere that they'd need it, or they're together. If they want their own phones, they will be making the purchase themselves. If they want something other than pay-as-you-go, they'll have to demonstrate enough income to keep up with contract payments.
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My 12 year old got the Hearthsong one 2-3 years ago, and has done lots of projects with it. She still uses it from time to time, and might be close to outgrowing it if she did more weaving, but she does more knitting and is learning to crochet. As far as refills, she just uses regular yarn of varying thicknesses, though she does find the thicker yarns work best. Hobby Lobby, and even Wal-Mart usually have plenty for her to choose from.
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We make a conscious effort constantly to keep outside involvement down to a minimum, but it is a constant battle and means that sometimes we have to let some awesome opportunities slip by because we just can't do it all.
Still, there are times when we fall across a rare, unscheduled day when we don't have to leave the house, and the kids cheer because they're at least as tired as I am, and don't want to go anywhere, either.
Part of striking our balance sometimes means paring down school subjects as well, to streamline the time spent there and give them some more free time. No formal music lessons, logic just once, grammar every few years, not every year, spelling only for the child who really needs it, Latin only in place of a foreign language if the children choose it. TWTM is a wonderful ideal, SWB has lots of great ideas to glean, but for us, it just wouldn't work as written.
I think of what ZooRho's ds wrote to her about having time to play and explore and that that's what he remembers. Not the activities she signed him up for or the Chemistry classes I remember her talking about him going to back when he was in high school, but the time to play. I use stories like that to help me keep my perspective and give me the resolve to say No, even though fencing or sailing or a Friday co-op look like they'd be really cool. They'd cut into that important down time, too much.
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Um, frankly ... teaching kids is *not* brain surgery.
Not saying that it's not important for many people to have access to those services, but my kids didn't learn much at all when they were in a traditional school setting.
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I saw that. He's such a sweet boy.
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This is so me. I don't have issues getting ready. I also don't fuss much over clothes, makeup, hair, etc. But given the choice, I'd prefer to stay home. And I'd love it if dh were to go and take the dc. I do well with solitude. -
A couple choosing a destination wedding has to realize that if there's anyone in particular who they REALLY want to be there, they need to be willing to pick up the bill. Sure, they can invite guests expecting the guest to pick up their own travel and accommodations, but have to be prepared for, 'Oh, that sounds lovely, we'll see you when you get back!'
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:grouphug: I had one like this. She never really completely engaged because she was so wrapped up in the cord. We tried to induce, and she stuck her hand up over her head out of the cervix with the cord in it, prolapsing it. they tried to push it all back in, but they got the hand and not the cord. The c-section after 12 weeks of bedrest wasn't fun (and this was my fourth baby, also), but the end result worked out. I wish we'd figured it out before, though, because labor (I'd decided to go unmedicated, and did well until they started trying to shove her hand and the cord back in) followed by a c-section, was probably worse than just the section would have been.
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Only if it's if they're composing an email or letter and asking, 'How does this sound?' In that case, I'll go through and correct, usually in a different color, assuming that if they're sending it out, they probably want to make sure that it's corrected for grammar and spelling as well as typos.
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It can't hurt to file the claim with Health and Human Services. I agree that there might not be enough info in the OP to tell for sure whether there was an actual violation, but in any case, it SHOULD be investigated and taken care of if there was.
And I like the idea about not adding a contact when you find your new doctor. If they press, you can explain that it's not about them, but that you've had some bad experiences at another office and feel uncomfortable sharing that sort of information now.
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Most have been 5-6. I have a 10 year old who still struggles with it (he can do it, but not easily), but he's got some other challenges that might contribute to his difficulty.
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Is he getting enough fluids in him? Probably not the root cause, but if he's having nausea, etc., it can be difficult to drink. Dehydration can lead to bad headaches and dizziness, and then the headaches can exacerbate the sleep issues. It might not address the root cause, but getting enough liquid into him, even if he feels like he's forcing it sometimes, can make a difference in alleviating some of the symptoms, which may make it easier to deal with the others until you find answers (and yes, I would insist on them investigating both parasites and bacterial infections).
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I'll play ... and then have dd clear it like she was supposed to.
2 half-empty Diet Coke bottles (2 liter and 20 oz) left by our weekend house guests that nobody here will drink (two of us can't have artificial sweeteners, due to allergies).
1 half-empty Mountain Dew 2 liter, also left by house guests, and earmarked by my teen for Saturday morning, when he has to get up early for youth group retreat, after a late night at his homeschool group's dance.
Empty gallon milk jug
Black Sharpie
Art book
A few packets of dried tempera
A large shoe box full of Play-Doh toys
2 partly full bags of cereal
a crumpled paper towel
3 out of 4 place mats
a milk safety seal
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I'm sorry that my posts have caused you pain. That, of course, was never my intention. However family, kids, pregnancy is my season right now. They are what is going on in my life 95% of the time and it's not really fair for you to ask me that I stop posting about my life. It is an important way for me to keep connected with out of town family and friends who genuinely want to know how we are doing. Feel free to unsubscribe to my status updates, though, if they are painful. I'm sorry you're having a rough time.
Imp
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It sounds like a once-great situation has just changed so it's not the best fit anymore.
When I had three year olds, I tried to break my older kids' time with me down into 15-20 minute chunks, after which I'd put them on something independent (even it if was just a coloring sheet from the SOTW activity book on the chapter we just read, even if my oldest never liked to color), and go check in on the little one. I used educational videos and PBS kids, Nick Jr. etc. a lot -- my youngest was signing long before she was talking because she and her preschooler brother watched Signing Time A LOT. She also learned to read VERY early from the Leap Frog letter videos. And they gave me 20 minutes at a stretch to get through something with the others.
Would you give a baby a "top five" name?
in General Education Discussion Board
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My boys have names in the top 10. My litmus test is this ... ok, we know that there are a likely to be a bunch of kids in that age group with that name. But is it a name that will definitely label a child as being born in the _0s? Or is it one of those names that is always/often popular? I don't think I'd want to do a trendy popular name (one that has short-term popularity), but a classic name (one with long time popularity, even if it's in spurts) I'd probably go for it. To me, Emily is more classic than trendy. Definitely in the comes and goes category, but this is far from Emily's first appearance near the top of the charts. (I see more Emmas than Emilys right now, anyway.)