Last time I posted that I was working on 2 quilt-alongs. I completed piecing the Meadowlands top, but fell way behind on the mystery quilt. The finishing was all appliqué and I didn’t get to the Hexie blocks. I’m setting that aside for now and have to post a picture later. Ive been wanting to make clothing and always thought that my first project would be something like pajama pants, but last month my dd needed a tie for her school uniform cosplay for comic-con, so I found a free pattern and video online and got that done just in time. Currently, I would like to have four quilts done by Christmas, so I have 2 more tops to piece, and I am planning on joining Moda Blockheads 5 weekly quilt block for round one that ends in November, so I’m thinking I could use Christmas fabrics. It started today if you’re interested in joining. Also, if you like making dresses for girls, September is Project Dress A Girl month and one participant shared an easy dress pattern to use. Dresses are distributed to Canada, US, and UK. I might give it a try. The pattern is a girls size 4-5, but they are collecting dresses for sizes 6 months to 14.

I have a bunch of fiskars and other scissors around for the family, but I use LDH and would love to get a pair of KAI scissors for my sewing.

Mpix is my favorite store to purchase prints. You can upload photos from your phone and categorize them into different albums. Sign up for their newsletter, so you know when they are running sales. I try to get my prints then unless I need them right away.

I tried this with my oldest son. CLE is weak in word problems. That is my only complaint. The first lesson in Basic Math is about 20+ word problems and nothing else. I remember that being a bit jarring. Of course, you don’t have to do all of them. Make it work for you. If you do switch, you might consider picking up a workbook on banking/personal finance/budgeting topics to supplement with. I think CLE 7 covers those topics, but I don’t remember if Basic Math does or not.

We pump our own gas in PA, so my kids learn how around the same time they get their learner’s permit to drive. I grew up in NJ, but I had to pump my own gas if I bought it on the military base. My dad retired army and gas was cheaper on base, but you had to pump it yourself. I always wondered why NJ gas was cheaper than PA since NJ offered full service and we had to pump our own in PA. Oregon will get used to it. It’s easy to do once someone shows you how, and it’s a good idea to keep wipes in the car to clean your hands afterwards.

@madteaparty Thanks for that! I looked at Thorne and they do not have a long list of extra ingredients. I’ll keep them in mind. Vitacost has them as 1000mg capsules. I’ve seen lower doses, too. I read a review from a woman who said she couldn’t take them because she would become exhausted and have to take a nap every time she took them. That worried me. Is there a guide to dosing these? I did order the barberries from Amazon from a spice/cooking company based in Utah. They had lots of good reviews and pictures of how people prepared them with their food.

I recently ordered dried barberries because I didn’t see berberine in a brand I trust or without the fillers. Also, it comes in different strengths and i didn’t want to play around with dosage after reading the reviews. I took Milk Thistle for years when I was concerned about insulin resistance and wanted to help my liver cope with the perimenopause hormone issues.

That’s a super deal! Dang. I tried BF Modern once, and we end up just reading the books and reading the notes and not doing the assignments. It just doesn’t work well for us, but I didn’t want to buy something else at that point in the year.

I’ve been in the Painted Post store and Horseheads. Thanks for the info @Arcadia I feel like our CC get hacked more often these days.

My oldest doesn’t have the best handwriting, and all those lists online on why you should have good handwriting really wasn’t convincing. One of our English books said that good penmanship is showing kindness to others, so maybe having a pen pal or handwriting weekly letters to someone would help improve your teen’s handwriting. If you don’t have someone to write to, you may want to try postcrossing.com. You can send a postcard to someone and receive one from another country and keep track of where you have gotten them from. It could be fun and get some geography study in, too. Our local post office lady gently corrected my kids and gave them a little talk about neatness when using the usps which helps when the message was coming from someone other than me. My son did very well at university regardless of his handwriting.

Sorry, no help here either. We are going to use SL D&E Condensed skipping any books we already read. Do you have something else on your shelf already you could use?

(((Saraha))) I’m so sorry. That’s a heavy burden for one person. It’s okay to cry.

I love these! I need to make some mug rugs, and I do have some insulbright, so heat resistant is a great idea! Thanks!

I have two Levoit and one with a “pet filter” for the room our birds are in, but I highly recommend Air Doctor. I keep that one in our shared living spaces. https://airdoctorstore.com/

@Clarita your chili looks delicious! I had cheesy polenta for the first time about a month ago as a side at a restaurant and have added it to our menu at home. I’m always looking for meal inspiration.

I buy Stacey’s organic tortillas from Azure, but I really want to start making my own. I’ve never seen Tortilla Land brand.

I’m going to see this with a friend in about an hour. Some theaters only played it for one day, but she found one that had several showings, so we’re going today.

My YA children grew up without TV for the most part, but we had Roku, Netflix (remember the red envelopes in the mai), and internet, so we were able to curate what they watched. My dd was at a gymnastics class once when she was about 9yo and another girl asked her if she like Justin Bieber. My dd had no idea who he was and the girl was dumbfounded by that. Her mother explained that at school there was team Justin and then the group that didn’t like him which she was on. I told her that we didn’t have TV so my dd really didn’t have any idea who he was, so she said well I guess you can be on my team then. 😂 She survived w/o Justin Beiber.

I love aprons! Pockets make them even better. Nice work!

As far has paper planners go, I like mardel’s A Simple Plan except it is printed on thick paper and is heavy, not as portable as a spiral notebook.

I used it for about 3 years. I actually had an opportunity to beta test it. I tried a couple different online planners, but homeschool planet had the best options. I had two students at the time and could plan their together subjects to auto fill and then plan separate subjects. Move assignments for both or one child and have the option to double up, move to the next available day, or move to the next day that we do that subject and it moves everything else accordingly. If you’re doing high school, it will print a transcript for you. If you got bored with the look, you’d a change your wallpapers. They just thought of everything. It was very easy to use. I only have one child to homeschool right now, and I use a spiral notebook. I have a master list of subjects I like to do each day and write down assignments as we do them that day. I can make any interesting anecdotal notes as we go. I am way more relaxed doing it this way then trying to plan ahead like I used to. It’s good to not have to log onto the computer during school if we don’t have to. Also, I can paste in photos with certain days like field trips or artwork. My son has drawn things from history in his assignment book to.

The current plan: Math: CLE 5 but eyeing RightStart E ELA: BJU English 5, WWE 3, Spelling workbook History: SL D&E, Taking the Americas for Jesus Science: Apologia Exploring Creation with Chemistry & Physics, CLP Nature Reader 5 Art: Artistic Pursuits (ArtCore) Drawing with graphite pencils

Happy 50th Birthday! 🍰 🍷 🧀 💕 hugs to you! Praying all the stressors resolve and everyone has peace.

I once heard Morgan Freeman say he disliked Black History Month because black history is just American History.

Amazing! 👏 I don’t know how you managed to whip up another quilt so fast. The quilting looks great. BTW, check Etsy for Green Lantern fabric if you have time to wait for mail order.