That's awesome! I bet it feels so good to sit on new furniture and know that you don't have to make payments. We also had a weekend free of kids. However I was in Seattle for the Women of Faith with my best friend for two days and then Sunday my dh and I took a nap.:D

We like to listen to them in the car or during breakfast. I usually let them listen to anything up to where we are. That way they are getting lots of review. It works really well for my audio learner.

Just give them a Tylenol and they will be fine. Due to insurance reasons we skipped last years well child check ups. So my now six year old just had to get all of her kindergarten shots.:confused: Ugh! Five on both little chubby legs. Needless to say she got a Blizzard of her choice for dessert.:D

Uncle Harry's Lice treatment works really well too. You can get it at any whole foods store. I also discarded the plastic comb and found a pair of metal ones at Wall Mart. You have to continue to do head checks every day for about the first two weeks. I used my thumb nails to remove the nits as that seemed more effective than the combs. Also make sure to check every inch of the hair, you would be surprised how much they spread. Don't forget to soak the combs and brushes in very hot water. Hopefully you won't have to ever deal with them.:)

I have a very good friend of mine who just received some devastating news. She is a fellow WTMer who is expecting a new baby in the family. They received word last night that some tests show some neurological defects, they will go in for further testing next week. Please pray as you are led. God is sovereign and on the throne. Thanks much!

:w00t::cheers2::smilielol5::thumbup:

I so simpathize with that. I get to pack TWO kids for camp in three weeks.:svengo::willy_nilly:

Zucchini and Angel Hair Pasta Cut zuc. in 1/2 inch slices fry in olive oil and crushed garlic cloves (as many or as little as you like) until brown on both sides boil water and cook angle hair pasta, drain remove zuc. and garlic to large bowl and toss pasta in pan with remaining olive oil transfer pasta to bowl with zuc. and garlic mix and eat! :drool5: We also like to use spaghetti squash in place of pasta

Oh.......Coffee. :D:D Yeah Baby! We are the coffee capital of the world!:coolgleamA::thumbup:

These are the three main Washington homeschool organizations. WHO (Washington Homeschool Orginization)http://www.washhomeschool.org/index.html , WATCH (Washington Association of Teaching Christian Homes) http://www.watchhome.org/site/ , Christian Heritage Home Educators of Washington http://www.christianheritageonline.org/. There are also the local groups, depending were you live.

Homeschooling in Washington is pretty easy with regard to restrictions, compared to other places, I think. This is a link to one of our state groups.http://www.washhomeschool.org/whoAboutHomeschooling.html In Washington we are required to do a few things, turn in your letter of intent to the Office of the Superintendent of the school district you live in by Sept. 15, or two weeks from the start of a semester after age 8, annual standardized testing or assessment. This goes in your own records not to anyone else, also done after age 8. Keep a copy of immunization. School for 180 days, but that is considered flexible due to the "experimental" nature of homeschooling. We are a big recreational place in the Seattle area, you will find just about anything you like to do here. Lot's of homeschoolers here as well as co-ops. Housing tends to run high especially the closer you live to the metropolitan areas. Rain and clouds in the Fall-Spring. Usually summers are pretty mild. Mid 70's. Snow is a news event here, that's as often as it happens. Two inches and schools could close, and the city shuts down.;) Great neighbor hoods. Commutes depend on which direction and what time you are headed. Anything in the Seattle-Tacoma corridor is not fun in rush hour. However mass transit is pretty good. Gas has been around 4.25 or so. I have lived in the Northwest all my life and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.:D HTH and doesn't scare you off!

:lol: I know from where you speak. We had to ration band aides in our home for that very reason. Now when my kids get an owie, there has to be verifiable blood to earn them the badge of a band aide.:lol:

We call raisin bran "frogs on lily-pads". We did that to trick my finicky dd to eat her breakfast. It worked. ;) How about you?

Wow, I am so glad no one was hurt. :eek:

According to my dh, cookies!:D Otherwise, I can draw a stick person, or a bird flying or a house.;)

One of my kids had the problem of sleeping like a brick at night. We tried everything we could think of. Finally a friend suggested to cut out their milk intake and wouldn't you know that worked. Now we do not give milk after lunch and we have been dry for the most part.

My Dh woke up to, Monkey Bread, bacon and coffee. Then we all went to church. Now he is taking a nap and in a little while we will join some good friends for a whole lot of bbq'd meat(nothing green allowed today) arr,arr. Oh and the kids gave daddy a new cookbook, cause that's his thing.:D

Here is what I came up with. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2005-01/1104782601.Sh.r.html

I made up my own "checklist" similar to the one you were describing. However I didn't prefill it in. I used my Word program and created a table with five columns and as many rows as subject/whatever I needed to have them do. Then I filled in the left hand side with the subjects leaving the top blank for the dates we did school on. For me I found it frustrating to have a prefilled list to go by every day as not all days were the same and when something unexpected came up I felt like I didn't get what needed to be done, done. Now I simply fill in the box for what we covered in that subject and I still had my "check-list" of sorts to keep us on track. HTH:001_smile:

That is my kind of kid!

Wish I were headed south with ya! However I met my one conference a year quota already.

Thanks to the Daring Book for Girls and the Dangerous Book for Boys, I was informed that pocket knives are "essential gear, Mom". So both my older ds12, and dd 9 just got their first. One has already sliced their hand (not bad) but they are learning.

:grouphug:

Thanks for the shades!:coolgleamA: Where I am from we have the most amount of sunglasses sold per capita. That's because we go for long periods of time when the sun doesn't shine. Then we lose them and when it comes back out we have to search for them.:glare:

I am pulling up to the shore. I will ask that I be allowed on the island even though I run an independent parent led co-op. ;)We actually lost 50% of our people when the PPP started. :glare: I bring a six pack of Mike's as a peace offering. :001_smile: I just finished reading a book from Vodie Baucham and I loved the answer he gave to those who questioned their family's ability to hs through high school. He said," You only need to be a week ahead of them." Now that my oldest is beginning "7th" grade I think I will adopt that as my new mantra. I only need to be a week ahead of them, I only need to be a week ahead of them, I only............ We can do this!