OK, I think what you will need to do is begin a new playlist for each book. (File --> New Playlist) Then - look up that book in your iTunes search engine - and it should list JUST that book - in the correct order. Click "select all" or ctrlA on your computer. Then drag-and-drop that book into the playlist you've already created for that book. Do the same for the rest of the books (to their OWN playlists). Then, clear your iPod of the previously listed stuff. Then, drag-and-drop each of your playlists up to your iPod and the books should list there correctly. I hope that makes sense! Good luck!

We have a new puppy this week too. We had another puppy a few years ago that we didn't do so well with. He hated his crate, howled and cried... so I did a lot of reading to determine what we would do differently with this puppy. And so far (we're a week-in) it's working like a charm. :D Her crate is in one of our front rooms. We walk by, make normal noises, etc. I cover her crate with a light blanket. She would wake up when dh got up for work, but when I started covering her crate, she doesn't wake up any more. I feed her in her crate. It is the ONLY place she gets food and water, so she is starting to see it as a GOOD place to be. :) She'll walk herself right in there now. Make sure the crate is JUST big enough for puppy to lay down in, basically. Any bigger, they'll find a way to potty. (This is what happened with our last puppy - and OOOOHHHHH trying to break them of that habit is nearly impossible!!! We wound up re-homing him over a year ago due to this, and other reasons.) We don't move the puppy's sleeping place. Also - we're not letting her sleep/nap anywhere but in her crate. I really want it to be a good place to be for her and I'm afraid if she's used to napping on our laps, or on the couch, etc - she will begin to hate her crate. So, we take her potty, play with her a lot, take her potty again, and pop her back into her crate when either a) she starts to look/act sleepy or b) we need to put her up for whatever reason. Right now, she doesn't even whine anymore - except in the morning when we all wake up and she NEEDS to go to the bathroom. lol Other than that, she's perfectly content with hanging out in her crate when we're too busy or otherwise occupied. (Our older dog has full run of the house and sleeps on my dd's bed at night. We hope that Apple will be able to do the same thing in a year or so - but until then - until she's outgrown the chew-on-everything-stage - she'll be in her crate quite a bit. That's why it was so important for me to encourage her to LIKE it there! LOL) I wouldn't put the puppy in a bedroom - I'd put her somewhere where the family won't wake up when she starts to whine. Then, if I needed to take the puppy out in the middle of the night, I'd just set my alarm and let it wake me up, go get the puppy and take her out (instead of the puppy waking me up a gazillion times a night). She needs to learn that YOU are the one who decides when she comes out of her crate - not the other way around (ie. her whining causing YOU to come rescue her and take her out). Our pup is 12 weeks old now (we got her at 11 wks) and we put her in her bed for the final time between 9-10 pm). The first few days, I took her out again around 1 am, but now I just let her sleep. We take her out in the morning between 7-8 am and she's not had a single accident in her crate. Good luck! :)

Yeah, her dad is her spelling coach and this was (iirc) her 4th trip to the finals. I bet a good many of those spelling kids are after-schooled, and before-schooled... lol Smart kids, those. :001_smile:

We just finished a year of a Prairie PRimer co-op and we had one boy in the group. He seemed to like the series as much as anyone else. One of the moms had a good point that Pa is actually a HUUUUGE part of the series (especially the earlier books) and he does all kinds of many things that a boy would be interested in. And, of course, Laura is not a frilly, prissy girlie-girl, which also helps. She helps with the animals and gets in all kinds of tomboyish scrapes. :D

:iagree: Definitely!!!!!

nope. She isn't homeschooled. They said 3 home schooled kids made the finals tonight - the one kid was the last one standing. And was he cute, or what?? :001_wub: awwwww.... He gets to try out again next year too! Those kids impress me to no end. WOW. My own kids were watching and they were sort of :blink: and :ohmy:. lol The curriculum they use is A Lot Of Hard Work and Dedication To The Subject of Spelling. :lol: There's some documentary out there (fairy recently done) that is must-watch. The work these kids put into this - the work their parents put into this!! :svengo:

Go to the TomTom website and you can download NEW voices onto your GPS!! They have Mr. T (and he does say something like "Turn around, you fool!") and Captain Picard, Sean Connery... a few others that I'm not remembering!! We have a TomTom and like it a lot. We've had it for a few years now.

My dd is 11 - and I loveloveLOVE fantasy books and have a long list of books for her to start reading, now that she's 11 (She just finished the first 3 HP books - I told her she could read them when she was the same age as Harry was when he found out he was a wizard, lol). But - no. She won't be reading these any time soon. No... there's not "sexuality" necessarily in these books, but the sensuality and sexual tension is all over the place. The main character in the books decides, at some point through the series, that sex is the one human experience she must have before being "changed" into a vampire. Nothing else was important - just that she "get some" first. :lol: Now, I liked the books. Quite a bit - Stephenie Meyer is a good story-weaver, imo. But, considering the amount of "obsession" over this series (and *I* even felt it while reading the books - they really can suck you in), I just don't feel it's healthy for my daughter to read it any time soon. There are too many great books out there. I've heard her friends talk about the books and the characters - and no matter the "talks" the moms have had with these girls (about how a boy climbing into your window at night really isn't a good thing - but since it's Edward and he's a vampire... or how a boy following you to another town to "protect" you isn't really a good thing - but since it's Edward and he's a vampire... or how a boy watching your house to watch you when you're unaware, or how a boy kidnapping you to keep you from going to another friend's house to "keep you safe" or how a boy who obsessing over you because you're "hard to read" is the path to everlasting eternal love or how keeping all those secrets from your parents... or how when your first boyfriend unceremoniously dumps you, you loathe life and start living recklessly in order to "feel" something or remember your ex boyfriend... how none of those things are good things, but since it's Edward and he's a vampire....) these girls are head-over-heels for Edward (with a few in there for Jacob). Ten-eleven-twelve year olds. Whose mothers think they're not obsessing over the books - but aren't listening carefully to their non-adult conversations, lol. ;) I just think those are too many "because it's Edward" scenarios for a girl who's read the books and "fallen in love with Edward" at the age of 10, 11, 12 to really, completely take it all in (why those aren't GOOD things - because in real life, the obsessed boyfriend is NOT going to be Edward, right? But, in the moment, with "Mr Wonderful" she is NOT going to see that). When she meets Mr. Controlling at age 14, she's not going to have forgotten Edward. imesho. But, books affect me deeply and they did when I was that age too. I dated plenty of lame ducks who reminded me of a character. So, perhaps it just isn't the same for everybody else out there. MY daughter, though, reads books like I did. So - for HER - she will not be reading this series until she's quite a bit older. :D :iagree:

Whoaaaaa. Surely they will be perfectly reasonable. We've had internet charges on our cell phone before from when my son was playing with the phone. It was around $20 and they credited my account immediately without any trouble (We don't have Verizon, though...). 7,500 texts, though? In one month? I'm trying to wrap my brain around that number and am having trouble. lol My oldest is only 11, though, and has no cell phone (although she wants one SO badly) and I don't think she knows yet what "texting" is. I will enjoy this while it lasts... :001_smile: Good luck to you on getting those charges reversed!! I bet they'll give you no trouble at all when you call...

I actually read it in high school for class. And I remember absolutely nothing about it. :001_huh: I haven't yet been tempted to re-read it, but I'm slightly curious now. We'll see if that holds until morning (or if I decide to read something a little ... lighter... instead. :lol:)

The Once and Future King is a must-read. :D imho, of course...

Now, see, I actually didn't like the ending either. But, I felt that it was really the one thing that made that story different. The rest of the story felt like... well, well-worn slippers. lol Like every other Oprah book out there. The ending, while I didn't like it - I didn't really like the rest of the book either (I'm not an Oprah book reader, though - I far prefer fantasy/sci-fi, classics or historical fiction) - was memorable, at least. But, I feel that it was the author's creation and it irritates me when the movie companies will bother to buy the rights to a book - and then change the very fundamental things about the book that MADE it what it was (Eragon is a great case-in-point, or the 2 dreadful Anne of GG movies)! If they didn't want that ending (which, again, I felt made that book different from the rest of the books out there with similar themes) - then they shouldn't have bought the rights to that book. I feel they're just using the name of the book, the names of the characters, and writing their own story - which just really irritates me. I'm also a Canon-movie person. I want to see the director's best interpretation of the author's intentions. Not the director's or screenwriter's dreamed-up story - they need to write their own screenplays from scratch for that and not desecrate someone else's creation. I know the author's lose much of the rights to give their opinion when they sell the rights to a movie, and it has to be maddening to have your "baby" be manipulated like that. :glare: (of course, they make a ton of money selling the rights, so maybe they don't mind as much as I think they do! LOL)

I think it's really bad when the author is actually saying something about it to the media (she sounds like she's trying to "keep it nice" but...). :glare: She must have been devastated.

What a great thread!! :) I agree with so many - while I think Anne of Green Gables SHOULD'VE been made into a movie - it certainly shouldn't have been made into the 2nd and 3rd AoGG movies they did make. :ack2: Same with Eragon - should've been made into a movie - just not that movie. I enjoyed the movie versions of Mary Poppins & The Wizard of Oz far more than the books. lol The LOTR movies are what enabled me to be able to read the book - I seriously couldn't keep the people straight when I tried to read the book - the movie gave me "faces" to put with the names - and now I LOVE the books. :D I remember being very irritated with Dances with Wolves because they gave it a "happy" ending that the book didn't have - and I hate a faux happy ending. :glare: They really ruined Despereaux, imho - and I really think that was a book best left alone (not becoming a movie). :eek: One I'm most irritated about right now is the My Sister's Keeper movie that's coming out. The ending was what made the entire chick-flick of a book worth reading. The director/screen writer/powers-that-be decided to change the ending. Which officially makes it not worth seeing. At all. :glare: I figure, if you're going to change THE thing that makes a book special or different from all the other Oprahbooks out there - then write your own screenplay!! Don't borrow the author's work and "make it your own" - just write your own to begin with and be done with it. Very irritating. (and I didn't even really like the book - but the ending was the only thing "special" about it) grrrrrrr. :thumbdown: I know there are others! I've probably blocked them from memory, though... :lol:

I honestly had no idea a strapless top on a 12yo would be considered a bad thing. :mellow: I wouldn't let my dd wear anything low-cut -but I've never thought of shoulders as being "a lot of skin." She does wear spaghetti strapped tops and lives in tank tops during the summer - sometimes the bra straps show, so we make sure to have bras with cute straps that sort of blend in with the top. It's hot, hot, hot here in the summer where we live - and I just don't consider those kinds of tops indecent. I don't let her wear tummy-showing tops, or miniskirts, or short-shorts, or pants with words across her rear end - but shoulders are okay in my book. Now, I'll be wondering how many people we see are giving my daughter the stink-eye for dressing like that! :lol: :iagree:

If I'm remembering correctly - the filly was one of his favorite horses he'd ridden in the past. When he found out she was going to race in the Preakness, he approached her new owners (the guy had just purchased her a few weeks ago) requesting to ride. We were almost late to something today waiting on the race. :D Glad we waited. The last race the kids watched on tv was sometime last year when a filly (I'm pretty sure?) had to be put down immediately after the race when she tripped or fell. So, this whole race, I was hoping all the horses would make it through okay - my kids might never have been willing to sit down with me to watch another race - they were soooooo sad the last time.

We saw it the weekend it opened. :) Waiting on the grandparents to come back into town so we can see Star Trek. Then, sometime soon, Transformers. And Terminator. And Harry Potter. Should be a good movie summer. :D We didn't stay for the teaser at the end, though - what happened?

We've always bought from Lands End - but last year I waited too late for a trip we had coming up, so we went to Target. I have to say - I was really pleased. The girls had to try each suit on (they all fit totally differently from one another) - but the suits wore well, dried quickly, and didn't ride up like I figured they would. After our vacation, we went back and bought a few more. We bought a couple suits for my older daughter from Old Navy - again, had to try them on - but we were happy with them. We'll probably do the same this year. :)

lol, this happened in reverse to my dad. His "real" name is Bobby - most people call him either Bob or Bobby - but in "formal" situations he was forever being introduced as Robert. All wedding invitations we received were to "Mr and Mrs Robert...". It did sort of irk him because it would happen even with people we knew really, really well. lol

Kris has been my favorite since we first saw him. I love his style of music and his kind of voice. Adam, however, totally should win this based on his uniqueness, his individuality, his voice range (WOW!!!), his showmanship. He's a talent on a different level, imho. Both guys seem so ... nice! ... too. It's pleasant to have a final two of "nice guys." Although when I think back - both Davids seemed nice - and Jordin Sparks and Blake Whatshisname were also very nice kids. So, maybe it's not all that unusual. lol America must like the nice guys. lol

We start school around 9 am (the girls have already done their "basics" - math, grammar, general science). The kids have lunch around 11 and "free time" until 1-ish. We finish school usually around 4-4:30 - sometimes later, depending on how our dayhas gone. When we have field trips or co-ops or errands to run, we go over the work before we leave, and they bring it with them to work on in the car. I also have a "mom shift"! I thought I was the only one (just read what SWB said, I think it was her?). I tell the kids my mom shift is over at 8pm. They play together in one of their 3 bedrooms, play their Nintendos for a little while (they know their time limits), sometimes watch a movie in our bedroom (where the only other tv is). This gives dh and I couple hours of mostly-uninterrupted time together. After dh heads to bed (usually around 10) I have the rest of the night to myself. Alone!! It's absolutely necessary to my sanity. ;) lol My kids aren't allowed out of their bedrooms until after 7. They get their own breakfast. The girls start their own school lessons and ds plays and/or bugs his sisters. ;) I usually drag myself out of bed around 8 (I loathe mornings) and am ready to talk by 8:30, lol. It's awesome having older kids now. :)

For the pool, I'd definitely say "no parent - no pool time". I'm pretty sure most of the parents won't bother. lol I'd definitely not leave water in the pool when you are not actively using it, though, as it seems children like to wander through your property... As for them knocking on the door - we once had a red stop sign I'd put on the door to stay off the neighbor kids. And I LIKED these kids, but they were coming over all. the. time. It worked - even for the 4yo who couldn't read, she knew what the stop sign meant! We're fortunate now, the only neighbor kids are the ones that a grandma babysits 2 houses down. They're younger than my kids, and sooooooooooooo sweet, I don't mind a bit when they wander over. :) I hope we stay as lucky.... :)

We used Abeka our 2nd full year homeschooling (2nd grade). I liked it a lot - after I tossed the teacher's manuals, at least. When I tried to follow the teacher's manual, I felt like an enormous failure (you had to write gobs of stuff on the blackboard first thing every day, recite things until my daughter was sick of hearing it, lol). I tossed the TMs and went forward from there and really liked it. With that said, after 2nd grade, I moved along to a more eclectic curriculum (after reading TWTM and finding lots of things I liked even better than Abeka). :)

My "baby" is now six. I try to not call him "the baby" anymore, but... well... I'm afraid he's stuck with being my baby until someone tinier shows up on our doorstep. :p He doesn't mind - but dh wishes I'd stop - something about apron strings..... :lol:

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