We're having: Turkey Mashed potatoes & gravy Stuffing Candied sweet potatoes Macaroni & cheese Roasted asparagus Broccoli salad Cranberry orange sauce Yeast rolls Pumpkin cheesecake Cherry streusel pie Chocolate caramel pie Sugarless apple dumplings :drool5:

Not the same thing, IMO. You still have to click it to preview and then click it again to open the thread or close it. With the mouse-over feature, you simple hover over the title to get the preview. I would love that feature back. Please? :wub:

We read a lot of Dr. Seuss at that age and younger. Drove me a little crazy and I have a permament eye twitch because of it, but it worked! ;)

electric tea kettle extra bowl for my Kitchen Aid mixer 2 volume set of Julia Child's French cookbooks cake & cookie decorating supplies

DH & I are both Army vets. We met & got married while in the Army in CA 19 years ago.

I'm on track with our daily tasks so far, but still haven't gotten many of the optional tasks done yet. It seems like every day we've had something come up that's kept me from getting to the optional tasks, but I'm hoping this weekend I can make up for lost time and get a few things done. I'm happy that I got the pantry done.

Not necessarily. If you start with chocolate icing and use Americolor food coloring instead of Wilton, it's very easy to get a true black frosting that tastes good. Even starting with white icing you can get a good-tasting black icing with Americolor. I get mine at Hobby Lobby.

I didn't have to wait at all. Walked right in and voted.

I have only 2 kids & I don't live on a farm, but dh works a full time job and runs his business full time, which leaves him almost no time to help me with anything. It's stressful and exhausting, to say the least. :grouphug:

Our polling place is at the public library.

:iagree: That's exactly what I did. Now that drawer holds kitchen towels.

A few of my optional activities are to clean under the stove & fridge. Also to wipe down/wash blinds or curtains in the kitchen and wash the windows and light fixtures.

Ooh, I hate the junk drawer! But I desperately need to clean it out. :thumbup1:

I've had a very productive week here. The kids and I did a lot of organizing and decluttering of the basement, which was probably my biggest project. I ended up taking a bunch of things to the secondhand store yesterday and droppped them off. Today DH and the kids and I worked on getting the last of the stuff out of the yard and the back porch and put into the basement. They are all in the basement right now further organizing while I am sipping a cup of coffee in the kitchen. :D

It's happened to me twice, both times with single moms. One I babysat for and gave fabric to and helped her make curtains. I also gave her some of my kitchen supplies and when she went back home to her husband she took them with her instead of giving them back to me. She didn't even tell me she was going back. I think she was embarassed to tell me, but it still hurt my feelings. The other one I gave free tutoring to her kids and bought them all Christmas gifts. She told me she never wanted to speak to me again because I insisted she not let the kids blow me off--they/she needed to tell me that they weren't showing up for our appointments. It seems that no good deed goes unpunished. :glare:

We're using Logic of English to remediate my 12 year old, who is dyslexic, and we're both enjoying it. There are rules to remember, but the program is set up to review them constantly. It's been a great fit for us.

When I pulled my oldest of public school, dd was entering 2nd grade and didn't know her facts well at all. I started her in Alpha and I'm glad I did. It gave her a very solid foundation. She's dyslexic and everything is hard for her, but even if a child learns at a more excellerated pace, that solid foundation is essential. You can always move your child through more the material more quickly if they can.

If you need the money from the sale of one level in order to buy the next level I would not use it for a non-dyslexic child. Barton moves incredibly slow and there is so much teacher intensive training that goes along with it that unless you really needed it I would not bother to use it for a child who is not dyslexic. I also think it would frustrate a non-dyslexic child unnecessarily. I don't think it would hurt a non-dyslexic child to be taught explicitly with a terrific phonics program, but I think there are others that would be more well-suited to them. The logic of English would be an example of a really great program that you could use with a non-dyslexic child but it moves quickly enough so that they would not be frustrated.

I loved reading this! It was really fun and interesting.

:iagree: There are many things about my kids' birthparents that I do not feel the need to inform them about. I'd leave it completely alone. Also, we have completely open adoptions, but I still see no need to tell them every detail of their bio parents lives.

A referee, which is what my husband is in real life.

We've used both. I'd say the Key To books are a gentle (and very well done) intoduction to the topic, which we used as a supplement. MUS takes a whole school year (for a typical learner) to complete, and delves much deeper into mastery.

Logic of English is my biggest hit--dd(12), who is dyslexic, correctly spelled thoughtful the other day. I think I actually heard angels singing! I also continue to love MOH II & God's Design science and new this year is Ellen McHenry's Elements & Mapping the World With Art.

I want to join! Seems like the inside of my house is terribly suffering because of my efforts to get the outside of my house/yard in good order for the winter. I definitely need to get in gear before the holidays roll in.

:grouphug: I'm really sorry. I can relate.