Any one ever ducttape cover their cheapy spirals to keep them from snagging? We love spirals but we had some tangling issues this past school year. eta: if I do that, though, I can't fold it under itself can I? My kids, especially my lefty, don't use them fully open but flip them open and only use the side they are writing on at the time.

I'm in GA. School has been out for 2 weeks and goes back the first week of August. I bet Target has already started setting up their back to school section. Just no official sales yet. I will have have to go mosey around and see what I can find unadvertised. I don't need too terribly much for now. I can wait on most things until the sales hit.

guess I will go browse Office Depot and pay too much. We start our new school year on Monday. We school year round and just had our two week break. I should have planned our start more into July.. That would have made more sense to match the sales :p

Mimm, I love your name, your profile pic.. I am fan girling. My fave cartoon movie and fave character from said movie :D :D :D :D I should have picked a cool user name like that. I was unoriginal!

I have assisted with that procedure with patients but I don't have experience myself. I can say I have never known a dentist to recommend it without it truly being needed. If any of the teeth have had a root canal in the past, I would personally ask about implant options instead. Just what I would personally do. Best wishes. :grouphug: Dentists can prescribe you some anxiety meds as well if you let them know ahead of time that you are anxious about the procedures.

I know summer has just started but I am low on some spiral notebooks and I refuse to pay high dollar. Plus, I like to stock up. Any sales advertised yet?

I found a great book at Ollie's the other night that we are going to read as our read aloud when we start. It has it's own island map and looks very similar to the map the kids will make for their fantasy story. Called The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic by Jennifer Trafton. http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Mount-Majestic/dp/0142419346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433468998&sr=8-1&keywords=the+rise+and+fall+of+mount+majestic&pebp=1433468991896&perid=1EWRSZ98EBGCXKX5G3PA

eh, she hasn't left. She is just being silent and lurking. She was last online here at 4:11pm today. Hopefully she will stay and realize we all like a good debate :p

makes sense to me. My brother has Crohn's disease, which some consider related to IBS, but he can't eat raw veggies either. They nearly kill him. He will be doubled over in severe pain.

I had success with high fat lowish carb. Subbed sweet potatoes for white, avoided pastas but ate whole wheat breads for sandwiches, eggs for breakfast. Half my plate is veggies, one quarter protein, one quarter complex carb

I have always found that if I set up a planner, I have doomed myself for failure. I think I may do a weeks type of planning instead of actual dates. I've considered just file folders with 180 days written on the tabs, inside a print out of the lessons to be finished that day, any worksheets or resources needed specific to that day. Then if we miss a day or two, we just pick the next school day and not erase dates on a paper planner. I just haven't figured out how to adapt when I was overly zealous of a school day and that day's assignments weren't complete. Do I just add them to the next day's folder? Still pondering.

well, mine play it, Epic Mickey, Little Big Planet 3, Raymond Legends (so fun, my favorite). They also play with neighborhood kids, play barbies, play with their beanie boos, play in our pool, ride bikes, hike, read books, paint, color. It isn't ALL they do. It is just a part of them being them.

Well, we survived. We just kept trucking. My girls seemed to really take off with reading and can read most things yet some days reading is hard and back to square one. Odd, it is. We finished 2nd grade level math. We have really been struggling with math and I am just happy to say we completed a level. Third grade level math and multiplication scares me for them since rote memory is hard for them. Especially rapid recall. I suppose we will continue with visual aids. They've nearly mastered reading clocks. I'll take it :) They hate audio books. I really want them to like them. They NEED to like them to get more age appropriate free reading in. We will continue to slog through typing and attempting to learn cursive. Overall, we have made progress and for that I am ever grateful.

I woke with you on my mind this morning! Still praying!

If so, any advice on start up chemicals, maintenance, etc? We just installed a pool. I was planning on taking a water sample to the pool store and letting them give me recommendations to get my water balanced. It is a 16ft x 48"

I paid like 3 dollars a book plus shipping on abebooks.com... just make sure you read the book condition before you purchase. I also went ahead and purchased Introductory Algebra by Lial as well for my boys. I purchased for BCM: 2 texts, 1 solutions, 1 video cd, For IA: 2 texts and 1 solutions. Paid $33 including shipping for it all.

My ADHD kid wants the house SILENT. Like, no air conditioning on, no washer going across the house, no cat meowing, no person quietly typing in the other room, no click of a pen, no breathing.. It can be hard to manage. He takes some supplements and they seem to help him. He takes GABA, Vitamin B complex and Omega 3 fish oils. He seems more easily distractable without these but they don't relieve all the issues.

I bought mine, 8th editions, online at abebooks.com. I purchased the text, solutions manual and instructional cd. The instructional cd seems to read verbatim from the text of the problems I looked at but I figured it would still be helpful. We have not used them yet. Starting Monday.

missed that part of the interview... gross.

yes! It was so odd. However, he is the weirdo that just can't wait to hear about his daughter getting pregnant. If my dad had told me those words on the eve of my wedding I would have been soooo grossed out! I wonder if they have a TTC calendar for their daughters at home, too?! He is gross to me.

We had custom made bracelets with their names on them that did not get taken off, even for baths. Ladies at the church nursery appreciated the bracelets, too. I do remember one freak out moment before we had bracelets but we had to sit together and talk it through to figure out which babe was who. We did finally reach a conclusion and was confident in our situation. After that, we assigned a color system. One girl always got the most feminine color. The other twin always wore the secondary feminine color. It worked for us but now that they are older, family members will ask "which one is pink girl" or "where is purple girl?"

well they said they were licensed, accredited...I can't remember the terminology but it did come across as professional counseling vs counseling from a religious entity. I'm not saying it wasn't ATI afiliated. Probably was. Just stating they think they did everything they could and have a clear conscience over it obviously and now feel they are the victims of a public agenda to slander their name. Not saying I think they are in the clear and did all they could have done.

I have provided my kids with social opportunities to best meet their needs and I have seen them fluorish. Do I think our PS is the best place for MINE to meet their needs? No. I suppose in some situations, in some districts, I could see the potential. However, I think you can find other venues locally to add in socialization and opportunities that don't involve the school system.

My boys don't look like my twins, are both differing heights and weights and I am asked constantly if I had quadruplets. I don't get it either.

I watched the last half of the show. I think they truly feel they did their best, offered their children the best help and therapy and feel that they are just being attacked by Satan. Persecution of their religion. Perhaps, that is part of it. Perhaps they are being persecuted by the tabloids. It does make a good story of a wholesome marketed family being "taken down" by skeletons in their closet. I don't *think* most assume they are the perfect family. I was happy to see that they did address the girls as victims. It was nice to seem them agree that they shouldn't be just protecting Josh's reputation but also, looking towards the victims. They did state they had professional counseling for all involved. However, I was saddened to hear them force blame on the male sex as if it is just in their nature to lean to abusive situations. I have heard that line just this year of boys in co-op not being allowed to hold any children. It saddens me.