My son, 15, spends hours and hours in the bathroom depleting the rest of the family of hot water but he still stinks when he comes out. I don't even want to know what the heck is going on in there. I'm. so. scared. *SIGH* Gotta love Motherhood.

Sure it did! I live in a little town between two big cities. My son and I saw him twice by making the drive to both cities. It was awesome, amazing, inspirational, and just plain fun! I wouldn't have deprived my son from all that history for all the money in the world.

I don't want to hijack your thread, but my son would LOVE all of the books you are describing. That's exactly what the genre he WANTS to read but I don't seem to have the smarts or resourcefulness to know how to turn them into a "literary study." Do you know how you will incorporate them into a real study as opposed to just reading them, or is that not your goal? Thanks, again sorry for the hijack, but I just about jumped up and down when I saw this thread. It's extremely interesting to me. Thanks in advance!

Amy Pohler's pregnant rap was funny, and Sarah Palin was "raising the roof" in the background. I thought it was funny that she played along. She was obviously uncomfortable in the opening, but still funny-ish. If I ever had the chance to say "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night," I'd scream it like a banshee, LOL.

. . . but where I live, it'd be just plain rich. I mean really rich. We do pretty good, not great, and we live on less (a lot less) than 1/5 of that. I don't even know what I'd do with that much money, but if you have it to spare, I'd like to find out. :D

I don't know if I'm living in a bubble, but if I am don't pop it, :D. Right now, smack in the middle of the teen years are some of the best years I've ever had with my son. He's kind, giving, respectful of woman and to his elders in general, an extremely hard worker and just a great all around human being. I could sit and talk to him for hours, I love the fresh non-jaded perspective he has on life and everything in it. I'm not trying to push my blog or anything, but I did just recently post about how much he helped me at the grocery store recently. Frankly, I get worried thinking about what I'm supposed to do when he grows up and moves away :confused:. I guess it all just depends on the upbringing and, to be fair, the kid.

At our school full gear (gloves, helmet, mouthpiece, shin guards, foot guards) is always required even with non/light contact sparring. Also mixed rank sparring is allowed and encouraged for learning/training, but as someone previously posted, the higher rank is responsible for the safety of the lower rank - always. E.T.A. Oh, and boys must wear a cup to all classes, no matter if they are sparring or not, LOL.

Oh, it wasn't that hard. I just dripped a little bit of my orange blood on it.:lol: HAHAHAHAHA . . . no, seriously.

I'm definitely going to take you up on that. You've got mail!

Thanks so much ladies, for your support, I was beginning to think we were the two dumbest people on earth, LOL. :confused::D

I don't know what school your dear child attends but at UT Austin, chem labs blowing up is such a regular occurrence, it barely makes the news anymore. :tongue_smilie: OF COURSE classes are canceled here, how else are we supposed to get to Dallas in time to cheer on our Long Horns (GO HORNS!). Congratulate him on the calculus test! And to the whole family on the extended trip home. What a great weekend you'll have. :001_smile:

Is the Apologia Chemistry considered to be a rigorous and challenging course? I ask because my son and I are having a tough time with it. If it's not considered to be challenging, then I don't know what we are going to do. Back in the olden days, I was allowed to go to high school as well as college without ever stepping foot into a chemistry class, so I am of no help whatsoever and he's having a hard time. We are only on chapter 2, and I'm thinking I need to find something else, or outsource this class, which I really cannot afford. I've asked a couple of questions on the Apologia Chemistry Yahoo group, but the answers I received were a little on the snarky side, implying that by reading the text I should already know, but I did read it and I don't know. *SIGH* What to do? Has anyone else already been there and done this? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? BTW, he has had the proper math prerequisites, so that isn't the issue. Thanks in advance!

I would love a little peek at that as well. I pm'd you. I hope you don't mind.

Not to be a buster or anything, but in my state if you state at your food stamp interview that you "purchase and prepare" your food separately from others in the household, then that other person's income is not counted against/towards you. However, on that same token, if she saves $200 monthly, over a period of time, that will accumulate and even if she isn't putting that money into a bank account, she is supposed to report "cash on hand" and in my state, once that figure becomes over $2000, it would disqualify you from receiving assistance. It doesn't bother me that's she is saving for Disney World, or a steak dinner or whatever she wants. Poor people often (but most definitely not always) mismanage their money, which is why they continue to be poor. It's the dishonesty that is . . . well . . . dishonest. Don't even get me started on felonies and welfare fraud. It's not really worth pursuing. Most people who are committing fraud may be misrepresenting themselves and their situation, but 95% don't even have enough money to make payments on the restitution they owe. More often than not, the judge will wave restitution in my state for this very reason. I do have a little insight on this issue as I worked for the Health and Human Services Commission (welfare department) in my state for over 10 years. There are plenty of people who abuse the system, but not enough, in my opinion, to warrant the outcry that I usually hear. So many of them are working poor who really need the help. I wouldn't let a sour apple or two spoil the entire bushel for me.

Hopefully they'll get plenty of rest and over the shock and disappointment very soon. Too bad about the vehicle. :grouphug:

No, but my son went to public school for a while so he may already know it. I never really thought about it, but I'm not going to worry about it, he knows a lot of other stuff, LOL. ;)

We hated it and skipped it. I know, probably not the most grown-up thing to do, but I am not a glutton for punishment. There is plenty of other great literature in the course, and I just didn't feel it was a hill worth dying on. Also, it's the fist book in the course, I didn't want either of us to get a bad taste in our mouths and ditch the whole thing before we actually had a chance to enjoy it. If it hurts that bad, let it go.

Oh, us too! The whole time I was laughing, I was trying to watch for lightning, because I know I shouldn't have been laughing, but it was so funny!

I thought it was just hilarious! SNL is great for equal opportunity fun-poking (is that a word?). :lol:

My goodness, I've never heard of such a thing. I hope it all gets resolved very soon and in your favor. :grouphug:

:thumbup1:YES!:thumbup1:

I got a template from a website, not from blogger, but then I fiddled with the html forever to get it just like I like it. I changed the photo header, the buttons on top, the width of the columns and also they had hidden the navigation bar, but I like having it at the top, so I made it viewable. I'm just a tiny tiny bit html literate, but in the blogger templates, even if you aren't that good . . . most of it you can figure out through trial and error. I love the "preview" feature so that you can make sure you're not really screwing it up before you save it. Just play around with your template, it's yours and almost anything you do is fully reversable . . . just remember to save the original before you get to fiddle-happy.

:iagree: Me neither, keep 'em coming.

Oh. I tend to be a little slow typing, LOL. :D

Hey, that's a good question. Anyone?