Thanks so much...we're on and have our webpage started! This will be a great place for him to start.

What he'd really like to do eventually is make a website for kids to play games. Yes, I know this exists. He's had LDs so I don't want to discourage this new interest. I've gotten out a couple of book for him from the library: Web Design for Dummies and an HTML book. They are thick, thick, thick. I have no idea if this is even where we start. Where should I go? I don't want to bog him down with unnecessary reading. Is there an easy how-to spot to go to on the web? How do people with blogs do it?

I just found my lost TE of Vocab from Classical Roots C on top of the paper cutter under a slew of random papers. Your Homer core book is in an equally stupid spot. You will either find it a) in a few months or b) right after you order a new one. Good luck!!! :D

:iagree: yup, yup, yup

Per instructions from this board, I, too, bought an Otterbox Defender. Would love to have something slimmer, but I feel much better knowing that the phone is protected -- from just about everything.

Yes, I believe you're right. Living in Canada may prove much too cold for you. Well, we'll just have to move my family in with yours! :)

Thanks, Dana. Are you willing to move in anytime soon? :D

Everyone...I am overwhelmed with gratitude toward all the responses, both in encouragement and actually helping me with the problem! I now have a few more tools and will be printing this all up and pouring over it so I can learn it!!!! Hugs to you all!!!!!! :grouphug: :)

Sigh -- can one of you math whizzes just come and live with me? I'm going to have a nervous breakdown with this. Thanks for helping! (My dd thanks you all, too!!!)

Regentrude, what you're saying makes sense because this is the other question she couldn't figure out (can anyone help with this one???...and maybe help us figure out WHY we're not able to "get" these???): Betty and Alex are the same age. Betty has announced that if she were to get younger at the same rate that Alex were getting older, in 11 years, he would be three times her age. How old are they now? Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

Elegant Lion and Kiara....are those type of word questions ALWAYS d=rt? There's nothing else I'm ever looking for??? This question comes after chapter four in the cities section: El Campo. These types of questions are also found in the pre-algebra texts and they ALL make me want to stab myself in the eye with a dull pencil. If *I* can't get them, then how can dd get them???? Sigh. Hopefully after doing one year of this in LoF, when we move on to TT it'll be easier. Thanks for the help. Both dd and I will be sitting down and reviewing how Kiara got the answer.

Thanks LG. :)

I cannot stand algebra. I hate math. DD (gr.8) is doing LoF algebra this year and will be repeating algebra in TT next year (she's not a math person either). The next few years will be hell in math. This is the type of question that we just CANNOT "get"...there's only an answer to this in the book, not how they got it...so if you can tell me the process of getting it, I'd appreciate it. Alex and Betty walk at 4mph to their car. It takes them almost an hour. In their car they travel at 16mph the same distance they walked. All together, their walking and traveling by car takes exactly an hour. How long did they walk? That's it. I realize it's pretty basic but you give us any question like that and there's no way we'll figure out how to make the equation. Give us the equation and it's easy peasy to figure it out from there. How in the world are we going to get better at this if we can NEVER EVER figure out how to do it?????????????? :crying::crying::crying:

So if I did Insanity after I'd have to add some upper body strength training on my own I guess. I'd hate for all this work to go to waste, especially since my upper body is quite weak to begin with!!!

Hey LG...question...when I'm done my first cycle of P90X, if I do Insanity after that, will I lose the muscle I've gained?

I've been continuing with P90X. I'm on week 4, core synergistics....I missed it yesterday so I'm going to be doing CS AND Kenpo today! Wish me luck!

Well, if I had my wits about me I would have been completely sarcastic. But thankfully God gives us a few seconds more than that to answer gracefully. Just let it be...what would the alternative be? That your dd is just like other teens...uninterested, unresponsive, has an attitude? Who CARES if she can't relate to them (and who says she can't?)? On the other hand, maybe the REAL concern is that the other teens can't relate to your DD!!! What does that say about them?????????????? (lots of ??? for emphasis) :D On top of that, how about the teacher's inappropriate comment? He, too, is obviously a little "at odds" with society as we all know that comments like that are rude, rude, rude!!!!

Potatoes, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, tamarios, pepinos, pimentos, paprika, cayenne, and Tabasco sauce are classified as nightshade foods. ITA with this poster. My naturopath has me off of gluten, dairy, sugar, and nightshade veggies among other things. For my joint pain I'm off nightshade veggies. The other things are for other symptoms. She never mentioned anything other than going off of nightshade veggies for my pain, though. Just an fyi. :)

I just purchased Pink Solution for the first time and opened it up, took the bag of stuff out and it's all wet. The actual product is also wet...looks like a slimy film on top. Is it supposed to come like this or could some water somehow have gotten in???

Thanks both to Capt and MamaJ. Yes, I did stretchx the other day instead of yoga and it felt really good to do that stretching (I had done cardiox right before it, too). Ok, so I'll stretch on my day off!!!!

Question....what really is better for one's body...rest one day a week or do StretchX???

Capt, I just read that 1 hour of shovelling is about 400 calories burned, so I think that 4 hours is sufficient! Permission to skip the yoga - just this once! Thanks so much for the encouragement. It's inspiring to know that you've come so far and pushed through the toughest parts!

It must feel so good to be mid-way through week 11!!!! Right now I feel like I'm at the bottom of Mount Everest. I hope that I stick with it so that when I am where you are now I'll think, "I didn't even thought it was possible!"

I did, but you just don't look like a big muscular black man!!!! ;)