My 9th grade dd did Omni 1 this year. She's an excellent reader, writer, and student. We chose to do all of the primary books, which was a ton of reading, and it took her all year. (She also read the Narnia books that were scheduled in the secondary reading but as of yet she's done no work for that.) She also read SWB's History of the Ancient World and wrote a paragraph or two about an event in each chapter. Finally she did some other theology reading. For all that I'm giving her three credits. This coming year she'll be doing Omni 2 and I'll only have her read 1/2 the books again, but will discuss with her which ones she wants and we'll do less in the primary and more in the secondary so that the reading load isn't as burdensome. HTH.

Thanks for the replies. Would an allergy test show sensitivity to hand soap/sanitizer, or would it have to be specific to that particular soap?

My dd has been having what I thought was on an off eczema on her face. I haven't been sure what's causing it. However... When I dropped her off at church (in a school gym) yesterday her face was completely clear. When I picked her up she had an outbreak over her chin and a little under her nose. Nothing out of the normal was done. She had Skittles to eat there. But... Her friend also had a reaction to something and she had NOT eaten anything up to that point. Hers was on her arm, about 2 inches across it. Weird! They could be separate cases, as I'm not sure if they're related. Thoughts?

Oh man, so much liability. That scares the pants off me!!! Thanks for your advice. :001_smile:

Wonderful advice! Thanks so much!!!! :D Henjen or Fairfarmhand, any advice about hours? Do you say you have set hours and if they want extra time before or after, how would you handle extra cost?

Thanks for your reply. Hopefully we'll get a few more which will give us ideas! :001_smile:

No one? Come on, surely someone has advice!!!!

I'm considering providing summer home care for school-age children in my home. Has anyone done this or put their children into daycare for the summer? Here are some questions: 1) What should I charge? 2) What should the parents expectation from me? 3) What should I expect from the parents? 4) What kind of activities should I provide? (I have four children, and they just play outside and in during the summer...should I be doing more sit-down stuff?) I'm hoping I can get a few children in that would be around my three younger kids' ages. This way everyone will have playmates...but also I realize we may need an hour of alone time, too! Thanks...if there's anything I haven't asked, please include anything else!!!!

I don't have a cyst, just heavy periods. My ablation was was I think like a d&c, he went in and scraped the lining down. Or something like that (it definitely wasn't with water...he felt that the one he does is more complete...to each doctor his own, I suppose!). I'm having a brain freeze and I cannot remember the kind. But he said that a return of a heavy cycle, like what has happened to some posters, means that either not all was removed, or it's grown back. It happens to 20% of women for the type of procedure I had. So if this happens to me, I wouldn't necessarily say it didn't work, I'd say I need to go back and get the rest taken care of. I expect that I will have bleeding at periods...though I hope deep down I'll be a lucky one and only spot!

FYI to anyone reading this....we did an ablation where I went into the hospital and went under general. He felt that it was the most thorough ablation but did say that it doesn't work for everyone. In that he meant, another surgery was needed to go back and get completely everything. So I think that if my bleeding comes back, it's not that the operation was a failure, it just means that we need to go back and tweak what he missed, or what grew back for whatever reason.

Thanks so much, ladies! I'll start light exercise tomorrow since it'll be 2 weeks. It'll be interesting to see what comes of my cycle. I, too, hope I'm a lucky one with no more period. :)

I had an ablation done almost two weeks ago. During one of my consults, the doctor said no cardio or weight training for 1 week and no relations or swimming/baths for 3 weeks. When I went into surgery I double checked the exercising and he said 3 weeks! What did your doctor tell you??? Also, I was getting my cycle fairly regularly. I had the ablation done mid-cycle. Can I expect my period, or period symptoms when my cycle is due, or does it get messed up? My cycle would normally be due tomorrow and I'm feeling these weird twinges in my uterus. Just not sure what I can expect! Thanks!

I put a small drop of red in it and it became orange. So then I took the orange colour and just used a dab of it and added it to the amber and it made it a muddier amber...enough to have a colour difference between the light and the traffic light (that totally doesn't make sense but I'm not sure what to call the "case" that holds the lights!!!). Thanks, Ladies!

Thanks, Tamara. We were discussing this (re: primary colour)...dd was adding all sorts of things and we ended up with a lovely orange shade - - hardly the shade of a traffic light!!!! :) :D

We're painting Awana cars...ds's is a traffic light. We have the perfect colour for the actual traffic light, but for the lights inside we need a good colour of amber, that's either deeper or brighter than the traffic light itself. We're sitting here adding colours to our existing amber colour to deepen it or brighten it, but we are just NOT figuring out what colour it needs to affect it properly. Help???

Thanks!

Just wondering if there's any way around doing Apologia's biology course without the huge investment....any suggestions?

Thanks for the responses! This pain feels so different than what I've felt before but you never know...maybe gluten/dairy/sugar free is what I need. It's just so dang hard!!!!! I can last two weeks max then falter. Boo!

I go gluten/sugar free on and off. That first weekend I felt like this I had eaten like crap, so I went 6 days eating gluten/sugar free and it still happened. Argh! I don't think it's a stomach bug...I feel fine otherwise, no fever, etc. Weird!

Anyone?

I've had IBS for 24 years. Usually the pain is more like stabbing, or like someone is twisting my intestines. It can have me doubled over and when I get it it NEVER goes away until I fall asleep in the evening. Really, I haven't had many flare-ups in the past 7 or 8 years. I started a new med and the doctor says it should not affect my stomach. Lately I've been having a new stomach pain and the only thing I can think of is that maybe it's a new way of getting IBS. Around my belly button and radiating in a circle is a constant pain. The best way I can describe it is how it feels when you're REALLY fully. Like bursting full. But I get it even when I'm really hungry, so it's not that I'm full. It's a constant ache. I had it on Mar. 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, and 25. So not every day. It usually comes around 2-4 in the afternoon and lasts until bedtime, but by bedtime it's eased up. It starts light, gets bad, then lightens up again. Only once it lasted 3 hours and it was gone. Has anyone ever experience an IBS attack that's similar to what I'm describing? Or does it sound like something unrelated? Thanks!

I use Firefox and dh uses Safari. Recently I went to bed one night and my Firefox was fine and woke up and it will not connect to the internet. It's like it's been wiped clean (no bookmarks). So I have to use dh's Safari. I HATE it. I miss my Firefox and my bookmarks. Where did it go? Why won't it connect? Can anyone help????

I have IBS...gluten free seems to be the way to go, as per the two naturopaths I've had. FYI, I'm also supposed to be going sugar/dairy/yeast free as well (candida is an issue for those that have gut problems). I find it difficult going off these things...what one is intolerant to is usually what they crave! :001_huh:

In hindsight I wish I hadn't bought it. DD said that a lot of it was actually covered in Apologia's science programs but it was more interesting...and like the other poster said, there's a lot of obvious stuff in it.

Thanks to everyone who responded!!!! If anyone knows lice, it's me! :) When dd had it a few years ago I spent 41 hours picking....41 hours!!!! It was bad! I didn't let her play with friends for two weeks as I would be horrified if we knowingly passed it on to another. I had an email all written up to the coach and saved it in my draft folder. By the time dh came home I really felt like going to the coach to deal with it wasn't the way to go, and dh agreed. Though it technically has nothing to do with politics, anything "rep" can be political so I wanted to be careful. So in the end for discretion and kindness sake, and because my dd and B consistently are beside one another, I decided to email only B's mom. As I was writing this I received a very nice reply. Her mom had had surgery on the 15th and tried to ensure that B went to hockey with braided hair. Unfortunately B slipped out of the house one time without it and perhaps that's what I'm referring to. She seemed convinced that everyone was clear of lice, though I have my doubts since the professional picker took out 30 young bugs yesterday. Having said that I feel ok with how the conversation went and that B wasn't further embarrassed (all the team mates know because of the original email that went out the parents from B's mom). Again, thanks for your words of encouragement and wisdom!