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zarabellesmom

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  1. This is it, exactly! But sometimes the wait is killer.
  2. I signed my oldest up for her very first online class for next fall. I'm so excited to hand off history to someone else. You can't even imagine my relief.
  3. Also, my medication almost totally kills the overwhelming anxiety and depression I "enjoy" while without medication. While medicated, I can take an afternoon off school and not panic that we are getting behind. It only took years and years of failed therapy and wrong medication to get me to a state where I can lead a happy, normal, relatively boring(in a good way) life. Someone tell me why my phone thinks the word "to" should always be spelled "too". It's a conspiracy to make me look stupid isn't it?
  4. I'm COMPLETELY normal too... At least when I'm medicated. Ok... Mostly normal when I'm medicated. Completely is a bit of a stretch even on my best days. I do put on a good show and most people don't notice I'm a little"off" unless they get to know me. ;) I spent a fortune having my oldest seen by a NeuroPsych. It was worth every penny too. I learned she was ADHD inattentive type (not really a surprise, just a confirmation). She has slow processing speed and below average working memory. In addition to that, I learned she was well well well above average in every other way. It was totally awesome to see the testing reflect the weirdness I was seeing in our daily home school adventures. How can she be so smart, but can't remember basic math facts after years of practice. The upside... She does know her math facts. They will just never be speedy. Now I know to just wait that extra five to ten seconds and out pops the information we need. It's buried in there somewhere under all the other cool information she knows. Now riddle me this... How can she memorize a long poem easily and still not be able to tell me quickly that 6x6 is 36? Years I've invested in these *€<{`* multiplication facts. Years I tell you. ETA: my phone corrects the oddest things. How confirmation became conformation I'll never understand. Why won't it let me fix it?
  5. We stay a good bit ahead in most of our work so a loosey goosey day now and then doesn't have me fussed. I'm not on the spectrum, though. ;)
  6. I'm blowing off the rest of the school day, but I haven't told my children so they think they are being sneaky and avoiding their work. :laugh:
  7. My Web MD diploma says it can cause nausea. And good morning everyone. I'm starting today's school day with a 3 mile walk around the neighborhood. We don't ever do that, but I'm thinking it might help settle everyone down, maybe, possibly, hopefully. Right? I asked Web MD but he doesn't seem to be a homeschool expert. I'm worn out from this week. We've had dress rehearsal for dance recitals every night this week. I'm also poor from buying all the dance photos. Next week is more of the same and then dance is done, soccer is done, school is done. Life is free! We can do whatever we want, (plus a little bit of math, mwah ha ha). T
  8. Speaking of healthcare, I'm sick. Nothing major to write home about. I think its strep throat. I haven't had THAT since I was in elementary, but I remember how it feels and it feels just like this, plus the fever, which I also have. I wanted to take a sick day, but I took one yesterday. I really don't want to go to the doctor. :( Our insurance changed May 1 and I don't have the new cards yet. It's going to be a giant pain in the backside. Also, this week and next week are dress rehearsal for dance recitals and I don't have a lot of extra time. :( Thanks for letting me whine. T ETA: My children have also been rendered stupid by spring weather. Everything today was a struggle. No one knew what they were supposed to be doing or how to do it. I think we are just going to do gentle review for the next couple of weeks and then call it done here.
  9. So glad you posted this. We've been chugging along happily. Today, it's like my kids are brain dead. Every subject. I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm going to finish out the next couple of weeks with just basic review and not try to cram any new information into the distracted noggins.
  10. You were all very busy today. I was very busy cleaning the house. Blech. My MIL announced she would be visiting tomorrow morning. I love her, I really do, and I'm usually thrilled she's visiting, but I really didn't want to clean up today. I didn't even want to do school either. I was very responsible today. Very grown up. Mature even. I need a cookie.
  11. I donnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn't wannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnna do schoooooooooooooooooooool todaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. And neither do my kids. Life is so unfaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir. Just saying.
  12. So... I've decided to go to Canada and it was kind of a spur of the moment, well why not, kind of thing. We've been invited by a friend to visit first of July. Thing is, only my husband has a passport. I've spent the last few days jumping through passport hoops. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I didn't have my youngest's birth certificate. I didn't go get it after she was born because I didn't really need it for anything and the only time I would have needed it was to enroll her in school, which I didn't do...obviously. So I spent yesterday obtaining a birth certificate and today in a crazy passport frenzy. For your entertainment, I present the passport dash: 1. Verify you have all your paperwork in order. Take everything with you that you think you could possibly need including a copy of your husbands passport ID page. 2. Proceed to passport office 45 minutes from your home because your local office requires an appointment and the closest appointment is late May. 3. Realize 3/4 of the way to said office that you have left your drivers license on the printer at home because you were copying it so conscientiously. 4. Return home for said license. 5. Proceed to passport office and arrive to find that you have somehow not brought passport photos for your youngest. (Pardon the language, but WTF?) 6. Enter passport office, hopeful that they can take photos. They can. Rejoice. 7. Present paperwork. Yes, everything is there including the photo of my husband's passport, which it turns out they needed. Wahoo! 8. Pay for passport. Check or money order? I don't carry checks. I brought my credit card. What, that's not acceptable? But I don't remember the pin for my debit card. OHHHHH NOOOOOO! 9. Drive 30 minutes to my closest bank branch. Have debit card repinned. 10. Use said card at bank ATM. Denied. WTF again! 11. Return to bank interior to obtain cash and correct debit card. 12. Grab lunch and drive 30 minutes bank to passport office. 13. Present children (minors must be present for passports). Tada! Paperwork, yes. Payment, yes. Exhausted mom, yes! 14. Process complete. Proceed to wine. Wait, it's only midday. Hmmmm. Ok, wine this evening then. Hurrah, I'm going on vacation! I'll be gone all July. I'm going to brush up on my french so I can speak in Quebec. I'm so excited, even if I am tired from my own moronic hiccups during the whole process. Cheers, T
  13. I was in a tornado once. It was while I was pregnant with my youngest. I've never been more scared in my life. We were in the corner of the basement and when the lights went out, my oldest started screaming that she was hungry and she wanted to go upstairs and eat. Meanwhile the house is starting to groan and the garage doors on the open side of basement were shaking like they were going to come off. When the whole thing was over, my front porch furniture was on one side of my house, and the back porch furniture was on the other. We had some other minor damage. There were other places in our small neighborhood that were much much worse. No one was hurt thank goodness. On a lighter note, the tornado lifted a port-o-potty out of the lawn of one of the neighboring houses that was under construction and set it down in my neighbors yard. We had tons of drive by gawkers that afternoon and one of them pulled up, turned the port-o-potty right side up and used it!!!! Imagine how disgusting it must have been!
  14. Thank you. I've read lots of your math posts and always value your advice. :)
  15. I hadn't really thought of it that way, but you make a very very good point.
  16. Yes, this is what we do too. She drew one or two but they were messy which she doesn't like because she is a perfectionist. I pulled out the C rods and she used those fine but still finds the exercise fairly pointless.
  17. My oldest would have entirely lost her love of math at that age if I had asked her to do every problem. We only ever did enough to show mastery and then moved on to the next topic. This way she remained interested and challenged. She even begged for more.
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