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We don't vaccinate for chicken pox here. I am getting a bit nervous, as none of my kids have had chicken pox yet and I keep hearing bad stories about getting it as a teen.
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Are you asking about actual vaccines and schedules?
Or are you curious about anti vaccination groups and how influential they are, and whether there is much public debate?
I was interested to see the conversation about mercury, because in Australia no vaccines on the early childhood schedule contain thimerosal anymore. The actual schedule is available online if you would like to look at it in detail.
I'm always interested in that, too, in a weird kind of way :D.
There is a small, but very vocal anti-vax group in the Netherlands, which apparenty gets all their info from American websites. After getting told that the horrible mercury in vaccins will ab-so-lu-te-ly damage my kids....and then discovering that there has never been any mercury in Dutch vaccins......not a good experience.
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Once I've eaten I am going to bury myself in Eve Dallas world again (I read while I walked to work today and told my colleagues who caught up to me outside the school doors "can't talk, new book" at which point they concluded that, no, despite staring at my phone I was NOT like the students :lol: )
:lol: & I'm jealous! It's going to take ages before the new In Death will be at the library here. Fortunately I'm at book 23, so I still have some to go :D.
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Multiquote thing...aaargh.
Nan, I can't imagine that amount of snow. We only have rain here. Lots of rain.
Eliana, congratulations!
M-Mv, congratulations!
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I'm enjoying my charge HR. I have the small size and keep it on the smallest-but-one hole. I haven't had to move it up my arm. I don't find it uncomfortable, but I often used to wear my watch at night before anyway.
It does over-count my sleep at the beginning of the night (before I actually fall asleep), but I do like that it validates my feelings when I wake up unrested - I can always see the restlessness in the night's record when I do.
I particularly like the heart beat monitor, as it helps me to make sure to get the intensity of exercise that I want. I also love the silent alarm.
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Thanks, Laura.
I also love the silent alarm of my flex! I'm not sure I need the heart rate function of the Charge, but I do like that it counts stairs.
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Thanks for the review, NavyMommy.
Dd11's fitbit won't charge anymore and dh suggested giving mine to her and buying a Charge for me.
I'm still undecided.
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Great news, Pam! :hurray:
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Just finished Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls by Leonard Sax. I got the suggestion from somebody here - thank you! It was a good read. Mostly preaching to the choir, although I found the chapter on girl's spirituality challenging. I also felt sad that I can't provide my girls with the amazing community of women that he describes - I don't have that for myself! But it did motivate me to want to try and cultivate it more than I do, for their sake.
I have that book. It's one of the dusties on my list for this year. Good to hear it's worth reading.
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Great find! :hurray:
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That is awesome! :party:
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On behalve of all the WTM-homeschoolers in the Netherlands.....uhm, that would be me&myself.....THANK YOU!
Looking forward to it.
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Thanks!
For 1.59$ I would already have hit the buy button, but at 10.00$ (why is the price always higher for not-Americans? :toetap05: ) I'm waffling.
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According to Ester Maria Schwab used to be *the* standard for teaching Greek mythology in European schools. I remember reading it in high school, not assigned by school, but just because I was interested, but it was't a very exciting read.We own the Gustav Schwab in Dutch, DH used it in Highschool.
To today standerds it isn't a cosy, enjoyable reading.
We have better retellings in Dutch now.
I think Schwab used to be a 'classic' in these areas.
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:grouphug: Praying for you and your baby!
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I have the second one and plan to start it as soon as the church bells stop their serenade. The quarter peal in honour of our dear friend is happening now. I had planned to listen in the tower but ds is ill with a stomach bug so I am home with my poor boy who is missing something he really wanted to do -- he isn't skilled enough to ring in today's event but wanted to be there. Dd and dh are in his place. Windows are open and can easily hear from our house. I don't want to listen to youtube while our bells are ringing but this should give you a great idea of what is happening
It is from the York Minster which has a great ringing team.Eta. I replaced the first link with a better one.
:grouphug: momto2
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Those of you planning to read Jane Eyre.... Are any of you also planning to read Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair along with it? It is a fun one to add to your reading, imo. :D
(And now posting that makes me want to reread The Eyre Affair whether or not I read Jane Eyre, lol!)
I am having so much luck finding BaW recommendations in my library recently! It's really amazing.
Last week I read that Chameleon book you all were talking about, in a Dutch translation no less. Yesterday I finished Penelope Lively's Consequences (such a sweet book!) and this morning dh picked up Shikasta, by Doris Lessing, and All the Light We Cannot See.
I just put The Eyre Affair on hold. Amazing.
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Yes, now I remember reading your post about Wide Sargasso Sea and why it bumped higher on my TBR list. (I bought it originally because I was following Great Courses' A Days Read.) Thanks for finding your old post!I too re-read Jane Eyre last year; while I did not immediately read Wide Sargasso Sea, I read it shortly thereafter. About Wide Sargasso Sea I wrote:
Jane Eyre was one of my favorite books of '14, one that I certainly did not appreciate as a high school student.
I had Jane Eyre on my reading list for my English (foreign language) state exams. I found it such a slog, and so boring, and you had to look for all this symbolism stuff (lightning in trees, flying birds, colour-of-such-and-something), yuck. Although to be honest, my lack of reading skills in English at that time had a lot to do with finding it a slog :D. That shouldn't be a problem now.
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That's what I did last year - re-read Jane Eyre and then immediately read Wide Sargasso Sea. It was absolutely fascinating to read them together, but it definitely changes your feeling about the Rochester character. I never know if that's a good thing or a bad thing - to have your feeling about a character affected by his portrayal in a different book, by a different author?
Yes, I know. Like seeing a movie and having that change how you thought the characters looked like. I'm going to take my chances :), Wide Sargasso Sea is high on my dusties list.
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Thanks, Kareni, for mentioning Charles de Lint's free Kindle book! I always appreciate your free finds.
Stacia, I'm sending you a PM.
JennW, thanks for mentioning Bitch in Bonnets! Now I have broken my no-book-buying rule for 2015 ;). Luckily, at 1.20$ for the Kindle edition it's not too bad and it won't take up any space.
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I had planned to read Jane Eyre, and Sargasso Sea because I vaguely remember it has some connection to Jane Eyre, but all this talk about Jane Austen has me itching to reread Sense and Sensibility. Hmmmm, I might need to flip a coin or something :).Nope. I am considering a Jane Eyre re-read. Read it in high school. Read it again... a long time ago. Loved it both times. But can I really justify a re-read with so many new books in my TBR stacks (and I mean many, many stacks!!)?!
I hear you on the stacks and stacks of your TBR books, although mine are mostly dusties. I really want/need to read lots of dusties this year. And there is definitely no dust on my Jane Austens :D.
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No magic wand here, but I can give you a virtual :grouphug: .
Maybe make a list in order of priority and try to finish the most important goals?
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The Edgar Nominees have been released.
NPR - for a deeper night's sleep, forgo the e-reader. What do you think? What has been your experience getting to sleep after reading a regular book vs e-reader. I don't know about getting to sleep faster but my hands are freezing by the time stop reading ereader versus a regular book.
I saw that in the Dutch newspapers too and it got me concerned. I almost exclusively read on my ereader in bed, but I absolutely do not want to mess with my sleep. I wonder though if they are talking about e-ink readers or ipad-like readers? I always thought that e-ink readers weren't using blue lights, but maybe the ones with build-in lights do? (That's the one I have.) In the Dutch newspapers they specifically mentioned e-ink readers, but they didn't say anything about the lights. If you were to read an e-reader without using the build-in light, you would use the same light as the people who read regular books, right? Why would that be a problem? Doesn't make sense to me.
ETA, I know see that this article mentions reading on an ipad. That makes sense! Weird, the difference in newspaper articles.
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And I, oddly, *loved* 'The Old Man in the Sea'. I read it in high school and while the symbolism was lost on me I loved his spareness of language, his imagery and the vast silence that permeated the book. I tried and failed to engage with other of his books but TOMatS has remained in my heart.
I agree. I haven't read any other books of his, but I really liked the Old Man and the Sea.
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