Love Satin Hands but use dry skin cleanser almost nightly- takes off eye make-up extremely well and leaves my skin moisturiezed and clean.

The second week of the Virtual Curriuclum Fair is under way. This week features over 20 bloggers from around the globe, talking about a ton of math, science and logic resources. Links to everyone here.

The VCF will run all month, withe new topics posted each Saturday. There are over 35 bloggers this year and a link-up for you to join us! Tons of great curriculum discussed, including many from TWTM. This week is English/Langauge Arts. Saturday begins Math, Science, Logic.

Do the basics. Explore like crazy. It's a new season- embrace it!

We had one after our fire for about a year after we moved back in. We didn't have the floors done on the 2nd floor floors refinished and lived in the basement/ first floor. One of the smaller bedrooms was totally legos- no furniture, just old sleeping bags and bins of legos. The kids LOVED it and played for hours in that room -along with whatever friends came over.

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MP has a lit guide for Chaucer. I'm not a lit guide girl in general, but for stuff I dont' know well (i.e. Dante, Chaucer) , I think MP does a terrific job

MP has a lit guide for Chaucer. I'm not a lit guide girl in general, but for stuff I dont' know well (i.e. Dante, Chaucer) , I think MP does a terrific job

I didn't want today to happen either. I had 11 days of blissful no work. Today was back to work and school and our generally busy schedule. I printed Donna Young weekly planners and filled them in for both kids and they did everything on Monday. Woot. Computer classes started today. I'm directing a group for our area One Act Play Festival in Jan so worked on that a bit. The house is relatively clean but we haven't touched taking down the Xmas decos- I am sitting next to the Xmas tree, enjoying the twinkle lights in the midst of a blizzard- dh came hom 2 hours ago, due to the storm.

So glad they wrote the school teacher away. How could such a good teacher be so stoopid about what it means to sit at Lord G's table? Glad at least Mary had something to say to her. And I'm with you, Shelly about Mary. I wish they had worked in how maybe "testing" the waters worked to the demise of what could have been.

The 5th Annual VCF is up and running with Week 1: Word Play. There are over 20 bloggers invovled, including a link-up for others. Each week will feature a different topic: Math, Sciences and History, the Arts.

This year I'll be learning more about Office 365 along with a greater understanding of the CRM I use for work. I will be getting more serious about Latin (Henle) and taking more speaker training.

Alpha Phonics

My review of MP's Core 6 is here. You can't go wrong with MP.

We are currently reading the Verily, New Hope trilogy. Its' a Shakespeare/Star Wars smash-up, extremely humorous and all told in iambi pentameter. Good, clean fun!

Julie- I developed my on short hand in grad school.

To my dh, it was like winning the lottery. He still has a box of rocks from when he was a boy- we've hauled it around the country with us. He is a bonafide nerd (and I am the non-nerd wife who love him-lol!)

have you considered teaching her the Cornell Notetaking system? Google it and you'll come up with tons of info. I agree with Regentrude about the importance of memory and handwriting. And, as a highly visual person myself, I am writing, writing, writing all the time. If I see it and write it, I GET it.

I do love being able to make decent money and still be home to homeschool but it's been a huge juggling match. I always feel like if I am concentrating on one thing, I'm ignoring another- maybe that is just the plight of the working woman? The job is a good fit, but it is much more computer work than I thought it would be and I'll tell ya'- this year has about cooked my grits with the incessant computer learning curve. We have changed 3 different systems in the past year. I am much more of a people person than tech person-lol! They sure didn't hire me for tech, but I'm learning it anyway!

We lived an hour from the Caprock in NM for several years. It's a great place to go rock hunting. Dh found a 8" across ammonite there several years ago. It's a bit rough, but not polished, and a huge find for an amateur.

Your current job sounds wonderful!

A SAHM I know who worked as an engineer BK, had patents and made great money, recently went back to work. She can't get hired as an engineer and went back to work as an actuary.

I've noticed several therapists on this thread. I have an MFT but the cost of getting licensed in my area is a deal breaker.

I would leave them off or finish them out by purchasing partial life pacs from AOP or ACE if you need the credits or the course.

I work from home as a high-school Academic Advisor for a homeschool company that works with students world wide. I have been out of the professional world for twenty years.