I imagine the British empire would have faded to nothing if people didn't drink tea while nursing. I think you'll be okay.

I think we're going to cancel Netflix soon. My husband has one show he likes to watch there, but for the $105/yr we pay, I could just buy the newly released season on Amazon (and then some!). Amazon has really come leaps and bounds with their streaming service, plus I like that I have the option of renting movies.

USCCB.org has some wonderful Advent and Christmas resources on their site every year. This is the page from 2012. We refer to this often.

In Florida, the law allows the executor to liquidate some assets in order to pay for funeral and other expenses. IIRC, the amount was $10,000. Anything over that is supposed to go to the debt holders.

No clue. We're making an interstate move towards the end of the month. Their costumes will probably be whatever is left that fits!

The Jax Zoo is right off of 95, on the north side of town. It's pretty nice!

I second the Crockpot. The only food I really cook in the microwave (as opposed to just reheating) is rice. You can "bake" potatoes in there, though, and there are lots of steam-in-bag vegetable options available.

"When I eat at the White House, I'll use the correct fork." "Then we'll wait to go out again until the White House invites us." I expect age-appropriate good manners at the table and in general.

Thank you! I'm another one about to take the plunge. I've been drawn to MP ever since I first saw it and finally decided to give it a go next year. We'll start with 2nd grade, keeping our current math program in lieu of R&S. I'm looking forward to it.

She wouldn't be responsible for a short sale, though. If there is a mortgage on the house, her only duty would be to provide the mortgage company with a copy of the death certificate. It's up to the mortgage company to manage the property at that point.

The estate is responsible for paying any debts. If there are no monies to settle the debts, the debts are forgiven. You are only a beneficiary if there are any monies left over after debts are settled. You are not responsible for the debts themselves.

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Worksheetworks.com. It creates the sheet as a PDF and you can save that on your computer for later.

I received a diaper cake and it was very cute, but it was kind of a pain to store all of the diapers. She'd used size 2s, if I remember correctly, and my little guy was premature and didn't hit those until he was about 6 months old.

Playmobil, definitely. Legos. Also, the big Megablock Lego-type ones. My son loves to make big fortresses out of those. We've got Keva planks on his Christmas list, too.

We learned that lesson the hard way. Four weeks in the hospital with our son after taking him to Mass for his baptism, two of which were in the PICU and one of those was with him intubated. Please stay home if you have a runny nose. It might be a little cold; it might be RSV. It might be the very first stages of the flu.

Nope.

States require auto insurance to protect people or property you may injure while driving. Mortgage companies require homeowner's insurance in order to protect their investment. Neither auto insurance nor homeowner's insurance are required if you don't drive or own a house. This is the only thing I can think of that you are required to buy simply through the act of being alive.

We adapt the meeting heavily and have since we started with K. We're on 2 now, and it still works for us. I didn't even get the meeting book this year. We skip the graph questions completely and skip those questions on the assessment. Our morning meeting pretty much consists of stating today's day and date and then I hand him a little dry erase board that has the day's pattern, the money amount for the day written in a box, and 3 blank number sentences for whatever today's date is. He fills in the pattern, counts out the money using his cup of coins, and comes up with the equations while I pull our materials for the lesson. We run through the counting exercises quickly and even skip some days when the lesson itself is longer or when there's an assessment that day. I really like Saxon, but I think I really like it because I don't feel as if I have to read every single word in the script. I definitely adapt it to whatever my son's level is. Some days, I'll read over the whole lesson and see that it's something he's already mastered. Those days, we just do the drill sheet and worksheet. Or I might see that there is a little bit of new material and the rest review of something we've covered to death. I'll pick that piece out and skip the rest. Some days, the lesson is very simple, but it sparks a conversation about some higher level concepts. We'll spend twenty minutes exploring that idea before finishing off the lesson and completing the worksheets. It all depends on what we're covering that day, what kind of mood he's in, etc. I personally feel more freedom within a highly structured program like Saxon, odd as that may sound. The new information or changes in the meeting jump out at me, so I find it easy to know when we really need to cover something as written and when I can adapt at will.

That's what EWTN is for. ;)

Maybe these are all being put out by textbook publishers. :D

Really? This is the first I've seen. What were the other ones about?

Aw, bummer. I was hoping they found some fossils on Mars or something.

Hmmm. When you hover over the Facebook icon, it says "Mars Curiosity." If you click on it, you just go to the Facebook home page, though.

Microbes? Humanoid life? We're getting hit by a huge comet tomorrow and they just wanted to have fun beforehand?