Saille
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Has anyone ever seen this game?
It was tested in my school when I was a kid, and we always really enjoyed it. It occurred to me to look it up and see if it was still around, and it seems they've re-released it. At any rate, it was always a fun strategy game that required us to think three-dimensionally, and a math game thread I saw this morning made me think of it, although this isn't exactly what the poster was asking for/about.
Hope someone ends up liking it. I'm going to grab it for us.
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Sorry, I'm one of the people who bought BB2, but b/c we are doing Latin two days, Greek two days, it is taking us for-freaking-ever to get done with BB1. I have part of BB2 printed and ready to go, but we are still slogging through the last chapter of BB1.
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We love NOVA, Nature, Time Team America, Science Now, all the "house" shows (Colonial House, Frontier House), the Ken Burns documentaries, etc..
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I can recount numerous situations over the past quarter century when my dh (who is an intellectual and polymath) was discounted (including at his place of employment) or, kinda, nicely made fun of for kwowing more than joe-public (0r even the other professionals with whom he worked).
I found this very common when I was teaching in ps. It was a huge turn-off for me, and is one of the reasons we homeschool.
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And equally, an exclusively academic education without skills like basic plumbing, electricity, and house repair really are big "gaps" that affect some of us (i.e. me), when we end up paying out huge amounts of money to have things fixed that others can do by themselves.
My dh and his sister were given a much better grounding in this sort of thing than I was, b/c my in-laws were DIY-ers who never minded explaining what they were doing. They pay to have things done more now, but they're a good bit older, and both still working full time. In my family (parents/siblings), there seems to be a real bias against doing many things one's self...anything other than light gardening/simple cosmetic improvements. As we learn to do more things ourselves to cut expenses, it becomes more and more apparent.
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Most people are in utter shock when they hear that we don't have cable, or any TV signal, and worse yet, don't care.
I actually do have quite a few friends who just use hulu and netflix. But wow, do I ever get sticker shock when we look at what cable costs! Or cell phone plans! (I have one of those tracphones you buy minutes for, and it's only for emergencies. But every single person at my workplace, including kids, has a slick looking, colorful phone with texting.)
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Relatedly (?), my husband once returned from a shopping trip with a photo on his cell phone of two potatoes (skins still on), on a styrofoam tray and wrapped in plastic wrap for $4-something. Apparently they were sitting right next to the 10 lb for $3 bags. I've also seen a plastic container of cut up watermelon for $7! About 4 cups worth. What?
They do the same thing with mushrooms, and I don't know what all else. Bulk right next to small packages. The thing with the mushrooms is, they're not even in a self-contained bag. You take the number you need out of the bulk storage. So it's not like there's some person saying, "But I don't need a whole bag of mushrooms!"
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My grandmother used to cut open her toothpaste tubes. She would also water down her shampoo and keep the leftovers from all the plates! My brother and I would laugh and laugh.
Dh's grandpa washed and dried his plastic sandwich bags. Folks who lived through the Depression...now THEY knew frugal!
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A lot of people I know RL are big into the whole couponing thing right now. I can tell some of them think it's crazy that I wouldn't *want* to do it too. Well, no. I'm happy for them that it enables them to buy more whatever or save more for whosit. But I've made my choices, and I don't appreciate being looked at as if I haven't thought it through. I have.
Huh. The thing with coupons, at least for me, is that once you've started cooking more things from scratch (because it's cheaper than buying convenience food), the coupons aren't really a savings on items you'd *buy*. A lot of them are designed to get you to try new products.
Different people are going to prioritize different things and therefore be frugal in different ways. I was frugal on the cloth diapers/lack of formula, but organic food is more expensive, for sure. We buy our clothes at the thrift store, but I drop most of our tax refund on homeschooling curriculum/supplies every year.
Folks who are economizing on their vacation/eating out/etc., are not really having the same conversation as people who rarely buy their clothes new.
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I've been struggling with this question lately. I know that ultimately as a Christian, my worth comes from God - not only as His creation but also as His special creation (through salvation). But I think I also derived a lot of my self worth from what I could do for my family and for society. This year has stripped me from being able to do most of what I used to do.
Whether you are physically able to "do" for others right now does not change the fact that you are a person whose spirit rises to do what needs doing.
I agree that pride can become an issue when you are not able to accomplish what you normally would...refusing to accept help from others can inadvertently deprive them of important experiences and lessons you yourself have benefited from when you were the one doing the helping.
I hope that's coherent. I was half asleep when I saw this, but my heart went out to you.
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I can already see that it's going to be extraordinarily useful, and push conversations in a new direction.
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In NY, you can list materials you will use, you can submit a syllabus of topics you plan to cover, etc.. So, in theory, you could ask your unschooler what they'd like to learn about that year in the various subjects, type that up, and submit it...as long as you don't forget my favorite paperwork caveat:
"Subjects covered may include but are not limited to:"
I don't actually bold it in the IHIP. :D
I find that phrase very useful, as I reserve the right to tweak my (non-unschooling, classical) curriculum at my discretion.
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w00t!!! I hit 50K tonight! Ds9 is done, too. I'm gonna move heaven and earth to make sure dd7 has time to finish tomorrow. She's so close!
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I'm using Lively Latin with my kids, not LfC, but it does teach grammar, and the kids receive grammar instruction through Greek, as well. So far MCT has complemented our other grammar instruction.
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Not only is that super cool, but your kid is adorable!
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I was at Jo Ann's at six a.m. buying flannel. :crying:
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I was just looking at my buddy list, and we've got a quite a few people who are either winners, or darn close! I'm finally sure I'm going to make it, and I'm so excited for you that you did! Hurrah!
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Amazon is has a very strange policy. No legal p***n but they have had the pedophilia book and the other Man/Love book.
The 'we don't censor' argument holds no water with me. If they truly were not biased then they'd carry legal forms of p***n.
Huh. That is a really logical argument. It hadn't occurred to me to check whether they sell porn, but I agree, it makes no sense to defend the one and not stock the other.
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I just wanted to share this site. Just type "write or die" into your address bar. You set a word count goal and time limit, a level of consequences, and the length of your "grace period" before consequences will be applied for not writing.
Once you hit start, you have to type. You can pause once during the time period you've set, and that's it. If you stop writing for more than five seconds, the screen starts to turn red. Eventually, you'll hear a crying baby, or get rickrolled. If you still don't do anything, it will start backspacing, erasing the words you've written. When you run out of time or meet your goal, it loads a page that allows you to tweet/facebook what you accomplished, and copy your work before leaving the site.
It's a heck of a motivator. I wrote about 2500 words today in an hour and a half. I'm still at about a 3000 deficit b/c I had the flu the first week, and I'm hoping to use this to close the gap!
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I know! How the heck does she do that?
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I always liked to cook, but wasn't generally allowed to cook...until my mom started going to night school when I was in hs. I started out reheating casseroles, and ended up teaching myself to cook various things, but I wouldn't have been able to do so if my mom was home.
Dh's mom loves to cook, but she never seems to have thought of teaching him. To this date, he still only has one recipe he makes well that is *his* thing to cook. He's handy in the kitchen, but his work schedule is so crazy that we'd all starve to death if we waited for him to come home and feed us. He does the bill paying and most of the laundry, b/c those can be done at all hours.
My favorite cooking friend right now is the husband half of a couple we see socially sometimes. He works from home and she's a teacher, so he does most of the cooking. He's an amazing baker, and he tends to post on fb about what's on the stove. I find I'm more motivated to cook when the people around me are also cooking yummy things. They've had a couple of dinner parties, and he's done the lion's share of the cooking each time.
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I like what texasmama said, but I wanted to pop in and say "Welcome!"
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I think it's because "lots" has become a semantic stand-in for "plenty". See, if you said, "There is plenty of food," that would be just fine.
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I'll be hitting Jo-Ann's for cheap fabric.
Other than that...I wish someone was doing some huge doorbuster on the new iPod nano, b/c ds9 really wants one, has good reasons, and has taken excellent care of the shuffle he saved up for a few years ago, but I think it is not to be.
For all you fans of "A Christmas Story"
in General Education Discussion Board
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I have loved that movie for years, and just found out from my mom last Christmas that my grandpa grew up in that neighborhood, and knew the author of the book.