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We just started reading Huckleberry Finn after reading Tom Sawyer last season. My son said it would be his dream to live like Tom . . . .I'm hoping he means the adventure and not all the naughtiness. Mark Twain has captured my son's attention!

Time Traveler's Wife and, giving into WTM peer pressure, I'm also reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander. Time Traveler's Wife is for a book club discussion.

And interestingly, irl I am known to love controversy. I certainly don't shy away from entering into debates regardless how hot they are. For some reason I do not feel completely free to post to controversial threads even though I have plenty to say! :001_smile: (I'd venture to say my family would be shocked to here this.)

I am still undecided primarily because I have three sets of Henle here (3 kids doing same level) and I feel kind of wasteful not using it. Or at least trying to use it. I may waffle on this one a bit longer. Maybe by then we'll have a good routine going with Henle. :001_smile:

I feel so deceptive every day when I'm blending up a smoothie for my kiddies. I use blueberries to mask the colour, a banana for sweetener, o.j. for the liquid and a bit of plain yogurt (or some variation of those ingredients). When I say I add spinach I mean 2 or 3 generous handfuls. They have never noticed. It's my sneaky, secret and I'm not sure when or if I'll ever tell them (although I don't know why they're not suspicious 'cause I'm always shooing them out of the kitchen when I'm making smoothies).

Then $300/mnth for 18 months. And our stove is on the fritz. And our dishwasher is broken. And our lawnmower died yesterday. It always seems everything happens at once! But here's some encouragement. We cut our cable in June and it's not so bad. There's lots you can watch on line. And we use our library for dvd's. Overall I think it's been an improvement to our family life.

The kids have completed Latina Christiana II and I purchased Henle Latin to work through this year. Yesterday I found out that Memoria Press is releasing Second Form Latin in it's beta version. It sounds more user friendly than Henle and I'm tempted to buy it for the kids. Should I or should I just suck it up and work through Henle? The reality is I know we CAN work through Henle but I want to make Latin as enjoyable as possible for my kiddies (and me :001_smile:). Any thoughts?

I'll check it out. (I'm not sure how I'm going to fit in teaching school with knitting! School is really infringing on this new hobby of mine! :001_smile:

Although I'm fearing a transfer of addictions from curriculum to knitting stuff! :001_smile:

But now I'm intrigued so I guess I'll have to plan that project next. Thanks.

Why are they addicting? Easy to knit or great to wear?

I can't tell you what I'm knitting because you'll laugh that I needed to ask that question for such a simple project (a dish rag with a pattern and two colours). I am just starting out and really, really like knitting and really, really want to learn how to do it well. In a previous thread I read "everyone can knit but only some are great knitters" (paraphrased). I want to do it well. Any suggestions for my next project?

Okay I'm a brand new knitter. So I'm following a pattern using two colours. Every time I stop I think I'm going to remember where I left off but apparently I never do. I've unraveled my project so many times my son is poking fun at me. Experienced knitters, how do you keep track of where you are on a pattern? I'm sure there's an obvious answer that I am just not seeing.

I could not stand crying and, like you, I did not have a soft response to the crying. I'm sure my kid's will always remember phrases like "my head is going to pop off if you don't stop". (I still say that now but it's usually for siblings bickering, not crying.) I guess I wished that I would have either sent them for a time out or had a time out myself. It's not easy to do that when they're young but it would have been better than responding negatively to the situation, which more often than not made it worse.

I have the same problem. The only thing I can tell you is that as they age the crying does minimize. I remember the years when we first started schooling. My kids are very close in age so EVERYTHING was a competition. If one got something done faster then the other, there was crying. If one got all the spelling words right and the other didn't, there was crying. Oh my just thinking about those days is making me cringe. What I wished I would have done? Walked away an not responded but it's hard to keep things in perspective when there's so much noise! lol! It will pass and you will look back and realize, like most of us do, how quickly time flies.

It reminded me of a time I needed prayer a few years back. I was going in for major surgery and asked people here for prayer. I can't tell you how effectual that prayer was. All around me at the hospital (in a different city) the days I was there I felt God's grace and comfort in tangible ways. Anyway, I just wanted to encourage people to ask for prayer because it does work. And I wanted to encourage people that praying for others isn't a waste of time. Just sharing my experience and my gratefulness to this community here.

It's tough when life seems to crash down around you. :grouphug: I will pray throughout the day for you.

After a week of flu like symptoms with fatigue and nausea I went to the dr to discover I had contracted Hepatitis A. I also had that feeling that something was there I think similarly to where you describe. Turns out that was my swollen liver. Anyway go to the dr. Sometimes guessing or hoping it goes away doesn't work. Hope you feel better soon.

:iagree: In the end it never worked for my son but it must work sometimes.

Three times we had to have the dentist pull the baby tooth because the root was so solid it was just not going to fall out on its own. (In fact he just had one such offending tooth pulled last week and he's 13. A molar.)

I don't really have great advice but I can empathize with your feelings. Take care of yourself. It's easy to forget about your own health when helping others. :grouphug:

But it was clear and sunny (after a week of constant, heavy rain).

somewhere.

I haven't heard of Mcdougall's diet. I'll investigate it. Thanks.