Thank you both. Filing is my next step. I just didn't want my mother to get in trouble if he flies off the handle, even if it was prearranged. I didn't think about falsely reporting a crime. That's a great point. Thank you both, again, for the encouragement.

Please, anyone?

Please help with any advice you can give. I live in WA state. This is the situation: A vacation was planned for DD to go with my mother (her maternal grandmother) to the Florida Keys. It has been planned for three months, tickets purchased 6 weeks ago and various reservations made. DH and are fighting and he is angry at my mother and is threatening to revoke the vacation and said he will stop it physically because of his dislike of my mother (this week). Mind you verbal agreement was all okay and hunky-dory before their and our blow up. My mother and DH have a very close relationship, since her birth. She has never neglected her, never harmed her (other than doting on her every whim :glare:) Anyhow, does he have the right to cancel this vacation without my consent, or worse call the police and claim kidnapping? Any advice would be appreciated. I have no close friends I can ask. Thank you in advance.

Thanks, tarahillmom. I also have the option, due to her age and progress, of doing Running Start (a free Community College during high school in WA program) I was wondering if actually taking the college courses might be a better route...plus I wouldn't have to pay a gazillion dollars for a home lab. My only hesitancy with that is if she decided (earned) to go Ivy, would having CC courses look worse than AP even if she was 16?

I'm a little ahead of the game. My DD is definitively STEM bound. She's scheduled for HS biology next fall (she'll be in Singapore DM 2 at the same time) My question is: Should she do a regular HS Biology the first year, then to Chem and Physics, and then to AP Biology or ? Is this too much time between? Also, has anyone taken a look at the new AP curriculum objectives and decided on or changed their text choice. I know that Carolina has reworked and added the new AP Biology Investigative Labs, so that's nice. I found a FREE site put out by an AP instructor with TONS of schedules, homework assignments, FREE Bio text, links and more.....AND his/her syllabus was just College Board Authorized for the NEW AP course for 2012-2013. Here's the link: http://www.grochbiology.org/apbioindex.htm Has anyone started using this?

Love ours! I took one 4x8 sheet made a 5 x4, a 3x4, and two 3x2 boards. Big one is one the dining room wall, one in dd's room, one on the pantry door and the other little one she uses as a lap desk...awesome for math...doesn't need scrap paper. This is an old picture. I got some 1x2's and painted them for trim. It serves as a marker shelf, too.

Well, don't any of you Empress', Queens, and Keepers, change anything. :blink: I've looked to you guys for years, even on the old boards. Oh, how will I ever lurk again? :svengo: Yeah, that's right, my post count is low....that's because I've been so busy collecting honey :toetap05:

Not sure if this helps, but... I bought Adobe CS Design Premium (I think now they are on version 6) and taught myself using all online tutorials. You can get with a HUGE educators discount at Academic Superstore. Depending on what level, you will have Photoshop, Illustrator (vector graphics), Flash, and Dreamweaver (a web designer HTML translator) and other programs included. If self-disaplined enough I see no reason your 9th grader can not do the same. My just 11 y.o. is starting to 'play' around. If her interests continue then I'll start her on formal tutorials next year.

Thank you, Dory. I hope today is better for you. I wonder what caused your calf to be so huge? We are big Jersey fans. DH grew up with them and Angus, they even had a Jersey/Angus that milked well. We'll probably bottle feed:willy_nilly: (just got done with a batch of goats...ugh) I might try milk-share once a day milking, but I don't like what a calf can do to teats in the long run. Take care and I really hope you find another Jersey 'friend' soon.

I know!!! I'm just as shocked. :lol:

I feel the same way, however, I tend to do both...esp. after ummm....active sleeping? :blushing:

:grouphug: So very sorry. Our new Jersey heifer comes home next month. I can't imagine loosing her. Such sweet animals that give us so much, feeding our babies as well as their own. Out of curiosity...what was she A.I.'d to? I'm tempted to go with a small Angus for beef, but... Has she had many calves? Again, so sorry for your loss.

I agree with all the other posters. Just about everything is cheaper home cooked from scratch. I just made 50 plus bean and cheese burritos for the freezer (really easy to grab and throw in the toaster oven). I soak dry beans, slow cook them in a crock pot with onions and bacon, then mash them but not fully. Best tasting refried beans without actually being refried. I buy bulk Costco tortillas and cheddar (grated w/my food processor). Total cost around $11 for 50 really big and plump burritos. So, around twenty two cents a burrito and they are three times the size of Taco Bell ones. I do this once a month. Some times for variety I'll make make some with taco flavored hamburger, homemade Spanish rice, and add some mango salsa. This will bump the cost up to around sixty cents, but these are big buggers. One is plenty for a meal.

DD is looking to correspond by email with...well, just about anyone (kid). She loves her dogs, 1 cat, goats, chickens, ducks, and recently lost her horse. She likes to read (a lot), swim, ride mountain bikes, skateboard, hike, and is an avid outdoors person. Her favorite subject is Science. We live on a homestead in Eastern Washington State, but we used to live near Seattle. We've classically homeschooled her whole life. We are secular, but she is very polite and respectful of difference. Please let me know if your child might be interested in a new E-pen-pal.

I get that. :001_smile: I respect that. It is not religious connotations that bother me it's the government regulation of words like "pepperoni". Where does it stop?