Btervet
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I just had Bob Evans mashed potatoes for the first time and was pleasntly surprised. I make mashed potatoes all the time and prefer homemade, but they weren’t bad at all.
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Well, I’m a Millenial as are most of my friends and I wouldn’t say I know any snowflakes. I do know most of our Boomer parents don’t understand us and think we are whiney. Just had a convo with mine about how my generation thinks it’s entitled to healthcare. Well, if that makes us snowflakes I guess we are. But our Boomer parents don’t see how jobs and cost of living have changed. They just see us as entitled when we are upset that a college education and a 40 hour job doesn’t always land you a house and stable life anymore. That’s my experience anyway.
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We really love the leatherbound kids classics from Barnes & Noble, though I’ve seen them at Costco too.
While they aren’t classics, the best addition to our home library has been the boxes of horrible books. We have a box for horrible histories, one for horrible science, and another being added this year fork horrible geography. My boys love these, as have many of their friends.
I would highly suggest going to a local used book store. You will for sure find lots of classics there, and the prices will be reasonable. More importantly, they will all look different, feel different, which makes it more interesting for kids and adults, and also lets them more easily identify books.
Also not a classic collection, but The Who Was... series is great for elementary biographies.
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Just looking at it, I noticed that while they use SOTW, it's used with the chapters slightly out of order. I find this is why I don't use several supplementary programs. I like to read the book in order as there are transitions from chapter to chapter. Now some say SOTW skips around too, and that's fair, but I prefer not to skip around too much within my spines.
This bothered me too about HO. For year two, Middle Ages, I rearranged the order of HO to follow the order of SOTW chapters. It’s worked fine.
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History Odyssey uses SOTW so they are very very similar. I’d think of them both as activities to enhance SOTW. Check the samples to see what style you prefer. I’ve used both and they both have strengths. SOTW activity guide has nice narration questions,, but these were too difficult for my 1st grader. HO has better maps imo, but the AG maps aren’t bad. The AG has timeline cards, HO doesn’t. I prefer the recommended books in HO over the AG, but not a huge difference. I do not remember if the AG has the usborne encyclopedia aligned or not, HO does. HO has the kid do definitions and some history pockets which the AG doesn’t.
Thy are very similar overall though. I had both for Ancients, grade 1. For Middle Ages, grade 2, we used HO, but ordered the student pages (the consumables) from the AG for the timeline figures and color pages.
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We just finished 3C today. A good amount of the questions in measurement require division, a few long division.
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Another great myths anthology collection is the Percy Jackson mythology books. Not the main stories, but a book just about the myths. Hilarious for that age range, and still full of accurate information. This is the link for the Greek Gods one, there is another for Greek Hero’s. https://www.amazon.com/Percy-Jacksons-Greek-Gods-Riordan/dp/1484712374
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We did read alouds as much as we could. But my K-er always wanted more books, so it was more me getting tired then forcing him to read.
We took K fairly laid back. Read something (aloud and independant), write something, do some math. Anything else was just fun. Science/history was covered just from books we read or nature walks etc. We never worried about a "discussion & activity" after each book - that would of killed the enjoyment for us.
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I'd pull her out today. Mean girl bullying is serious and shouldn't be pushed aside.
TRIGGER WARNING
We lost my 11yo niece to suicide to largely to middle school bullying. No one saw it coming. You read the stories but it's never "your kid". Then it is.
Safety first. Then worry about socialization and education. But always put their safety first.
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We bought the Zinus King/12" and are loving it so far. Had it for a few months. Really amazing compared to the sleep number we had previously for years. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q7EPV8O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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I caved and bought crocs when working 8-10 hr days on my feet. They really were better than anything else I'd ever had, made the day bearable. Not on my feet as much anymore, but I still wear croc flip flops most days that people can't tell are even crocs.
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I wear flip flops year round. Currently live in MD, but I've lived in NY and worn them all winter. I do keep a pair of boots when I have to do serious outside work in the winter, but if I'm just doing daily stuff I'll wear flip flops in the cold or rain or snow.
We went through the huge blizzard in 2010 here and I went to the hospital to give birth in flip flops. The nurses were highly amused.
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I never park in the garage. Well, I park the riding mower in the garage, but never a car. It's full of outside tools and toys. It's also on the other side of the property.
I would never think about getting the floor dirty. Who cares? I do sweep it out a couple times a year.
If I had an attached garage I would absolutely park in it especially if it was gross weather out.
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I've just decided to go back to school so I can go back to work in 4-5 years.
Our tipping point was when big but not completely unexpected expenses became a stress point and problem. For example - fixing a well, replacing fireplace liners and new wood stove, needing a new fridge, paying a plumber to find and fix a leak in the plumbing, unexpected medical expenses. No scrimping and saving on our part could give us the $$ to pay for these big expenses, so we decided the solution was a higher income.
The jobs I could get now wouldn't have the payout to make a change in lifestyle worthwhile, and I still have a preschooler who I wouldn't want to send to daycare. So I'm going back to school to focus on a field with a higher expected salary and that will eventually allow flexibility with schedules and working from home. We are hoping to continue homeschooling with maybe hiring an au pair or nanny for 1-2 years to help with the homeschooling while I get settled in the field.
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We live in tick country and live in the woods. I am pulling multiple ticks of kids/adults/pets daily. It's just a part of life here.
My best advice is rubber boots, pants, and a lint roller. The lint roller has been life changing. We all use it as soon as we come inside - even on hairy man legs if necessary. Usually get 5-20 ticks off of us with the lint roller each day.
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I get asked this all the time, have my whole adult life, and I'm white with a fairly neutral American accent living near DC. I get asked multiple times a day (my job puts me in contact with lots of strangers). I have never considered it offensive. Or tied to ethnicity necessarily. I mean if it was a question of asking only people who "don't belong" (which is absurd, land of immigrants) why would I as a white woman get asked constantly?
I think it's a really common icebreaker without any hidden meaning.
Obviously if people are being rude in the phrasing/followups it could be offensive. But I don't see how the simple question "Where are you from?" is.
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About 4 hours (2 hrs morning, 2 hrs afternoon). It's more school than he needs, but he needs the structure or we have major meltdowns. Part of that 4 hours is silly preschool stuff we do with his little brother, maybe 20 minutes each day?
Mornings - 1 -1.5 hr of math. 15 mins -30 mins Latin.
Afternoon - 1 hr science, 30 mins history, 30 mins - 1 hr read alouds/poetry/copywork
He also does 30 mins or so of piano everyday, but I don't really count that as school. He reads independently most days for 2-3 hours, so I don't assign reading in school.
It seems like a lot but he still gets a minimum of 2 hours outside with his brother every day, often that is more like 3-4 hours. Takes an hour plus for each meal! And tons of indoor free play time.
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DS7 is just finishing up Miquon, and started BA3 at the same time as the last two books. I really wish Miquon kept going. I think it covers to 3-4th grade level (hard multiplication and division, exponents, etc). It's been great transitioning into BA but so far the BA is actually lower level maths than Miquon - though it does have more difficult problems sometimes. We are only in 3B though so I assume it will outpace the Miquon soon. We only rarely use the rods at this point, but used them for the first 3 books pretty regularly.
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Had mine for almost a year and love it. The only thing I hate is that it doesn't fill water if the top is open (so I can start a load, leave the top open, and walk away to let it soak). But I don't think any modern washer do that. I will never go back to a HE washer.
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We've bought nothing special brands from COSTCO, Target, and walmart. All have lasted many many years (still have some from that are 15+ years old) and get bleached regularly - washed on hot with an agitator. Maybe don't try the fancy brands? Or is it something about your washer/dryer? I've never had a towel get a hole from the washer.
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We put 10% down, with 5% of that coming from a relative as a gift. We bought a year out of college and that was most our savings. The PMI was huge and killing us. We quickly renovated and refinanced to 20% equity to get rid of PMI. We broke all the 'rules' buying this house. The mortgage was 50% of our income. But it was a small townhouse in terrible shape we purchased as a foreclosure. It was the best we could do in a very HCOL area as young buyers. Don't regret it one bit - the mortgage was less than rent would of been. Sold the house 7 years later walked away with 35% of the value of the house as equity. Bought a new house, put 25% down, very happy with how it all worked out.
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I make my DH use his dremel tool with the polishing tip. Makes a mess of the kitchen but gets the impossibly stuck stuff off and leaves the stove nice and shiny.
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I would also recommend Hoffman Academy. Far better than any books I've seen. We used it free for two years then purchased the premium membership when they revamped the website. The premium isn't necessary at all, but helps with the theory and practice schedule.
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At around 6 I started sending DS alone into the men's room. Though if there is a family restroom available we still use that. Some places that I just don't feel good about he still comes with me into the women's.
I'm much more nervous about him waiting for me outside the women's restroom. I have to take my 2yo into the women's, and my 6yo will wait outside - that makes me most nervous but we haven't had any problems yet.
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I haven’t used the appendix at all for level C and we we almost done. However, we often skip stuff that is annoying with manipulatives. Actually I just looked in the back and the appendix is pretty much empty.