Exactly! Start planning your own Mother's Day. Plan things you like to do with the kids, set them up with paper and crayons to make a card, and get yourself the gift you want. You can train your kids to celebrate MD the way you like it. You are their mother. :grouphug:

I'm having a great day. I got the plants I wanted, homemade cards, we all laughed in the living room while we watched the boys wrestle and see who could be king of the chair. Such a wonderful morning!

I agree. It sounds like he's not good at gifts and is trying to overcompensate for it. This gift says I love you and you are a queen.

My girls both tell me a sweet poem when I tell them goodnight.

We spent today together. Dh cooked, the kids cleaned. I get my plants tomorrow. I love days like this.

Sweetie, you really need to fix this. Your kids should treat you nice everyday (with a few exceptions).

Yes! That is what I was trying to get at with my s/o thread. Love means getting past fears and discomforts to meet a loved one's need.

That is really wonderful. People that do need that kind of care especially need loving, gentle people caring for the. :)

:grouphug: I totally agree.

Yes, when it is really needed family and friends can get past the icky nudity parts. :lol:

Exactly, in fact I think the experience of caring for babies and small children are very close to caring for the elderly and dying even though there is more emotional and psychological issues to contend with.

We take all kids' birthdays off if it falls on a school day. We still school on my birthday.

I'm not too squeamish about nudity, especially in regards to medical issues or birth. It doesn't bother me that others do have a problem with it, however, there may come a time when you have to help a sick or dying loved one. Last year I had to help bathe and toilet my dying grandmother. She wanted to be at home and we wanted her there, too. We all had to take turns helping out. Some didn't do the bathing, but someone had to, and I helped with it. What if no one wants to bathe or toilet a family member? Someone has to do the dirty jobs lovingly for the health of the loved one. This probably isn't what most were referring to, but it is something to consider when the thought of nudity is not easily tolerated.

If I know there are crazy neighbors then I will cross the house off my list. One house we looked at and seriously considered was great until we heard the neighbor dogs barking loudly and the mom cussing out her kids. Yeah, that won't work for us. LOL

I wouldn't know unless it became very, very obvious. I do think some people are more emotional or dramatic in their postings here.

I know a person that is an ethical vegan, registered Republican, liberal-leaning, anti-church, best Christian evah! (according to himself), conspiracy theorist believing, wackadoodle dandy. He's 60 and a beer loving diabetic.

I think those teachers are just blowing off steam. Teachers that work in very urban settings with troubled kids and gang members probably do feel like that sometimes. I cannot imagine teaching in that environment.

If you are consistent in the cores you really can't go wrong. It's easy to switch paths later and introduce different science, history, or language. Really, it will be fine. You won't ruin your kids in a year or two. :grouphug:

Your kids are so young. It is through homeschooling that a lot of us come to decide what is a good fit for our kids and ourselves. That is why so many are eclectic. There is a lot of freedom in taking what you want from different methods and eschewing what doesn't work. :)

We plan for the long haul and then reevaluate when a need arises. High school is the tricky one. My oldest went part-time to ps for a few AP classes and then running start. We had one in private school. Now, I think everyone is settled into hsing and going to classes at the homeschool partnership a couple days a week until they can begin running start in 11th grade at the community college. But when it comes to kids, things can change. :)

Praying here. We were selling our house and the only house on the market I wanted sold. I was devastated and took my house of the market. The next year we listed again. I still didn't see anything I liked and was scared. I even emailed the people that bought "my" house. LOL They didn't want to sell. One day I went to look at a house that I thought would work (it didn't) and saw a realtor sign at another house farther down the road. It was full of tall grass and weeds. I really got excited because I can usually see past that kind of stuff and loved what I saw. My dh couldn't see past it, but then when we finally went in he understood. We've been here 3 years and this is the happiest we have been in a house. It is perfect for us (we had to do a few things to make it that way) and are so glad we didn't buy that other house. If for some reason that other house sells, what are your plans? Could you rent and wait and see what turns up?

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Yes, it doesn't matter when we spend time together as long as we do. I don't know why this has been a big deal to me.

That is good to know, and what I am beginning to believe,too. :D