What she said. Music purchased from Amazon goes right to the cloud (not much of a wait). CDs converted to MP3 (in Itunes or Windows Media Player) or MP3s purchased from Itunes can all be uploaded to the Amazon Cloud...as long as Amazon has a deal with that publisher/performer to use their music.

I live in Wisconsin. Generally all finished space is counted in the total square feet, but it can really depend on the listing agency. If you want to know more, call the listing agency.

It sounds like this is a symptom of several problems. I had something similar when I was a preteen/young teen. My mother called it my 'cycle.' It started a year and a half before I started menstruating (12) and mostly ended 6 months after my first period. I'd feel nauseous sometime after dinner. Go to bed in abdominal pain. Wake up in the night. Vomit once or twice. Feel better and sleep through the night, attend school next day, etc. It always happened @ the third week in the month. Never more than 2-3 days. I skipped a lot as a teen. Very rarely I'd have a 'vomit period' during one of my skip months. I'd completely outgrown it by 16-17. By that point I was only skipping every 3rd or 4th month and my body thought that was okay. :tongue_smilie: I hope you can figure out what's happening with your daughter.

If you own the music, you can upload it into the Amazon Cloud (where your e-books and other Amazon things are stored) to be downloaded and accessed with the Fire. Amazon will only upload music they have a contract with, so unusual artists may not be available to be uploaded, but most of your Itunes should be available. It does take a long time to upload everything though. I just left it open in a window on my computer when I was online. I think it took 32 hours total.

One thing my mother always told me was never shave anywhere you don't want the hair to thicken/darken. She's shaved her toes for years (not plucked, not waxed) and the hair is incredibly coarse there. It was not like that when she started as a teen, but now she feels stuck. I never have and my hair is soft and fine there. Plucking can also coarsen/darken, but after one shave or plucking I wouldn't worry. Just introduce her to bleaching in a few weeks when it starts to grow back in. If there are any changes they would be light.

Danishes are not super hard to make. Maybe a little time consuming, but not difficult. After you throw them together there's a lot of fold, chill, fold, chill, fold, chill, fold, chill. I've never made apple ones, but I did make pecan ones and cream cheese ones. I used a recipe from Rose Levy Beranbaum's Pie and Pastry Bible. Here's something similar: http://thegoodcook.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Make-Danish-Pastries

A very good friend growing up had a house like that...except rabbits. Lots and lots of rabbits. Only I'm not sure they went out of their way to sell them. Eventually they overgrew the barn and shed and if her father hadn't passed away I'm not sure what would have happened. I was intrigued by the seemly infinite population explosion.

I kind of felt the same way about Phantastes (read it January 2011). I think the book itself is very uneven...at least in comparison to The Princess and the Goblin, but filled with enough MacDonald wonder that you think you missed something. 1001 Book List: 20% (201), but I might have counted a few I abandoned mid-book.

I made Quick Apple Strudel from Cooks Illustrated's Cookbook for Valentine's Day. I stayed mostly on-track but I took out the raisins and increased the walnuts. I rolled it in phyllo from the freezer section at Walmart. Super easy and like a very flakey apple pie. I folded it into a heart.

Deniseibase has good suggestions. The boys have liked: Animal Upon Animal Chateau Rocquefort Uno Batik Alfredo's Food Fight Saboteur Sorry Sliders

You could get it...eventually..but you would have to take China and no one could put anything on top until your next turn. I've dug for things before, and gotten them eventually, but I've also had to let things go. Everything is random, as long as there are 3 piles (you can't leave a space empty).

Fruit generally does not need an acid if processed correctly...even in hot water canning. Please don't throw it away yet. You can keep it in the fridge for a few weeks or the freezer for 6-9 months if you don't want to can. I've even frozen jars if I leave lots of headspace. Here's some discussion on the issue: http://www.backwoodshome.com/forum/vb/archive/index.php/t-22994.html http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/harvest/msg0917050029543.html http://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_02/applesauce.html

I'm wondering how many people with this point of view have both special needs and gifted children? In my own experience, its extremely difficult to find someone to share the struggles of raising a special need child. Forget talking endlessly, I can't even tell people a basic outline of what happened at my house today without clearing a room. My other boys are only Advanced (probably in the 120-135 IQ range), but I can get across their lives and struggles in a limited, balanced way. If I want depth I go to someone who understands. I can't even talk in a limited way about my special needs son without alienating people or killing conversations. Oh, they're very nice about it, but they'll change the conversation, walk away, or be very emotional about it (throwing a pity party when all I want to do is vent or just talk)...as if they need to comfort me for something terribly tragic. At this point I talk about the other boys and give a very general answer about my special needs son. I think that whoever lives on the fringe, whether with decreased or increased capacity, will always be misunderstood, will always make people feel uneasy. When people feel uneasy they respond inappropriately or not at all. I don't think this is an aspect of people hating the gifted, but an aspect of human beings responding to what they understand, and isolating that which they don't.

That's How Strong My Love Is (Otis Redding) Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper) I'll Stand by You (The Pretenders) (Al Green) (Ray LaMontagne)True Companion (Marc Cohn) (Over the Rhine) (Extreme) (The Wilders)Kick Drum Heart (The Avett Brothers) Beginnings(Chicago Transit Authority) Power of Two (Indigo Girls) Come Away with Me (Nora Jones) Crazy Love (Van Morrison) I Saw the Light (Todd Rundgren) I Love You (Climax Blues Band) Wow, I guess I have a lot of chair time today. ;)

My favorite 3 this year: The Children's Book (AS Byatt)~historical Victoriana, Arts & Crafts movement, family saga Case Histories (Kate Atkinson)~ mystery crossing mystery, good characters The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman)~non-fiction, the juncture between culture and medicine[/i] I'm really enjoying Flora Mirabilis right now too. If anyone enjoys gardening and history its fabulous and the pictures are so gorgeous. It made me do a search on floralegia, just to find some to put up on my walls.

16. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card~classic science fiction, a young boy is separated from is family to train with other children as a commander in the future Bugger Wars. Read aloud. 15. Flour by Joanne Chung~cookbook, some good baking tips and some standard recipes based on Chung's specialities 14. Home to Woefield by Susan Juby~light fiction, a young woman with strong eco-ideals inherits a woebegone farm near Victoria, forms a quirky family. Told in turns by an alcoholic blogger, an elderly banjo player, a 10 year old chicken fancier and the main character. Somewhat funny. Good for a light read. 13. Making the Most of Shade by Larry Hodgson~non-fiction/gardening 12. Growing Perennials in Cold Climates by Mike Heger~non-fiction/gardening 11. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson~mystery 10. Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith~historical fiction 9. The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day~fiction 8. The Alphabet in the Park by Adelia Prado~poetry 7. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman~non-fiction/medical 6. One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus~speculative fiction 5. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Woods~juvenile 4. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester~(read aloud) juvenile 3. The Alienist by Caleb Carr~Mystery 2. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton~Fiction 1. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt~Fiction In progress: Fire Upon the Deep (Vinge) Twelve Owls (Erickson) Flora Mirabilis (Howell) Putting Down Roots: Gardening Insights from Wisconsin's Early Settlers (Carmichael) Gudrun's Kitchen (Sandvold)

My 12 year old (now 13) started reading them last year and I read them with him. The first 2 seemed age appropriate for him (he's not bothered by violence and seems to gloss over it), but if I'd read the 3rd book first I would have put it off until at least this year. There's a lot more of the horror of war in the last book. We've had some great discussions about this book. What love is. How love and trust can be related. Feelings for more than one person. Survival. Totalitarianism vs. societies completely controlled for survival. Guilt. How need molds us. The fakeness of reality television. Trying to be your own person while giving people what they want. Excess in our society. Wealth/class separation. Fair/unfair laws. How people deal with grief. There were many times I expected to be disappointed, but Collins always managed to raise a dozen issues with a subtle hand while telling an engrossing story. Its not Cormac McCarthy or anything, but I would be very surprised if its not considered a classic of YA fiction in 10-20 years.

That should be fine. You can usually tell because the good stuff smells faintly of coconut. The other kind tastes/smells a bit more like wax.

Use good coconut oil (not the kind from Walmart). Melt it before you add it. If you're making a blander recipe (like biscuits), and don't like the taste of coconut in that context, use a milder oil such as Canola. If it seems like too much, use less. Most baking is tweaking things.

Considering that Playmobil has great resale value (better than most toys), I can't see any reasons not to buy it for him. When he's ready to move on, he'll stop asking for it.

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I was going to guess he was 10-12. My 11 year old writes just like this. At this age a lot of kids are really struggling to figure out what to write, what details to add. This kind of material is perfect for a rough draft. Then you can teach him to take that rough draft and refine it. One of the first elements is taking sentences out of their context and analyzing them. Does this make sense? Is the punctuation correct? Is there more than one idea? Does it make a complete thought? Is there a subject and verb? Is it really long? Could it make two simpler sentences? Does it fit right after the sentence preceding it? Does it add information to the paragraph? Just remember, people learn to speak first and write later. There's nothing wrong with students writing as they speak...especially at this age when more is starting to be expected of them. It is important to stress that this is a first draft though, a brainstorming ideas draft. After that you can move step by step to make this draft more polished and cohesive.

I've always thought the greatest honor you can do some people is to treat them respectfully and to model healthy behavior/boundaries when you meet. I think your sister needs to think about how allowing bad behavior not only hurts her and her family, but really hurts your mother. She is this way because people allow her behavior. Sometimes the only way you can teach someone is by showing them good boundaries and removing yourself from them until they can also treat you with respect and care. It's not dishonor to expect respect yourself.

13. Making the Most of Shade by Larry Hodgson~gardening, another well organized book regarding common plants that work well in shade. Easy to browse. 12. Growing Perennials in Cold Climates by Mike Heger~gardening, well-organized book of the 100 most common perennials that work in zones 4 and above. 11. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson~fiction, a series of four murder cases, all of them cold cases unravel, form and reform to a conclusion. If you like character-driven novels this is excellent. People are random, trivial, emotional, real. Very good, but somehow the ending was a bit disappointing. Recommended. 10. Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith~historical fiction, a female scientist travels to Yellowstone in order take part in a botanical survey. 9. The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day~fiction, a book of inter-connecting short stories focused on the Indiana winter home of a circus. 8. The Alphabet in the Park by Adelia Prado~poetry, a Brazilian poet with a sensual style, but also a very deep faith in God. 7. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman~non-fiction about the cultural difficulties of Amer medicine by a Hmong child with a seizure disorder. 6. One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus~speculative fiction about the Cheyenne request for white brides in order to unite the two cultures. 5. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Woods~a plucky governess tutors 3 children who were raised by wolves. 4. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester (read aloud)~boy takes a car through a mysterious tollbooth into a strange world. 3. The Alienist by Caleb Carr~Mystery, first US attempt at profiling a serial killer by a psychiatrist (known as an alienist) and friends. 2. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton~Fiction, a small girl is abandoned on a ship to Australia with a white suitcase and a fairy book. 1. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt~Fiction, following several arty, progressive families from the late Victorian period through WWI. In progress: Fire Upon the Deep (Vinge) Ender's Game (Card) Vikings in the Attic (Dregni) Home to Woefield (Juby)

I had the 2 lowers done on a local when I was in my mid-20s. No problems.