You guys are scaring me with this math! :lol: If I homeschool all the way through with #4 (which we plan to), I will be 55, and my kids will be (gulp) 32, 30, and 24 when the youngest graduates.

No, you are not the only one. I've never liked that guy. I thought he was annoying in the 80s with his lame stand-up act, but he's even worse now when he tries to act serious. I watched Americs's Got Talent for the first time last week and I had to shut it off because of him. I don't see how the show can keep going without Regis. I was not a big Kathie Lee fan, but I liked them together. Kelly was ok, but I don't think she can carry the show.

:iagree::lol::lol::lol: It's too cutesy. It'd bug me whether the mom or the dad said it. I'd still be happy for them, though.:D

Love that one! The kids and I always sing "He tried to kill me with a forklift..." :lol::lol::lol:

Longtime MSTK fan here, since I was in high school! We love Rifftrax too (just the short films though) and Cinematic Titanic (which has Joel, Trace, Frank, Mary Jo, and J. Elvis). Oldest DD and I saw CT live in Seattle and everyone signed my original MST3K Information Club card. We were totally starstruck meeting everyone (especially Joel, our favorite). Everyone was so nice. DH isn't a fan ( :glare: ) but I've trained the kids well. They'll watch an episode whenever I want. :D CT is more like MST3K imo, because they stick with the old, really cheesy movies. Rifftrax actually does some good movies (like Raiders of the Lost Ark) which I don't think works as well. Their shorts are hilarious though...a lot of them are films they used to show in public schools in the 70s and 80s. One of our favorites is "At Your Fingertips: Grasses" (even DH liked that one)

:iagree: My older two were in school for three months (DD in grade 3, DS in grade 1). Especially for DS, I felt like I was doing almost as much work as when we were homeschooling! The amount of paperwork that came home was unbelievable. We'd always planned on their PS experience as being temporary, and the homework sealed the deal. (That, and the fact that it took the teacher 3 months before she realized DS could read. He was reading at home before he was enrolled, but they assessed him later like they were the ones who had taught him. :glare: :iagree: I taught my older two to read using only magnetic letters. They loved it when I would make up ridiculously long nonsense words for them to sound out. Of course, they also made up words and had me sound them out, too. :) It's taken my youngest a bit longer to get the hang of it, so I backed off for a bit. We're using Programmed Reading about 10 minutes a day a couple of days a week. She's recently just started reading *everything*. She's really taken off in the last few weeks. I guess I just had to wait until she was ready.

Wow, that article was all over the place. I don't understand what point she was trying to make.:confused:

:iagree: This is what we use too. My DH (an IT guy) set it up. If you try to go to a blocked website at our house, a picture of my DH comes up on the screen. :tongue_smilie:

I very rarely say anything on FB, let alone debate. However, a few weeks ago somebody posted something very judgmental about a certain segment of the population, and received a bunch of "I agree"s. There were about 3 mutual friends of ours that had a dissenting opinion, so I just "liked" their comments. (I typed out my own comment a few times but ended up deleting it.:tongue_smilie:)

Wow...that's so funny! I was lying in bed working on a sketch tonight and I actually did need a ruler. I even turned to DH and jokingly asked if he had one handy. He did not, so I had to drag my 6mth pregnant body out of bed to get one out of my office. :lol: I'm definitely ordering some. Congratulations to your son!

:iagree: I'm still wondering. Is this a regional thing? :lurk5: (I'd even up the chicken pieces, whatever shape they are. It's what DH and I would do for each other, so I think it'd work for the kids too. :D)

:iagree: My kids love them, and I think they're funny too. Not every book needs to teach a lesson. Sometimes kids just want to connect with a character, and it's the flawed characters that are the most interesting, IMO. I think most kids are smart enough to know which behaviors to emulate and which ones to ignore. :tongue_smilie:

Congratulations!!! :party:

:iagree: It's at least this much more where I live. We are on an extremely tight budget right now. I try to buy the organic versions of the "dirty dozen" but sometimes we can't even afford that. We ate the last of our organic apples a couple of days ago. We're down to our last $10 till Tuesday. Last night I went to the store and bought bananas, oranges and 3 large combo packages of Ramen. The bananas and oranges (non-organic) were more than the Ramen (which is a week's worth of lunches for us...we add frozen veggies to make it "healthier"). We don't eat it every single day, but the kids get tired of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and the whole wheat bread we buy is $2.50 a loaf (on sale), which is a lot to us. I have to make it last, so we either use it for breakfast toast or lunch sandwiches.

Oh, man...I had this happen to me in high school. It's like saying, "It's not you, it's God." :lol: (Actually, in this case, I'm pretty sure it was his parents...)

My oldest is in 8th this year, next is in 6th, and last is in 1st. It's hard for me to fathom that next year I'll be homeschooling a high schooler, a middle schooler, a grade schooler and I'll have a new baby. :eek:

Got my vote! :D Keep us posted, I want to know if he wins!

We have an old crank-style Boston pencil sharpener that came from a public school. I think we bought it at a garage sale. It's the best one I've ever had for regular pencils.

I have been wrong almost every time, except for my DS, and that was only because the U/S technician was very sure he was a boy. (BTW, the other two ultrasounds we had were wrong...they both said boy, and we have two girls!). This time around, I feel like this is a boy. He kicks the heck out of me, just like DS did, and I just have that feeling. .....so it'll probably turn out to be a girl. :lol:

In the link that Ravinlunachick posted, it says that the Blanchard Police Department has set up an account with Chickasha Bank and Trust to help her. I'll admit that I'm normally anti-gun, but stories like this make change my mind. The mom was so smart and clear-headed on the phone....absolutely amazing.

I agree with PPs...I would also add that I find comfort in knowing that my kids will live on when I'm gone, and that they will remember me. Also, I think of beloved relatives of mine who have died, and it makes it less scary to me somehow, if that makes any sense.

:iagree: That's exactly what's going to happen. :grouphug: Not all kids and parents are oblivious to what is going on. Many are doing everything they can to help their overweight kids. They can't just crash diet to lose the weight; most kids have to just maintain their weight and wait to grow out if it. To outsiders it may seem like nothing is being done. The ads seem like they might do more harm than good.

Congratulations!!! :party:

We're starting back to school tomorrow. I'm still finishing some changes in the kids' schedules, and DH has the day off...we never get any schoolwork done when he's around. :lol:

Yeah, I don't understand a lot of it. I don't understand the concept of killing something (be it an animal or a person) to atone for something bad that I did. That makes no sense to me. I can understand that, but her punishment still seems awfully harsh. There were other people in the Bible that did things that were far worse (murder, etc) that weren't punished by death. Yeah, I don't know why, it just always made me wonder how Isaac felt, knowing that his father was all ready to kill him. And it seemed like he was supposed to feel grateful that God stopped it from happening...it was just really dark to me.