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:party: I hope all the details work out and your dh is driving his truck soon!

Great news!!!! :grouphug: Still praying :grouphug:

:iagree: Favorite Scenes (Warning: There is some objectional language) Gotta love Colin :drool5: :iagree: :iagree: These are 3 of my favorite movies!!!

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:grouphug: Lifting you up in prayer :grouphug:

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I'm so sorry. :grouphug: Praying :grouphug:

It wasn't a HDO in our diocese but I went to mass this morning. I'm in the process of converting so this was my first All Saints Day mass. :hurray:

Amen!!

:grouphug: I'm sorry and I'll be praying for you and your family :grouphug:

:grouphug: Praying for you and your family :grouphug:

I answered yes to 4, so I guess I'm in the middle. I know about Branson, because we used to go there for vacation almost every year when I was growing up, and now my parents live there. So I still go there almost every year. :tongue_smilie: It's famous for Silver Dollar City, musical shows, Table Rock Lake, and a museum on the Titanic. (And as pp said, traffic) I learned about NASCAR when I moved to North Carolina. It's everywhere, and my dh's family are big fans.

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:grouphug: Praying :grouphug: My mom was diagnosed with IDC in February. She chose to have a mastectomy even though they caught her cancer early at Stage I. (lymph nodes were clear) She is doing great today. She didn't have to have radiation or chemo, she just has to take Tamoxifen for the next 5 years. Stay strong!

I highly recommend renting first. We've moved twice in the past 10 years and each time we rented first. It gave us a chance to get to know the city and the different areas. The second time we moved was with corporate movers, but we still rented. We just had the moving van stop twice, first at the apartment and then at the storage facility. Even though we had to eventually move everything out of storage ourselves to our new home, it was still worth it.

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When we built our house I had purchased stainless for the bath faucets and brass hardware for everything else. Before we installed it, I changed my mind and decided on brushed nickel instead. That was the one time I was glad we were doing all the work on the house ourselves. It was much easier telling my husband that I changed my mind than it would have been to tell a contractor. It was no fun returning all that stuff. :tongue_smilie:

First, you might try Reading Dectitive from Critical Thinking Co. We tried that with my dd and when it didn't help, we had her evaluated by an Educational Psychologist, who diagnosed dd with an LD in reading comprehension. Based on those findings, we started using Visualizing/Verbalizing from Lindamood Bell. I have also heard good things about Idea Chain. Hope that helps.

I voted other - I'm Catholic and our parish has daily Mass.

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Maybe he's related to this dog?

My physical therapist told me I needed to wear my orthotics all the time and they would only work with sneakers. :w00t: Needless to say, my feet have been hurting most of the summer.

According to the director at Lindamood Bell, my dd doesn't need any more intensive instruction. She needs follow up which is 2 hrs a day, 2x a week. Dd would learn how to apply what she has learned to her school work and leisurely reading. The problem is that we live 2 hours away, and just don't have any more money. We tried to get in as many hours as we could in a short amount of time. We were staying in a motel during the week, so we couldn't spread out the instruction beyond 4 weeks. It might have been better if we could have done fewer hours per day for more weeks. Here is a list of the tests they gave dd when we had her evaluated: 1. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - IV, Form A 2. Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude - 4 (Word Opposites) 3. Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude (Verbal Absurdities) 4. Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude - 2 (Oral Directions) 5. Woodcock Reading Mastery Test - NU, Form G (Word Attack) 6. Slosson Oral Reading Test - RS 7. Wide Range Achievement Test - 4, Form Blue (Spelling and Math Computation) 8. Gray Oral Reading Test, Form A (Paragraph Reading and Recall per passage - 3rd - 12th grade) 9. Gray Oral Reading Test 4, Form A (Rate, Accuracy, Fluency, and Comprehension) 10. Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test - 3 11. Informal Tests of Writing (Symbol to Sound and Nonsense Spelling) 12. Symbol Imagery Test Based on the results of dd's initial evaluation, they recommended 100 - 140 hrs of V/V. Dd already had a Psycho-Educational and a Speech-Language evaluation, so the Lindamood Bell evaluation didn't tell us anything that we didn't already know. If you're not sure which program your dc might need then the evaluation would be worth it. I guess we just wanted additional confirmation that V/V was the right way to go. We have tried so many other things to teach dd comprehension, but V/V is the only thing that has worked at all. It's a great program, I was just disappointed that the results weren't better based on the amount of money we paid. Hope this helps.

My dd justs finished 4 weeks (110 hrs) of intensive V/V therapy at a Lindamood Bell Center. We had tried to do V/V at home but it just wasn't working. We were both getting so frustrated, so we knew we had to do something different. Our choices were training for myself ($600), or send her to the already trained therapists ($$$..you really don't want to know). We chose the Lindamood Bell Center, and for my dd, it was not worth the money. There was very little change between her scores when she was first tested and her scores when she left. For the amount of money we paid, I was expecting a lot more. I sat in on a few sessions, and I think most parents can do it themselves. The biggest issue most parents have is handling errors. Now that have seen how the trained therapists deal with errors, I know I can do it at home. My dd and I have done a few sessions this week and they have gone remarkably well. We have also started using the techniques with SOTW and her other reading. It's very slow going, but I'm seeing progress. I think V/V is a great program, but I would get trained myself and not pay the big bucks for someone else to do it.