:iagree: This precisely describes my child, and she LOVES LOF. We have completed three books since starting the school year. We started Dogs today. Along with LOF, we are doing Saxon; just started the first lesson of that today. A chapter a day of LOF is a great carrot for getting her to hang in with the Saxon.

Yum! I'll have to try this one!

Mmmmm... I could eat a whole jar myself with a loaf of crusty bread. But I have to share so i am not the source of death by garlic to the rest of my family. We use it as a pasta sauce, and it's great on a panini with chicken and mozzarella cheese. Love the idea of freezing it into cubes.

So happy for you and your family, Bethany! A move will be good for your dad. Your mom will just have to deal with it. If anyone needs to have a chat with her, it's your dad's doctor. Her harping cannot be helping his recovery...

Not an expert, but if she is conceiving naturally (ie, not an implantation procedure from IVF), and she started running prior to pregnancy and is just continuing to practice an established routine of activity...can't see how it would hurt anything. Maybe if she were going to do a marathon, but not just a 5K. Of course, there is the whole mental aspect of the issue. Is she going to beat herself up if she decides to run but doesn't end up pregnant? Honestly, that would be a hard way to live while TTC normally. I wouldn't want to second guess every common activity of daily life with the idea that perhaps somehow I'd prevented an egg from implanting. Hope she's not overthinking the whole thing.

Oh yes, photos! Please! DH has a week long business trip scheduled for the third week of October. I hope to surprise him with a new floor in one of the bedrooms when he gets back. Kaleidoscope, how many coats of poly did you apply and how much drying time between coats?

Another I have heard is a homeschool kid saying he went to boarding school.:D

Mine is yummy and only has 2 ingredients: car keys and a wad of cash. Instructions: hop in car and drive to Starbuck's. Order 10 slices of their lemon pound cake. Enjoy! Truly, several family members have strong feelings against lemon cake so this is what I do when I have a craving. One year I actually did buy 10 slices when I had some friends over for a birthday lunch! I asked to buy a whole loaf, but they only had it sliced. All the posted recipes look good! I may just have to make a lemon cake at home this week...

You can just get one of those green bound teacher planners and instead of labeling the squares with dates, use numbers (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc). You can check off each subject square as it's done, and just don't worry that the entire column of the Day's work isn't checked off all on the same day. Does that make sense?

In a word, BUDGET! Some other random thoughts: Make sure you have some in a "miscellaneous" category, because things do pop up mid month that could not have been foreseen. Utility averaging helps to keep that expense predictable. As you adjust, make some freezer meals at the beginning of the month so that if your grocery dollars run low, you've got food on hand. Keep a running list of what needs/expenses might be coming up the following month - helps to be able to plan to spend for it. You can put yourself on a bimonthly pay schedule by having the paycheck deposited into a savings account, then transferring half out on the 1st and 15th of the month. Actually, getting a big bunch of cash at a time can make buying bulk purchases easier, and save you money. Just don't make *all* the bulk purchases in the same month! You will adjust!

Check the back of your book: if you bought it recently, it may have been added. Older versions (like mine which I purchased used) do not have an epilogue. The Dogs book deals with an overcrowded animal shelter. Fred tries to adopt all the dogs but realizes he cannot manage owning 30 dogs. The book ends with Fred returning the dogs to shelter, with the implication that they will be euthanized. Apparently enough customers contacted the author about this storyline/ending that he decided to add an epilogue to the book to tell about a more pleasant fate for the animals. If your book does not contain the Epilogue, you can get it by emailing Stanley Schmidt (his contact info is on the LOF website).

:smilielol5::smilielol5: Oh man, that sounds like a scene from a good ol' John Hughes film!

One of the schools I attended had a large Jewish student population, and later I attended one with a large Catholic population. If the school didn't schedule the day off, enough kids would miss class to cause the teacher to have to re-teach the lesson. I imagine that areas with large populations of any religion would face the same issue (I'm thinking of Detroit, isn't there a large Muslim population there?). Anyway, ime, it wasn't really about the school honoring any particular religious preferences. It was more pragmatic, so the teachers could keep all students on pace.

FWIW, it's generally considered bad internet etiquette to delete your posts, because it turns a complete conversation into Swiss cheese. However, a forum like this is sometimes the only place a person has to bounce reactions to certain circumstances, and/or the only "safe" place to ask for advice on an issue they'd otherwise not like to make public. In that case, deleting later keeps the information from embarrassing a third party, or its being used against the OP by a non-forum member who comes across the post (ie, that personality disordered in-law who trolls sites frequented by other family members, or that divorce attorney gathering tidbits for his client's case).

I went ahead and did that - and received a very cordial reply! He sent me a pdf of the Epilogue which I can print and paste into the back of my book. His reply came within a matter of hours; it was a pleasant surprise to see such a quick response. I do not fear discussing animal euthanasia with dd, even though she is a sensitive soul. She is also the sort of kid who likes to see an issue resolved (one way or another), and the epilogue will more neatly wrap the story up for her.

I respectfully disagree with the bolded. But I do agree that it is heartbreaking for a young man to have such emotional issues. Even so, his interaction with someone who was (a) quite a bit younger, and (b) a very new "friend," was quite inappropriate. Neither Nance nor her dd should feel any guilt over how the situation was handled. I am sorry that your child's feelings were hurt in the circumstances your earlier post describes, but it's truly apples and oranges, not comparable.

I kiss my kids bunches! Just not on the lips.

:iagree: with the bolded. It means you won't be getting paid extra for those overtime hours. :glare: However, it also, to me, has an air of security about it. Professional, someone with some expertise related to the job at hand. I should say career versus job. Perhaps that salary includes a benefits package (in my conjured image, anyway). So, in many ways it sounds good. But I confess times have changed my perception of that word. Twenty years ago, I would have associated it with a nice office space, job stability and a 401K. But anything on top of a straight pay check is lagniappe these days.

I am from a long line of cheek-kissers. French heritage, even, so Iremember some older family members kissed both cheeks in greeting. But no lip-to-lip except between spouses. I was quite shocked when dh's grandfather first attempted to plant one on me in greeting. Yikes! I realized that many on his side of the family were lip-kissers; he said that he just grew up with that and didn't think anything of it. I let him know pretty quick that it wouldn't be a practice in our family, and that I hoped none of his relatives would be offended when I did the quick-turn lip-avoiding maneuver and diverted their kisses to a cheek. My apologies to you lip-kissers, I just couldn't do it...

Thanks, I will share this info with ds.

Yikes! Now I hope I haven't planted any improper seeds in your imagination! As I have been doing the Dr. Google thing (certainly a mixed blessing:glare:), I have mostly found that the steroids actually help *heal* the gastrointestinal tract... I'm guessing it's the drainage itself that is contributing to the upset. It's been a horrible allergy season. I never dreamed I'd be wishing for a hard freeze - I HATE to be cold! - yet that's where I find myself. I hope *you* feel better soon!

Interesting! It's been a terrible allergy season, and ds hasn't been bothered in recent years, but this season had to start back on the nasal stuff (a generic of flonase). He ran out and was without it (didn't tell me!) until I brought some to him this weekend. Now I am wondering if the onset of GI issues coincided with when the flonase ran out. Hmmm... something to think about. Thanks for telling me about your dd.

DS's student med center is wanting him to try 2 weeks of Prilosec for general GI discomfort that has lasted several weeks now. The pain is mildly uncomfortable, doesn't keep him up at night or wake him in the middle of the night, doesn't seem to be anything emergent (ie, appendicitis). He was on serious antibiotics a little over a month ago, but he feels like those would have run their course by now. He just doesn't feel like himself, is mostly so nauseated in the mornings that he skips lunch, and is growing frustrated. Based on his symptoms, he says he can totally empathize with a woman in early pregnancy! Next step, per med center, is a 2 week course of Prilosec. Personally, I hate the stuff, after experiencing side effects from a 6 week course I had to take a few years back. I don't want my personal bias to get in the way, but I don't want him to feel worse from the cure, kwim? I think I am going to go ahead and make an appointment with my GI doc for when ds is home on fall break. If we need to do testing and stuff, I'd rather be dealing with folks we know. He is at school 2 hours away. Guess I am just rambling now, I just feel at a bit of a loss, trying to walk that tightrope between hovering and letting him handle his own affairs. Just wasn't quite ready for something that might end up having a doc order an ultrasound or scoping procedure :tongue_smilie:. Thanks for your input... ETA -Oops,this turned into more of a vent than a post, I really did have a question - if you've had a young one have to take prilosec, was it effective and were the side effects minimal?

Just wanted to say thanks for your replies - it was kind of a stretch but I figured if anyone had experienced it, this forum's a good place to survey. My older ds is having some continuing gut ache issues and we are trying to rule things out as we decide which course of action is best. Thanks again.

I do also include the genre. I want to be able to make sure she's got a fair representation of all, though I know she will have more of what she prefers.