It seems like you are booking visits according to the schedule prescribed by your doctor. I'm not sure why there would be a problem with him renewing a script for a maintenance drug... why don't you just go to refill it and have the pharmacy call for the renewal? In my experience as both a back-office assistant and a patient, it pays to bypass speaking directly to the office staff. (Illustrated by a visit some years ago because I "had to be seen" to refill my Zyrtec script, only for my PCP to wonder why I was there, since I had no problems to discuss. :glare:) If he really wants to see you, he'll give you a single refill and have the office call to set up a visit.

I second and highly recommend ordering through Ray. It does, of course, take a bit longer, since he sends in the order as a group, but he is a jow to work with and there is a discount on the books.

We use Growing With Grammar (3) and Spelling Power and like both.

Um... what kind of ham? If it was country ham, I'd be less concerned than if it was one with a higher water / lower salt content (the ones Alton Brown refers to as "city ham").

According to the concert pianist down the street, absolutely not. According to most piano teachers I know, including ours - we don't take lessons from Clenchy Concert Pianist Lady, she frightens me - you should buy the best you can afford, even a digital keyboard. To be perfectly frank, my 7 year old has been taking lessons for nearly a year and there is really nothing that she has learned that wouldn't function exactly the same way on a digital like you described. In our current book, there's some pedal work near the end, but that's it, and I don't know digital pianos well enough to know anything about that function. As long as it's a standard 88 keyboard (and not, for instance, a spinet keyboard with 49 keys) I wouldn't think it would be any different for at least the first several years, as she learns to read music and coordinate her hands. If she plays for several years and moves into a stringed piano, she will learn the nuances of that while playing it, which would be true for moving between different instruments anyway. I will say this, however: we bought our piano from Craig's List. It's a 110 year old Kohler & Chase concert upright and it was really inexpensive - about the same price as a Casio freestanding digital. So I wouldn't necessarily write off being able to find a piano to fit your family and budget.

"Something smells... come over here so I can check your pants" and the always weird "Stop reading and ...."

Yes, particularly if it was followed by some soaked (to make it digestible) muesli. I can't imagine trying to chew that. I mean, why not just go out and gnaw the bark off whatever shade trees you have nearby? Personally, I drink lots of warm water - it's called "tea" and has a number of herbs infused in it. (ok, including sometimes the bark of random shade trees) And, yes, I think the menus look depressing. At it's core, food should NOT be depressing. I'm sure that is criminal.

I love (love, love, love!!!) Growing With Grammar. But it's a grammar program, not an inclusive LA program. We do additional writing and spelling. (And thanks, Tina. Now I'm off to look at Writing Tales)

And also difficult to navigate. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I also don't seem to find what I'm looking for on Homeschoolclassifieds.com. I buy a lot on Amazon Marketplace. I sell there, too, but haven't sold any curriculum. I like (both ways) the protection of payment through their system. That isn't to say that I don't look at other places, but that's where I tend to buy used.

I would think, as an activity of the church, it would only be open to church members and their guests, at least from the church's prospective liability standpoint... (In our case, none of us are members of the church who so graciously hosts us.)

So, I decided I did not care to rinse the dishes before loading the dishwasher. There was sauce / preserves from Swedish meatballs, and starch / cheese from mac and cheese yesterday. They came out perfectly clean. :glare: Can somebody please give me back the time I have spent rinsing the !$@#$! dishes for the past several years? And the water??? Grrrrrrrr.

Yes, it sounds like a Dolphine landing. I make a mental note that it's almost done. I do recall from my (LG) installation manual that they recommend either installing on a ground-level (cement) floor or using 3/4" plywood under the machine if it's on an upper floor, to offset the vibration. I assume you would put that under the spill pan. No idea about the squeaky bed. Ours squeaks in the most dramatic way if you roll over. If you're jumping on it, it doesn't. Weird.

We don't, but the question has come up before, so I'll be interested to see what others do. We just have a liability waiver (for the church) and a rules or participation document that every family signs, saying they take responsibility for any damage caused by them or their children.

I nearly fell off last week, but I got a lot done on Monday because the rest of the week was crazy. I didn't do the sheets, either - I have NOT been on top of the laundry and with the weather over the past few days, I really haven't wanted to risk putting the wash on because our drain pipe is the one that historically likes to freeze up and I just can't bear the idea of a flooded laundry room with all the stuff on the floor soaked. And, frankly, it's been cold and I haven't wanted to do stuff. I mean, I'm having trouble finding the motivation to abandon the wood stove and do dishes when it's 63 degrees in the kitchen. I'm on it today, though. I want to clear tomorrow's schedule so we can watch the inauguration in relative comfort. :D Lori - I hear ya about Fridays. We're on a break from co-op right now, but we normally have back-to-back co-op and art. We are just plain done by the time we get home in the afternoon.

Public schooled and after-schooled here... though, in the 1970s, we didn't call it that, either. I seem to recall my dad commenting recently that we just called it "living". With the time spent in my childhood on history, literature and scientific exploration, it is hardly any wonder that Classical homeschooling spoke to me when we were first investigating homeschooling as an option.

They do, technically, belong to you. They are also required to keep a full copy of your record for a certain number of years. They charge a fee to copy - for time and materials. However, they typically do not charge other doctors to copy them. I would just have your new doctor send a records request.

I used to catch her (and Kim & Aggie) on BBCA in the middle of the day. I could never understand who would think it's a good idea to take people who eat a very limited, mostly fried, highly sweetened, salted and chemically flavored diet and force them to eat her meal plan in the name of lasting health. It is just difficult for me to envision living on soft drinks, donuts, and take-out Chinese, and suddenly be required to eat things like soaked muesli. And I enjoy natural, whole foods. Her methods just seem like an unsustainable leap to me. I like Nourishing Traditions, too, but I think it's greatest value is in the reference material - the whys and hows of the first section and recipes. In any event, eating well does take more time than eating instant, processed foods. It doesn't have to take as much time as having to go to several specialty shops to find uncommon ingredients, soak things for days in order to be able to eat or learn how to use a whole pantry of new things, though. We had macaroni and cheese for lunch yesterday, homemade with raw dairy, whole wheat pasta. It took about 20 minutes. It doesn't take appreciably longer to have whole wheat pasta tossed in olive oil, herbs, garlic, maybe some cherry tomatoes (or diced tomatoes out of season) and a grating of parmesan than it does to have white pasta in jarred sauce. It just takes more attention. Being mindful of your ingredients goes a long way to increasing the nutrition of your meals. And then you can start adding in interesting things that pack a bigger nutritional punch as you find interest. You know?

No, there are no magic words. Be there for her. Love and support are what she needs.

She's got a plan. You've got an invisible brake pedal. It's all good.

Um, you know you can just have it load tested, right? And that will indicate... well, something related to how it holds a charge and recovers from use, which evidently tells automotive technicians (because, let's face it, we just don't have mechanics anymore) something about whether it is about to leave you in a parking lot. Anyway, Sears or NTB or wherever should be able to do that.

Oooh, that's good! I remember the first driving incident, er, I mean "lesson". On the other hand, I had great fun when my eldest was practicing parallel parking... the neighbors pulled up lawn chairs, beer, and watched. I half expected them to pull out score cards. :D

Boo! :leaving:

Indeed! :smilielol5:

When my eldest turned 16, we gave her a ring with her birth stone and diamonds.

Uh-huh. I agree. I think just adding something to the existing code that provides for exemptions is probably the best way to go.