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  1. ereks mom
    I'm assuming you haven't been to the doctor. With the symptoms you have, I think that's the first thing you should do. Penicillin is cheap, although doctor visits aren't, but they still beat a hospital bill from letting an infection go untreated too long.
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    This. This is definitely me as well.
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    :iagree:
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    I tend to agree. I just can't get into Doctor Who, but I'm trying. :glare: Give me Star Trek any day, especially TNG.
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    I have been a MAJOR Star Trek fan since I was a kid. Yes, that was when the original Star Trek was prime time. ;) That said, I actually like Star Trek: TNG better than the original. And the episode you describe is one of my least favorites. Most of them are really, really good! Some of my very favorites are Darmok, Clues, Parallels, Timescape, The Inner Light, Chain of Command...
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    Same here. EK usually prefers water, but she will occasionally drink a soft drink, usually Sprite.
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    I will be 53 when she turns 20, and 13 days later I will turn 54. I just realized that 2 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days from today she will turn 20. How cool is that?
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    If I didn't have to cook, clean up, or pay for it, I'd have a green salad, crab legs, and a baked sweet potato. For dessert, I'd have more crab legs.
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    I struggle with exactly the same issues, and the only way I have found to get it all done is to allot a certain amount of time for cleaning and a certain amount of time for planning. I make a list of housework chores I need to accomplish on a particular day and put the list on the kitchen counter, and I gather the school materials I need to work on and put them on my worktable. Then I set a timer for 30 minutes. I make myself work on the housework for 30 minutes, and then I reset the timer for another 30 minutes and work on the planning. I need to get up and stretch and rest my eyes every 30 minutes anyway, so this works well for me. And it prevents me from getting overwhelmed by the housework because I can get a lot done in 30 minutes if I know that I only have to do it for 30 minutes at a time. Can you tell that I hate housework and view schoolwork as fun? ;)
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    One of my students is like this: thinks she and her mom are peers and have equal authority. She's not like that with me, but she is so nasty to her mom. I actually said something to the girl yesterday at church because she was being so hateful to her mom and ai just couldn't stand it. I put my arm around her and said, "That's your mother you're talking to, and you need to be more respectful." Yes, I said it right in front of the mom. I said it twice, in fact, because after the first time, the girl started trying to tell me how she had a right to be mad at her mom. So I just repeated it. The girl hushed up. Now, I probably wouldn't do this to just anybody's kid, but the mom is one of my dearest friends, and the girl is one of my students.
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    Prayers for you entire family. I know of at least one widowed homeschooling mom here on the boards, and there may be others. I hope she will post here or PM you, but she might prefer not to discuss her situation.
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    :iagree:
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    Yeah, I'm not going to contact the seller because I know it wasn't her fault. I'm not going to contact the PO either, because the package wasn't insured. The puzzling thing is that sometimes the mailman brings large packages to the door and sometimes leaves them at the mailbox--but if he leaves them at the mailbox, he usually puts them into a plastic trash bag and hangs it from the mailbox. (Really. I'm not kidding. It's a rural area and nobody bothers those packages.) But once in awhile he leaves them on top of the mailbox. Oh, well. I finally got the books dry--it took a week of fanning them open and leaving them in a sunny window--but now they're all ruffly. They're usable, but they're not pretty.
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    :lol:
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    :iagree:
  16. ereks mom
    :iagree: Same sentiment here. :grouphug: :grouphug:
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    ETA: I'm not going to contact the seller because the package did arrive. I assumed she had insured it, but she had not. I'm not going to contact the PO either; since the package wasn't insured, they can't do anything. The mailman didn't bring the package to the door or put it into a plastic bag as he usually does, but he wasn't required to do so. I will chalk this one up to experience. Here's the scenario: I bought used books from seller on a used curriculum site. $50 ppd for MFW ECC 7th/8th grade supplement materials. Seller shipped the package media mail, uninsured. I didn't think to ask for it & she didn't offer. Mailman delivered the package, but it wouldn't fit in the mailbox, so he left it on top of the mailbox instead. Mailbox is not in a covered area, but at the end of my driveway, which is off a rural road that is paved and well-traveled. There was a thunderstorm after the mailman left. :glare: The wind blew the box off the mailbox so it sits on the ground, broken open, during the storm. Books were damaged, of course, some worse than others. Since the package was uninsured, do I have any recourse? Certainly, the seller was not at fault. Neither was I. The mailman is at fault, but the package was not insured, so... ????
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    Good plan. :001_smile: I did agree with AngelBee that the OP needed to focus on something else. I'm not into lasagna or kilts, so I'll sign off now. My work here is done. :D
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    So... it was about the cereal--more specifically about the fact that your daughter not only allowed her friend to eat the cereal, but apparently even ate some herself when she knew if was for her brothers. But in answer to your original question, "Am I overreacting?", yes. :iagree: :iagree: :grouphug:
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    So... apparently I'm not understanding something. I thought you were upset that the guest didn't eat her supper, but instead snacked on the cereal (and your daughter apparently ate it too). What was it that bothered you if it wasn't the fact that they ate the cereal? If it was your daughter's behavior (I think that's what you said in the OP) what was it that she did that you thought was wrong? What did you think she should have done instead?
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    :iagree: in our house, cereal is a snack food.
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    :iagree: The guest couldn't have known the house rules if neither you nor your daughter explained them. If there were foods that were off-limits, you should have explained or asked your dd to explain. BUT I also think it would still be very hard for a 15yo to speak up and tell her guest that she couldn't eat the cereal because the budget is tight. That would be embarrassing for your dd. Put yourself in her place. What if YOU had a guest over for a visit and really couldn't afford to offer her a snack because all the food in the house is budgeted? Would you let her have a few cookies (or whatever) and say nothing because it would be embarrassing, or would you explain that it's not in the budget so she can't have any?
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    Yes. :iagree: with both posters.
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    In your case, your ds isn't that much younger than the kids with whom he's going to grouped. But in the case I cited, there was a 10yo whose mom wanted him grouped with the teenagers, and he did NOT fit in. It was unenjoyable for the 10yo because he couldn't relate to anyone else, and for the older kids because the 10yo was invading their space. The question isn't ability, but maturity. The other participants (teens, in the case I mentioned) tend to be quite resentful of the younger kid because, well, he acts like a younger kid. His mom thought, "Well, he's doing 9th grade work..." and maybe he was, but his ability didn't matter as much as his immaturity. It was bad enough that the rest of the homeschool group hated to see them show up--the kid because the teenagers thought he was obnoxious, and his mom because the other adults saw her as "pushy". I just want to warn you about that because I wouldn't want you to be "that mom", and I wouldn't want your ds to be resented.
  25. ereks mom
    :iagree: Exactly!
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