I have that concern also. How do you change it from Facebook to first name only & general location?

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I have the first book, but I don't think it's Christmas-themed...

Why didn't I think of her??? I've attended Southern Baptist churches since I was a baby & my dh is a Southern Baptist pastor! :blushing:

We've been doing MFW ECC & reading the missionary biographies. I'm looking for a Christmas -themed book about (or by) a missionary. Do you know of one?

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Me too.

P.S. If you want to see my chore chart, PM me your e-mail address & I'll e-mail it to you. You would have to modify it, of course, but since you have several children, each person should have a much lighter load than EK & I have! ;)

I made a chore chart that I used to divide the chores up between ER, EK, and me when ER was still at home. I put a copy of the chart on the refrigerator, and I also I copied & pasted each child's daily chores onto their school assignment sheet each week. They checked off their chores the same way they checked off their school assignments. They had to complete each day's schoolwork & chores in order to get phone/television/computer/free time. Now that ER is away at college, I revised the chart, and the chores are divided between the EK & me so that we each have a couple of chores each weekday. That keeps the housework from piling up and allows us to have our weekends free of housework.

We read all three a few years ago, and loved them too. Last year, we read The Christmas Mystery, but none of us liked it. Nice concept, and it did have good potential, but we thought it was just plain weird. I do like the stories behind the songs book idea you mentioned. My dc are music people, and would probably really love that one. I'm also interested in the Advent on DVD that someone mentioned last year on the boards. We've never done a Jesse Tree, although our church always did a Chrismon Tree. I'm going to be watching to see what other people post in response to your question. :001_smile:

:blink: :svengo: Oh! my! Red Velvet Cake with cream cheese & pecan icing has to be one of the nearest things to Heaven that we have on this earth. Maybe it's a southern thing?

Anna and the King of Siam - 1946 drama film with Rex Harrison & Irene Dunne The King and I - 1956 musical film with Deborah Kerr & Yul Brynner Anna and the King - 1999 biographical drama film with Jodie Foster & Chow Yun-fat Which most closely follows the 1944 book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon? Which is the most enjoyable?

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I love this idea! I love, love, love my crockpot, and I have several crockpot cookbooks. I'm always looking for new crockpot recipes.

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C.S. Lewis had quite a lot to say about this. He called it the Law of Nature, or the Law of Right and Wrong. RIGHT AND WRONG AS A CLUE TO THE MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE Everyone has heard people quarrelling. ...They say things like this: "How'd you like it if anyone did the same to you?"--"That's my seat, I was there first"-"Leave him alone, he isn't doing you any harm"-- "Why should you shove in first?"--"Give me a bit of your orange, I gave you a bit of mine"--"Come on, you promised." ...Now what interests me about all these remarks is that the man who makes them is not merely saying that the other man's behaviour does not happen to please him. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behaviour which he expects the other man to know about. And the other man very seldom replies: "To hell with your standard." Nearly always he tries to make out that what he has been doing does not really go against the standard, or that if it does there is some special excuse. He pretends there is some special reason in this particular case why the person who took the seat first should not keep it, or that things were quite different when he was given the bit of orange, or that something has turned up which lets him off keeping his promise. It looks, in fact, very much as if both parties had in mind some kind of Law or Rule of fair play or decent behaviour or morality or whatever you like to call it, about which they really agreed. And they have. If they had not, they might, of course, fight like animals, but they could not quarrel in the human sense of the word. Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are; just as there would be no sense in saying that a footballer had committed a foul unless there was some agreement about the rules of football. Now this Law or Rule about Right and Wrong used to be called the Law of Nature. ...The idea was that, just as all bodies are governed by the law of gravitation and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law--with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the law of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law of Human Nature or to disobey it. ...This law was called the Law of Nature because people thought that everyone knew it by nature and did not need to be taught it. They did not mean, of course, that you might not find an odd individual here and there who did not know it, just as you find a few people who are colour-blind or have no ear for a tune. But taking the race as a whole, they thought that the human idea of decent behaviour was obvious to every one. ...I hope you will not misunderstand what I am going to say. I am not preaching, and Heaven knows I do not pretend to be better than anyone else. I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. ...Now this is really so peculiar that one is tempted to try to explain it away. For instance, we might try to make out that when you say a man ought not to act as he does, you only mean...that what he is doing happens to be inconvenient to you. But that is simply untrue. ...I am not angry--except perhaps for a moment before I come to my senses-with a man who trips me up by accident; I am angry with a man who tries to trip me up even if he does not succeed. Yet the first has hurt me and the second has not. Sometimes the behaviour which I call bad is not inconvenient to me at all, but the very opposite. ...So you cannot say that what we call decent behaviour in others is simply the behaviour that happens to be useful to us. And as for decent behaviour in ourselves, I suppose it is pretty obvious that it does not mean the behaviour that pays. ...Some people say that though decent conduct does not mean what pays each particular person at a particular moment, still, it means what pays the human race as a whole; and that consequently there is no mystery about it. Human beings, after all, have some sense; they see that you cannot have real safety or happiness except in a society where every one plays fair, and it is because they see this that they try to behave decently. Now, of course, it is perfectly true that safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other. It is one of the most important truths in the world. But as an explanation of why we feel as we do about Right and Wrong it just misses the point If we ask: "Why ought I to be unselfish?" and you reply "Because it is good for society," we may then ask, "Why should I care what's good for society except when it happens to pay me personally?" and then you will have to say, "Because you ought to be unselfish"-which simply brings us back to where we started. You are saying what is true, but you are not getting any further. ...And that is where I do stop. Men ought to be unselfish, ought to be fair. Not that men are unselfish, nor that they like being unselfish, but that they ought to be. The Moral Law, or Law of Human Nature, is not simply a fact about human behaviour in the same way as the Law of Gravitation is, or may be, simply a fact about how heavy objects behave. On the other hand, it is not a mere fancy, for we cannot get rid of the idea, and most of the things we say and think about men would be reduced to nonsense if we did. And it is not simply a statement about how we should like men to behave for our own convenience; for the behaviour we call bad or unfair is not exactly the same as the behaviour we find inconvenient, and may even be the opposite. Consequently, this Rule of Right and Wrong, or Law of Human Nature, or whatever you call it, must somehow or other be a real thing--a thing that is really there, not made up by ourselves. And yet it is not a fact in the ordinary sense, in the same way as our actual behaviour is a fact. It begins to look as if we shall have to admit that there is more than one kind of reality; that, in this particular case, there is something above and beyond the ordinary facts of men's behaviour, and yet quite definitely real--a real law, which none of as made, but which we find pressing on us... http://lib.ru/LEWISCL/mere_engl.txt

EK did TT Geometry last year, and we used the solutions CD's almost every day. We got by almost entirely without them for Algebra 1--I think we used a CD to see the solution to a couple of the word problems, and that was it. But for Geometry, we frequently needed to see the solution to the proofs. The proofs are in the Answer Key book, but it REALLY helped to be able to see the diagrams, which are on the CD's but not in the Answer Key book. ETA: I think I originally misunderstood the question, so in answer to whether you need the "workbook"--the textbook isn't a workbook (there's not nearly enough room in the book to work the problems right on the page--it's essential to the program. Your student would need the book and probably the CD's as well.

I found Notgrass American history to be too "textbook-ish". I would use MFW Exploration to 1850 with all the kids, adapting as necessary for the older one--adding in a few books for independent reading. ETA: Here's a link to a thread I posted on this topic some time back: http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2724968#poststop

I didn't see your post before I posted mine, but I deal with that same kind of barbarianism at my house. :lol: And like you, I've learned to live with it. It doesn't bother me in the least.

My dh and both dc believe that if a food is good, it will be better with hot sauce, and if it's bad, hot sauce will make it palatable. Just the other day, I had to shake my head when EK sprinkled hot sauce into homemade chicken noodle soup. She also puts hot sauce on creamed corn, tuna salad, you name it. She puts hot sauce on almost everything. I've gotten used to it, and I'm not offended when they put hot sauce on everything I cook. I just buy a variety of hot sauces and let them have at it.

:iagree: You sound EXACTLY like me!

We have had satellite television since 1996 (cable isn't available this far in the boonies), and I don't EVER want to be without it. :001_smile: I record history- and science-related programs for educational purposes, and we watch (and discuss) other programs as a family also, just for entertainment. We mainly watch old television shows; we watch very few current programs. A few months ago, we bought a 55" HD television, and it's great! Our family doesn't watch indiscriminantly, however; we are very selective about what we watch. We discipline ourselves to turn the television off and play games (including the Wii), and we play together frequently (Wii or board games) or read together instead of parking in front of the television and just watching whatever's on. I think that's the key to keeping television from taking over.

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Here's something that might help you: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/home-schooling-college/85311-clep-vs-ap.html Also: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/747721-ap-vs-clep.html In general, here's what I know from our experience: AP tests cost more per test than CLEP tests ($87 for AP and $77 for CLEP)--although I've heard that some testing centers charge extra fees for administering CLEP exams. AP & CLEP tests both grant college credit if taken and passed with a certain score. Some people say that CLEP is "easier" than AP. It is true that sometimes a school will require a 4 on an AP exam (equivalent to a "B") but a 50 (or lower) on the corresponding CLEP (generally equivalent to a "C"). Some colleges & universities don't accept either CLEP or AP credits. (But I think AP is more widely accepted than CLEP; you would have to check with the individual college/university to find out.) ER (my ds 21, homeschooled for gr. 1-12 & now a college senior) did not take approved AP classes or AP tests. (About the time he would have started taking AP classes, College Board made a ruling that classes must be approved by them in order to be listed on a transcript as "AP".) ER did have a rigorous course of study, but I didn't know of any official AP classes (we could not afford to sign him up for them anyway, so it didn't really matter), and I did not want to jump through the hoops in order to have his courses officially designated as "AP". So he did the courses at home and then took CLEP tests at his prospective college's testing center. He scored quite high on the CLEP exams (70+ out of 80 possible points), and he received college credit for 4 different courses--almost a semester of work. CLEP tests were administered on an "as needed basis" at ER's college testing center, but I think AP's are only administered once per year. CLEP tests take approximately 90 minutes each, and are scored immediately (with the exception of essay portions of certain tests). It's my understanding that AP's are 3-hour tests. If you take a CLEP test and don't pass, you can retake it, as long as you haven't yet attempted the actual course (meaning that you can't take the CLEP for credit in a class you already took on campus but didn't pass). I think you only get one shot at each AP test: pass or fail, that's it.

:iagree: When EK was in Cotillion at that age (about 3 or 4 years ago), she wore a "Sunday dress"--a street length nice dress made of striped fabric that had a little sparkle in some of the stripes. It had a little shrug that went with it. Dh wore a suit (not a tux).