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Yeah this is what it was like when I was a girl scout. We supposedly raised all kinds of money, but I don't know where it went. Oh I know where some of it went. The troop leaders announced that they were going out to dinner with some of the money as a thank you from us for their hard work. :cursing: Even as a young kid I thought that was crap. I quit after.
My last troop leader actually stole our money. My mom called the council who basically said, "Too bad, so sad." We had money to go camping and there was one girl who was a social striver and she was frequently too busy for many weekends. When she was free, the leader wasn't. The leader declared that we had to find a weekend when everyone could go. Because she'd spent all of our money. Around the time that this was coming to light, my mother saw the troop leaders name on a short list of names at a mall store of "Never Accept A Check From This Person".
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I would give her the Bio credit, but I wouldn't particularly worry about finishing the book. In public school, we finished the book precisely Once and that was the AP class. Have her go on, in an easier manner and call it good for Bio at the end of the school year.
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"OK, we will assume you won't be there then. I'll make the reservation, and if you do decide to come, just call the restaurant and have them increase the number" That way if they show up and expect a seat without calling, it will be obviously on them. If they call, and then the restaurant can't add them, then the restaurant is the bad guy.
Last thing I would do would be to include maybes in the count. That just encourages them.
I recently prayed for a new best friend for DD over this issue. She gets so disappointed when she continually has plans with a friend and the mom flakes out. Good news is that I think God might have answered my prayer.
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I loved selling girl scout cookies as a little kid, but even I wouldn't have DD sell them now. Back in the dark ages of my childhood, 400 boxes would mean free 2 weeks of live-in girl scout camp with horses. I loved camp and I had to pay for it myself, so I was one motivated little girl. My mom had done phone sales so she coached me on sales techniques. I even sold from a hospital bed one year calling the neighbors and the people that had ordered last year. Now I think you need over 2500 boxes (from memory) to get two weeks of camp. It seems that too much money is disappearing into national. Quality has gone down too.
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This this might make things easier for people. I use Audacity, a free audio software to join tracks together. It makes using your mp3 player to listen to something originally on CD's easier, since the file count is so much smaller. Usually, I will put all of one CD joined into one track. Originally, I was going to join a few CD's together to make the track sizes similar to audible but that requires me to pay attention instead of auto-pilot.
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My favorite part was in the beginning about finding the college that fits you, not fitting yourself to the college. Like finding your spouse, if you fit yourself to what you think your spouse will want, you will be miserable.
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Maybe if you list some examples in which it is OK to stop being kind, or not being kind in the first place. Maybe something like
- When your gut tells you something is off. Gift of Fear type thing
- When they won't take a kind No.
- When they behave in a hurtful way to you. In this case, you don't have to be hurtful back but you don't have to tolerate their presence either.
I remember a boy at college stalked me for a few weeks after I was merely nice to him in a 5 minute small talk conversation. Fortunately, since his fixation trigger was so short, it didn't take long of my avoiding him and refusing to return his smile until he changed fixations. Unrelated to me, he later entered the satellite of friendship circle, and I warned my two closest friends to not talk to him or even return his smile. My friends criticized me for being mean. They both later told me I was right all along because they both experienced the same thing.
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I am the one who sometimes works from home sometimes in the office about 50/50. Note, our house came with a shed that I declared my office before we bought it. Although, I sometimes work from the desktop computer inside. I really recommend the shed idea for when kid noise would be a problem. As a small space they aren't hard to insulate, and a space heater or window A/C can handle the temp. Occasionally DH will say, "You need to go to the office"
When I work from home, DH the homeschooling parent sleeps in while I get breakfast for DD.
I hate driving, so instead of needing downtime when I got home from the office, when work is done for the day I am ready for trampoline time with DD.
Since I can work while preparing and eating dinner, I can be done with work sooner.
More family time since when work is busy I can work until I would normally arrive home. So, less time away from the family.
We used to have three cars for two drivers. Then I was rear-ended and their insurance is being &^%&^%, then the really old spare car started to act flaky. By working from home, having one car isn't so bad. If I only had to go into the office once a month, we wouldn't even bother getting a second car.
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During downtime at a convention there was a table setup with these and a good selection of writing things. The things made with gel pens, particularly the ones with sparkly in the ink all seemed particularly pretty.
I have an adult coloring book story. They did a santa exchange at work. The kind where you didn't buy for a particular person. The HR lady received an adult coloring book, and thought it was a *ahem* adult coloring book. As in something you wouldn't do with your kid sitting nearby. So, she never looked at it. Of course, no one else was going to look at it. The giver had to come forward and explain.
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Yeah! :hurray: My son adores Reading Eggs, heck that is how he learned to read so well and so young I guess. :001_huh: Might stick with Mathseeds to make it easier but definitely going to check out the other ideas. Thanks everyone!
I wasn't impressed at all with the first couple of levels. One level on the number 1, really? But, at that point I didn't know how to turn off the reading eggs playroom, and Mathseeds was better than the reading eggs playroom. So, I went along with it. It got interesting quickly and I was surprised at some gaps that it found and filled. Now, I like mathseeds, and I also like that when she kits a wall in one, she goes to the other. So, progress is made somewhere with minimal fustration.
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You might read this book. I really enjoyed it. She did one major chore category with her kids each month.
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You might want to look at Mathseeds again, They've been busily adding levels. I think I saw up to 3rd or 4th grade. We are in what they say is 1st grade, so I haven't paid a great deal of attention to the end other to note is a long way away.
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You know, OP if I were in your shoes I'd be tickled pink not fuming now. After thinking about it, but initially fuming.
It is likely that she won't show. Woo Hoo. Win-Win.
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I actually prefer the pictures with a little mess and a lot of clutter.
In one of the homeschooling books I read, the author talked about a little bit of clutter was actually Better than to have everything put away. Example, You buy a crystal making kit. If you shelve it away, the kids will never use it. If you insist, they might not be in the mood and learning is lessened when they go through the motions. BUT, if you put the kit on the coffee table, it might sit there for awhile, but then one day the kids will decide Crystal Making sounds like a good idea and proceed with enthusiasm. Learning is maximized with enthusiasm.
My only suggestion. If you want to keep kids in the same room, and at least one of your kids is a horizontal reader, then include a couch. By horizontal reader, I mean someone that would much rather read in bed or on a couch.
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I'm not sure the course would be a survey. It might move at a fast pace with little time for working problems or getting help. Some summer courses here run 4-5 days a week (instead of 2x week) and for longer class periods.
I'd probably go with Calc I in the fall either at CC or State U.
Ds took Calc I fall of senior year. He'd planned to take Calc II in spring but had a schedule conflict. He's doing Statistics instead. This has been good since it is a subject he didn't have experience with and also has a little lighter course spring of senior year. He may retake the Calc in college. The DE was not undertaken assuming it would transfer.
Oh, I know they meet daily. But, a CC Calc course won't be as in-depth as the state U class to begin with. Plus, summer classes just don't go as in-depth as regular semester courses at the same place. One reason I LOVED summer classes for the classes that were merely checking a box.
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I'd go for the first one. Calc I is extremely important for an Engineering major. The Calc I during the summer at the CC will be a survey course in comparison to the real calc. class in the fall at the state U. The CC class will make the state U class in the fall more productive.
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Isn't it crazy? I came home from a 4-H meeting the other day to find that a three lb. package of ground chuck had been decimated by two of them. They made half lb. hamburgers in the broiler and ate TWO A PIECE! :ohmy: :scared: :willy_nilly: :svengo:
We had a long talk about money not growing on trees and the value of eating a big salad before making a burger and an apple as well.
Good grief! I'm putting a padlock on the freezer.
I remember reading that is why burger places started serving fries. Meat was rationed during wartime, potatoes weren't.
I also remember reading where Abigail Adams was giving advice to someone to push the early courses of food at the teenage boys so that they didn't eat all of the meat course.
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I've read the same. Something to do with, Y chromosome sperm on the whole are faster to the egg, but X chromosome sperm are hardier (and longer lived). I think more boys are supposed to be conceived with intercourse quite close to ovulation as a result and more girls with intercourse earlier in the cycle (because the x-sperm are still hanging around).
When I first read that in a book my first thought was "Like People. Men get their faster but then get bored and fall asleep. Women take longer to get there, but then have the patience to wait"
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There are many theories. I just read a very, very long book on the wives of Henry VIII.
First wife had a girl (Mary). She had stillbirths/baby losses, but not gender specific. She had a stillborn boy and a stillborn girl and two infant boys and one infant girl died. One of those boys died of an intestinal problem at 52 days. The other boy was premature and died soon after birth. The girl was described as "weak" and lived a week or less.
Second wife had a girl (Elizabeth) and then had several late-term stillbirths of unknown gender. It is quite probable that Anne Boleyn was Rh- which is why baby #1 was fine while the rest did not survive.
Third wife had a son (Edward) and died shortly after childbirth, probably from an infected tear. Edward was actually not unhealthy. Henry kept him in as sterile an environment as possible since he was opposed to females ruling and so it was pretty important for the boy to survive. He had TB, which he did not contract until a year before he died. He died young (15), but it is not true that he was sickly from birth.
Fourth wife's marriage was almost definitely not consummated.
Fifth and sixth wives never conceived (there were rumors that by then Henry VIII was impotent, largely due to his incredibly large size).
The sixth wife gave birth to a daughter by her fourth husband (Henry was her third) and died shortly after childbirth. Katherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves (the other two wives who lived after marriage to Henry) did not have children after their marriages to Henry VIII.
On the other hand, he produced a perfectly healthy male illegitimate son in 1519 (Henry Fitzroy). It is also possible that he produced an additional 6 illegitimate children as well (two of which were female, 4 male). So it is very likely there was nothing wrong with Henry VIII's genetics as far as male children go. He just got wildly unlucky as far children produced by his wives and his view of who should succeed him (males only).
I have a personal theory that the illegitimate kids weren't really his. The mistresses wouldn't have had the same scrutiny that the queens had. The real father would have no reason to step forward and say, "That kid might be mine" because a kid's illegitimate kid was provided for.
eta: Plus if you are mistress, it is already established that you have no problem with sex outside of marriage.
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someone upthread posted a link to frontier house. three families - five months (spring to fall) and one thing they have to do is put aside enough provisions/wood to survive the winter. they were judged by experts. only one of the families had (barely) enough wood. the others ddn't have remotely enough. it's really easy to underestimate - especailly for those new to frontier living (even then , you had city dwellers who moved to the frontier and it was a new experience.)
I, too, had really enjoyed that show. The producers fell flat in a couple of places, like not allowing hunting. I can understand not actual hunting, it was PBS. But they should have allowed some simulation for the family to get some meat. I think the families could have traded more. For example, the family with the kids and the animals could have traded some child labor for daily bread from the Irish woman who was the baking Queen.
The thing about those shows I like best is what people freak out about. Like in this one, it was "We ran out of sugar!" and "See, my stomach is hollow. There is something wrong with me." On the Victorian one, it was the shampoo and the corsets.
Did they stop making those, or I have missed some?
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Isn't that one of the Assistance things for dyslexia? I clear colored sheet you put over the page.
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My in-laws are like that about Packer games. It is annoying.
After being assured that the Cowboys never play Saturday games, I scheduled our engagement party / my master graduation party (same party) on a Saturday. For the one Saturday evening that they play. I then declared one rule for the wedding. It would be NOT be during football season.
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That is great news! Maybe I need to look at buying Core A from them. I like FLL, and I was grumpy about the LA thing. So, for P3/4 and P4/5, I've bought the guide and books used.
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We have some at home for $4 a dozen. They are truly free-range. We are given the option of washed or not-washed. There is another person in the area that sells free-range eggs, but he's been doing it awhile and chickens/space has gone up and they don't have as much elbow room and the taste has gone down. I suspect less bugs in their diet. I want chickens too. There is a neighbor with chickens. When we first moved in, he had a sign on eggs for sale. Then winter he took the sign down and never put it up again. I find it amusing that I sometimes have to watch for chickens on the road to our house.
For people that have chickens, you can break open the eggs in muffin tins and then freeze them. This helps to even out the supply. it would annoying to be feeding chickens in the winter AND buying eggs at the store.
What can go wrong? Update in #149
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WOW! Another reason to be glad I don't live in NY