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  1. Well, you have a 4-year-old so it shouldn't be a problem anything being too young. Although, many people dislike the LA of Sonlight. I never tried Sonlight's LA, but I'd already had a plan in place for that. We've done the Core of both P3/4 and P4/5. You used to be able to just buy the Core from Sonlight, but now they make you buy everything. At least they did last time I looked. I do love the Core. I didn't buy it from Sonlight. I bought most of each core as a lot on ebay, then I got all the audiobooks that the library had on the Sonlight lists. I love audiobooks so I also got all the audiobooks by the same authors.
  2. What they really meant was, "If we don't notice the date, it isn't our fault." If you'd mailed in the checks, they probably would have gone through because of the automatic nature of the way those deposits are handled. I haven't had to use this in *mumble* *mumble* years, but if a check bounces (or maybe if it hasn't bounced, but it costs money) to have your check be paid before anyone else. So your check sits there waiting for a deposit, and when one comes through you are paid.
  3. I have an Evil Grandmother. Let me tell you from experience, that it is MUCH better to have no relationship with a bad grandparent. Will your children get love and the grandparent experience from your father? No no no no no no. Your kids have already gotten the cultural message that grandparents always loves their grandchildren unconditionally. Then your father makes fun of your children????? I remember being depressed as a kid because "What kind of messed up person isn't loved by their grandmother?" PLEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSE, save your kids from that. If that is their only grandparent or the best option (shudder), and you want your kids to have the grandparent experience then ask the local old folks home if anyone there would like to play XYZ game with some kids.
  4. One idea if he wants to work from home is a shed that you insulate and install an electrical outlet. There was one that came with the house and I really love it. It had been a train conductors shed, and before we bought the house I said, "That is my office. I live in Texas, so a window AC is essential. In winter because the space is so small a space heater works fine. Ours isn't insulated yet but I imagine many places would require it. The dog comes with me.
  5. I've observed that there seems to be certain things that are the beginning of the end for many people. Broken hip is one example. Not being able to wipe yourself is another. My MIL is one of those people that provides non-nursing care to elderly people. I've learned from her that the rate is X, but if the person needs their butt wiped the hourly rate is 1.5X to 2X. One of the things I've picked out for the future master bath is a bidet toilet seat. You just sit there on the toilet and it washes you and then blow-drys you! You just sit there and push some buttons. I figure that is a major quality of life investment if you might get to that point. If someone needs eldercare assistance in their home, that bidet seat would pay for itself quickly by keeping the hourly rate normal.
  6. I just remembered something a friend at work told me. His mother is caring for his grandmother who is elderly. The elderly grandmother fell and broke something. She been doing pretty well before that, and there hadn't been any other problems like that before. She hadn't needed much care, just someone to be there, take care of the grocery shopping, bill paying, laundry, driving etc. My friend's mother was told that she had to get her mother into assisted living or a home of some sort because if his grandmother fell again in the mother's home, his mother would be charged with elderly neglect.
  7. Pocket doors almost everywhere! Closets especially. Although we'd regretted the pocket doors in DD's closet. While she was still napping but in that not-always-needing-a-nap stage, she would sometimes go into her closet and create a huge mess. Pocket doors are lockable but the hardware is more of a bother.
  8. My impression is that in the past, when the 'kids' were taking care of their parents. It was the kid's living in the house of the elderly parents. Like you mention here. Instead of now when the kids move away, buy their own house and then are expected to provide for their parents and their own elderly years. My maternal grandparents lived in her families home until they retired themselves. I observed that never having to pay a mortgage had HUGE financial benefits to them. My mother grew up with her maternal grandfather in the house and has many fond memories. Even though my grandfather was blue-collar, there was money for hospital and nursing care.
  9. One idea is to suggest the kids play school together. Your older can be the teacher. Since it is play, they will stop with angst when it becomes too much/not fun.
  10. No. Absolutely positively not. No, no, no. I had a great-aunt whose life was ruined by the philosophy of taking care of the elderly infirm parents in the home. She was born in the 1920's and the only daughter out of 4. There was a grandparent in the house that needed constant care, as in bedpans and needing to be rotated to stop bedsores. My aunt said she got her first nursing education from listening to her aunt talk about caring for her Grandmother. This was on a farm, and as the only daughter, care for the grandparent fell entirely on my great-aunt. When she should have been out joining society and being courted, she was holed up in the house being a nurse. This lasted many years and by the time her grandparent had died, she was a spinster in the 1940's without an education or a job in a tiny farm community.
  11. For some other ideas, you could look at this book. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0130278041?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage It is on Tools of the Mind which is about education to improve Executive Function. You can google Tools of the Mind, the theory is old. This book is aimed at classroom teachers.
  12. Oh, another thing. Lower cabinets in the kitchen should have drawers and figure out which ones you'd want to store small appliances in, and add outlets inside the cabinet. So, when you need the food processor, you get it out of the drawer, set it on the counter and use.
  13. If you had a party you could say, "Look for the house with purple lights".
  14. How does the dog react to the vacuum? I once had a cat that was a shedding machine. He was begging for attention one day while I was vacuuming the drapes with the attachment. So, I vacuumed him! It was amazing. He didn't shed for about 5 days. I figure the vacuum pulled out all the fur that was thinking about falling out in the near future. Also, the dog doesn't like the vaccuum, you could look into a DIY dog grooming place near you. They have those powerful hair dryer's mentioned in the previous post. You do the work and prepay for time to make the machines work.
  15. We basically did this. We bought a house built in the 1900's with a 1980's addition. It was gutted and then redone. We still need to do the wood floors and the tiled laundry room. Then DH will build an addition that doubles the house. I definitely second the outlet idea by figuring out where the furniture would go. The internet is really an amazing place for ideas. One idea I came up with on my own is to have a pass-through rod from the laundry room to the master closet. I am a bit compulsive about my laundry, and anything mildly nice is hung on a hanger from the washer. So, I hang my clothes on the pass-through rod leaving spaces between them. Then when dried I shove the whole bunch into the closet. DH is lowering the opening now so that we can have another pass-through rod at hip height to return empty hangers. Storage. When planning the layout I've planned in walls-of-Ikea to be built-in. For example, the bathroom for DD and guest's with the size and shape that was available, it was natural to put the sink, toilet and tub along one wall. The other wall will be storage furniture from IKEA. I forget the name of it. Less depth than the PAX. In the addition, the main hallway walls will be built-in Billy bookcases wherever there isn't a door. One wall of the new living room and one wall of the mom-cave will be built-in PAX wardrobes.
  16. I agree with Zoobie totally and completely. You have zero obligation to her. She is an adult, it was on her to prepare. People that help her do so willingly, or they wouldn't be doing it.
  17. Interesting thought on paternity. I know there has been a great many studies on False Paternity. I could have the name wrong. Where the daddy that thinks he's the daddy, but really isn't. All the numbers were around 12% regardless of income, class, race.
  18. Well, the tenants could have gone with other place that cost a lot less a month. Therefore, they can't be that poor. They are renting a house. I've been poor, renting a house was unthinkable. These people either aren't that poor, or are scammers.
  19. We love it. In fact I just started writing out some stuff for my parents who would be DD's guardians if both DH and I died. The latest HSLDA post about the homeschooling grandmother reminded me that my parents have no idea what we do or what we plan on doing. They are supportive but we've never gone into details. Bookshark was the first item on the list.
  20. Homeschool Mom in AZ said this, "Pagan gods and demigods are humanity amplified. " I've always thought that. As a christian I believe we were made in God's image. But, in myths the gods always seem to be made in man's image, a pretty one-dimensional image too.
  21. 'They' say that the bra when new should fit when on the loosest clips. That way when the bra stretches you move to the tighter clips.
  22. Well, at least you are on high alert now. I'd recommend you start the eviction process the second you are legally allowed to do so.
  23. i have noticed this. But, then I'm on my mom's account so the benefit to me is that I don't need $35 worth of stuff to get free shipping. But, I don't hold my breath that it will be there is 3 days.
  24. I'm in Farmersville which is East of Mckinney which is North of Dallas.
  25. One hint for maximizing any rushed museum experience. Buy the museum book online before you go and have everyone at least skim it before hand. That way you will have your list of Things_You_Really_Want_To_See beforehand, and you'll spend less time reading the text, which is really small font at the Air and Space Museum. Well, maybe it is normal font but it is small for the number of people there when I was there. I love reading those things, but by the time I got close enough to read, I no longer cared. Also, sometimes I don't pay attention to a thing because it isn't pretty or sparkly. Then on the way out I buy the book and then read the history of the ignored thing which turns it into Really Cool Thing. Then I regret not studying it.
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