Humor does seem to come across better by hearing it. I saw Richard the ... (the one with Henry) at the Globe theater. I'd read it before hand. When Richard was talking about just wanting a little bit of land, the audience was rolling with laughter. I was half convinced that the actor ad-libbing because I didn't remember anything funny about it. But, I pulled up the play on my e-reader and yes it was there. There have been a few other times I've seen/heard something I read and discovered things I'd totally missed while reading.

If it were my child, I would find out what the DE college was using, and use it. I would probably have my daughter contact a professor of that class and explain the situation, and ask for the syllabus. If she goes through the science classes with you, then she should be able to Ace the real classes even with an aggressive schedule.

But HP did / does? I thought it was very natural and logical, so I liked it.

I am a redhead with brown haired parents. They said sometimes it was said with a tone of "someone must have had an affair" tone. From a young age I piped up, "From my Grandfather. He hardly has any anymore". Both of which were true.

Spectrum sounds pretty impressive. 12-14 labs sounds about like the number of labs I did in freshman chem at a major 4-year university.

Have you read any from the thin fairy tale book with illustrations in the table of contents? Whoever thought to put the illustrations there was brilliant! DD loves to ponder the table of contents while she decides which story she wants.

Sometimes in really old books in the illustrations I have seen cribs that look like the legs were removable and they were removed. I sometimes lose my train of thought in the book because I think how wonderful that would have been for the baby/toddler transition. You start with a drop-side crib and lower the mattress until it is too low. Then you remove the legs. Then you remove the drop side. Kid sleeps there until ready for a regular bed without safety rails, or you need it as a crib for a younger sibling. It annoys me when safety regulations make things not as safe. I wonder if there will be a black market in drop-side cribs the way there is for full flush toilets.

Note, I don't have a teenager yet. Just an outside view. But, maybe the adult perks need to drop to zero, nada, zippo. Assuming that she is 16 already, allow her only the activities that have been already enrolled in. And charge $0.50 (or maybe more) per mile for the driving you do for her, including your return trip. No new clothes, no camp, nothing. Respond to "I want to ..." with "How are you going to pay for that?" You pay for the things that you decide she needs. She pays for the things that she decides she needs.

I played lawn darts with my parents when I was a small child. We were extremely remote and the beach was private. Not as fancy as it sounds. Even as a child I remember thinking, "These things are dangerous"

One day I was cooing a greeting at my parent's dog and my mother said, "You think his poop doesn't stink". So I added that to my greeting. Somewhere during the adoring cheek rubbing I say, "And your poop doesn't stink"

This is what I would do for higher education. Stop all federal funding of students at a four-year college for the Freshman year. Maybe even the first 45 or 60 hours. Fully and completely fund (tuition, student fees and maybe books) at community colleges for the same time period. Basically, if you want to go away to college with (my) tax payer dollars you need to prove yourself first. The community colleges can handle the freshman classes just fine. It is their forte. This would reserve the 4-year universities for those who gave a darn, and would also limit the "woo hoo, away from mom and dad. I am going to binge drink and ignore my studies. " I know this is a pipe dream, but I would really like tracking and kids to be able to get a good job after high school. My Junior Year, I was friends with an exchange student from Sweden. She went to an Engineering High School. That school graduated a year later than us (avg. age 19) but they were able to get an entry level Engineering job when they graduated. How cool would that be? Maybe it was an engineering tech. job, I was in High School then so I didn't understand the distinction. But, here you need an Associates degree from an engineering program (and the debt) to get that same job.

Did you just go from spare credits, to needing more?

Gasp! I am so confused. One nice thing about making it at home. I double the hollandaise recipe. Let everyone else get as much as they want, then I left up the meat and egg and pour the sauce on the bread. Then I pour whatever is left on top. That way I get an abnormal amount of sauce, but it looks like a normal amount.

Me, too, if iEB is on the menu, I will get it. I am not even that picky. I've always liked it. I once had leftover lobster from a steak and lobster date. Made EB out of it. Totally worth fiddling. I just got an egg cooker that poaches eggs. I am looking forward to some at home. Although, I guess I might have to freeze the english muffin.

The Last Lion. About Winston Churchill during the war years. Also, a really long one.

Remember, you guys could each take half a cow at butcher time. So, you don't need freezer space for a whole cow. My folks used to buy half a cow at butcher time. They named the cuts that they could easily use, and had the rest ground up into ground beef since that is what is most frequently used. I have a friend that discovered she was allergic to the icky stuff that is given to cows and ends up in beef. She decided to just give up beef, but they also considered doing something like this.

I hate them. It might be because at my parent's house the drawer pulls ruined a robe and several pairs of jeans. The pull was a rod that stuck out a little on the left and right side. It was at the exact height as the belt loops on my pants, and it also caught the pocket on my favorite robe. So, I would be innocently walking along and then suddenly my hips stop going forward and my jeans are torn. I also don't like the look of them. I like the clean lines of no pulls. But, sometimes you need them. They have ones that attach to the back and just stick out a little. I like those.

I took the first job that was offered to me when I was looking for work after I was kicked out of graduate school when the government cancelled the project that was funding my thesis. It worked out well for me. I am now in a totally different field. I truly believe the hand of God guided me.

That actually reminds me of a news story from a ballgame a few years ago. A man and his son, maybe 10, went to the ballgame. The son wanted a bottle of "lemonade" aka Mike's Hard Lemonade. The guards were called, and on questioning both seemed oblivious that there was alcohol in there. The kid's blood alcohol level was almost zero. Although I am a little uncomfortable with the general concept of equating pot and alcohol.

It was either 50 years or the lifetime of the house. Of course, the price and the warranty are probably related. The material was really neat. The windows weren't wood, vinyl or aluminum. It was that fake wood where they take sawdust and resin and make indestructible woodish. The windows were one solid piece of that stuff. I'd have spent an extra $200 for that. But 5X? No. I think it could be like those lifetime car part replacement offers they used to make. They figure the vast majority of the people will forget. Do you know you can buy windows that don't have to be cleaned? When dirt plus sunlight plus the window coating are together, there is a chemical reaction and the dirt is broken down. I don't know how well it works. It is expensive and I will only live in an one story house.

I would look at AllRecipes.com. You can search by ingredients you don't want. I found an excellent green bean casserole recipe that way by searching for "Green Bean Casserole" and then putting "Soup" in the Do Not Want ingredient search area.

Have you checked to see if your windows are still under a warranty? While window shopping we had the Anderson guy out to the house. He went on and on about their warranty. He mentioned that before they changed to the new special material that they had problems and are having to replace them. The new special material was whiz-bang. But, I think he said it was only used in Texas. But, like you, I looked at the numbers and they didn't make sense. >$2000 for one of their windows, or a triple-paned with every energy-efficient option for <$400.

Freeindeed, have you started on the Harper Collins book? For some reason, DD called that the Mommy book, and the other collection was the "White book". Our Harper Collins is totally falling apart. We bought it used in pristine shape, and I have a dim view of anyone that could own that book and read it so little. We bought ours used too here and there. Mostly because a bunch of the books had been in my childhood library that my mother had kept.

Maybe you could also mention my favorite thing about cloth diapers. I think this would be true of babies in general. When she started to cry we had this list of things she might need and we ran through the list with the likeliest first. We would have done everything except change her diaper, but we had checked it and it was totally dry. But she'd still be crying. Then we'd change her diaper, and it would finely register with her that we were Doing Something. Then she would do an internal check and decide she was happy. With disposables, I would have been too cheap to do that, and she would have cried a lot more

People talk about how expensive it is. But the expense is really in the books. Assuming you are going to buy books for your kid anyway, the majority of the expense is more a Having Kids Expense than an Homeschooling Expense.