Casablanca Steel Magnolias While You Were Sleeping When Harry Met Sally Overboard Baby Boom

I played flute first and then picked up the piccolo. I love playing the piccolo. It was like getting into a little sports car after driving around a big ol' SUV. I don't think I would have started with a piccolo.

We are studying the Ancients this year and here is the list my fifth grader is reading: Hittite Warrior Gilgamesh the Hero The Golden Goblet Tales from Africa The White Stag Mara, Daughter of the Nile God King Black Ships Before Troy The Golden Fleece The Bronze Bow Caesar's Gallic War The Eagle In Search of a Homeland (the Aeneid) Theras and His Town Greek Myths Alexander the Great The Children's Homer

Yeah, well, after however many Columbus Day lessons I've taught and they've sat through, it seems that the impression is that Columbus actually sailed up through the North Sea, around Scandanavia and landed somewhere in Siberia.

My boys are more like this. My oldest daughter.... it's rough with her because there are some deep emotional things going on with her regarding her adoption -rejection, insecurity stuff. It's tough and she rages against me all the time. It's very painful as she desperately pulls me close and then screams at me in anger. I know these are stages she needs to go through, and it's normal. We talk about it as much as we can. And I just pray that I can be granite for her - strong, unyielding, permanent -so she can rage all she wants and I'll be strong for her. I know we can get through this, and I'm glad she's dealing with it young and openly.

My kids are all adopted and my brother is adopted and some of their cousins on dh's side are adopted. So adoption is a very "normal" thing in our family. Sometimes my kids get some odd notions about biological relationships, too. It is a hard thing for them to understand. I just try to be straightforward and matter-of-fact about the whole thing. And keep explaining things over and over again. It is hard for a young mind to wrap itself around. Especially if we're talking about people they have never (and possibly will never) met. Adoption is such a beautiful thing and yet it is so hard because for some reason that biological bond is so strong, and some issues can be so painful.

Woohoo, I got on and registered. Took a while, though. We're going in February.

I put we are happy. Extremely happy? I'm not exactly sure what that would look like. But we are happy. We like each other, we love each other, we are committed to each other and our kids.

We use Memoria Press. We love it and the kids have learned a lot. It is very systematic and straightforward. However, they do learn the Latin prayers, etc., so it may not be what you are looking for.

Ok, this was just funny. I really liked..... snoutfair and "with squirrel". http://www.businessinsider.com/words-no-longer-in-the-dictionary-2013-8

Well, yeah, it's rather true to the times. It's not unicorns and rainbows. It's not graphic, but... it's about the Huns.

Just reporting back that we finished The White Stag and really enjoyed it. It's a pretty quick read, short book. It's basically a fairy tale. And it's a little .... different.... but both ds and I really liked it.

Central Cal ladies (and gentlemen, of course) - tomorrow morning (October 8) at 9:00am you can register for homeschool days at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Just go to Homeschool programs at their website and follow the links. It's a great deal - free admission for your family.

I find it to be worth it. I order a lot of stuff. I use their movies and videos a lot. Of course, they are old, but... I don't care. Keeps me entertained.

No, no, no. Change the social as soon as you get the new birth certificate. That child's social security number has been in who knows how many hands. Change it! We've changed it for all our children.

Whenever I can get way with it. No, that's bad. I do like church, but honestly, sometimes I just want a quiet morning alone. Regarding kids.... I wait at least 24 hours after a fever or vomiting quits. Runny nose.... it's hard around here because everyone has allergies. And those aren't contagious. I try to be on the safe side, though, and play it conservatively.

Saddlemama - I just bought Fables for my 5th grader, because I really liked the look of it. Have you tried not doing the second re-write of the fable? I've been looking at it, and I think that's what I'll do. We're starting this late in the school year, but it looked good to me.

Glad I could help you out, Jean! You always cheer me up with these "tackling" threads. I like 'em!

Hello, All! Well, got school done this morning. I'm going to get lunch cleaned up and then head the herd out to co-op this afternoon. Hopefully, this afternoon I can get dd's birthday cake made and a bit of the house cleaned up, since the grandparents are coming over tomorrow for her birthday . I've got the never ending laundry pile to work on, and odds and ends to do. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

I like this way of looking at it. I hadn't thought of it this way.

I have a mouthy and argumentative 10 year old boy. The push-ups, as was recommended in a previous thread of mine have been helping.

Jammie's, bathrobe, slippers. It's 7:15am here, the kids are still sleeping, I'm finishing my coffee and heading for the shower.

I certainly wouldn't have gotten racism out of that remark. Some librarians are condescending. Some of ours are. Because I have five kids and when they come into our library it's liked a tornado hit. Not that my kids are poorly behaved, they know how to behave in the library, but they just have tremendous energy, and they are always asking the librarians questions and they check out books. Our librarians should love me.... I pay so many overdue fines they could probably afford to build a new wing. But you should have heard the talking to I got once regarding how it shouldn't be so difficult for me to get my books back on time. It was all I could do to just not smack the guy.

I am so frustrated with science. Ok, two years ago I had a mediocre time with REAL Science Odessey with my boys. So, we didn't do another year of that. We did A Beka. Didn't like that. This year, DS1 is doing earth science as spelled out in TWTM and none, absolutely not one of the experiments worked. And I don't think he's learned much from taking notes from the Encyclopedia. DS2 and DD are doing.... I hate to admit it, RSO earth science. Why did I go back to that? Did I think I would like it? It's not going well at all. I am at my wit's end. I did buy DS1 2 of those Thames and Kosmos kits and I'm tempted to dump everything else and just have them work on those. But the other kids.... I'm out of curriculum money... I can't buy anything else right now, and I don't know which direction to go in if I did have money.

I'd like a cuppa something.... I'm not exactly sure what. Bad bad day. We have to sell candy bats to help fund our soccer league. 30 in a box. I had the boxes on my dresser. The kids aren't supposed to be in our room. This morning dh was wanting to take on of the boxes to work to sell, and he opened it and there were 6 left. Went into the boys' room and found a huge pile of candy wrappers. And it all went down hill from there.