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  1. I always forget about NPR. They do have nice classical music. Generally I have talk radio or nothing. In the car we listen to KLOVE or the other local Christian station.
  2. I read the first one you listed and enjoyed it ver much.
  3. I use my credit card. We do stick to a budget and pay them off every month, so it's the same as cash. Plus, we have an Amazon card and we get points which I use for school stuff.
  4. Week day mornings I eat oatmeal. Weekends I get a little more creative.
  5. I grew up Mennonite and becoming Presbyterian was coming over to the Dark Side as far as my family was concerned. We do not discuss doctrine or the whole infant baptism thing, although dh and I are still credo-baptists (that's the only place we differ with the Presbyterian church)!
  6. I never read it. I went to a Christian high school and it was banned, but our English teacher was a former hippie and very much a rebel so as we were going over reading lists she kept telling us how good this book was, but she couldn't recommend it, ect. Etc. etc., so most of my class read it because they wanted to be rebellious, but I just didn't feel like it. I got hooked on Steinbeck in high school. So I read him.
  7. Took dd1 to basketball this morning. She does Little Hoopsters. Very low key. I just got back from the grocery store, am putting things away, baking oatmeal-potato bread and trying to catch up on laundry. I wanted to do some yard work/clean-up, but it's too gloomy out.
  8. We have 5 children, all adopted through foster care. We got our boys when they were 13 mo. And 4 mo. We were placed with them 1month after the completion of our homestudy. They are bio brothers. Parental rights had not been terminated at that point, and I'm not sure if it's just a California thing, but they do not terminate rights until the kids are in an adoptive home. Our oldest daughter we picked up at the hospital, she was 2 days old. We waited for her 6 months. Our youngest 2 are bio sisters, we got them at age 2 1/2 and 10 months. We waited 4 years for them. We should be finalizing their adoption next month. All of our adoptions have been very straightforward and easy. Our children are all healthy and bright and have no problems. Going through foster care can be tough, but you need to be flexible, smile a lot, say, "yes, I'll get right on that" and just keep your eyes on the goal. None of our children have had any trouble bonding with us, but I think the stay-at-home mom, homeschooling lifestyle is really conducive to that. One thing regarding drug exposure - if you go through the foster care system, that's almost a given. But, I do have to say that drug exposure in utero does not always mean your kid is going to have severe problems. Depends on what drug they were exposed to.
  9. I'm usually terrible at starting seeds. But I still do it every year. I have a little device called a "paper pot maker" that makes little pots from newspaper. I fill them with potting soil, plant my seeds and put them in a window. You can plant the whole thing, pot and all. I sray them once a day with water and keep them in front of a west window. Some years it works, others not so much.
  10. I was just going to say this. I go by the Sunset zones and they are more correct.
  11. My sil is an OB/GYN and she said that very thing waaaay back when we were starting to realize we were infertile. She said it can be a slippery slope when you are in the middle of it, so it's important to decide as a couple,"we're going to go this far and that's it!" However far it is that you are willing to go is up to you.
  12. I agree. Forgive me. Next thread, please!
  13. No, my kids can play with her. Just not when she's supposed to be at school. She comes knocking at the door at 11:00am to play with my first grader who is done with school for the day.and it may not e so much of a JAWM, but a "does anyone have this problem and does it bother anyone?" Sorry. I must have been vague.
  14. She's ditching school. She's out in the streets playing during school hours. Last time I checked, if kids are healthy they need to be in school, And if they are sick, too sick to be in school, they should be inside resting, or at least not spreading their germs. My kids are forbidden to play with her during the hours that she's supposed to be in school until I am informed that she is being homeschooled. I realize there are medical/emotional reasons for kids not to be in regular school, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Why do I care? Well, what she's doing is wrong, and by letting my kids play with her during school hours, IMO, is encouraging her in her wrongdoing. Besides, even though I know I am within my legal rights to homeschool, I still try to fly below the radar and I just don't like the idea of a truant officer coming down our street seeing a bunch of kids playing basketball in the early afternoon when everyone else should be in school. Fwiw, I'm not planning on confronting the parents, but apparently I am odd that it bothers me.
  15. If you had a neighbor girl the same age as your kids, who is a nice girl, generally, but seems to have little supervision and is always "sick" and not attending school. She did this the week before Christmas. We were done with schoo, for the day and all the sudden I look out at 1:00 and she's playing in my backyard with my kids. I questioned her, gave her the old, "if your're too sick to go to school, you're too sick to be playing here" speech and sent her home. Supposedly Grandpa is home, I see a car. She was home early from school yesterday because she was "tired",(which means someone picked her up and knew she was at home) but then she "rested" and was out playing. I really don't know these neighbors (they just moved in a couple months ago) and I feel uncomfortable confronting them about this. She's home again today, the kids are forbidden to play with her, but they want to go out in the front and shoot hoops and if she sees them.... I know I'm kind of being a weenie about this whole thing, but they supposedly know she's staying home, so all I'd be doing is calling their daughter a liar.
  16. We enjoy them. You can see my kids' ages in my siggy. I've used them quite a bit this year with Am. History. We used his presidential series. We've read a few "real" biographies on the presidents, but these are good because they give a quick overview and I was looking to give my boys a "survey" of some of the presidents of the late 18th/early 19th century and these hit the spot. My youngest son loves the cartoons and humor, my oldest boy, who doesn't get humor much, is clueless. Oh well!
  17. That was my dd's problem, too. I talked to the dentist. She looked at the x-ray and said, "the tooth is there. It'll come." And eventually it did.
  18. Dh and I were married at age 34. My parents were infertile (I happened to come along after 8 years of marriage, but I was mom's only pregnancy), so it wasn't a surprise. There was no obvious reason for me to be infertile (dh got tested and was on the low end of normal) but i just hate medical procedures, so I didn't do any testing. Going the adoptin route was very easy. I knew I did not want to do infertility treatments at all, so we went through foster care and adopted 5 kids in three "sets". One thing I would recommend if you decide to adopt is to make sure you have had closure regarding your infertility. Some couples adopt, but still haven't made peace with their infertility and see their adopted kids as "second best" and that's just not fair.
  19. I'm not sure I understand why this would be considered an abortion. The baby died on its own. The other two babies were not supposed to be harmed. How is this an abortion?
  20. None of my children's stories are pretty, but one is pretty bad. For her, I have given her the sanitized version. No lies. never lies. but some things left out. One thing you have to ask yourself is, "what is beneficial for her to know and what is not?" And not all truth is beneficial. Really. My dd is only 6. We give our children information about their stories as they become interested and ask. All know they are adopted, so we are not hiding that fact, but some are more interested than others. Oldest ds is very interested. We've had some good talks. Youngest ds is not interested at all. He knows the basics. That's all. That's all he wants. I'm sure when we go to court next month for the little girls, there will be more questions and talks, but we'll wait till that happens. I just try to be very open and willing to talk, but my adoption talks with my kids have always been child initiated and that works for us.
  21. I would agree with this. Also, the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell popped into my head when I read this thread. I think some of the success stories he talks about would illustrate that principle.
  22. I'm sorry, but I am not doing a very good job tacking Monday. Monday has me in a head-lock and is bashing my head against a wall. My kids are naughty, disobedient and defiant. They are tattling and whining and battling me with school work. Dd1 is acting like she's never even heard of math before, dd2 is throwing her, I don't know, 100th fit for the morning, DS1 is getting nothing done, the house is a wreck and the cleaners are coming this afternoon and I just want to sit down and cry. I'm sorry to be such a whiner. I've been reading the boards this weekend and a lot of boardies are going through horrible stuff, but I'm sick of today already and it's just barely noon.
  23. That's tough. Some of us are just wired to be more uptight and not deal with stress as well as others. I, for one, am not someone you'd like to have with you in a crisis. And then God gave me five very high-energy, noisy, strong-willed children. I think yu got a lot of good advice. I don't handle stress well, either. One thing, though, I try to do is, is when I'm stressed, I lower my high standards until I can get a grip. It's ok if we have pizza once in a while. We don't always have to have several veggies and fruits and a made from scratch meal. Some days we can just do reading, spelling and math and call it school and I shoo the kids outside so I can have some quiet and get a few things done.
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