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I thought THIS was my support group!
I have been thinking I need to find one, but have been turned off by the few hs moms I've met that belong. They're a little.....intense in trying to convert me to whatever they embrace....And to borrow a phrase I learned here, I don't have enough bean dip.
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bump....I need help with this!
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Who are you voting for? I am having a hard time seeing it
I agree. I almost had a seizure when I saw that! Of course, it *is* convincing! :D
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I am not offended by cussing by adults. I hear it a lot in my field (you would think not, huh? I'm an RN). Cr@p is not a bad word in my family...even my grandmother says that and she is a *saint*
I did just have the what does the F-word mean conversation with my ds8 & ds6. My ds6 asked "does f____ spell F*" I explained no, it doesn't, and why do you ask? Do you know what it means? I then explained that it means mating, but in a vulgar way that society has deemed to be inappropriate at all times. I told him that if our neighbor ever heard him say that he would probably never get to play with his best friend again, and if I heard him say it, he would get a mouth full of soap, because in polite society it is deemed unacceptable. End of conversation. Never heard the word again (unless I was listening to myself....I have HUGE potty mouth that I keep under control at home unless a piece of furniture gets dropped on my foot).
When I was growing up it was called "barn talk" and we could go down to the barn and say whatever word we wanted to say. No words were off limits, we just knew that some words were not said outside of the barn. If a word was said in polite company I would get told "that's barn talk." End of story, unless I said it a second time in polite company.
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Any good ideas for educational material, etc. so I can count a trip to the apple orchard as a school day?
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Soy sauce is too salty for bacteria to live, thus it does not go bad. This from my dh who knows everything there is to know about food, cooking & spoilage. BTW, when I asked him this simple question, I had to listen to a 5 minute explanation as well as a list of other naturally shelf-stable food. :tongue_smilie: It is the longest I've actually *listened* to him in a while!
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Life begins after 40. I've just started my journey. How about you?
hmmm...since I just recently turned 40, I've been thinking life is half over at 40.
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:lurk5: I'm kinda in the same boat (ds8 3rd gr, ds6 1st
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:lurk5: I'm kinda in the same boat (ds8 3rd gr, ds6
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My ds8 has asked to learn to sew. He loves doing projects. He did a "sew a bear" project I picked up at Michaels that was basically a whip stitch by hand. I don't sew (other than eyes back on stuffed animals) but he really wants to learn.
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This is a complex issue for me. I guess I theoretically believe life begins at conception (I was raised Catholic, after all!), but in practice, I have used various forms of birth control that the "life begins at conception" crowd frowns upon....and I have no regrets about that. I have also suffered through IUFD and even though I never *felt* like I had a "life within me", I certainly *felt* the loss of a potential life.
From a medical perspective cellular reproduction is an amazing thing, as is reproduction in general. I like to say we truly are "fearfully and wonderfuly made" but (and its a big but) I do not believe the Bible is, was meant to be, or should be treated as a science text.
So, I clicked the "when sperm and egg meet" but my personal belief, based upon upbringing, feeling, and religious text, is not necessarily scientifically accurate.
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Maybe a nice box of disposable latex (or latex-free) gloves would be in order.....? Much less expensive. Of course handwashing is still necessary, but I don't touch anything without gloves on!
(okay, I'm not Howard Hughes. I mean anything iky like toilets, gerbil cages, etc.)
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I would say to those of you with younger kids, now at 14 with 6 years of homeschooling, my dd survived my parenting and all my mistakes. Kids are resilient, and you really do just need to strive to be good enough, not perfect.
Danielle
I'm trying to find an emoticon with a big bunch of flowers and "thank you" This is good advice and hits right to the heart for me. I think I'll print it out and paste it somewhere I can see when I start to get stressed out. Thank You.
And thank you to everyone else for the honesty. I'm sure I'll make boatloads of mistakes, but as a new hs'er, I'm reading this thread and making so many mental notes.
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I never liked the term policewoman or the sometimes used police lady when I was doing that job. I really didn't mind policeman.
Something amusing to ponder. The little old lady who sent me away because she wanted a man to help her. She'd locked herself out of the house. When I got there she wouldn't let me on the front porch. :D
Back to the topic at hand. The one that bugs me for some reason is fireman. I'll give my we-aren't-all-men speech in a heartbeat for that one.
Funny you should mention this. Let me preface by saying I typically use genderal neutral terms when speaking of occupations and try to stress to my dc that men and women can have any job they aspire to. Here's the funny: We spoke with a female firefighter and after she left my son turned to me and said "wow, that was a nice girl firefighter"
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Sheesh!! Just reading this thread has me bawling!
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fits my mood tonight....can I live with it?
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dh would like have more and I told him to get to work growing a uterus so that could happen. I figured out what was causing that and put a stop to it! No more for me.
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It's strange how you can see in the moment of perfect clarity how your life is forever changed. Like my neighbor and I *knowing* we were at war. Since that moment my husband has been deployed twice. I've held grieving widows in my arms. I've felt my heart stop when a knock or phone call came just a little too early in the morning. I've known someone in our unit was killed and cleaned my house from top to bottom just in case.
It's been so many years now that I've known some widows who have remarried, seen babies born of those relationships...it's so strange to think it's been that long.
So true....my dh is former military and strongly considered going back in. It was hard for me to be supportive when all I could think was "thank God we got out of the military just in time." In retrospect, I think he may have been happier if that avenue had worked out for him....the support for all things great & small we felt in the military is lacking in our civillian life.
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I have logged on and off, trying to read all your memories of that day. I have been crying off and on all day.
My dh is a UAL pilot. He was at the airport (Chicago). I was home with first ds and 8 mos preg w/2nd ds. TV tuned to PBS, but nobody is watching. I'm doing that spurt of housework that we must do when birth is immenent. I remember thinking "It must be telemarketer Tuesday" because the phone is ringing off the hook, but nobody is leaving messages. Finally I decide to answer. Our dear friend (who is also wife to a UAL pilot) asks me, with her typical Southern Charm, "what are you doing?" and then, very conversationally, "Do you know where your husband is?" (Sometimes I don't keep track of his destination cities). When she found out that I knew exactly where he was, AND that he had a nonflying day, she then told me "something bad has happened. Go turn on the news" and hung up because she had more calls to make. I will never forget her kindness in breaking the news to me. No panic. Made sure I knew where dh was. No details.
We had friends stranded throughout the country and a cousin stranded overseas. Such uncertainty about our future. One thing was certain. When dh saw the planes hit (on TV in ops at the airport) he turned to the pilot sitting next to him and said "there goes my career." He was right. One month later...the same week ds #2 was born, he was furloughed. Our whole lifestyle, everything we expected pulled out from under us. Five years later, he was called back to a very different industry. Five years of struggle, lost income, lost status (yes, that matters more than it should), lost friends, all of our savings spent to find him another career & put me through college & live.....We're still paying off debt from that.
And now we live in a world that is so much different......And I have a life that is so much different than I could ever have imagined.
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CactusPair - I was diagnosed with CFIDS in my 20's. Long story short, almost nobody knows about it now (I just turned 40). But I do have a different lifestyle than some. To me "tired" is normal, and if I don't listen to my body and get extra "down time" I WILL get sick. So sick that I'm out of commission for 2-3 days. So, I call myself the "slacker mom." I don't run my kids all over the country. I pace myself. If I know I have to work (I'm an RN, working part time) I will make sure to get extra rest and when my 12-hour shift is over, everyone in my family knows I'll be heading straight for bed. Sometimes I go to bed at 8:30pm because my kids go to bed at 8pm. It has taken me a long time not to berate myself for resting when there are things that *need* to be done. What is more important: the dog hair tumbleweeds rolling around my house, or my health? I do sometimes have to remind my dh that I have an underlying medical condition. AND I have to remind myself of this when I start to look around at all the supermoms and try to compare myself to them.
So, even thought I don't have any advice about how to increase your physical energy, know that you are not alone. Not everyone is running around like the Energizer Bunny and we still have (somewhat) functional families, good kids, and a pretty good life. For me, balance is everything.
Of course, if there were some sort of magic pill, I'd be the first to swallow it!:)
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The mall in a neighboring town has a store that has personalized gifts & will personalize while you wait. From small things like paperweights with name/date engraved to picture frames and afghans (I think these take longer to personalize). They range in price & size. They also have light catchers & ornaments to personalize. I forget what the name of the store is (I rarely go to the mall) but we used it for a baptism gift.
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I guess I'm tired at the assumptions made about what it takes to be a great Mother or a great VP. We've so heavily scripted what great mothering looks like; we've assumed much about what a great female executive does.
My observable truth with a wide variety of families, and my *own* experience shows that great family dynamics, great parenting and great career success doesn't come with a script.
I've seen lousy and great parenting from all types of families - Christian, secular, other religion, at home mom, at home Dads, WOH parents. Most, however, are average to better, flawed, wonderful, stressed and joyful.
I used to staunchly defend "Moms at home" from a heated and visceral perspective. And then life happened and I've had to humbly revisit my assumptions.
I'm not going to re-claim my organized feminist role; but I've shed the other, equally constricting one where I think I know at home, family centered mothering is "the best".
I believe that the ways to make success as a mother of 5 work in combination with the VP role are numerous. And I think it's fantastic that a woman my age and season of life may have the chance to assist in leading our great country.
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We're using SOTW 3 this year because it picks up just about where my kids left off last year when they were in a private classical school. I'm really not sure what my ds6 should be doing other than trying to pay attention to the stories. I try to read part of one chapter per day & then my ds8 re-reads it to himself sometime during the day when I need to focus on ds6. Then we discuss. So far, I haven't been able to incorporate the activity pages into our days......I'm a little overwhelmed since this is our first year of hs'ing. Although today I did act out Mary Queen of Scotts' execution for the kids ('cuz I'm a former Eng. Lit major & LOVED this period). Being boys, they loved it and I was happy I had extra info to add in.
Looking for sewing curriculum...
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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There was just another thread on this in which Tracy From KY posted this link to a beginner sewing book
http://www.amazon.com/Stitches-Pins-...0890431&sr=8-1
I don't know how to link to another thread or post, or I'd do that for you. Hope this helps.