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I've been watching a lot of the ones done by Terry Jones (Ancient Inventions, Medevial Lives, etc) while I fold laundry - make folding more fun and puts something educational in by brain to boot.
So what do you like to watch?
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If it's any consolation, I work as a tech at a medical lab/clinic, and it seems like everyone's A1C has been running higher than usual lately! Just remember that the past three months have had Thanksgiving and Christmas - just think about all the extra goodies that show up that time of year! Diet will have a big effect; they refer all the diabetic patients at the clinic to a diabetic conselor who goes over diet and exercise with them. FYI, some potatos have more starch and some less (http://www.potatogoodness.com/Content/pdf/PPNHandbook_Final.pdf & http://www.foodsubs.com/Potatoes.html) so you might not have to cut those out entirely, just choose wisely. Same with grains/starches, looks like whole grains are a better choice as far as gylcemic index. ( http://www.glycemicindex.com/, http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Glycemic_index_and_glycemic_load_for_100_foods.htm) Of course, you don't have to eat as much bread and pasta as the kids do!
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I can't not open the door. We are in CA and all the doors are glass, so there is nowhere to hide (this also causes interesting enounters with mail man). Once you open the gate and walk in, that's it.
There's got to be something you can put up, over, or by the glass doors so that people can't see in. Or have the gate so that it can be locked from the inside.
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Cabinets that stuff actually fits into, and clear bins to organize them with (glass-clear, not fuzzy-plastic clear). The kind of bookshelves where the front of the book faces out (maybe the muchkins could actually get books put away neatly then!) Big sliding glass window facing a backyard with bird feeders. Kitchen sink or something like it (have that, thankfully). Lots of wall space for posters and artwork. Big table and chairs (have that too, again thankfully!) Room for wiggling and jumping. Lots of natural light. Bathroom close by. Did I say cabinets with bins and pull-out drawers? Oh, and good cabinets...
Our "school room" is downstairs, in what used to be our MIL's kitchen. It's there because there is no other space available for the school stuff, and because the computer is there too.
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Register a complaint with the hospital, and here http://www.jointcommission.org/report_a_complaint.aspx. Joint Commission has standards hospitals adhere to, and they rate/review hospitals and other medical facilities. Complain to make sure that this doesn't happen to someone else's loved one - an error is an error, especially in medicine, clerical or not.
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It all depends on how she says it. What can sound apologetic and genuine from one person, can sound completely snotty and rude from another. It's all in your tone. I'm guessing she has a snotty, superior, "oh, we're just so busy, but I know YOU wouldn't understand what having a real social life is like" tone. Makes all the difference. ;)
This is what I was thinking - that the SIL's tone of voice, and even perhaps body language was conveying something more than can be expressed in just words. Hang in there, Quill, and kill her snotty attitude with honest politeness! Smile big and sweetly, say "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that you can't make it", and change the subject (preferably to something neutral, if possible). I'm guessing that the more it bothers you, the better she'll feel.
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We've done yougurt, had fruit salad last week too. And french toast occasionally. They're still to small to fend for themselves, and I usually try to give them some kind of protein for breakfast. Then again, I could give them a 20 oz steak and they'd still be hungry an hour later!
I gave in to my general lazy feeling this morning and gave them the cookies we baked yesterday and milk.
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You have my sympathy! I think each one of my munchkins have seriously thwacked themselves on a hard surface at some point in their young lives. Short of duct taping them to the floor 24-7, or keeping them in a padded room, it's pretty tough to keep them safe. Miss Congeniality slid down the stairs on her back and thwacked the back of her head on the tile at the bottom, sometime when she was crawling age. I also had her in her car seat, in a shopping cart, with a large flat box in a strong wind, which resulted in car seat, child and box flipping over; thankfully she was still strapped in the seat and was protected in the fall. When the Questioner was about 2ish, he was sleeping in bed with me one night - rolled over, thwacked his mouth on the side of the dresser, cried and bled all over my shirt, and then I discovered that a front tooth was missing. That tooth actually got shoved up into his gums, came back down, eventually died and had to be pulled about 4 months ago. Wrecker of Havoc has a thing for climbing. I have found him standing on the bathroom sink a few times, sitting in the bathroom sink several time (we keep that door closed now!), up ladders (remodeling here), and even on top of a bookcase one time. Oddly enough, he hasn't injured himself too bad...YET! I swear that I'm going to be dragging him out of trees this summer. But as nerve-wracking as it seems, I'm glad all my children are active and curious, even if it means they've shaved years off my life! So take a deep breath...maybe you could just wrap him up in bubble wrap for now!
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We eat scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, turkey spam, waffles, pancakes, hash browns, oatmeal, omlets/eggs with stuff, fried rice, sometimes cold cereal for breakfast. We need some new ideas! What do you eat for breakfast at your home?
:lurk5: Miss Congeniality says we need this smiley too!
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Guess part of why his behavior throws me for a loop is because his sister (age 6) took to reading like a fish to water. She reads (skims sometimes in larger books, I think) every day. Obviously he's a different child...I'm just worried that the general stubborness/reluctance will continue with learning in general.
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My middle munchkin, son age 4, has learned all of his letters, letter sounds, and understands the basic concept that you put the letter sounds together to say the words. But when it comes time to do his reading lesson, he turns into a blob. "Don't want to...my head hurts...my stomach hurts..." There have been a few days when I've found him willing and able, but mostly he's reluctant and resistant. Lesson doesn't last longer than 5 minutes, because I know his attention span is short and if I push him more he will have a meltdown. He is my most stubborn child, generally speaking. We've done some OPG, some 100EL, and some Bob books. He's just not interested in reading. I will get his eyes checked sometime in the immediate future. I'm guessing that he's slightly red-green colorblind, but no other obvious vision problems that would interfere with learning. Any suggestions? THANKS!
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Thanks everyone! :)
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Has anyone used or supplemented their regular math instruction with the Life of Fred series? Does it offer any kind of advantage to any of the other math programs/curricula, or is it more useful in latter stages of math?
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By law the lab has to give you a copy of your results. You can go to the business office of the lab and sign for them. They are your results. You have the right to have them to take to another doctor is you want.
Yes - the lab by law does have to give you a copy. But the lab (generally speaking, and I work as a medical lab tech at a clinic) doesn't give out copies of lab results because the lab doesn't really know what the medical situation is, why the tests were ordered (beyond a general diagnosis), and what the doctor has or hasn't said to the patient yet. BUT DO call up the medical records office, ask for the form for release of information, and get the results. Unfortunately, that will take probably take some time to get that paper with the results on it. You can be a polite "pest" though! Another doctor would be able to call the original lab and get a copy of the results too.
Personally, I'd switch doctors. Find someone considerate and caring, maybe even a midwife. I'd go to the financial office, or whatever they call it at the hospital where you were, and ask them how they can work with you in paying the bill. Ask if there's any financial aid and what the qualifications are. Register a complaint at the hospital, when you can speak a little calmly, and tell them what happened and why it was so distressing to you, and what they need to change. If they won't take a complaint, then try through here http://www.jointcomm..._complaint.aspx. It's supposed to be healthCARE, not a medical warehouse.
Dealing with hospitals/doctors/labs etc sucks! :mad: One of the crappiest experiences of my life was being sick with colitis while pregnant with my first son. Usually when you need it the most, there's more than just something physically wrong. Something is usually going wrong that we never wanted to go wrong or thought we'd have to deal with. Sickness and death has a huge emotional face that's too easy for a lot of medical professionals to forget, in the whole checklist of "here's what we have to do for this patient". If I ever do that to a patient, I hope someone kicks me in the posterior, hard!
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The same thing we do every Saturday...try to take over the world! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTWtcHVWFiE
(Sorry, couldn't resist! It was the first thing that popped into my mind!)
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We only have one little hen left - Missy - who is either too smart or too skittish to get eaten. The rest became coyote snacks, except for the 2 extra feisty and one dumb roosters that now look lovely and tasty in glass jars on my shelf.
We always locked our chickens up in the coop for a few day, once they move in, before letting them run around the yard. After that they pretty much always go into the coop at night.
None of ours liked to walk in the snow. They would walk on top of hay on top of snow though, to get under the coop (it's up off the ground by about 1.5 feet)
None of ours understood fence openings either. It seems that walls and doors they understand better.
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Sorry, you'll have to count me out! Some sort of flu has decided to reside within my corporal frame, rendering me a chilly, unmoving lump in my bed. Although I did manage to drag myself out to get juice for daughter, build tent for son, and start laundry (absolutely necessary since daughter puked in bed last night.) And post about this as well as a question about laundry. Going back to bed now, or soup, or maybe soup in bed!
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- by family member?
- by type of material?
- by color?
- by wash water temperature?
- or just chuck it all in and let it rip? :leaving:
- by family member?
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How can one possibly like Haagen Daaz too much? :D
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Trip to a museum perhaps? Husband and I had a date recently to art museum to see China's Terracotta Warriors (minus the munchkins, they got their favorite babysitter!) http://www.artsmia.org/terracotta-warriors/ Educational, or at least required using a few more brain cells than we usually do on a daily basis. Anything out of the usual grind would be a good break from the blahs for me.
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...so here it goes! I am a wife, mommy, and part-time medical lab technician. I have three children: Miss Congeniality is 6 years old and I refer to her as butterflies and champagne, The Questioner is 4 years old and likes to talk my ears off and ask for stories "from your head, mommy", and Wrecker of Havoc is 18 months and upwardly mobile because he climbs up or onto almost everything. My husband and I decided to homeschool before our children were born. We know several other families who do, and could see the advantages. I really like the idea of being able to take each child at his or her own pace through each subject. I am struggling with homeschooling right now; not with the teaching part, which I enjoy, but with how much time my job and my daily chores seem to eat into each day. I will be drastically cutting my hours at work soon, which should help. Oh, and I like Haagen Daaz too! :laugh:
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:iagree: The next time you have to see those awful people, smile sweetly and ask them to tell you three good things that are going well with your pregnancy. Average weight gain during pregnancy for average weight women is 25-35 lbs - so you're barely at average weight gain yet! Go eat a doughnut! :drool5:
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At the clinic lab I work at, we don't ever make anyone chug that awful stuff! Sipping should be okay (drink it down in about 5 minutes). And since you're talking about multiple needle pokes, are you going to have a one hour glucose tolerance or a three hour glucose tolerance (which should only be done if you've failed your one hour glucose tolerance test)? Oh, and here's the link on the jelly bean test: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10561636. You could be b*llsy and refuse the test on the grounds that you would be willing to check your blood sugar with the same meter that diabetics use. The A1C test would be good too, since it reflects the average that your blood sugar has been for the past 3 months. If this is not your first pregnancy, and your blood sugar has been good in previous pregnancies, and there isn't anything else that concerns your doctor you might be able to talk your way out of it. Or you could just not show up to the lab to have the test done! Sounds too like you've had a lot of bad blood draws. If the phlebotomists/lab techs are doing a really lousy job (like missing veins that should be easy to find/poke), then feel free to complain (repectfully) to whoever's in charge of that lab. Having blood drawn should not be torture and should not leave you feeling afraid of something you were never afraid of before. Personally, I would just not show up to the lab for the test if it freaked me out that much. As a patient, you have the right to refuse treatment, and that includes having your blood drawn.
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Bucket here, especially because Miss Congeniality used to get car sick. Lined an ice cream size bucked with a plastic bag, but I also put paper towels in the bottom - absorbs some of the mess and no splashing. With a big enough bucket you can layer several, just to be prepared. Tie it up and toss it in the trash. We also had an oversized bib-like towel thingy we used to make her wear in the car. Boys haven't puked, oddly enough, including the husband! Personally, I'm usually able to make it to the toilet. Better out than in, so to speak, and don't really care where the vomit ends up so long as I don't have to clean something up! I like the idea of the ziplock bag too - sounds simple and workable.
Any recommendations for documentaries?
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What about stuff you can find on YouTube? Because, to be quite honest, I'm hiding in the basement, in front of the computer, from the kiddos who should all be asleep!