This one makes me laugh out loud just remembering it!

Because we need him in Congress.

Your source?

I consider myself a relaxed homeschooler and do share some similar views as unschoolers, including the view that learning is a lifestyle and happens all the time, not just during set school hours. We don't even have set school hours. I lean more toward the unschooling end of the spectrum than the traditional school-at-home end. However, I'm not an unschooler because I don't give my daughter a choice about doing the three Rs (partly because of state standards). We still have a lot of time for child-directed learning and rabbit trails. I don't know what you would call that, but I know a lot of others who do the same thing and call themselves relaxed homeschoolers.

Some of us consider homeschooling to be a learning lifestyle, not something that we do during "school hours" or based on the local district's schedule.

Never mind all those senators and representatives who are also part of the current government who got us into this mess...

I'm voting today and am on my state's permanent mail-in ballot list. I have no more need to vote in a booth on election day than I do to send my kids to school. I do miss getting an I Voted sticker, though.

Sure, why not. May as well keep digging ourselves in deeper. :banghead:

:) That's one of my all-time favorite movies, and most people have never heard of it.

Who was doing this?

I don't remember ever being questioned about it. We don't trick-or-treat door to door because it always made me uncomfortable as a kid and isn't necessary, with all the other Halloween events going on in town. We do dress up and attend a local business's trick-or-treating events as well as my sisters' church's harvest festival, which is way more fun anyway. For some reason, our neighborhood doesn't do trick-or-treating, and I think I've had only 1 or 2 kids show up in the few years we've lived here. (Granted, we're not always home much of the evening.)

I recently listened to Jive Talkin, which isn't as cool as I remember it being when I used to roller skate to it but still made me smile.

Phil Hartman

I do know someone named Joan, but it's pronounced like JoAnn.

Variations on names are fine, but kre8tiv or cutesy spellings make me :001_rolleyes: and cause me to question the parents' intelligence. (Not saying that's a reasonable reaction on my part, but if someone names their kid Jawknee instead of Johnny, for example, I think it's to be expected.)

:iagree:

We just started geocaching yesterday and have been letterboxing before as well. There are significantly more geocaches in our town and the surrounding area than letterboxes, but that wouldn't necessarily be the case in other locations. We like them both! Letterboxing NA Atlas Quest Geocaching

Try to lower your expectations for the other three books. I liked the series as a whole, but the first was definitely the best, and there were some kooky plot elements that made me roll my eyes. BTW, I had a crush on Edward AND Jacob.

I love them!:iagree:

How do you all feel about the ethics of buying, selling, or trading used books?

Sometimes kids get so caught up in what they're doing that they put off going to the bathroom until it's too late to get there. A visit to the doctor might be worthwhile to rule out any medical issues, but sending him to counseling seems as extreme to me as punishing him for having an accident.

The Fountainhead

According to whom?

FWIW, I blame our legislators as much as I blame Bush for the mess our country's in. Without all of them, we wouldn't have the Iraq imbroglio, The Patriot Act and related attacks on civil liberties, The Real ID Act, No Child Left Behind, the subprime mortgage fiasco, etc. etc. etc.

I didn't personally find last night's opener that funny, especially compared with the previous SNL political sketches they've done. Meh. I did like the one about the bailout, though.