Here's an NPR story similar to what you're looking for: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5535851

What a callous response. I know that there are some Moms on this board that did not give birth to healthy babies, but they were still excited to find out the gender.

Colored Sharpie markers and white-only socks! Each person gets their own color (a nice thick stripe down the middle of the sole - it's much easier to see than reading initials on toes). I only buy one brand/cut so all socks match. I don't fold socks together - they just get put into each person's sock drawer.

We are considering the same thing. The cheapest for us seems to be getting an unlimited data plan on our smartphone and using it as a wi-fi or hotspot to connect the computer to the internet. To make it really economical, we're hoping we can use a new 4G phone to tether to Roku and cancel our cable as well.

Has anyone had experience using their smartphone as a tether to the Roku? If I had unlimited data plan on my smartphone, could I use it to tether to the Roku?

Responsible people have WAY more fun! Part of the fun of a vacation is planning it out, deciding on where to go, daydreaming about it. And, as Dave Ramsey says, vacation is a lot more fun when it doesn't follow you home (meaning that it's paid and you don't have any debt from the vacation). For irresponsible people, buying a new car is only fun for the first 30 days. Then those pesky car payments starting arriving in the mail. For responsible people, they have either paid cash for a new car or have the funds set aside. They get to enjoy that new car for much longer because they aren't worried about making car payments, taxes, license registration. Plus, their new car will be a nicer car for a longer period of time because they take care of their car (timely oil changes, proper tire pressure, tune-ups). Responsible people can also be MORE spontaneous than irresponsible people. Responsible people get their work done in an organized manner, so they have more time to say "yes" to those spontaneous opportunities. You said your friend is always on the go. That seems more like a personality trait rather than a responsible/irresponsible issue. I would NOT be happy if I was always on the go. I enjoy my down time. I enjoyed my down time when I behaved irresponsibly, too... LOL!

Ananias and Sapphira were struck down not because they wanted to set some money back, but because they lied and said they gave all. 3Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? 4Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied to men but to God." (emphasis mine)

Is it LindaFay at Higher Up and Further In? She now posts at Charlotte Mason Help. Ahh, Dayle beat me. :D

I recommended reading CVS 101 (or other drugstore primers) by Money Saving Mom. This is a good week to start couponing at CVS because there are several free products. Good luck and have fun!

I record everything in a regular lesson plan book. I use my children's initials to delinate the particulars in a subject area. For example, under the Math heading for Monday, I'll put #156 CG, #64 RG, #21 MG. This tells me what lesson each child completed for that day. In the front of the lesson plan book, I note which math book each child is using for that year. My planner has a 4 'squares' for Language Arts, so I tend to assign 1 column of squares to each child, and then still have 1 more column of squares to record our read alouds, memory work, etc. I also like to put in little notes regarding progress on the margins of the planner page. I've tried making my own planner/recordbook, but I didn't keep up with anything that wasn't already printed and bound. For some reason, having the official plan book keeps me going. I hope this helps.

I appreciate the Scripture Memory Plan at Simply Charlotte Mason. We use the Scripture Memory System and have incorporated our poetry into the system as well.

This article explains well what happened: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-298.html I like the summary: For decades critics of the public schools have been saying, "You can't solve educational problems by throwing money at them." The education establishment and its supporters have replied, "No one's ever tried." In Kansas City they did try. To improve the education of black students and encourage desegregation, a federal judge invited the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to come up with a cost-is-no-object educational plan and ordered local and state taxpayers to find the money to pay for it. Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil--more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers' salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country. The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration. The Kansas City experiment suggests that, indeed, educational problems can't be solved by throwing money at them, that the structural problems of our current educational system are far more important than a lack of material resources, and that the focus on desegregation diverted attention from the real problem, low achievement.

Congratulations! :grouphug:

Desert Camel by Behr #320F-4

NT

Oops, mea culpa. I just went to WHO to prove you wrong and realized that the avian flu page has the link to the swine flu pandemic level. I should have read more carefully. I went back and corrected my original statement.

1. The WHO has already declared the Swine flu pandemic (level 6). Whether it's rare occasion to declare a pandemic or not really isn't an issue. 2. So, because a new vaccine doesn't cause immediate death in the first hundred or so people we should all be okay with it? 3. Well, that's crazy. Isolating people who are allergic to vaccines? Why? How about not forcing them to have the vaccine in the first place? Why not let each person be responsible for his/her own health?

Well, since no one else has mentioned it - makin' bacon is an euphemism for s*x. The t-shirt is a play on this. Push my button and you'll get bacon (i.e., now how to please me and I'll give you s*x).

Haha - very cute. YOU CAN GET... this bottle half-filled with Windex. :lol: Side effects include being mistaken for Harry Potter. :lol::lol::lol:

Replace the air filter. The lack of oxygen getting to the gas will cause your motor to sputter.

3 words: Employer matching contribution. :)

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