Oh, thank you! Yep, exactly! I spent the last 15 yrs in a church where it was almost like the importance of understanding the oneness of God (verses the Trinity) was more important than anything else. You had to have the revelation, ya know, or you were just, like, DOOMED! (I've been away form this church for a year now.) I always think back to the past when illiterate people couldn't read the Bible, but just had to depend on what people told them. Am I to believe that their lack of understanding is going to send them to hell? Sorry. I don't think that. I think that if there is a Christian God in heaven the most important thing is to just believe that He IS. (which I'm not sure that I even believe that anymore. :glare:)

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I didn't know this either!

Too funny! :)

My dh has a kindred spirit! LOL I'll let him know! :lol:

After 17 year of marriage I discovered that my dh has weird issues about his socks. When he takes them off, and if he thinks he might need to slip them back on later for any reason, he puts his left sock in his left shoe and his right sock in his right shoe. If the socks fall out and get mixed up he does not want to wear them anymore. For some reason, this is gross to him. I laughed so hard! How did I not know this for 17 years! It is so unlike everything else about him. The kids picked on him for a little while, mixing up his socks and then not telling him until he had put them back on. He has taken it very well. LOL

As someone who has had bc I am just tired of the whole pink thing altogether. I know that awareness is important, but I do get sick and tired of being reminded of what I lost to bc nearly every - single - day -of -my - life! (surely I'm not the only one that has felt this way.) And the rude stuff is just over the top. Ugh. Anyway.... RhondaM.

I used to work at a video store which was right next to a pet store. I don't know what kind of snake it was, but I do know that it was BIG and that it DID manage to get into the plumbing and work its way into the toilet (where it got STUCK and had to be removed) of where I worked. The screams from the person who was sitting on the toilet at the time were not mine. Thank God! RhondaM.

Wow! Yes, exactly. I so very much agree. RhondaM.

This is not in response to anything anyone has said) I just have to say that for 15 years I was a very conservative christian. While I never shunned anybody I did try to avoid anyone that not conservative. Anything other than conservative was loudly preached against in my church. I risked being questioned (by pastor and friends) if I or my family hung out with certain types. (We had a dress code...no make up or uncut hair or pants on ladies) Then my kids turned into teens. They never fit in w/ the other kids at church. Probably because we homeschooled. The teens at church fell into one of two groups....those that were rebellious (and those we avoided) and those that were soooooo perfect that even my kids were considered rebellious. If you were rebellious you risked being preached about (names may or may not be mentioned) from the pulpit. For instance...if you had links to something other that religious music on your myspace (or whatever group) you might get preached about from the pulpit. And everyone at church would be clapping and loudly agreeing with the pastor who was pounding the pulpit over how sinful it all was. We ended up leaving this church...which was not easy. It was not easy because we ONLY had friends and connections from our church. When we left, we left all of our friends too. But then...something really cool happened... My oldest brought home this charming little girl he met. She was tiny and smart and had a cute little nose ring and lovely blue hair. Then he brought home some really polite young men with long hair and piercings in their lips and gauges in their ears....and yes, my eyes did bulge....for awhile. And now.... I love my kids friends. They are some of the nicest kids I have ever met. I never would have thunk it. :-) I am so very glad that my eyes were opened to the fact that a nose ring does not make someone evil or bad! And they are REAL. They are themselves...or trying to find out who they are....just like my own teens. Nothing better, nothing worse...just young people growing up. And very accepting of my kids. I absolutely do not miss this particular conservative crowd who was soooo worried about what other people would say if their teens befriended this person or that person. It was peer pressure for adults. Felt like highschool all over again. Do I want my kids with holes in their faces? Nooooo...because I feel it will be harder for them to get good jobs...I know appearances do matter. And I don't want them to do something now that they might regret later. My oldest (almost 18) has a gauge in his ear...oops...actually he has one in both ears now. Am I real happy about that. Nope. Is this the hill I want to die on? Nope. Will he be shunned by conservative christians simply because of his gauges. Probably. Will I allow him to live here if he puts more holes in his face? Um...yes. I agree that we do not have enough time in a day to befriend everyone. And of course most people (myself included) tend to befriend people most like themselves. BUT...it does makes it hard to befriend anyone who is different when you have the peer pressure that is at some churches....where they literally preach from the pulpit that you are NOT to befriend certain types or risk 'going to hell right along with them' (Or course at the church I attended everyone was going to hell but us. We were practically going to have heaven all to ourselves.) I know this is not the case in all conservative Christian groups, but I know it is true in others. As I lived it. Thank goodness I don't live it anymore. Being holier than thou wasted so many of my years. Sorry...I'm very tired and sick with a cold....so this may not have come out right. Hope I haven't offended anyone. I did that for too many years already. RhondaM.

I agree. I felt the same way when I was pregnant w/ my 2nd child. I wondered how I could possibly love my 2nd child as much as my first and worried (fleetingly) about how unfair it would be to my poor 2nd child. Then he was born and I fell in love all over again. Then I adopted my dd and I fell in love a 3rd time. :-) RhondaM.

I love the history and science from Pandia Press. It is not expensive, and it tells you exactly what to do for each lesson. If you go to their website you can look at a short preview of each subject or download a few weeks worth of lessons for free in order to try it out. (The history uses Story of the World.) Hope this helps. RhondaM.

I agree. I had my kidney removed about 9 years ago for a malignant tumor and it was a very painful surgery with a month long recovery. There was very little I could do on my own. Meals and services would be a very nice thing to help them with. RhondaM.

They did, but would only let her get a very few things...she only had 30 minutes to get things together.

Right. She managed to get copies. It took extra days to get them enrolled in school though since she did not have them and he would not let her come back in the house to get them.

She has offered to make the payments herself. He won't give her the information to do so. She only found out the info she needed to know through the insurance she has on it. Yes, there will be other jeeps...and other houses too. She helped pay for both. She has a disabled child and he is an abusive spouse who wants to leave her with nothing and then laugh at her. The thing, though, is this: would the credit union lie to her? They said the jeep is not on their repo list?

We are in Texas. As far as being common law or divorced, they are probably actually common law. They filed income taxes together, introduced each other as married, I believe he had her listed as spouse on work insurance. They considered themselves married...until now, when he is saying they are not. My sister has a friend. I'll call her Erma. Erma bought her boyfriend a car. It was in Erma's name. They split up. He took the car. The cops would not make him give it back because she had given it to him as a gift. :001_huh: This is all so confusing. She is trying to get a free lawyer. He won't even let her back in the house to get her own things. Including shot records for kids and other important stuff.

I'll try to keep this brief. My sister (along w/ her three kids) left her husband moved in with me. (she has many good reasons) She has been here for about 3 weeks. (Also, they WERE married, got a divorce, but they have been back together for a few years. So she is not sure if they are common law married or still divorced. If they are still divorced then the divorce decree is already settled as far as kids...so she'd sort of like to be still divorced) All she took when she left was very few of her personal belongings and the jeep which he bought for her. He has been making jeep payments, she has been paying the insurance payments. The insurance payments are in her name. Her name is not on the jeep. But everyone (family and friends) knew he bought it for her as a gift. Since they split up he has been demanding that she return it, claiming theft and a bunch of crap. She refuses to return it and has kept it hidden from him. (I don't even know where it is.) Yesterday he told both my dh and my sister that he had made the jeep payment. At the most it was two weeks late. He told both of them she could keep it if she could get it refinanced. Today a wrecker came by to repossess it!! They found no jeep and my sister was not here. My dh called the number left by the wrecker driver..They said they were acting on the part of my sister's dh and the credit union where they got the loan. They also said they were going to send a police officer over here. (They have not) She called the credit union who claimed to know nothing about it. They said payments were up to date and that it had not been reported stolen. They told her that it would show if it was on a repossession list. (But since her name is not on the loan they really didn't want to talk to her.) She has no idea if the credit union is lying to her or if the repossession place is lying to her. So...if the loan is current...and not reported stolen...can her husband and the credit union have the car repossessed? Would the credit union lie to her do you think? She does not know what to do. It is one thing if the credit union is having it repossessed, but it sounds almost like he is trying to steal it from her in the credit unions name with the help of a wrecker service. Any ideas, thoughts, opinions???? Oh...in the case of my sister's dh: dh does NOT stand for DEAR husband. :glare:

This is exactly what helped my dh with this same problem. No waiting around for it to work either (for him). It started helping the very first day. He has been fine for a few weeks now. Finally!

This is what we did with my oldest two. We did mostly everything orally except for diagramming. I did buy the extra worksheets which are only a couple of bucks. I only used them if he was having a problem with what we were working on, but needed more than oral work. At least with the worksheets the entire sentence does not have to be copied. I'd only resort to having him copy the lessons from the book (odds one day, evens the next) if he was STILL having trouble after all this. But orally worked best and we rarely had to resort to additional lessons.

Another good idea. Thanks much,

These sound interesting. I will check them out. Thanks.

We will most likely do Spanish in 10th & 11th.

Here is our plan so far: Science- Exploring the Way Life Works: The Science of Biology (answering question in the book, vocabulary, writing reports, Khan Academy lectures, some virtual labs and some that we will pull together ourselves. He also plans on reading through Darwin's Origin of Species) Math -Life of Fred Beginning Algebra (Khan Academy as needed) History- Roadmap to America: The Last Best Hope Vol. 1, plus chapters from The Human Odyssey Great Books - as suggested in TWTM/TWEM (Cliff Notes or something to help us along) Composition - Classical Writing: Diogenes Maxim Intro to Philosophy: Does the Center Hold & Sophie's World Rhetoric: A Rulebook for Arguments Music - Guitar Lessons I also plan to have him work & read through: How to Become a Superstar Student How to Read Literature Like a Science Professor and Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy Is this enough...does it look well rounded?