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I read Dracula a couple years ago. I was amazed how much I got into it! I'm not really a goth or horror fan, but reading Dracula was cool. Everybody else was into Twilight and I was, "My vampire pwns your vampire," snobbin'. :DI read it last year for the first time. I had expected it to be dry and stuffy, but it was amazing! I was surprised at how much I liked it. I was also surprised at how much modern fantasy has drawn from it.
I loved Dracula! I thought I would hate it, but I figured I would give it a shot. So glad I did.
Someone (maybe Rosie) mentioned something to the effect of reading books during certain seasons of your life. I tried to read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school and just couldn't get into it. When I came back to it later, after I had moved away from my kinda rascist parents, I absolutely loved it. Same with The Scarlett Letter.
Perhaps one day I will be wise enough to finish (and maybe even enjoy) many of "those" books. Right now the thought of reading Joyce makes me want to stockpile vodka.
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My kids are generally healthy. They get an average amount of kid illnesses. However, if there is a stomach bug anywhere near us, we get it. My kids are expert pukers. I guess I'm a little.... harsh(?) when it comes to puking. They have puked so much I just expect them to get up and take care of it. Now, even if only one kid is puking/has puked, we will not leave the house for a few days. While MY kids have no immunity issues, I know many other kids do, and I refuse to endanger those kids.
I cannot stand it when moms bring their sick kids to social events/activities. First of all, if your kid is feeling crummy, they probably don't want to be out and about. Next, most other moms do not want your kids' cooties. I know it is a burden/hardship to stay home for an extended period of time. I get the feelings of isolation. Last winter all three of my kids got the flu. We had to stay home for over a week while everyone recouperated. We missed church, confirmation, piano lessons, homeschool PE, and some other social event. My kids missed their Sunday School Christmas program because dd4 was puking. I hated staying home, but there was no way I was going to schlep my sick-feeling kids around so I could socialize, and, while I am a giving person, I draw the line at giving out cooties.
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Neuter them! Our friends moved out to the country and inherited barn cats. The cat population around her place had at least doubled since she has been there. Just neuter them.
I don't think you need to actually find a place for the cats. When we moved our cat outside, he found the very best place. Our garage was built by the previous owners and is attached to our house by an enclosed hallway. Our cat climbs up our storage bins, on top of our freezer, onto the rafters, and sleeps in the space between the ceiling and roof of the garage passageway.
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Yikes, I'm not sure which man I'd rather be married to!
Signed,
I Lied; I'd Rather Marry the Drunk ...
(One can sober up, but one's taste is what it is!)
I'm with you! :lol:
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I really wanted to name dd4 Amelie, pronounced "Ah-meh-LEE" (think French). That was my French-speaking great-grandmother's name. I didn't feel like burdening the child with constantly correcting everyone's pronunciation of her name.
I really wanted to name ds8 Miles, but our last name starts with an "s". I also considered Maris (after dh's grandmother Demaris) for dd4, but again, the double "s" seemed like an invitation for a speech impediment.
Dh wanted to name ds8 Po. I tell myself he was just drunk at the time.
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*snort* I love smart a$$ responses. :lol:
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Does it count if I've read the first five pages of SOME of them? I'm trying to rectify my idiocy, but it just ain't working;).
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No advice really. We are active in our church and my kids enjoy inviting people to activities but I make sure they do it very low key, no pressure and not a big deal if they don't want to come. Plus I am selective about who I allow them to invite because I don't want them to lose friends over it, so they can only invite kids whose parents I know well.
I do feel sorry for your girls' friends. No child should have to chose friends based on their religion, that just seems cruel to me. I understand avoiding people that have done inappropriate things but limiting it to only church friends seems cultish.
:iagree: I really like this.
OP, I totally understand. While I am a Christian, I do not feel called to evangelize the masses. I have a very dear friend who is quite NOT Christian. My kids love her kids. I love talking to her. I feel no need to convert her. We share a somewhat similar religious background, but have somehow diverged a bit on our own, PERSONAL spiritual paths. She is a wonderful friend and I could not imagine life without her input.
I don't know what you can do in this situation. I do not belong to an "evangelical" denomination, though I did grow up in one. I hate to admit it, but your dd's time with her friends is probably limited. I wish it wasn't so, but unfortunately it seems likely. You may want to prepare her.
I will be all obnoxious here and ask you for a favor. While you are discussing this family with your dd, can you just casually mention that there are in fact some Christians out there who really think loving others is more important than anything else? We are not all legalistic meanies.
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One Fish, Two Fish....... but don't tackle this unless you're TRULY ready for a mental workout.:D
(sorry, sometimes I just can't help myself.)
Pshsh! That's nothing. Have you read Fox in Socks after too much Mike's Hard? :willy_nilly:I can read Green Eggs and Ham in 2 min 37 seconds. We can meet at the bar and see who wins the title?How about Goodnight Moon while sucking down some Mojitos? It seems like a mojito kind of book. :lol:Ok. I admit my idiocy. I am such a big, fat sissy when it comes to good, quality literature. I thought I was awesome when I finally got through Anna Karenina and liked it. But the highlighted people? Will you please come over? Like, yesterday!
I will happily acknowledge my limitations. I am not nearly as brilliant as the rest of you. Moby Dick (sorry Bill) made me want to shoot myself. Middlemarch drove me to drink, and I like Brit Lit. Ayn Rand causes convulsions, except for Atlas Shrugged, which I consider Ayn Rand Lite.
I'm working on my stupidity. I did read the first 5 pages of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Then I realiazed there just wasn't enough Captain Morgan in the world.
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Well, you could bring your son over to hang out with my son. Then yours would look completely normal.
Boys are weird. I'm glad my boy is weird. Makes me feel like I fit in here.
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You just can't fix stupid. It wouldn't matter what your friend said. She could recite Shakespeare and discuss Einstein's Theory of Relativity and ignorant people would still find something to hate about her. YOU may be able to make things easier for her. Go out in public with her. Invite your friends over for dinner. Be your normal, awesome self and tell her to do the same. Just weed out all the stupid people.
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:lol: I'm laughing WITH you, not at you. Sigh. We bought our current home because I had crazy city-girl fantasies of farm life. I totally forgot about the bugs, rodents, reptiles, and wild animals. We've lived here about 3 1/2 years. We have had FOUR (!!!!!) snakes INSIDE our vintage farmhouse. Oh, the house has tons of character, but FOUR snakes?!?!?! And the constant bugs. Shiver. And mice. Barf. When the farmers cut the fields after the weather has cooled, the snakes are usually underground, which means all the mice in the fields decide to squat in our house. Shall we discuss the coutless times our pet doggies have had encounters with either skunks or racoons? We can also discuss the fact that some sort of critter ate all of our chickens, despite the fact that they were locked up in their coop.
I would rather deal with crackhead neighbors than snakes in the house.
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I wish it was a plastic bug!!
2 years ago we found this wolf spider in our house. Ds's had a pack of toy spiders that ranged from 1 in- 6 inches so I went to pick up the spider and throw it in the toy box and it STARTED MOVING :blink: I am sure you all remember because I am sure you heard an earth shattering scream and wondered where it came from. This thing was EASILY 5 in (brought it to the weed and pest place to get it identified and they said it was barely over 5) It was grey, and HAIRY. It looked FAKE.
When we lived in Michigan we did not have mutant monster bugs that looked fake. They were all normal bugs.
Ya know, you didn't have to bring up wolf spiders. That was just dirty. Barf. Now I have the chills.
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I think you all have been operating under a false assumption referring to this creature as "he". Did anyone notice how large the abdomen is in comparison with the Bug Finder picture? My guess is that Harry is really Harriet and that she has a belly full of eggs (either that or she just ate her mate).
:svengo: Stop talking. Everyone. These things do not exist. Nope.
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That's what we call them too. I haven't seen one in years but use to often as a child.
When my aunt was a child she saw a leaf 'walking', she picked it up and ouch! There was a Potato Bug under the leaf and it bit her. She said it hurt like heck and her finger swelled pretty big:eek:.
THEY BITE?!?!?!?!
Guess I won't sleep tonight. Nebraska is RIGHT NEXT TO Wyoming.
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:lol: Shoot, I just wish I had some Parrot Bay so I could at least try!
Make sure you buy the gallon-sized bottle, because those two weak Rum-and-cokes just ain't erasing that nasty thing from my brain.
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Rum could make this all go away, you know...just saying...
Nope. Captain Morgan is not making this thread any better.
I propose an amendment to the board rules. Thou shalt not post pictures of disgusting creatures thou findest in thy house.
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You guys laugh, but I seriously considered cutting my mil out of my life FOREVER when she gave my kids balloons as we were walking around NYC. They are evil death bubbles.
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Balloons are Satan's thought bubbles, raised up from the pits of hell for the sole purpose of driving moms crazy.
Yep, I hate balloons. With a passion.
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I just thought of another! (Apparently I am a super snob.) Once I saw a kid dressed in dirty, too-small clothing. I thought "I would never let my kid out of the house like that!" About 5 seconds later I realized my son had been wearing his pants backwards all day.
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:grouphug: My friend and I were just talking about dhs leaving this morning. We were both Navy wives, so there were many times we had to send off our dhs. It never got easier. My dh is my sanity keeper. When he is gone I tend to lose it. Just thinking about the times he left makes me tear up.
I hope your week flies by. I hope you find good chocolate to keep you company.
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Do you ever have moments of utter snobbery? You know, moments where you think "I can't believe he/she/they just did that! I would never!" Luckily, my snob moments are followed by reality checks:glare: which keep the snobtasticness in check, but I still have those moments.
For instance, yesterday I had an appointment in the city over an hour away. The kids and I stopped at Burger King for lunch. The middle school right next door had an early-out day, so BK was packed with middle school students. They were terrible. They were loud. They were obnoxious, catty, and foul-mouthed. As I walked up to the cashier, I proudly informed here that my kids (the perfect little angels) were homeschooled. We sat down and had a perfect little meal while all the other kids were running around the restaurant. I was way up on my high horse.
Then we went to my doctor's appointment. Both dds were cranky. Dd4 was crying and insubordinate. Dd11 was complaining. No one would sit still. I wanted to cover my face with a paper bag. Turns out my high horse was really only 5in tall.
Anyway, I thought this might be a fun thread. We can share our snob moments and the reality checks that inevitably follow.
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It feels like cheating to me, too :tongue_smilie:
Usually, I have the book with me to follow along so I don't feel so guilty :lol:
Overachiever:tongue_smilie:.
Another family using Pearl techniques...
in General Education Discussion Board
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I live in a fairly conservative area. Our homeschool group consists of mostly conservative Christians. I am a bit on the other end.;)
So I was at hs choir practice. The choir director invited a couple of moms from the EVEN MORE CONSERVATIVE hs group. While our older kids were practicing, the littles (3-5yo) practiced with parental supervision. One mom brought a Pearl book to share with another mom. I almost had an aneuryism. I had to leave the room with my kid. I just could not be in the same room as this book, much less someone who had read it and thought others would benefit from it.
I kinda felt like a snob. Then I remembered stories like this. Then I remembered all the beatings I experienced as a child "in the name of God". The Pearls are pure, sadistic evil. I have absolutely no respect for anyone who follows anything those trashy people have to say. Child abusers are evil. There is nothing good about them. There is nothing good about people who abuse children or condone child abuse. Nothing.
*written by a child abuse survivor.