Beth can you tell me more about this, what is included in the syllabus? thanks

I too am giving up the history ghost and wanting to go with something more simple for next year. Any thoughts?

Wow Aubrey we once again have the same tradition... and if it is not a lean Chistmas we buy the name brand :) blessings lori

24 right now with frozen stuff falling. we are in the dallas/fort worth area and the high today was 30..

oh my! my mother in law can't either. It is Austin, the funny thing is she lives in Austin and she spells austen

Paper Mario is real fun, I bought myself this game and it is great. Also Mario Sunshine is fun too, it is a little bit harder but it is good. Animal Crossing is very fun and out of our co-op I would say probalby 70% play that game it is fun and is great for all ages. hth Lori

mine is up

mine is up

I did one of sorts... it has been a long time and blogspot was acting weird so I could not do pictures http://sparkshomeacademy.blogspot.com/

I know a person i always chat with late at night couldn't get his chat option to work at all last night, even though he could email out of it. I have had various problems with it over the last couple of weeks. One thing I try to always do is have facebook run without any other tabs connect to it, does that make sense? Since I have done that I very rarely have any problems. hth lori

family of 5 and average $500-600 for grocery, toiletries and pet food

mine is up also, link in my signature

I have two boys with dysgraphia, and what helped the most with them is they both started to take guitar lessons. One did very well at it and still plays to this day, the other did ok. But it helped a lot, we also learned to type. hth lori

in Spanish where would you start? Cheaply? blessings lori

mine is here. I did it for 10 days I think. blessings lori

I am hoping it will help my 11yo. if you are a user how long do you spend on spelling? Also does it cover homophones and common misspelled words? thanks lori

For what ages?

I had one person ask me one time, "So what are you going to do when you get sick of homeschooling them?" I told her, "graduate them!" She didn't seem to care for that but it is like, excuse me what are you going to do when you get sick of working. or what are you going to do when your 9th grader gets sick of going to public school! It is like just because we homeschool us they can ask us insane questions, anyway thanks for the support :)

When people ask my kids, " do you like homeschooling?" Why do people do that, I feel like asking their kids do you like going to public school? What if my kids said no? What are you going to do about it? What if their kids said no about going to public school? Does that mean you should do something about it? My kids get asked this all the time, like it is you the grocery store clerks business do you like working at Wal-mart(because you don't look too happy)? UGH sorry I am a little allergy challenged today and the stupid "cat loving had to have 3 loads of cats removed last month, cat pee smelling" neighbor asked my dd this morning, while he asked me to do another favor (that we will not do because the answer is no to every thing now!). UGH rant over blessings lori

I thought it was good too, when that guy started to talk about the "s" question, I looked at dh and said, " you know you have an idiot when they ask about socialization!" He said yup blessings lori

Mine is up too ;) blessings lori

We are in a co-op that meets every week 10 week in fall and 10 weeks in the winter/spring. It has great classes and high school credit classes with science classes with labs. it is great! blessings lori

We buy those too, I figure if I have a 3rd eye it needs a little cancer in it:glare: I am reping you just because you use those liners :)

and just exhausted. We go to co-op and I come home and dh and I have to take a nap every week (he has to take me and pick me up adding 40 min to his commute) it is a stressful day but we love it. So what kind of things do you make? We have been doing tv dinners but I forgot to pick them up this week, so what kind of fast and easy things do you make? blessings lori in tx