There is a Catholic free clinic here that will take sealed medical supplies, not sure about medications. I've brought them saline and other wound care stuff that we had left over. I do wish there was some way to recycle it. It's such a miserable waste.

Apparently, some of them can still carry a charge, even after being unplugged. What I've found recommends being 'grounded'. http://www.wikihow.com/Ground-Yourself-to-Avoid-Destroying-a-Computer-with-Electrostatic-Discharge

I tried it once and ran back to FLL. I switched to ACE last year for all subjects. There was a lot that my youngest (seven at the time) could do half asleep and still do well, but it did teach him how to schedule his work and be accountable to himself. I have changed a few subjects back to the old favorites this year for him, but as life continues to be one long road of stuff I cannot plan for or around, the older two are sticking with ACE.

Perhaps she wasn't comfortable asking a pregnant lady to help her up?

Side-note, just seeing R&S and Saxon in your signature makes me a little stressed :tongue_smilie:

You can't handle it, because it's too much. You're stressing about a lot of stuff you can't control and the worst part of that is that YOU can't just magically stop stressing about that stuff. If you tried to stop stressing about it all on your own, then you'd just be adding to list of stuff you need to stress out about (am I stressing about this? Oh no! I am <stressssss>). I wish I had a great answer to all this, other than the one that as a Christian I am positive you already know. I can sympathize. I spent last week in a funk, trying to explain that when I say "I am just not motivated" it doesn't mean anything against anyone, it just means that... I am just not motivated. I *did* make it to church Sunday and it made me feel.......... better and worse. Better, because I can see the light breaking through the clouds; worse, because in my case a lot of my problem was that I had cut out studying God's Word and praying. More hugs, sweet lady. I really wish I could tell you some wonderful thing that would fix it all, other than the oft used answer, spend some time with the Lord. Stressing about stress isn't going to help, stressing about trying to not stress about stressful things that you can't control isn't going to help either.

I agree with trulycrabby. If she's just unloading, then you could probably say that and then just stare off into the distance until she runs out of steam. I know someone like this. I don't think she really hears me when I say anything, she just wants someone to sit still and let her purge.

The last time my dad came home from the hospital he got "life alert". That's how they work. You fall, it sets off the alarm. If you can't get to the intercom thing to tell them you're okay then they call 911.

Is she asking for advice or just unloading?

I changed our curriculum a lot last year. I just could not do it anymore. I was amazed and relieved at how much the kids were capable of doing without me. I took up various little crafty type things (knitting, crochet, embroidery) and then in the spring, I started learning violin. I don't go anywhere to take classes, just free lessons from the internet. The kids have survived, they're still learning the basics on schedule and when I start to feel like I'm going to explode I saw away at the violin. There are some real tough seasons in this life. Sometimes, they teach us to loosen our grips a bit and what's beautiful and amazing is to see how God's plan unfolds when we do. :grouphug:

When my youngest was four, my sil was pregnant. The older kids were all familiar with pregnancy, but this was new to him. As she grew bigger, he would give her more and more space and then one day he even refused to allow her to pat his head. I could not figure out what was going on, my youngest is by far my most physically affectionate child and it was downright strange that he would refuse to allow King K- (as we call her) to even pat him on the head. I pulled him aside and asked what was wrong. The poor little guy was so troubled. He whispered, "I'm scared to let King K- touch me." I asked why and he responded, "Mom, she ATE a baby!" :huh: And then I had to explain how the baby got into King K-'s belly :lol: He'd thought she'd eaten one and spent the past few months wondering why we were so happy that she had become a cannibal and trapped some innocent baby in her belly...

At the last funeral I went to most people wore 'Sunday clothes', but not many wore black. If you want to keep it dark, then black with brown should be fine, as should velvet.

I was looking for the same thing. There was one I found here in '09 (I think). You bought a year long schedule that was *extremely* detailed. It even had you cleaning out light fixtures. Any ideas?

:iagree: When my mom quit to stay home with us (not hsing, just making the shift from working woman to sahm) we stopped getting a lot that we had been used to (their income was hobbled by this change), but the gains were so much bigger. I imagine that not having fresh cookies or magic laundrey would not be as big a loss as the gain of hsing. :iagree:

I wake up earlier now, sleeping in meant past ten until about six months ago, now it's past eight. I have no idea why.

Well, you do it with the kids :D What I have learned is that children are learning all the time and errands can be educational, so can housework. Even without a set curriculum to teach them :p Take them with you. My boys love phlebotomists (sp). All those appts are good learning opportunities. Schedule everyone's cuts for the same time. Definitely done when dh gets home :) Again, that's time for the dc to bond with dh. Time to lobby for child care at church. You might be amazed at how much can be accomplished with an entourage. Even if you hs, the children will still need to learn to amuse themselves. Chores are good. Even littles can get a feeling of accomplishment from helping to clean the house. Putting away their own laundrey (and helping wash it) is one of those things. Oh, and baking together? Way more fun, at least for littles. They also tend to like washing dishes... So, homeschooling mothers of young children, how do you fit in your errands and appointments and projects?

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I have a front loader and things can hide in tjose. Lost my license for a week and found it jammed under the plastic thing that turns the clothes in the washer. I have also had a nail sneak into one of the holes and put rust on clothes.

Oh gravy Kalah! :grouphug:

I like this idea. Or DIY section... Maybe the meeting between fiction and nonfiction. The bride could start out by fairy tales and meet the groom at biology. Can you tell our library is small?

Kindergarten 90% 6th 70 to 75%

I think it depends on context. Ds is more sensitive to it after reading it in those books than he was before. Before it was like the 'f' word, one that was wrong, but more because it could get you in trouble. Now it is a word with meaning and its meaning is why it's wrong.