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  1. I felt like I *should* stay at home once I had kids, but I didn’t really have plans on when that would be. I never was the kind of person who just loved being around kids and I’m not sure that I *wanted* to stay home. It was just the right thing to do. Then, I got married at 21. It caught me totally off guard when I wanted to have kids right away. I was 23 when my oldest was born. I dropped out of grad school, and I’ve been a SAHM ever since. Homeschooling was completely unexpected too, but it gave me a purpose and an intellectual outlet for several years. I’m at a point in my life when I want to go back to school or get a job or something. Idk. I was so young when I started staying at home and I don’t have any marketable skills.
  2. DH just walked in. He finished the series and says it was pretty good and had a good ending.
  3. Yeah, the actors had a three year contract. Those who didn’t renew were killed off. They should have ended it then. I watched most of the way through season 5 (while it was airing) but just lost interest and never finished.
  4. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: I don't know your backstory, but as one mom in pain to another, I just wanted to reach out and send some virtual hugs.This parenting thing is hard. Especially when you add homeschooling multiple kids to the mix.
  5. It's a thing to volunteer to pet cats?? :001_wub: DH is allergic, and I grew up in the crazy cat lady house. I'd love to go get the kitten time I've been missing out on for the last 20 years! I want to do all of these things. I think we're twins. I spent the year before our move doing Kon-Mari decluttering, but it's like a never-ending job! Before the move, I'd have this recurring dream, at least weekly, that I was trying to get on an airplane (or train or something), but my suitcase had come open, and I was trying to stuff enormous amounts of junk into my suitcase. Anytime that dream comes back, I know it's time to declutter some more. But it's much better now that we have things like coat closets and a basement. I don't feel overwhelmed with stuff when there's actually places to put the stuff. I just saw today that one of the kids' schools needs a volunteer to reshelve books. Yes, please. I can do that.
  6. I so want to get a master's degree. I dropped out of grad school when my oldest was born. I have only seen PhD programs in my area of interest, and I'm not quite that committed. :001_rolleyes:
  7. I think this is the best idea I've heard so far! It's been so culturally ingrained in me that I should do all house things myself that I feel lazy and selfish for wanting to hire it out.
  8. I like them...in small doses. Last winter, one of my boys would turn on HGTV every afternoon while they happened to be on, because he had nothing better to do at that time of day. I usually enjoyed it, but I'm glad not to be watching anymore.
  9. How would you spend your days? My whole motivation for homeschooling was gifted kids and a struggling school system. We've moved, the schools are (supposedly) excellent, and I was burned out, so all my kids are in school. Homeschooling was my main purpose in life for soo long. Now, I help various kids out the door until 9am, then they start trickling back home around 2:30. For the past couple weeks I've been trying to keep the house clean and reading novels while I figure out what's next. It's a little disorienting. And frankly, I still hate cleaning the house. :ack2: I'm not particularly motivated to be a productive member of society just yet. Just curious what would you do with 5 hours of free time everyday?
  10. Here: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/508365-athenaze-or-elementary-greek/
  11. When you sort by collection, it should show only books that haven't been put in a collection on the home screen.
  12. CurrClick has this, so I just downloaded a copy and set ds to identifying sentence types. :001_smile:
  13. Ooh, I would have never thought to look for that. New house has hardwood floors and a finished basement. I'd be very sad to have to deal with that sort of water damage. I'm coming from a house in FL with linoleum on top of a concrete slab. I can't imagine a leak doing nearly as much damage or going undetected for long there. There's no where for the water to go. :laugh:
  14. My 6th grader's Iowa scores just came in and he scored well below average in punctuation and capitalization (and spelling, but that's a different issue). Those should be easy things to fix right? What's a quick and easy workbook that I can use to focus on those issues over the summer? He's already using MCT grammar (currently Practice Town), so he's got a good handle on parts of speech. But he didn't absorb capitals and punctuation through osmosis, like my other kids.
  15. Thanks everyone. I've heard great things about Bosch, and my go to ConsumerSearch ratings recommended a high-end Kitchen Aid. My realtor actually has 4 kids and a Bosch, and she loves the 3 racks for getting big loads of dishes done. I'm in the Metro DC area, so I would imagine that servicing shouldn't be an issue. But who knows? I would have guessed Seattle would have great service, too. The seller is also paying for a home warranty for us. I've never had one before. Have you run into service issues with a Home Warranty and particular appliance companies like Bosch?
  16. No, it isn't hard to link together. You type out the text, and it looks really weird, because it's unlinked. I put the linking program/button on my desktop toolbar, so it was really easy--just cut the text, click the link button, and paste. It links whatever text is on your clipboard and looks like it should when you paste. You just can't switch the font on linked text, because you get all kinds of crazy symbols. I didn't realize it when I bought it, but your educational fontware gives you all their fonts. I was helping a friend homeschool for a short period and I was able to print out BJU cursive fonts for her kids. I just had to install the new font and linking software for it from my CD.
  17. I'm buying a new house, and its dishwasher is broken--not repairable. So I get to pick my very own dishwasher with a $600 credit from the seller. Do you have a dishwasher you love? I want one that's quiet, and can handle a lot of dishes. Recommendations please?
  18. I like the looks of Build Your Library. I have a friend who did Y7 this year, and has been very happy. She made her own SL grids to go with it. Also, The Reader's Odyssey has good suggestions for creating your own program.
  19. They did all the GDI workbooks? How does their cursive look? If it's decent and they know how to form the letters, I would move on to dictation to practice handwriting. If they still need help forming letters and you already used the workbooks through level G, I would buy the font and use it for copywork. I've been happy using SCM Spelling Wisdom for copywork and dictation, since I won't get it done if I have to come up with my own dictation passages. For ds who wouldn't use a handwriting workbook, I typed the SCM passages using educational fontware GDI cursive and gave those to him as copywork.
  20. I haven't heard of that one before! Off to check it out...[emoji16] ETA: It looks like this is a sequel to A Long Way from Chicago. Does it stand on its own? Or should we listen to the other book first?
  21. I have that one. I've listened to some, but I think the kids would be bored by it. That's one of those books that would work better in print I think. [emoji53]
  22. I've got two of each. My older ones loved little house when they were younger. DS11 devoured the whole series a year or two ago. My youngest hasn't read them yet. Listening to Little House in the Big Woods would be fun!
  23. The best thing we've done since moving to the DC area was to do a bus tour. It's the kind of tour where you can get on and off at any stop all day long. It gave us a great overview of what's here and what we'd like to see, without killing our feet. DD7 refuses to walk for any length of time, so that bus tour was the most pleasant day we've spent in DC. My favorite things around the mall have been: The Library of Congress and Capitol building (they're connected by an underground tunnel) Natural History Museum National Gallery of Art US Botanic Gardens We live a couple miles from the Dulles airport and the Air and Space Museum there is very cool. I've been there a few times and enjoyed it. If you go on a weekend, they have learning centers and crafts for kids. I haven't been to the DC Air and Space museum, but my 13yo toured it with his airplane obsessed friend, and he said it was pretty cool, but older and smaller than the Dulles one I second the suggestion to pack food if you can. I usually forget and it's super expensive to eat at the museums and not convenient to leave. If you will be driving, reserve a spot in a parking garage ahead of time, using an app like Parking Panda or ParkWhiz. It's not cheap, but you're guaranteed a spot all day. For my family of 6, spending $20-$30 on parking is cheaper than riding the Metro in. But if you are flying in, you may be able to manage touring the area without renting a car at all.
  24. And I'm going ok a road trip tomorrow. Help me spend them. :) The kids are 7-15, and I want some options that all of us would enjoy. Also, DH has been reading Great Expectations to the older ones, so if you have a favorite narrator for that, let me know.
  25. Just to add on to what RootAnn said... it is possible for WTMA to use the book before it's published. When my son took Intro to Expository Writing, they gave us PDF copies of the student pages for WWE 3 and 4. Or at least for select lessons. They didn't use the whole book.
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