Nothing happening here. Tomatoes still 6 inches tall. It's been raining for one million days at last count.

I do have a "put this away someday" basket, and I give myself permission to put things in there if I can't deal with putting them away correctly.

Certain things, yes, now that I'm making a concerted effort to do it. And it's very effortful! Lots of times, no, and I hate it. It's one of the things I like least about myself, and I always have trouble finding things.

I like your phrase "self-serving incompetence." Incompetence can be self-serving because not doing a task (or doing it poorly) means you don't have to spend time doing that task (therefore having more time for things you actually want to do), or you can half-a$$ a task so it doesn't take as long to do. Maybe the intention is just to self-serve, without realizing that the consequence is other people in the household having to take on more work. I'd rather believe that a loved one is engaging in self-serving incompetence than weaponized incompetence.

In my life, "weaponized" is too strong of a word. However... there are lots of times when I get frustrated with DH. Yes, I did take on too much when we were a young couple and so he didn't learn how to do things at the same time I did. Over the years, though, he hasn't shown much interest in learning any of the things, or in devising a system to make sure he's contributing to the shared workload. He'll do things if I make the list and tell him when I want things done. I don't want to make a dang list for a fully capable adult!

I agree.

This one looks good, too! https://www.attainmentcompany.com/math-for-life

Thanks!

Thanks! I don't know why I've never bought them before. They look pretty awesome.

Hi, anyone have a functional math skills book or curriculum that you like? I want something for a group of students in 6/7th grade that are working at a 3rd/4th grade level in math. I need something that's going to help them connect the ideas they're learning in math to actual experiences (cooking, creating, etc). I found this book that looks okay, and others in the series. Thanks!

@maize I worked for Lindamood-Bell as a tutor for a short time. I had two weeks of (good) training and continual oversight from the people running the tutoring center. That being said, two weeks of training is SO short. If you want to have someone else do the tutoring, there may be someone who is really good at LiPS (like a center manager or something) that could do it for you. If you're comfortable teaching reading generally, you could get really good at LiPS and other LM-B programs pretty easily.

As I read your post, I was thinking... maybe LiPS would be appropriate here. It's great for articulation and developing phonemic awareness. With some of my students, trying to work on phonics (decoding the words) before addressing phonemic awareness (sounds in words), is a waste of time. It's 100% worth it to put in the work with LiPS first. Also, LiPS works on phonemic awareness AND decoding simultaneously. Once a student has a group of sounds they're solid with/can easily label and distinguish from each other, the teacher uses LiPS techniques to work on sounds as well as spelling/reading with those sounds. The SLPs I work with also like LiPS.

That is simply amazing!! Hooray!!! ❤️

I teach kids in elementary/middle school. They don't seem to be watching TV. Maybe movies sometimes. They mostly talk about youtube and tiktok. I'm pretty horrified at the grown up things they're now concerned about as a result of spending lots of time on social media. Not necessarily offensive things, but stuff like body image, relationship stuff, etc. Stuff that I thought about when I was in my 20s, now they're talking about it at age 10.

Oh, I'm so sorry. I lost my cat about a month ago and it just about ripped my heart out. Dixie Belle is beautiful. I love the purple harness. She was obviously so loved ❤️

Love your name, by the way!

I'm so sorry for your loss ❤️

I recently found a new, seemingly clean pet food brand. They have cats (Feline Natural) and dogs (K9 Natural). Something that bothered my cat was all the "gums" they put in pet food - guar gum, xanthan gum, etc. K9 Natural has no gums, and Rawz has no gums. Maybe it that would help. They also have a lot of different meats - lamb, lamb + salmon, beef, hoki + beef (what's hoki?).

I'd prefer an apartment over the garage. If you sell the house someday, it would be attractive to buyers as a guest suite, work from home office, etc. Personally, I think living in a tiny house, even by myself, would get on my nerves after a while.

Sending lots of hugs. I'm incredibly sorry for your loss.

It's about understanding your own wants, needs, and fears, and understanding the same in your partner. It's not a "how to have great sex" book. There is homework. DH hasn't read it but I got a lot out of thinking about myself.

Definitely recommend this one!!

I just went through this with my old cat. I waffled between thinking she wasn't feeling well, and then thinking, well, sure she's only lying there doing nothing, but maybe she's okay with it. My cat also started to lose her balance and was falling off of things, or wobbling at the edge of the couch. I talked to the vet and asked her to please be direct with me about when it was time to say goodbye. She did, and I was really grateful for her advice. I'm sooo sorry, it's just an awful choice to make. In the end I think I made the right choice at an appropriate time... but I still do feel a bit like I betrayed her, because she didn't make the choice for herself. 😞

That's ridiculous. How hard is it to add an email? Our secretary could to it in two seconds.

Sending hugs.