Breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? Breakfast was oatmeal for the kids. Lunch will be leftovers and/or whatever we can scrounge up. Dinner will probably be beef fajitas and homemade refried beans... if I remember to go get the meat out as soon as I finish typing this response. What are you doing today? Painting the kitchen. One of the myriad things we have to do before we can put this house on the market. I'm tired of the process already. What kind of a car do you have? Add me to the Grand Caravan list. DH drives an Impala.

I am a perfect 35 in the chesticle area... which means either a 34[large cup size] or a 36[next size down] will technically fit me. However, I find that they DO fit differently, and I DO prefer one over the other. Have you checked out Maidenform? I like their bras better. They hold up better for me than VS and are more wallet-friendly :)

Everything herekittykitty says is exactly what I have seen in my BPD MIL. I love her, but she can be really difficult to deal with. She has four sons. My DH is the eldest, and he is her oft-proclaimed favorite... has been since he was small. Yes, she says this regularly. He is probably the one person in her life that she has never hated for very long. She claims to love me like a daughter, but I am very well aware that my status as favorite DIL only lasts for as long as I toe whatever line she wants toed at that particular moment. She's made several suicide attempts, most recently about a month and a half ago, in which she called up her youngest son and informed him that he was why she was making the attempt (she had "reasons"). She's got a long, LONG history of cutting. In other words, she's a textbook case. I often joke that Jerry Springer couldn't make the stuff up that she does and/or puts the family through, and it's probably not the nicest thing to say, but it's true. If you DO have BPD in the family, there will be no reasoning with them without SERIOUS counseling. Even with counseling on a regular basis, my MIL can delude herself 100 ways from Thursday if she wants to... and totally believes it all. One day she'll be convinced that she's a Christian and she'll plop herself down in front of a priest and want absolution for everything, and the next day she'll be convinced that there is no God and she's on her own and can do whatever she wants. It's a tough road for everyone. I don't envy anyone who has to deal with it. Hang in there and assume that the diagnosis is anything BUT BPD for as long as possible. :)

I took the OSU German course when I was in high school. I took it at our high school via satellite. It was a good program! We actually went *to* OSU at one point and got featured on the show. I learned a lot and have retained quite a bit of it.

I've got all the curricula, but I still want to get some books and stuff here and there. :)

I'm missing four (two are wisdom teeth, though). The two that I'm missing are my upper lateral incisors. My mom is missing them, too, and we suspect that my son is missing at least one of his. I had braces, but they didn't wind up doing me much good and honestly, you'd never know I'm missing teeth. My mom never had braces and you'd never know with her, either. My current dentist wants us to get DS in to see an orthodontist now to see about spacing, but I want to wait and see how a few more grow in before I consider it. :)

Thanks :)

How does one do this?? How do you feed a growing boy (or girl, really, but for my purposes, boy) healthful meals and snacks and get them full?? I need ideas. This child is eating me out of house and home. I bought a ton of groceries last week - more than usual because I knew DS was in the middle of a growth spurt - thinking it would last us until tomorrow or Wednesday. Here it is Monday, and except for eggs and the stuff I have planned for main dishes for dinner, we're out of food. For lunch today (so far), he's eaten a couple of sandwiches (and finished the lunch meat), yogurt, the rest of the bag of potato chips and French onion dip to go with them, and a banana. I'm about to go scramble him some eggs because his other hollow leg is still empty. He's been eating four meals a day, plus snacks, and still claims to be hungry in between. I'm sure he is, too, because he's as cranky as a cat with a pulled tail. So... recipes, snack ideas, good lunch ideas... I need 'em all. And if there's a thread somewhere that I should check out, feel free to link it. The boy is about to die if I don't get him the eggs soon :tongue_smilie: Things I should probably add: DH is 6'8". DS is currently 5'1" and hasn't grown in quite a while, so he's probably going to grow a bunch. I just bought him size 9 men's shoes. DD is also tall and has high cholesterol due to genetics, so I have to watch fat and cholesterol content closely. I keep Boost protein shakes on hand, but I primarily let him have those after he swims (an hour twice a week plus a half-hour lesson).

I too want to know what happened with the Kindle! Jenn, WAY TO GO! I wish I could do the C25K thing. But I have nobody to watch the kids. So you need to make it so I can live vicariously through you ;) I hope that you are alive, awake, alert, enthusiastic on this Monday! Where do you fall in that spectrum? I am alive. I have drunk my coffee and reached awake and might even reach alert in a few minutes when I get up to go do laundry. Enthusiastic won't happen till about 6 p.m. I am a certifiable night owl. How was your weekend? Did you do anything special or fun? DD turned 7! She had her party on Sunday, and she had a blast. Other than that, the weather was GORGEOUS, so we spent a lot of time outside. :D What's on the menu for today? The kids had Quaker Oat Squares and fruit for breakfast. I just had coffee. For lunch I had Greek yogurt with granola and fruit... DS is currently making his way through everything in the fridge. So far he's had a giant sandwich (meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and chips), yogurt, and a banana, and he's currently polishing off the rest of the potato chips and French onion dip. I'm sure he won't be full. He's in the midst of a giant growth spurt which I DO NOT WANT. I just bought him size 9 men's shoes. His shoe size and his age SHOULD NOT MATCH. Sorry. Got off topic. For dinner we're going to my dad's house. I don't think he's prepared, so I plan to bring extra food. Do you take a "spring break" or "Easter break" from school? If so, when? This is our first day back after two weeks off. We'll have a four-day weekend around Easter, too, and then we're in for the long haul till the end of May. If you don't follow a year-round school schedule, when will you be done with this "school year?" When will you start the next year's curriculum? Our school year will end on May 31, since that is when DD's school gets out. Then she will be HOME!!! We plan to start our 'fall' semester in mid-July since it'll be blazing hot, and then we'll take several weeks off in September/early October. I'm excited. Oh, wait, there's the boy again. He finished the chips and is, indeed, still hungry. We're nearly out of food, so I'm going to go see what I can scrounge up for him. How do you feed growing boys?!?!?!?

I was going to say Kohl's, too. We get a lot of our kids' wardrobes there. I also like Belk.

No fees for checking anything out or putting anything on hold, and no resolving fee, either. CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes have a $.50/day late fee and can only be checked out for a week, non-renewable; books have a $.05/day late fee and can be checked out for two weeks at a time and rechecked up to three times (unless someone else has put the book on hold, in which case it can't be rechecked at all).

I was worried about the same thing with my first tattoo. I came armed with Dr. Pepper in case I needed a quick sugar buzz to keep me from passing out, and I took some ibuprofen beforehand (though some places tell you not to because it can thin your blood). I never saw a needle. The only time I had a problem with the first one was when he was working right on my Achilles tendon (I got a little anklet of flowers and greenery), and even then it was more just annoyance than pain. My second tat, which was MUCH bigger, didn't hurt or bug me at all. Have fun and post a pic! :)

I've come up in the world since my own childhood dreams. I wanted to be... wait for it... a secretary. And before you laugh and think I'm a product of my generation, I was born in the 1980s. I just grew up in a very 1950s household. We're on Spring Break this week and next, so I won't be here often, but I saw the thread and had to check in. We had pancakes for breakfast. The kids had corn dogs and peas for lunch (DS also had two clementines, yogurt, and something else in addition to his three corn dogs and ~2 c. of peas... and then for snack he ate an entire Sonic meal of popcorn chicken, fries, and a drink). For dinner we ate grilled stuffed portobello mushrooms, grilled tomato salad, and chocolate chip walnut cookies. It was glorious.

My in-laws had it happen to them once with their youngest. There are four boys in the family, and they were taking two cars while they were driving to a vacation destination. The boys had been in and out of the cars, swapping seats and running back and forth between the vehicles every time they stopped for gas, meals, bathrooms, etc., and the parents simply didn't do a head count one time. They got an hour or so down the road before realizing what had happened. To be fair, this was pre-cell phone and NOT quite the same thing as the original situation, but I'm just saying it can happen.

My almost 7yo daughter is fascinated by anything related to the human body and how it functions. When she was 3 (at about the same time she decided to take violin lessons, which she still takes), she decided to be a doctor, specialty TBD. Since then, she's gone back and forth between doctor, teacher, and mom (and was quite happy to learn that she can, in fact, combine anything with 'mom'). Recently she asked me if there were any careers that let her be a doctor and a teacher at the same time. She didn't want to be a doctor teaching in a classroom or even show student doctors what to do, so I suggested that perhaps physical therapy might be an interesting field to consider. She absolutely loved the idea. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the field, and I can't find any books for her to read about what a physical therapist does. I'm happy to call a local therapist and set up an interview when she's a bit older, but for now I just want something for her to read or look at so she can figure out if this is a true interest or just a passing fancy. Any suggestions?

Add me to the iron-hating list. I only iron one thing a year - the tablecloth for Christmas dinner. The kids think it's awesome when MOM breaks out the iron (DH irons his work shirts quite often). We found one of those old pull-toy telephones, the rotary type, and the kids couldn't work out how to 'work' it. They still can't believe that we only had two or three TV channels and had to get up and physically change the channel... and turn the TV on and off. They think I'm ancient because I remember mailing letters with stamps that cost less than a quarter. They will never know the absolute hatred of having your legs stick to vinyl seats in the car because there's no A/C. They have no idea that purple ink might not be on a paper on purpose (i.e. mimeograph machines).

In addition to many of the things already mentioned, I also check to see how close the nearest s*x offender is. I don't want to live on a street where half a dozen may be driving by my house every day, KWIM?

We're about to join the ranks of the house-selling, too. We had the realtor out on Monday to give the place the once-over and tell us what remains to be done. It's not a horribly long list, but one of the things is painting the kitchen, which I was *really* hoping to avoid. We also have to paint the exterior of the house, which isn't likely to happen in March in Oklahoma. I am just fervently hoping that it will sell quickly once it hits the market - we have a lot of animals as well as the kids and HS stuff, so it's going to be a nightmare to keep it constantly clean.... YOU all understand this!

My children invoke the Spanish Inquisition quote on us regularly. They giggle wholeheartedly at silly walks that we or they invent. If someone is bleeding, they ask if it's a flesh wound. Yeah. Monty Python happens. As long as they don't insult my elderberry parents, we're all good, though ;)

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Teacher's Lounge! Hope you're all waking up bright and chipper; I'm having problems with that one. What are you eating today? The kids had blueberry toaster strudels for breakfast. Lunch will probably be leftovers, and dinner will be stir-fry. Where was your last vacation... and would you go there again? Our last trip was to Great Wolf Lodge last fall. We would love to go again, but the kids want to go to a different location this time. If you could have a dream vacation, where would you go? I want to take a Grand Tour of Europe. Happy Hump Day!

Ours does, and it's as problematic as the OP's. The selection is small, the wait times can be awful, and it's on a different system. Besides all that, I was talking to the children's programming coordinator and she said that the e-books can only be checked out a certain number of times - and it's a VERY SMALL number - before the publishers say that the book is 'expired,' and they have to remove it from the catalog. So popular books don't last very long in the system. The system is going to take a lot of work before it gets to where it needs to be.

I just finished the Medicus series and am working on the Irish Country Doctor series now, for me, for fun. I've also been reading books by Michael Ondaatje. DS is working his way through Little Women. DD is reading some books for fun, whatever I help her pick out at the library. She just finished Pippi. We're working through the Lightning Thief series for read-alouds. We read the Little House series before this; I wanted to read Narnia next, but I'm not sure DD is quite ready for them, so I threw in the Lightning Thief books as a brief intermediary. It's brain candy, but it works.

We watch the videos together. I pause/stop the video as needed, and we work through the concepts and problems together to make sure he's really understanding the concept. Then he does page A. If he aces that and truly seems to grasp the concept, I go straight to D the next day. If he needs more work, we'll do B and/or C over the next couple of days. After he masters a review page (which also sometimes takes more than one day, depending on the subject), we do the quiz. He averages about a lesson per week; sometimes we do more and sometimes less, since the lessons do get more difficult toward the ends of the books. The video days do take the longest. Those days probably average about 45 minutes of math (45-60 minutes now, but 30-45 minutes during Alpha). Then the subsequent days take 20-30 minutes. I do help when asked, and sometimes we have to re-cover a topic to make sure it's really being grasped, but I'd rather take the time and do it right than get him frustrated. We've been using MUS since Alpha in 'first' grade, and he's almost finished with Delta now. He'll start Epsilon this fall, for 'fourth' grade.

Duck or lamb (duck would seem more fitting in a mountain setting, to me) with wild mushroom stuffing, roasted veggies, and some sort of tart for dessert. I would probably also have baked brie and apples nearby.

Breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? Breakfast was cinnamon raisin bread for everyone. DS also ate two clementines. Lunch was Greek yogurt with granola for me and (so far) the following for DS: Half of a rosemary pork tenderloin, 1 huge slice of bread and butter, a cheese stick, a pint of strawberries, and a banana. The debate rages as to whether he's still hungry or not. For dinner I'm going to make a cassoulet and green beans. I sincerely hope there will be enough for all four of us. DS announced this morning that the backs of his legs (behind his knees) ache. I suspect growing pains. What are you doing today? All the usual Tuesday stuff. I refuse to do ANYTHING with regards to moving and/or fixing up the house today. I'm tired of it and stressed out about it, and I need a break. What is the weather like where you are? Warm! It's currently 68 degrees and VERY windy. The rain is supposed to blow in over the next few days, and we may see some good ol' spring storms. I'm crossing my fingers that they aren't severe, but I want all the rain we can get. There's a smoky haze that's hanging around the area like... well, like a bad smell.