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Not only that, people in the know, and somehow I bet the Neo Nazi, white supremacists, etc. are in the know, would think your family is sympathetic to their cause. Again, No.
Thats a good thought... We're pretty extreme in many things. If you all knew me in real life you'd probably think that I was crazy (if you don't already).
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Yes. Was Unity the Nazi supporter?
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Sadly, yes. She was Hitler's fan girl and then shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany.
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We're considering the name Unity for our overdue baby but on a quick google search I learned about Unity Mitford and wasn't sure I wanted that connection. What do you think?
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Lazy cabbage roll casserole might work for the cabbage if it's not too similar. You could also try some different coleslaws. The mayo based ones get pretty gross if you eat too much. I like to shred cabbage, add a heap of shredded apples, some raisins and then a splash of vinegar and some salt. We eat this a lot. I also like to dress coleslaw with an oil, vinegar, garlic, parsley, salt dressing.
For the beets, I'd roast or pickle them. Once they were pickled you could can them. Maybe I'd make borscht given the other veggies that you need to work with.
The white radishes are one of my favourites. I use them a bit like onions. I like to grate them into every soup that I add onions to. They're also really nice roasted, imo. I also grate them into coleslaw (not the apple one mentioned above). They also last for eons in the fridge.
I have no ideas for the celeriac. I've never tried it before.
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My thoughts are that the trouble is that you don't know this man. If his content is soberly presented (the dog video suggests that it isn't) then it's probably fine and your dc are just a little too sensitive. If he's cracking sexual jokes or making faces or is any way not sober then it's probably not appropriate. There is also the issue that you don't know or trust his character enough to not wonder if he could be a predator. That would absolutely alarm me.
As for what to do, I think that you should set your dh onto the situation. Let him sniff out the situation. Maybe the two of you could go together to talk to the pastor. I would guess that the pastor and the administration will probably respond better to a father's concerns then a mothers. This (them responding better to a father) is not appropriate but is natural.
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I should add that it's probably fluke that you got it after cleaning up after the cat. My dh had a ringworm patch on his inner thigh for months and I never got it despite many tea parties over that time. My understanding is that it really isn't that contagious.
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You can also use vaginal yeast infection creams like miconozol or clortramizole. The "worm" part of ringworm makes it sound much scarier than it really is.
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I've lived most my life in BC. Are you a big city family, medium city or rural? If I were going to pick a good spot in BC I'd choose the outskirts of of the smaller cities in BC, like Victoria, Naniamo, Courtenay, Kelowna, Kamloops, Vernon or Prince George. The housing prices in the smaller cities are a cheaper and the outskirts are cheaper yet but you're still close to ammenities. I've lived in Courtenay, Victoria and Prince George before and we are currently in Greater Vancouver. The weather near the coast is much like western WA (ie. RAIN) but as you go inland you'll get colder but sunnier. None on BC (except in the extreme north) is as cold as the prairie provinces. I've never experienced -40F/C here. Even in Prince George it only hits -30C (-22F) for about a week or two a year.
Vancouver housing is RIDICULOUS right now. The housing prices are astronomical. Chilliwak is not quite so bad though and it's still nice and close to the bigger city. I really appreciate the multicultural aspect of this area. It is VERY diverse here. Within a 10 minute drive I can buy ethnic food from countless different countries. I'm sure more than 50% of the people in my municipality are immigrants. The deals to be found on food definitely offset the housing issues. I think that it's good for the children too. The other cities in BC are diverse as well but not quite like Greater Vancouver.
From a homeschooling point of view, BC is great. All the provinces are reasonably easy to homeschool in but Quebec is a bit more of a hassle.
If you really don't mind the winters, Manitoba might also be worth considering. The COL is definitely cheaper out there.
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I was afraid to read the definition and was much relieved that it was something off colour. We call them eye bolts here which I could recognize.
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That's what colons are for. If your parents are not DT and KK but you love all four people, you write a normal list:
I love my parents, Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian.
If DT and KK are your parents, you write:
I love my parents: Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian.
I suppose but I think that the problem with the first sentence is that it's ambiguous. There are different ways of punctuating and the reader just won't know if it's me or my parents that are odd. I guess we could compromise and just say that the lack of an oxford comma is inappropriate if it causes ambiguity.
On a side note, I think that the colon needs a new name. The word just conjures up images of intestines to me. :P
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My favorite example:
I love my parents, Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian.
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I love my parents, Donald Trump, and Kim Kardashian.
The first looks like I have very strange parents and the second makes me look very strange.
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If you're Christian you might like the R&S preschool pack.
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I just got back to this thread. While reading it through I think that I said, "STOP WHISTLING!" about 4 times. At least now I have some evidence that it's not just me. :D
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My 6yo ds recently learned how to whistle and he's driving me nuts! I can't stand the sound of whistling. Am I alone here or is my brain broken? The sound crashes in on all my thoughts. I can ignore my dc singing all day but whistling is just so disruptive. Any agreement here?
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Excuse me??? You do not teach your kids that the SUN is at the center of the solar system? because you "see no reason to"?
I find understanding planetary motion a worthy educational goal.
The motion of the planets in the heliocentric system is caused by the gravitational force between the sun and the planet. It is as easy to explain as twirling a ball on a string in a circle.
I am saying this gently: if you find this "hard to explain", you may want to consider outsourcing your kids' science education.
GAH! I meant to say geocentric! I DO teach that the sun is the centre. I think that that one little blunder will probably mark me forever here.
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There are two things mixed up here.
The Sun is at the center of our solar system, not at the center of the universe.
This is not a philosophical issue, but a scientific one. There is no alternate theory to the theory of gravitation that explains the observations for planetary motion; we have plenty of evidence for a heliocentric solar system.
But this has nothing to do with the universe. Scientists do not claim that our sun is the center of the universe; there is no center of the universe since it is curved in spacetime.
Thank you. I know that I'm ignorant of some of these issues. I certainly don't teach a geocentric view point because frankly I see no reason to do so. I guess that my questions were just based on ignorance. The issue of what would cause the movement of the planets in a geocentric model would be hard to explain.
Edited to not make myself look really loony
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I hadn't heard of this lately, but I did read an article that proposed that we really don't know to this day that the earth revolves around the sun. The same proofs that scientists use to show that can also be used to show the sun revolves around the earth (or so this guy proposed). I admit to only skimming the article. (This internet page appears to hit on some of the same ideas.)
Geocentrism strikes me as being different than the FE idea. It seems to my simple brain that geocentrism could be explained mathematically because the universe has no top or bottom, up or down. The mathematical model would be far more convoluted but couldn't you construct an explanation of the heavenly bodies that put the earth at the center? It seems to me that the consensus places the sun at the center because it's a far simpler, more elegant explanation but isn't it just a philosophical argument about the center is. It seems to me that there is no center because there is no end. Am I as clear as mud?
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Do you think that the amount of television/movies/youtube someone watches could be a factor?
I saw the gorilla. We don't do TV at all and not much in the way of other video but I also suspect that I'm ADD.
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I've been in your situation. I took years to get my bearings with homeschooling, especially writing. When my ds was ten he could barely put together a tolerable paragraph. He's doing MUCH better now.
Call me crazy, but I had my, at the time, 12yos do just a few narrations ahead of time and then started them into WWS1. They definitely needed some help with the narrations at first but they were mature enough to get the idea pretty quickly. WWS is rigourous and will take them quite far. I really think that if they manage to finish WWS3 by the end of highschool you will have served them well.
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Midge was my neighbor when I was a kid. She was a very nice lady.
This just reminds me of mosquitoes.
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Anything you would do with squash.
The easiest way to cook them is to put them into the oven whole at 375F, leave them for about 2 hours and then when they're cool, rip them open, discard the seed and then scoop the pump off of the skin. If you like the seeds beforehand you can cut off a "lid", scoop out the seed out, put the lid back on and roast it that way. You can cut them in half like a squash too but I like how cooking them whole retains the moisture better. If the pump is still lumpy, run it through a blender or food processor.
I mostly use the pulp in oatmeal and custard (crustless pie, just pour the sauce in a casserole dish, cook till it tests done). Sometimes I do soup. Muffins are nice too. I've even added it to pasta sauce. No one could tell and it was really good sauce.
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I think all this older siblings naming babies is funny.
When I was a teenager, my mom was having my youngest sister, which was horrifying enough when you’re 16. Then she was insistent on naming the baby Olivia. I thought Olivia was a terrible, ugly, horribly old fashioned name, and eventually I prevailed and the baby was named something else(a truly lovely name, too). The argument went on for months before my sister’s birth though. My poor mom had her heart set on Olivia and I thought it was just an absolutely awful name for a baby.
Fast forward about sixteen years, when I gave birth to my own daughter.
You should have seen the look on my mother’s face when I handed her my Olivia.
I used to know a woman named Cinderella because her older sister got naming rights. I seriously don't understand why the parents didn't exercise veto privileges. She went by Cindy. How would you live that down in school?
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That's my name!
But Connie sounds dated in the wrong way - it's a 1940s - 1950s name. I'd stick with the full name, or else another nickname like Stanzie.
Eglantine and Elfreda aren't that bad, but I wouldn't go with Godiva. Most people have heard that name, after all, and it's bound to produce a few snickers even if all they think about is the chocolates.
All that I think of with Godiva is the Lady Godiva rides :ohmy:. I don't get the connection with chocolate. (edited to add: wow, I'm dumb, it's just a brand of chocolate)
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Oh man. When you said gross I was thinking of the urban legends ... yeah.
So, anyway. There are some that I think are very dated but quaint and charming. Of the ones listed I'd go with Beryl, Dorothy, Glenda, Maude, Ruth (seriously, if I had a dd that would be her name), Edith, Gwendolyn, Hester, Winifred, Phyllis, Harriet, Moira. Other ones that I happen to like would be Adelaide, Rose, Pearl, Clara, Grace, Evelyn, Marjorie, Judith, Constance, Priscilla, Lydia, Genevieve, Rosalind, Lillian, Gillian, Jessamine.
Then there are some that are just plain dated and I don't really see them making a comeback. Edna, Gertrude, Dorcas, Eunice, Enid, Bertha, Helga, Agatha, Agnes, Ermentrude, Mercy, Silence, Keziah, Mehitabel, Edwina, Sophronia (Phronsie!), Theodosia, Lettice (everyone would call her lettuce!), Griselda, Bathsheba, Eulalia, Eglentine, Petronella, Scholastica, Elfreda, Etheldreda, Godiva, Urith.
You might be surprised. I know at least four children named Mercy, all in families that don't know each other. I'm somewhat partial toward Eunice. The germanic names are just so unfashionable right now. Vowels are in. Maybe Eulalia can make a come back. Dh suggested that name for our last dd. I also really like Constance. Eglentine, Petronella, Scholastica, Elfreda, Etheldreda, Godiva and Ermentrude would be really hard to live with. They sound soooo foreign to our ears.
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Dumb poll of the day: Do you know who the Mitford sisters are?
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I suspect that you're probably in line with the majority but having 1 in 100 or even 200 people wonder why we named our child after a Hitler fan makes me a little uncomfortable.