So, while the forums were down dh and I had a bit of a friendly argument. I've been chomping at the bit to run this by you all. Dh claims that it's not normal for people to have a tea towel lying on their kitchen floor. I argue that I can't possible notice every tea towel in my path and that surely other people are like this as well. This is really just about tea towels though. If I tried to notice everything out of place I would never get any school work done, ever. So, give me the honest truth. Do tea towel grace your kitchen floor? If so, for how long.

I'm not exactly a rabbit person but I did have two female rabbits as a child. Most of the time they were best buds but every so often our little one would mount the big one rip her hair out and attack her. We eventually put a wire divider in their cage so that they could continue to snuggle but the little one could no longer hurt our sweet one. Maybe a male would work better for you.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-man-drops-326-lbs-after-fort-mcmurray-escape-1.4601130 I just read this story. Losing 326 pounds is huge accomplishment! Good for him. I only have about 20 to lose. I just feel inspired and thought that I would share the inspiration.

Just consider, if you cut back a bit you can always do a little through the summer if you come to think that it was a mistake.

I've read that HG has been very strongly correlated to testing positive for h. pylori. This has made sense to me because probiotics make a huge difference for me.

Yeah! I can't believe how much I missed all you random strangers.

I'm actually thinking that I would like something fairly in depth. How did you find it? What knowledge would you need before diving into it? Does it come with tests or answer keys?

My second thought is WHY IS IT SO CHEAP!?

I just can't fathom the damage my children would do if I let them loose in there for even one minute. :scared: :rofl:

I'm not sure. In Canada, traditionally, grade 11 biology is plants and animals and grade 12 biology is human. How is covered in the US? I looked at the pinned thread but I couldn't figure out from the descriptions what was covered.

I'm thinking ahead here a little and am looking at what options are available for covering human biology. We haven't done any biology past elementary level because my teens aren't particularly interested and our provincial requirements are low. That said, I DO feel like we must at least cover human biology to a reasonable depth. It's just not acceptable to go into your adult life and not know what your pituitary gland is for, paramecium reproduction--not so much. So what is out there for human biology? What are the pros and cons? We're Christians but I don't mind secular material for this topic.

I'm using The Study of English Words by Jessie Macmillan Anderson to work with my 14yo son. https://archive.org/details/studyofenglishwo00andeiala I'm really appreciating it. It seems reasonable verbose but not too difficult for a modern teenager to grasp.

I'm sooooo glad that I didn't have social media as a teen. I would have tried to use it to make friends. I wouldn't have been able to get off of it but the bullies would have made my life miserable. HS was already terrible enough for me. I really didn't need the crap to follow me home.

This is a good article. I sent it to my mother who lets her grand daughters in her care do way more than I think is reasonable for their age online.

Inquiring minds want to know what would motivate a man to buy these own his own initiative. What was he thinking? "hmmm... I think dw is bleeding pretty heavy today. Maybe she would like to try a new brand." How about... Don't lick the bus seats :ack2: Don't crawl on the floor in public/rest area bathrooms :ack2: :ack2: :ack2: Sometimes I'm surprised that my dc are still alive.

I totally agree. I always run into them when I'm looking for something like "eggplant recipes". I'll then get sites that google advertises as "21 exciting eggplant recipes". They're almost always slide shows! I get really annoyed how frequently this happens.

How about the periodic table song?

I need your list of well written books. I seriously don't have the time for all the other crap.

My library is just soooo picky. I don't like taping pages myself but it really bothers me to have to pay full price plus an $8 handling fee for a page that's half ripped. I doubt that I'll feel good about returning this one as is if I manage to restore to a reasonable state I probably will. $30+ is pretty gross for a stupid lego book.

I have to agree with this. If you can talk to the mom via a face to face chat then I would think that you would be OK. I'm guessing that if there is any nefarious going on you'll probably be able to pick that up through video chat. As unfair as this is, I think that i would be much more open to a male doing this trip than a female. How many seventeen year old boys are trafficked in the US? Anyone got some evidence that this actually even happens?

We just seriously damaged our third library book in about 4 months. One of the three year olds left a lego book on the kitchen counter and another child accidentally bumped it into the sink. The binding didn't get wet but the outside edge of every page got wet. I'm going to try to repair it but I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be out another $30. It irks me so much. I love library books because they expose my dc to so much more of the world then they would get to see otherwise but I just have so many little people right now that it's hard to have my eyes on everything at the same time. After this incident I decided to revoke the privilege of handling the library books alone. They will be put away and only brought out when someone big can read them. If another book is wrecked I think that I'm going to give up and we'll only take out books for the teenagers. Do you repair books if you damage them or do you just fess up and pay the fine? Can you repair a water damaged book to good condition?

Offer to disassemble it for him for an additional $50.

I'm sorry for your loss. I've been through a miscarriage before. It's amazing how much we bond with our little ones so long before they're born. I grieved for a long time. On a side note, as far a I know you can wait and see if you will deliver naturally rather than doing a d&c.

I don't do meal plans (maybe I should?) but tonight we're having creation a la momma (how can I add accents?) which is what i call my creations that will probably never occur again. Tonight's creation is basically a vegetarian chili gone crazy. I started with onion and garlic then added zucchini, eggplant, cauliflower, tomatoes, pinto beans, basil, crushed chilis and salt. We're going to eat it with homemade whole wheat sourdough bread (my specialty). Does anyone else cook like this?

I need to lose about 20 pounds of accumulated baby weight. I've lost weight before by calorie counting but I just can't bring myself to go that route again. I'm not a recipe user or a measurer. I never make exactly the same meal twice. I really dislike exercise and it's so hard to get around to with so many little ones. I have thought about doing some youtube exercise videos with them though (suggestions?). Idk, what kind of advise you might be able to give. Maybe I just want encouragement that it is possible to do easily. As an extra challenge I'm exclusively breastfeeding at the moment. Thoughts?