It could just be that the crinkley sound is fun. That's why I've personally crushed them. They are little and I fidget.

It varies some, but it's usually something like a half hour M-F, before work, 1 hour Sat morning, and 2 hours each Fri and Sat Night...so 6-8 hours a week.

My husband actually works for VIPKID and he gets up at 6, M-Sat and teaches Friday and Sat night. He could work more with them, but this brings in around $600 a month extra.

The engineers that I know use excel extensively, which I would not have guessed. Including being preferred over others for such detailed skills and being sought after by other companies for a certain kind of spreadsheet building knowledge.

Pandemic is a favorite. Betrayal at House on the Hill is a completely different kind of game, if you don't mind ghostly content.

I was stopped in the baby section at Walmart by a women who insisted on giving me money. She said it was in memory of a friends baby that had died a year prior. She wanted to hand out blessing in his name.

We do an equal number of gifts. I would wrap up the Legos, not because the kids were counting gifts, but because I do. It would upset me and make it hard for me to enjoy the holiday if I felt like I had short changed one of the kids. I'm an expert at mom guilt. So we would fix the problem with the Legos because Happy wife, happy life, ya know?

My thoughts are that it would be like liability insurance for cars. When I was rear ended because the car behind me was negligent, the insurance company paid me, while the guy that hit me was on his own. He wasn't punished, not even ticketed, but I got a check towards a new car. Same for a shooting. The victim would get medical bills, lost wages, funeral expenses. The gun owners only punishment would be hiked up rates, or loss of coverage. If he was deemed uninsurable, he loses his right to own a gun, because he wouldn't be a safe responsible gun owner any longer. We restrict felons from owning guns, why not people with proven poor records. Maybe classes could be taken to earn the right back, or something. I'm sure smarter people than I could make it work.

People in high crime zip codes pay more for car insurance already. I wonder if all these same arguments were made when carrying liability car insurance started to be mandated? I see a lot of parrelells in the arguments against the idea.

My thoughts are that "firearm insurance" could work as an inhibitor on high risk behavior. Like a high risk driver that can't get covered, or a falling down house, or how having a pit bull costs extra. The insurance companies, not the government, would be keeping up with training, back ground checks and what styles of weapons and accessories are allowed, based on their evaluation of risk. If there was an insurance company paying out right now for 26 deaths and how ever many injuries in Texas, they would be looking into ways to prevent it from happening again. I bet getting coverage for a bump stock woukd have been impossible in the first place. Having to get insurance before you purchased a weapon would act as a forced cool down period. I bet they would do a more thorough background check since they would be on the hook for a misjudgment. The cost of coverage would prevent someone from buying 47 like the Vegas shooter. And someone that was not the government would be seeing the red flags that should have been raised from a single person accumulating so many weapons so fast. Antiques could be insured cheaply, the way we insure antique cars. Excuse typos, I'm on my phone.

The liability insurance and training requirements would be to prevent some of thousands of accidental shootings that occur each year. A requirement to lock them up, or at least secure,them could also help prevent the thousands of children that shoot themselves or others every year. Mass shootings are a problem, but aren't the entire problem.

I hope I quoted properly. Making this reporting mandatory is a law that would have helped in this instance. That would just be a tweak to a current law.

I could not agree more!

Aslobcomesclean.com is my favorite for easy, no nonsense house cleaning advice.

Have you checked turbo tax for a copy? I always use the online version so it might be different but they have copies of past years on the website when I log in, I'm pretty sure.

In my area so many of the homeschoolers use the co-ops that it's impossible to do social things outside of them. Because they are all busy with co-op! I felt like I had to put my social bug into one strictly as a way to make friends. I can handle the academics, I even prefer to, I just can't handle a lonley kid.

I went through the SWI-C with my teen last year and didn't love it. I'm doing Myths, fairy tales and legends with my younger son this year and it's a world of difference. So maybe give one of the subject books a try.

Take his keys for a week for each instance.

There is in my state.

Puerto Rico is only a little over a 1000 miles off of Florida. It's a 2-3 hour plane ride. Its much closer to the US main land than I think some people assuming.

Fidget spinners and fidget cubes. Sure they are mostly toys, but it might save a few pens from being taken apart.

We tried it. We didn't like it. We also didn't like CLE Algebra. We settled on Foeresters with the videos from Math Without Borders.

My kids love CNN student news. Its an important part of our day.

Toy lazer trip wires. They sound a loud noise if the beam is broken but are harmless. The noise might startle and discourage the dogs from coming on your property. Sort of like the electric fence but less hostile feeling. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Wild-Planet-Spy-Gear-Lazer-Tripwire/4066630 https://www.hobbychimp.com/products/spy-gear-lazer-defense-network?gclid=Cj0KCQjw5arMBRDzARIsAAqmJexxC_xN7WiZBhbh5eyrHRNoko86yTQonEJkQ_thRRR-noJU76zzyJ0aAhN6EALw_wcB

I usually just lurk, but I wanted to add that nursing on demand did nothing for me as far as my period. I only missed one or two periods after each pregnancy despite round the clock nursing. I'm still resentful.