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  1. for map drills I like the Sheppard software games too.
  2. I don't want to accidentally take this class either; if you don't plan to post a review (on the Master List of Online Classes thread, maybe), please send me a PM. 2 months!
  3. I think Math prep would probably help. You can score a 22 on the Math with a few months of Pre-A (no Agl, no Geo, no Alg 2), so I would wonder if going back and cementing some basic math concepts from Pre-A and Algebra would help.
  4. A working washing machine is like priority number one in life, especially with a new baby.
  5. I have one (my current youngest) who was and is more prone to diaper rash than the others. I think he just has more sensitive skin, plus when he eats certain things, esp. fruits and vegetables, he gets rashy (he also got rashy when he was very young and I ate fruits and vegetables). I've never had rash problems with any of the other kids. So I'd say here are my various advices going by what worked for him, which may or may not work for yours: 1. Change diaper brands. I hate to say it because I don't normally go in for name brands, but he gets no rash with Huggies and does rash with everything else, including the natural brands like Honest or Seventh Generation. 2. Vaseline (or whatever you use) at every change, regardless of rash status. This has made a huge difference. I think having that barrier prevents the rash in the first place a lot of the time. 3. I check him constantly, constantly, for diaper dirtiness or wetness. I go through a zillion diapers a day. If he sits in a dirty diaper for 5 minutes it will rash. 2 minutes might rash if he's eaten something reactive. Seriously I don't even want to think about what I spend on disposable diapers, it makes me nuts. 4. For a while I didn't let him eat things that had any acid in them, hardly at all. Even like blueberries would give him a rash. I think if you prevent the diaper rash in the first place (if you can) then you won't have as much trouble with the secondary bacterial infection.
  6. Wah Washing machines are, imo, easier to fix yourself than cars, fwiw. Youtube is helpful for washing machines.
  7. I would definitely provide this information in a review wherever her classes are reviewed online (if they are, anywhere). 2 months is beyond insane.
  8. I live up in the same district Goldberry. I thought it was about graffiti in a girls' bathroom that said "I'll shoot everyone at the school and you too" or something like that. I imagine it is hard to find emergency child care for 2 days, but I also don't see how they could have kept the schools open until they'd figured out what was going on.
  9. Yes, it doesn't sound like they were abusive or educationally neglected or any of it - just very poor.
  10. I take a slightly different tack; instead of teaching everyone with the same curriculum to save time in prep, I choose (to the extent possible) the program best suited to each kid's idiosyncrasies so that there is less direct teaching to do (I also choose programs written to the student where possible). Math curricula I have tried, largely in order of trying them: Saxon Life of Fred Miquon Math Mammoth Beast Academy Khan Academy Prodigy (not that this is really curriculum, as such) AoPS (Pre-A) Teaching Textbooks Dolciani (Pre-A and Alg.) Saxon was teacher-intensive and boring, Life of Fred was way too much work for how little actual math we got out of it, Miquon was okay for about a year and a half but definitely not taught to the child, Math Mammoth went well for a while but DS9 figured out that it was Schoolwork And Therefore To Be Resisted At All Costs, Beast Academy we still use, Khan was only liked by me - they found it tedious to watch the videos, Prodigy they love but it doesn't teach, AoPS was a year and a half of frustration, Teaching Textbooks has been great (surprisingly) because DS9 is willing to compromise and do it even though it is Schoolwork because after all they have Bonus Rounds and Moving Graphics, and Dolciani is the perfect fit for DD12, who is finally understanding new topics without my having to explain them 5x each.
  11. Ah, washable covers! Now that is a good idea. I've had those on one couch but it was only the seats that were washable (not the back or armrests) and when I washed them it just made the rest of the sofa look terrible. I did buy one of those portable carpet cleaners and did the rest of the sofa once a month or so (I really love carpet cleaning so it wasn't a huge burden) but it never got as clean as the cushions. Some days I think I should just get rid of all the soft furniture and buy a bunch of vinyl bean bags.
  12. Heather, I just want to say thank you for being so willing to talk about all of this openly and frankly - your finances, how you applied to schools and what you were thinking, his qualifications, all of it. We're looking at a situation similar to yours - we have an EFC and cannot or will not (depending on your perspective, but it works out the same for our kids) pay it. I keep thinking to myself, don't worry, you've got this figured out, it will be fine - but truthfully, it's a mountain to climb with a lot of obstacles and I don't have it all figured out. The PSAT thing is really unfortunate. I can't believe so many schools won't let homeschooled kids take the test at their schools, and that they're allowed to not let homeschoolers take it. We pay the same taxes public schoolers pay! All I want is for my kids to be allowed to go sit quietly for a test a few times a year. Grr. I would also really consider a gap year if he doesn't find something suitable this spring. He's such a good candidate for good merit aid at so many schools, even without the NM status.
  13. I would wait until Monday, but I'd be anxious until then. Good luck with the pregnancy, hope this is the one :)
  14. A white couch I might be more hesitant about just because you can't throw it in the washing machine. Washing things takes almost no time. It is the easiest chore in the house (we have a washer and dryer).
  15. I see, that is kind of a pickle! Not many people have a rent or mortgage payment that is 60% of their income, and presumably if you were getting all of it in cash you'd live somewhere cheaper, so it kind of sucks that it's calculated that way. I agree that paying for music lessons isn't exactly living paycheck to paycheck, but I also don't know where you'd get an extra $20k/yr out of an income of $70k with 4 kids. I mean, I know that you can do it, but it seems pretty extreme. Especially since I thought I just read something saying Wisconsin was giving free tuition to families making less than $56k/yr - it seems kind of unreasonable to expect someone making $70k to pay more than $14k/yr, in that case.
  16. I did assume no equity or other assets. I thought that if you had equity in a home or assets or savings, they wanted you to use some of that to fund college, and that makes sense to me. If your job is being paid in income other than strictly cash, I can see how they count that as income too (because if you're not paying rent, presumably you have the $ you would have paid in rent to spend for college). But if you're just living paycheck to paycheck, have no money in savings, no significant equity in a home, and are making $70k a year, I can't see how the EFC can be $20k. That makes me nervous for our eventual EFC!
  17. I also can't see how your EFC can be $20k with an income of $70k. I think it must have been filed incorrectly in some way. Just looking very briefly at the chart in this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/troyonink/2017/01/08/2017-guide-to-college-financial-aid-the-fafsa-and-css-profile/#2b07764c4cd4 It seems like you'd need an income of $125K/yr to have an EFC that high.
  18. $11,500 plus maybe if he works in the summers could cover room/board at a lot of places, then you're just looking for tuition.
  19. I say "don't fret" on occasion. I am more likely to say "don't worry."
  20. I start the laundry, then I start with the things that make me the happiest to see clean (so my motivation stays up). For me, this is floors. I cannot stand a dirty floor. Clutter, laundry, counters, none of that bugs me much. Floors, though - I love a clean floor. After I do the floors (first pick up, then sweep, then mop), I do the bathrooms, then I do the kitchen counters, then the dishes, then wipe down walls and baseboards, then organize the linen closet, and by then I am usually done caring and so I stop. Now that the older kids are 12, 9, and 6 I supervise most of this instead of actually doing it. Supervising it is not a lot more fun than doing it, tbh, but it is a lot faster with all of us working.
  21. I think it's not vegan, just vegetarian (it has eggs, if I remember correctly)
  22. Sure, we just don't worry about stains and use bleach when required. For curtains, I buy flat sheets from Wal-Mart (or Target if I'm feeling upscale) and open the top hem so that it can be strung on a curtainrod. This makes laundering curtains very easy, because they're just flat sheets and can be washed/dried/bleached with no trouble and in no time. It also means that if one gets irrevocably stained or torn or something I'm not brokenhearted, as I can find a replacement easily and they cost $5 a piece.
  23. Yes, we had the same experience with Barbarian Digrammarian. I have to say, I watched about half of one class session and did not get why DD liked it so much. How exciting can you really make the parts of speech? But she loved it, and loves Latin 1 this semester.
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