I understand. And really it will always be hard. Five years later and the question of how many children I have still chokes me up.

I have gone through Advanced Math 4 times now. Three times it was in only one year. The fourth took two mainly because she was very sick the year we started it and we skipped math several days. But one year for Advanced Math is doable.

We use light Karo syrup, white sugar, and a shortening crust (not par baked). And extra pecans, always extra. And I agree it is very sweet.

Both my husband and I traveled all over the world as children for our Dad's jobs. All 4 of my children have lived in Texas their entire childhood, in the same city. I remember going on vacation when the oldest was in college. No one believed they were native Texans. No one could place the accent. I have always found that amusing.

I just want to respond to this. Not only are you a mother, you are a person also. And sometimes the energy to be a mother is hard. It sounds like your daughters were in high school when the divorce was happening. They were almost adults. And right now they are just acting on hert feelings and blaming you for them. You are NOT responsible for these feelings. And as personal story. My youngest had just had her 17th birthday and was finishing her junior year at college when my oldest (and only son) was found dead in his apartment in another state. I was not the best parent to her that year. My hurt ran deep. And so did hers. She ended up suffering from anorexia, and dropping her weight to just 83 pounds. A better mother would have noticed; I did not. Almost 5 years later and she is eating, but her digestive system is majorly messed up. I blame myself for not noticing. BUT my 22 (almost) year old adult does not. She realizes I was doing the best I could to put one foot in front of the other at the time. All this to say your daughters are adults. For them to blame you for all that is wrong in their lives is not acting like adults. They start from where they are and go forward. All of us can look back and and can see where we did something wrong or maybe could have handled something better. That is just life.

These are some my daughter read at that age. I believe this is also the age she fell in love with Agatha Christie.

@regentrude I am so so sorry.

Today is my birthday. It reminds me of one of my favorite memories of my son. He had his first job after college and lived 2 hours away (through some really bad traffic). He called me to wish me happy birthday which made my day that he remembered. But just a few minutes later the doorbell rang. I opened the door to my son! He had driven 2 hours through heavy traffic to have dinner with the family on my birthday! And since it was a weeknight, after dinner he had to drive home so he could go to work the next day. He loved his family. He was gruff on the outside and so tender inside. Stephen died 4 1/2 years ago. Today I would love to hear his voice.

I only assigned letter grades. Most of our classes were done at home. And I have graduated 4. There has been no problems with schools accepting my transcripts.

Well actually the RN is just an AA degree. My daughter is an RN through the community college. She had more clinical hours through her school than the schools around us that have the BSN degree. She is working on her BSN right now, only 2 more classes. It really is just a lot of papers and reading research. I don't think it adds alot to the degree. And in the rural town she is at now most of the nurses are LVN's.

Wonderful news! I am so happy for you. (And now I can do something besides check this every 15 minutes😄)

I am so sorry. So scary.

That must have been so difficult. Nurses are definitely on the front lines!

I should have asked for prayers for all health care workers. At the moment she was the only one on my mind. She just doesn't cry very often, so this was hard. On a brighter note, she just convinced her best friend to get the vaccine!

She is a nurse in Alabama. The small hospital where she works is overrun with Covid. She just told me they have called FEMA in to help. She was actually hired to be a psych nurse, and only 7 months ago. They have closed the psych ward because they are overrun with Covid and need all their nurses to treat these patients. This morning she said that this weekend they had 20 patients on her floor (very very small hospital) and 5 died, 4 of them she had helped with at some time in the last 3 weeks. She was in tears as she told me of holding the hand of a 70 year old that he was afraid of dying for the first time ever.

And just for an amusing note: my daughter hated math in the fourth grade. But of course she had to do it. And we used Saxon -- why, because I had it and this was my last child. She was not bad at it, she just hated it. Fast forward -- she has just started her senior year at college and is a math major. She loves math, but not fourth grade math. She started loving math when she began calculus.

Happy Birthday!

Will he trust personal experience? My daughter is a nurse in Alabama -- small hospital, but they are treating patients in the hallways because they are out of room. (I am not certain about ICU). My brother went to a funeral today -- his daughter-in-laws father. Another small hospital. He died because he needed dialysis and was on a vent. The hospital does not do dialysis and could not find a place to transfer him in time. All of this is covid related.

Thanks everyone for your replies. I finally heard from her again (she is away at college) and she says aches, fever, headache are all gone. And her exhaustion is improving.

My 21 year old is almost 48 hours out from her second shot. She is still running a fever of about 100.5 and has a bad headache. Is this within the normal range? And how much longer can we expect this to last?

I homeschooled all 4 of mine al the way through. Done now, the youngest is in her last year of college. When I started I only planned to do K, then send him to school.🤣

Praying for you.

I used alphabet island by eagle's wings for all 4 of mine. It was gentle and playful.

I would like to join also.

Yep, that's my daughter. I never would have pushed this child to do an extra challenging math program for math. She barely tolerated it. She loved logic and writing. She also draws well, sings beautifully, and plays piano fairly well. It was not until Calculus that she fell in love with math and it became her passion. And really only did Calculus because she could understand math and it was the next thing.