Anyone that I don't know (strangers basically) calling me honey, baby, etc just makes me feel awkward. I'll let them say it, but I still flinch anyways.

I'll look into those. I have a huge book of Shakespeare on really fine paper, so I'm covered with his plays. I just can't decide which to read, so I might read them all. I've only ever read Romeo & Juliet in school because that's all they ever covered -_-

Mine is still in the process of tweaking, but for the most part. Bible / Mythology - We combined these two, but we're covering the books of the bible as well as Greek/Roman mythology since I adore mythology. Foreign Language - Spanish, I took 2 years prior already but I barely remember anything outside of alphabet/numbers/colors/basic conversation. I'm still trying to find something to really learn this with. HIstory - World History first from FIrst Humans to Present Time with a mixture of Government/Democracy and US history. I still need a US history textbook, so looks like I'll be off to Half Price sometime soon! Geography / Geology - Geography covering Map Skills/Countries/Capitals/States, etc. And then Geology focusing on plates/volcanoes/earthquakes. I'm using a college level Geology book for this. Grammar / Writing - Basic start on grammar since no school ever properly taught me it, and then I'm not sure what my mom has planned for writing, yet. Reading / Shakespeare - Right now I'm starting with the history of Shakespeare, along with some of his tales and some novel readings. I don't have many novels since most of ours are boxed up so I have to 'shop' around for those. Math - I'm starting in grade 5 with addition/subtraction and going from there.

Thanks for the heads up, I shall check it out!

I love them. Living in Arizona, we don't get thunderstorms, or any real storms, that much. So when we do it's always nice to sit around and enjoy them. Plus, it's really entertaining, for me anyways, all the drivers that try and drive in the flooded streets then get slapped with the stupid motorcist law. I'm evil lol

Thanks ladies! :D Is self-educating the term? Ha, okay! My momma is doing the teaching, but I do sorta teach myself. But yes, I want to fix my gaps since it seems my level of knowledge is nothing more than the 5th/6th grade level, sadly.

News are saying the dog was caught, and because of it's aggressive behavior they will likely put it to sleep.

Nope! My shower curtain is a design of purple, yellow, blue and green. Then the towels have the same colors that I change out (so I have a set of two out at once (mine and guest cause my bathroom is also guest bathroom)) and then my rugs are blue. It works great!

So sorry, I didn't see that before I replied :(

:O All such gorgeous women around here! Being the one homeschooled taught, not the parent themselves, I feel a bit odd-man out here, but with that prom thread idea in mind, here's my prom pic (public school prom).

I think wordpress is definitely a safe bet. You can buy your own hosting through a hosting provider, even get your own domain or go through the .com version and wordpress hosts it for you, and everything. There's tons of plugins that make it safe, themes to choose from, and you can make it private using the plugins it just takes a bit of searching and making sure you pick the right one. If you went with wordpress.org where you have wordpress downloaded, and upload it to a host like say godaddy, you can even find a designer to make a custom design for you, or use a premade. There's a few varieties of both around online.

She already said she was being sarcastic :)

It was just like momma protecting her baby! Such a good cat!

White. White/White/White just looks better to me, in my opinion.

I don't like hearing it, I don't think there's a need to use it, no matter what your skin tone is. My father, southerner, uses it freely to talk about the President and it makes me flinch every time. I've said multiple times, as has my mother, that it's not an appropriate word but he doesn't listen, sadly.

We had this same issue, and it was on our neighborhood's weekend yard sale/garage sale day too! It didn't help that it was raining off and on, and extremely cold for here. Our neighbor made better off than us, but he was selling appliances he had from job sites so of course he was going to do better. Might be best to just donate, or try the online yard sale site, I forget what it was.

Being from California, I never really got a nickname, let alone a life long one. It was only recently that I was able to get my friends to call me "Candy" (although now I use the I variation so candi). Most of my life my father always said "I named you Candice, not Candy", and I always rebelled back saying it's my name, it's my choice. Now he doesn't really have much say anymore. My dad himself goes by JJ, his abbreviations, and my mother goes by "Sis", even to folks that aren't her siblings. Although, I guess it could be a nickname, my mom likes to call me "Amazon" because I'm 5' 8 1/2" while she's only 5' 5".

They should be allowed to up until a certain extent. If your work/school dicates you dress a certain way, I feel you should listen. Is it that hard? Chances are it's only for a few hours each day, is it really going to ruin your life that much? It does make me think of Shira Law with the way that they dictate how a girl dresses, but I don't think we're that far gone, in my opinion.

I think it comes from the fear that if you tell, then it'll only get worse. You know, the whole 'tattletale' thing. There's also the whole idea where some people, maybe parents, ridicule you for not being able to stand up for yourself. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if some parents were like that, as well. Personally, I told my parents on one occasion and when they did something the school didn't listen. When no one listens, who do you turn to?

I don't necessary homeschool, don't have kids, but it has come into question when I talk about the topic with my mother. When I was in elementary school (4-5th grade) I was friends with this guy, and after a while he started getting more aggressive towards me, and sometimes my two girlfriends. Mostly me, though. He started kicking me repeatedly, along with other things. My parents found out about it, they told the school. The school went out of their way to try and keep us apart. But the thing was...I didn't listen. Probably should have at the time, but I didn't. Any time the teacher came out, we'd go separate ways during recess, then when she was gone, we'd hang out again. I guess I was just too....into the idea of being his friend, since I only had 3, that I didn't stop to think what it was doing to me. After I moved away from that school and moved to here, I was in 6th grade and this guy would pick on me all the time. He even went as far as pulling my chair out from underneath me, and I'd crash to the floor. Teacher never knew about it, but I knew then to stay away from the guy. Later that same grade, I said I was glad some girl was moving. I didn't like her, she didn't like me. I instantly lost all my friends saying that. They'd follow me around at recess, taunt me with their words no matter how many times I tried to walk away from them. The entire 1/2 of a year I spent there was a living torture. Then I started 7th grade, and that was when this one girl would relentessly tease me, saying my friend wasn't my friend, etc. She sent me harassing emails, she'd bully me at school. We were friends at one point, but that evaporated over nothing. The principal knew about it, but they did absolutely nothing! It didn't matter to anyone in the school that I spoke to about it. I wasn't safe from the teachers. They would ridicule me for reading ahead of the class, they'd subject me to staying in a lower reading group that was well below what I could read. I had a math teacher, which was in a class I shouldn't have taken to begin with, that would neglect myself and another student in favor of....well her own race. I'm not just saying that cause I'm racist, or anything, it was something myself and another student noticed over time. Yes, I think this would definitely come into question when I have kids, and decide what to do with them. I don't want my child to be held back, placed somewhere they aren't ready for, or tormented both at home and school for doing absolutely nothing.

I agree with unsinkable. As someone with a history of seizures in my teen years, none of them dealt with falling asleep after they were over. All of mine started while I was in bed asleep. I honestly think your baby is a normal happy baby. BUT if you, as the mother, feel something is wrong in the pit of your stomach, ask your doctor. Sure you may be one of 'those' mothers, but in the end, it'll make you feel better. And that's most important.

I have The Walking Dead theme song as my main ring tone, and Pikachu saying his name for texts/notifcations.

I suppose this is a bit...odd? I don't know! haha. Hello! My name is Candice, I'm 22 and I'm not exactly a homeschooler per se. I'm more attempting to fill in where my education lacked. I graduated high school in 2009 (let's not bring up the train wreck of college), but most of my school life I noticed there was things that I wasn't taughted, and things that weren't focused on where I was failing. Guess you've all heard that from/about your own kids, eh? lol Anywho, I found tons of great resources here that my mom and I are going to use to fix my, well, gap! :D