My answer to the thread title is different from my advice to you, lol. My girls were 5 and 2, I believe, when we finally gave up on having them share a room. Younger would not let older sleep. DS never shared with either sister. In your situation, I would say to go ahead and put in a divider now (one of my girls began having physical changes when she was 8, the other at 9, so I would think puberty is not that far off). That will probably buy you a good bit of time so you'll be able to wait for them to be older before moving one of them downstairs. Assuming the divider is working, I would probably wait until high school or when one of them expresses discomfort with the setup, whichever comes first.

Within the US, it varies by state.

My kids lost interest in Animal Crossing pretty quickly after we got it. My oldest really likes Dragon Quest Builders 2. That might be worth looking into. DH says "it finds a midpoint between Animal Crossing and Minecraft, but it also has a story." Oldest also enjoys Bug Fables a lot - it's a turn-based RPG with a story throughout and a lot of humor. (For her, story is the most important aspect of a game.)

I ordered the Harvest one for DD.

We are giving will-be-10yo an Aerogarden for Christmas. She has expressed a great deal of interest in indoor farming, but she has no idea it's possible to do it on a small scale. So she will be very surprised by the gift, and probably really excited as well. 🙂

We are seeing it a lot more since we've been eating outdoors at restaurants due to covid. But like others said, it's nowhere near as prevalent as I remember it being when I was a kid.

Like others have said, there are pros and cons to each. And really...you end up figuring out your own family. In homeschooling, I can combine kid 1 and kid 2 (2yrs10mos apart) for several subjects. I cannot combine kid 2 and kid 3 (2yrs4mos apart) for anything. But kid 2 and kid 3 are much closer friends/playmates than kid 1 and kid 2. (Not that kids 1 and 2 dislike each other - they just don't have as much in common so they don't look to each other for fun. I suspect they'll grow closer as late teens/adults.)

Board game?

I wonder if maybe a school drama department would be able to use it?

Nope. Took it to a consignment store not long after the wedding. Got back over a third of what I'd paid for it. I can be very, very unsentimental. I loved my dress. I wasn't ever going to wear it again. I had no clue at that point whether I would even have any daughters, much less whether the dress would still be in style for their weddings and whether those then-hypothetical daughters would be the right size and body shape for the dress - or would even like it.

YES!

If you use -5, then you would have to take the negative roots in order for it to work in the initial equation. With positive roots (which is what is assumed when no sign is given), you get 4=6, which doesn't work. So -5 is an extraneous solution.

Same, except I took French, not Latin.

We are also using Training Hearts, Teaching Minds for family devotions. It is simple and brief enough for my 7yo but also provides a starting point for deeper discussion with my 9yo and 12yo.

Okay! I'm not sure what age/level you're looking for exactly, so I'll share a couple of things. The curriculum I'm using with DS (2nd grade) is called Suffer Little Children (I wish it had a better name, lol). It does a survey through the Bible over the course of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades. Then they have a second set for 4th-6th that goes through again at a more advanced level called Show Me Thy Ways (I haven't actually used that one yet). Suffer Little Children is VERY no-frills, and it's written toward a classroom teacher but is easy to adapt for home use. Here's a link to the search results that shows the Suffer Little Children options (note that grade 1 has no separate workbook for the student) and also Show Me Thy Ways: https://rfpa.org/search?q=suffer+little+children . You can see samples on the individual product pages. I have not been able to find any other place to purchase these. For my older two I am using Starr Meade's The Most Important Thing You'll Ever Study. It's also a survey of the Bible, over four volumes - we're doing one volume per semester so it'll be a two-year course. It is more like a guided reading with questions for the student to answer. I think it's appropriate for middle school level. The best price I could find for it was through Rainbow Resource, getting the whole set (4 vols + answer key) - https://www.rainbowresource.com/product/048926/Most-Important-Thing-Youll-Ever-Study-Set.html? . But you can get a bit more of a preview at Amazon - https://smile.amazon.com/Most-Important-Thing-Youll-Study/dp/1433511827/ . I don't know for sure if any of those will meet your needs, but worth a look! 🙂

What's your denomination/tradition? What I'm using might be the sort of thing you're looking for, but it is decidedly Reformed and I know that's not a good fit for everyone. 🙂 (I'm not familiar with Bible Road Trip, sorry.)

I don't bother with grades or marking 8/10 or whatever at that age. To indicate which problems we need to go back and look at together, I use a pencil to lightly draw an arrow pointing to the problem number. After correcting it, the child can erase the arrow. Sometimes I don't bother with that - I just say, "Can you tell me how you got this answer?" I try to ask that for some of the questions they got right as well as the ones they got wrong.

I'd never heard of fried pies before this thread. I have lived in Georgia or north Florida my whole life. Where I am in FL is basically south Georgia, except that for some reason it's the capital of Florida. My understanding is that within FL, the further south you go, the further north you get. I am with @WildflowerMom on Arkansas: kinda, sorta, not really the South. But I don't have a better way to categorize it.

I would find it odd for the spouses to routinely be excluded. An occasional pic with parents and their adult children, sure, no problem. Add the grandkids in there and it would seem weird to exclude the adult children's spouses. I recall one situation where the kids and I were excluded and it was odd, but I don't think it was intentional. I think the person in charge of the photos there didn't have a good plan and so some pics that should have happened didn't.

I wasn't where I could check this easily earlier, but now I am. 🙂 She spent 97 school days on it, so just over a "semester." We could have shaved several weeks off at the front end. (With DD#2 I will not go any faster, for reasons that are unrelated to the actual math. When DS gets there, if he is similarly fluent with those concepts already, I probably will opt to go faster...but that's far enough away that I can't feel certain about the prediction.)

Almost all. Occasionally I let her skip the last 1-2 if we were short on time that day.

I've only gone through it with one kid so far. LCMs and GCDs were things she already knew well. Counting divisors was new but very easy for her. Working in different bases was something we had done before (a little bit in Beast Academy, but it's a topic we have played with outside of schoolwork as well). The modular arithmetic was mostly new, though I think she had discussed the ideas with DH a bit before.

The sequence I'm using with my kids: Prealgebra Intro to Algebra Intro to Number Theory Intro to Geometry (this is where my oldest is now, so the list after this is planned but could change) Intro to Counting and Probability Intermediate Algebra Precalculus Calculus And I'll stick Intermediate C&P in there somewhere, but haven't decided where yet. I'm leaning toward putting it after Intermediate Algebra. We didn't hate the Intro NT book, but I agree that it's slow going and only really gets new material in there toward the end. Had I realized that beforehand, I probably would have allowed DD#1 to skip several parts, maybe just doing review & challenge problems for the earlier chapters.