I use Map My Fitness to track my walking. 🙂

The way we use YNAB means it functions like a digital register (but with budget categories accounted for as well as overall money in the accounts).

It is hard on my feet to walk in them. If I try to get any speed, my feet will be aching for a while afterward, and same if I go for too long. But I can't wear tennis shoes right now without aggravating the blister on my heel. But I have lost about twenty pounds in the last couple of months and I really, really don't want to stop walking!

No. We manually enter each transaction into YNAB, then reconcile with the paper statements from the bank.

Walked: 1.5 miles (in flip flops, slowly, but I walked). 5-lb weights: 5 bicep curls on each arm, 5 tricep kickbacks on each arm - 20 total reps.

Maybe if it were 20 years ago. 🤣 If I can't do the walking...I have some little 5-lb weights that I haven't touched in forever. I can figure out 20 reps total that I can do each day. My arms could benefit from some work anyway!

Similar here (also in Florida), though I've had some emails.

I hope I am still able to do this. I'm having issues with a blister on my heel, which interferes with walking plans. I will spare y'all the gross details, lol. I'll do my best to participate in some way.

On these boards I generally don't offer opinions on things I haven't used. IRL, sometimes people will ask me for recommendations or for what I think about a particular program. I usually just parrot what people on these boards have said, lol.

Math: Beast Academy / Art of Problem Solving (we use books, not online) Grammar: First Language Lessons / Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind Writing: Writing & Rhetoric History: Story of the World / K12 Human Odyssey (I do adapt the latter quite a bit) Latin: Big Book of Lively Latin / Wheelock's Latin Those are my favorite resources that have worked for us over multiple years (well, this is the first year I have anyone doing Wheelock's Latin, but I certainly plan to continue it with oldest and then use it again with siblings). For science I tend to pull together my own resources each year, so I don't have a recommendation there.

I don't think I curriculum hop? I have changed from one to another a couple of times, but I tend to like the progressions I've taken and so I've done the same or a similar path with all three kids. There has only been one time when I switched without finishing out a level in a program, and boy did I resist that change (but it was a really, really good change to make). I am not sure if there is any curriculum I've used exactly the way the publisher intended. I am very comfortable adapting things to make them work for my family. It is possible that I will need to do some things differently with DS from how I did/am doing them with his sisters. All three of my kids are different from each other as learners, but it may be that DS's differences will be better served with other resources. So far, he's doing fine with more or less the same progression as I used with them, but it could change. I admit that I am slightly jealous of curriculum hoppers when it comes to familiarity with a wider variety of programs. I find what works and I stick with it until it doesn't work, and that's great, but there's part of me that wonders what it would be like to use Curriculum X that I'd considered but ultimately opted not to get. And I feel less able to offer recommendations to people because the resources I've actually used are pretty limited in number.

Oh, it depends on the day. 😂 But on the whole, yes, she enjoys it. She's about halfway through the book, I think.

We are book people. 🙂 She watches the videos for each section and does the exercises.

DD#1, when she has proofs to do in AOPS Intro to Algebra, writes some steps on scratch paper and tells me her thought process for the whole thing. We've talked about the fact that when she gets to geometry, she'll need to write the proofs down, but for now the half-written, half-oral thing works. DD#2 is in AOPS Prealgebra, which doesn't have as much proving, but she's happy to write it down when it shows up. She will also come up with ideas out of the blue and ask me "is this true?" (This one is pretty simple but today she asked me if it's true that every power of nine is also an even power of three.) I ask her what she thinks and why, and she gives me a verbal explanation that tends to be pretty close to a proof. One or both of us will refine the idea as needed (on the powers of nine thing, she said, "oh, but what if it's nine to the 1.5?"). DS isn't proving anything.

I love finding things like that. I have one route that's almost exactly a mile (I think 1.04), and one that's super close to 2 miles but I have to walk a tiny bit past my driveway when I get back in order for Map My Fitness to say I've hit 2 miles.

DD#1 (will be 12 in January): she is hard to shop for. 🤪 There's a Rick Riordan series she wants (Trials of Apollo, maybe?), and she wants some decorative stuff for her room. And that's it. She will be getting an MP3 player, which I think she will really like having, but she hasn't asked for it. DD#2 (will be 9 in December): she is easy to shop for because she wants ALL THE THINGS. 😄 She will also be getting an MP3 player, plus a wooden sword and shield, some bouncy balls, and a personalized pretty notebook. DS (6.5): he also wants all the things. He's getting a wooden sword and shield too, a t-shirt with Link on it, and a plush Kirby. Thinking about getting him an MP3 player too, but I feel like he wouldn't use it like the girls would, so I'm not sure. When I asked for things to put on his wish list, answers included "a rock," "a food I've never eaten before," and "a button that does something when you push it." 🤣

Can I participate even if I've already been walking? Always nice to have extra motivation! @Slache what is DDP? Or do I even want to ask? 😄

I've recently started using an app called Clean My House. There's a master list of tasks, and you decide when to assign each task and how often it repeats (they have preset repeating intervals but you can adjust them). You can also add your own tasks. I'm finding it helpful because I can work on establishing one habit well before trying to add in another one.

It's highly likely that if the music is on, I'm singing along, and so is the rest of the family. It's also likely that if the music is not on, someone in my car is singing anyway. 😄

Do any of your kids have a history of sleepwalking? People do weird things while completely asleep sometimes.

I cannot keep up with all of it any more, lol. I read some things and skim others. If we're discussing and I realize there's confusion, I'll read the part in question more closely so I can help clarify.

I am sorry for misreading, then. It read to me like the implication was that people who do like the books I mentioned are not discerning. Thanks for clarifying. ❤️

You still have to participate through a school or other place that's hosting it, though. Homeschoolers can't sign up individually.

@Slache, I could continue to offer suggestions, but it seems our tastes diverge for older kids' books (which is what you still need).

The Giver! Just kidding. I don't like that one much myself. 😄 Wrinkle in Time is not my favorite, but I don't hate it, and my oldest really enjoyed it. The Phantom Tollbooth? The Westing Game? The Wingfeather Saga?