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snoodlebug

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  1. Still an awesome forum, I agree; I too simply miss the old, reliable search engine.
  2. Thanks, Ladies! I appreciate your help. Yes, that's the thread I was after! And I call myself fairly tech saavy! I used this forum for years before ever posting so I've been "on here" for years; I don't recall it being this finicky "back then." Again, thanks! Now I'll go the google route.
  3. I'm trying to find a thread that was on here months ago and can't. It was about Weight Watchers and it had the words "Beyond the Scale" in the title but I can't find it. I entered the words "Beyond the Scale" , "Weight Watchers" , "Weight", "Beyond the Scale" then "Beyond" --- entered all these phrases out of quotations and then in quotations. Then I asked it to search only in the titles. I did several general searches then narrowed it to the CHAT forum where I'm about 90% sure it was posted. Can't find it after 15 minutes of looking. I can't recall the person who posted it to search that way either. And it's not just THIS search. I often can't find old threads using the search engine. I don't want to start new threads on topics/threads that I want to re-read/check for new posts. I'm wondering if the Weight Watchers thread got deleted but I can't imagine why such a benign topic would be removed. Is this just me that has trouble with this search engine? What am I doing wrong?
  4. I'm so glad I joined this group. All of your replies have been so helpful! I'll keep checking in to see if there have been any additions. Thanks AGAIN!
  5. I'm the original poster here. This has all been MOST useful for me, and I thank you all very much for sharing your wisdom, experiences and encouragements. I'm about to read back through it all to really digest it and take it all in again. Caveat: I should have added in the beginning that MUCH of my reluctance is the recollection of what a nightmare baby my son was. I wore him in a sling, he suckled constantly, slept horribly, required very little sleep (was in the 1% for sleep requirements), bellowed if I put him down for even a millisecond to go potty, transferred (stayed asleep when moving him) once in his entire life, slept through the night for the first time at age 2, etc. My breasts were raw from all the suckling. I had to have a csection as he was a footling breech and cord compression caused his heart to plummet down to the 40 beats/minute. For the entire 2 years, I was beyond exhausted. I had little help from family (they all live out of state). My husband was helpful when home, but my son would have NONE of him (that first year; now they're best friends). Just the THOUGHT of that AGAIN while homeschooling contributed significantly to my fear. Oh, surely the LORD wouldn't send me ANOTHER nightmare baby, especially now that I'm almost a decade older (pray that if he opens our womb and gives us another that he/she will be an easy baby that SLEEPS and isn't SO demanding!!!) Snoodlebug
  6. Well, not quite 6 hours, more like 5.5 hours. We school for 4 hours + music practice for 45 minutes = 4.75 hours. And as for my prep: with all the putting one subject up, getting another one out, making a copy here or there, reading ahead for my teaching, etc....all that prep is about 30-45 minutes (spread out between subjects/etc). So the 4.75 + 0.75 hrs(prep/clean up/etc) = about 5.5 hrs.
  7. Hi all! I'm new and here's my first post! I'd love to get your feedback on this that's been worrying me of late. I'm 36 years old (my husband's also 36). We have a son age 9. We're thinking about having another child, but I'm wondering how would I homeschool with a baby. I am concerned that the little babe would be "put off" for the four+ hours a day in which we do school and I facilitate school/music practice/do chores/housework/etc. My husband and I are both type A personalities; we feel that school should be serious/formal/structured/rigorous. It takes us 4 hours a day to do schoolwork (not including music practice which is 45 min/day), so by the time I do all of this and prepare for the next session of school, school/music takes like 6 hours of my day. Then there's chores/housework/cooking/cleaning/etc. I feel stretched as it is! How is this done? How is the little one not ignored/put off? How is his/her emotional needs met when mom is busy all the time? How could I add a little one to this and it be fair for him/her?!! How do you do it all WELL? (because I feel like I need to do it ALL well(not PERFECT, but I do feel that it should be done well) When you reply, please (if it's not in your signature already) tell me how many kids you have and their ages/grades. Also, please tell me about your school approach: are you "laid-back" ? How many hours/day per kid/etc.? Thanks!
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