Not near enough to be workable. 45-60 minutes away.

Our science plans for 6th and 8th grade fell apart this year and I'm wondering if there are any good summer curriculums I could get for 6th and 8th grades. My 6th grader has been doing SuperCharged Science Live classes this year. He's a weak reader so I thought live, online would be good. It's a different topic each month and sometimes he's engaged, sometimes not. It's mostly a learn by doing and some weeks he's done experiments outside of the live weekly class and sometimes not. This month is Biology and the time got switched to a time we can't do and we've been unable to find replays. I'm not worried about this month. It's just been a too light year. My 8th grader started with Berean Builders Earth Science but imploded in January. She has not liked it all year but did it until January when she just fell apart with it. We've looked at other curriculums but being part-year has made everything look impossible. She did Apologia's General Science last year. (Kicking myself for not doing Apologia's Physical Science this year!!!!!!!) I love science and can't believe this is the subject that fell apart. I think it boils down to the more behind we are, the worse and more paralyzed I get with it. Next year my DD (rising 9th) has chosen Apologia's Biology 3rd edition. That was the only biology she liked the looks of. And probably my DS (rising 7th) will do Apologia's General Science for 7th graders. Any suggestions of what we could do for the remainder of this year and over the summer to prepare for Apologia 7th and 9th? Thank you soooo much for any suggestions!

It's a troubling thing to think about. All sides of my family are from the South and I'm sure there must have been some that owned slaves. We do know of one for sure. Some of my family were wealthy, some poor, some pastors, a lot of small family farmers, some sharecroppers. Although both sides of the family are in the deep South for the last couple of hundred years, they spread back to Virginia in the 1700s and possibly late 1600s. As we spread back that far, I'm sure different branches owned slaves. I'm also sure there were a lot that didn't. One of our main genealogist family members is a member of the Sons of the Confederacy, participates in Civil War reenactments and will tell anyone who listens that most of our family fought to protect their families and their homes and not for slavery. He says we didn't own slaves yet he also found the town pass one of our ancestors had written and signed for their slave. To make it worse, the town pass was dated 3 days after the Civil War ended. It's horrifying. How do I wrap my brain around all of this? I haven't. It's been 20 years since I learned of the town pass and I still haven't been able to understand how they thought it was ok to own a person. But you know what? Until I learned of that town pass, it had never occurred to me to ask whether branches of my family had owned slaves or not. When I researched my family, I was looking for births, deaths and names of my family and searching backwards. I never thought to look for any other records and what they might tell me about those people. Thank you, Amira, for posting the information about logging enslaved peoples names to help their descendants research. I haven't worked on genealogy since before my kids were born but if I go back to it, I will look for that information and try to get it logged if I find it.

Continuing to pray for full recovery! Thank you for updating us.

Praying for your son and your family. I’m sorry.

I would also think it was really cool. I wouldn't be offended. Intimidated maybe but not at all offended.

I don't like those either.

Send it back! It will bother you every day that it isn't the right size.

Praying!

I"m sorry your family is going through all of this. I hope it can be worked out soon for everyone's sake. And I hope your nephew will go somewhere and get the help he needs (although it doesn't sound like he would be willing to do so).

Could you get a same-day "sick" appointment with the pediatrician tomorrow? I've got 2 food allergy/eczema kids who are fine now at 12 and 14 but one had 3 skin conditions as a baby and the other one had 4 skin conditions. If I were back at that time and one of them had this rash on their face, I would have wanted them to be seen and to be given a list of things to try until we could get to the dermatologist. Sweet baby!!!!! I hope it's not bothering him too much.

We finally got home late last night. Thank you to any of y'all from Arkansas who let us come view totality from your beautiful state!!!!!! Everyone we met was nice and fun to talk to - locals and tourists. We're from Georgia so we got off the barely moving interstates and took the slow route home across the Mississippi delta. Lots of gorgeous scenery and sweet towns.

From Princess Bride: "No more rhymes, I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?" From Babe: "That'll do, pig."

Woohoo!! We're booked in hotels now! Fortunately we are staying far enough away from totality that there was plenty of availability and the prices are normal. Grocery shopping is done. Now just gotta get everything packed up tomorrow......

I think per person for the AirBNBs and per room for the hotels sounds like an excellent plan.