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    I Am Back!!! very general How To Start back up question

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    Hey! I wondered what happened to you! Welcome back!

     

    Life happened. LOL. I can't do smilies... I am on my iPad.

     

    DH is travelling a ton for work, I was taking care of my mom, end of school stuff, etc...

     

    Now I have to order curriculum like a mad woman, file our LOI and get back into the HS mindset again... I honestly got pretty lazy about thinking about it while PDG was in public school.

    I Am Back!!! very general How To Start back up question

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    After a long absence from the boards I am back! We just spent 6 weeks visiting my ailing mom in Washington state, and am back on the road again as a family. DH is doing well. His ankle is completely healed. He is riding his bike again, swimming and doing Crossfit regularly.

     

    We are bringing PDG home for second grade. HUZZAH!!! I am not sure how to start... I feel like I need to do some sort of evaluation as to where she is academically. She reading exceedingly well - almost 5th grade level per her first grade teacher, but her math is sorely lacking. How would you determine where she is? The math curriculum that was used in her public school was all of the place... Lots of counting money, time, And basic counting. It is so different than Singapore. I feel like just buying a Singapore book and having her go at it, and adjusting from there. Her handwriting is atrocious, but she knows all as about leaves LOL.. They studied trees for 9 months. It was a running joke around our home.

     

    Advice? I posted here because I thought the question too general for the curriculum board.

     

    It is SO GOOD to be back!

    Home perm kits...

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    Hi everyone! I've been out of it for a while. My Mom has been very ill and I'm in Seattle taking care of her. She's doing better. And DH is doing great, BTW!

     

    My mom (she is 81) wants me to give her a home perm. I haven't done one of these in years. I don't know if you can even buy them in stores anymore! Not that I've been looking, but are they available in drugstores? Any brand you would recommend? I went onto the Sally Beauty Supply website and it's all Greek to me... there is even a bit of an implication that they are only available for purchase for licensed stylists. Has there been some sort of a law change?

     

    TIA!!!

     

    And I have missed you guys. Man I feel behind the 8 Ball. Need to get going on curriculum purchasing for the Fall because we are bringing PDG home for second grade!!!! :party:

    Speaking of Doctor Who...

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    They will not have a new or full season after this one, Moffat is taking a year from this. There will be at least a special. I'm very sad now. :crying:

     

    It will be back, he's just taking a year off.

     

    According to various Tweets I've received this afternoon -- many of which are contradictory unfortunately -- there will be *some* episodes in 2012, but not a full season. It'll sort of be split between 2012 and 2013. I don't get it. It's more popular than it has ever been, and is finally getting some notice outside of the UK even. Why this move? {Confused}

     

    But I also did read that MS is signed up for that season for sure. Still not "my" Doctor though... he's a good actor, but I think I'm just not a fan of Moffat. Oh well... the worst Doctor Who is better than the best of almost any other show, so I won't complain too loudly.

    Stinky Bath Towels

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    This is REALLY important. :tongue_smilie:

     

    We live in an older home that has rather poor ventilation. The bathrooms do not have ventilation fans, and the AC is not efficient. We live in a very humid climate.

     

    Our towels stink. I replace them often. I wash them with chlorine-free bleach, and dry them thoroughly in the dryer. I hang them up over the shower curtain rod, so they are in the middle of the room, air circulating freely all around.

     

    Is there any way to avoid stinky towel syndrome?

    A Good Man Goes to War; SPOILERS; WON'T BE ON FOR A WEEK IN THE STATES YET

    in The TARDIS

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    If you are one of the few lucky ones to have seen AGMGTW, what did you think????

     

    I was blown away by the last 10 minutes. It was nice to see all of those whom the Doctor had helped rally together.

     

    All hail Rorianicus Pondicus!

     

    I finally have an interest in River. She has always bothered me. Too smug, too teasing, just not my cup of tea. Amy seemed to have grown up quite a bit during those months she was locked away.

     

    For a while, I thought that the girl from the forest may have been Jenny...

     

    I had to laugh at the Cleric's uniforms. Those were USAF ABUs, and the insignia was a modification of the newer USAF logo. :lol:

     

    Won't give anything else away... Except this one last thought. Moffat bugs me with his self-contained storylines. I almost feel like he's cut his story lines off from the rest of DW. Does anyone else feel this way? I know there were references to the past 45 years, but for the most part, it's Rory, Amy, River and the Doctor without reference to the past.

    Clue, the game

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    We go through all doors, I didn't realize there were closed ones. It wouldn't matter to us anyway, we are Jedi, we can walk through walls. :tongue_smilie:

     

    Ha ha! I voted only open doors. But after reading your post, we are Time Lords and Ladies. We land our TARDIS wherever we please.

    Rebel Flesh

    in The TARDIS

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    First of all, I'm posting this to get the discussion going BUT I'm not going to join in YET... iTunes STILL hasn't released the episode!!!! Usually the epi is released around midnight Saturday night. It is now 6:50 am on Monday. I'm irked!!!! I emailed iTunes and am waiting for a response. :mad:

    Romantic Fiction and Christianity (CC)

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    Are romance novels on par with Googled pics of celebrity men in kilts?

     

    Maybe there's an article there.

     

    ;) :D

     

    ABSOLUTELY NOT. Google men in kilts are FAR more dangerous. :lol:

     

    But Mama Anna below did bring up a good point... What ABOUT Austen, Gaskell, etc... Would this author have a problem with classics which have an element of romance in them??? JUST BECAUSE it is romance? and not the "genre" romance????

    Romantic Fiction and Christianity (CC)

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    On Friday, Tim Challies posted a link to an opinion piece, "Can Romance Novels Hurt Your Heart?" about "Christian romance novels." For the record, I don't read romance as a genre...Christian or otherwise. However, I do enjoy a rippin' good story that has the element of romance within the story.

     

    Christians, am I the only one who thinks the author is painting with a pretty broad brush? Critique me, please... Yeah, I get his assertion that reading romance can "hurt a woman's heart". So can a lot of stuff. If that is all someone does. But aren't women wired to crave an element of romance? What about liberty in Christ?

     

    I'm the first one to say that my husband isn't romantic... I don't know many men in real life (from what their wives have told me) who are. But reading a bit of romance has done absolutely NOTHING to hurt my marriage. In fact (TMI) when I tend to be on a reading jag, our intimacy tends to increase...

     

    Help me understand this... not looking for a fight, of course.

     

    PS Home from church today with colds all throughout the BBB household. Blah.

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