We all skip if one of them is sick. Mine are too young to be home alone.

We budget for dinner out on Friday and Sunday lunch out. We both hate to cook so knowing we can still get our treat meals helps the rest of the week. I do have a severe food allergy kid so we still have to prepare him a meal at home and take it with us. My husband packs that while I'm showering.

Adorable!

Hope it gets fixed correctly this time!

One rug at the sink. Washes easily though I do wish it was thicker as my feet ache on the tile.

I can't say what will happen but wanted to offer hugs and sympathy!

Love it! That's my kind of menu board.

Congrats! We are selling/buying right now too. It is a TON of work. We close in 2 weeks and I'm on the edge of my seat hoping everything goes smoothly. The house we're buying has been a rollercoaster ride. Good luck!

We are loving Pentime. I started my first grader on book 3 and my 3rd grader on book 4. Both had a year of Abeka cursive already. The price and style were what sold me but I like the content as well.

Both my boys and I all have June birthdays so I always have to stop and think which degree belongs to which person. Thankfully my little guy's birth day and birth year are the same so his is a little easier to remember.

I was just thinking about this today. I don't know all the proper terms either. After reading this post I'm thinking maybe we really should add latin study.

We use Pentime (both my boys had a year of Abeka cursive in private school). It's not really a frilly cursive in my opinion but very easily read and the pages have things to color (but without that being a dominant feature).

Mine doesn't have ads although it has been telling me to update for ages but when I click yes nothing happens. Maybe I should be thankful it couldn't update. It does have picked for you pins, which occasionally are helpful.

Mine did a "journal" page everyday. At the beginning they just drew a picture (anything they wanted). As the year progressed we worked together to label the drawings with beginning sounds then progressed to words then short sentences. Both my boys took easily to writing so by the end of K they could write a few sentences about their picture. I took the same strategy in my K classroom and every single kid left writing at least 2 sentences (which were sometimes full stories other times The dog is brown. The dog is big). I moved each along to the next step at their own pace. Some could write a lot early on, some took all year and a lot of hand holding. I never pushed if they weren't ready for the next step. They were allowed to copy from books if needed and a few chose to do that once in awhile. I also provided sentence starters if they needed them (I like to... I saw a...). I'm sure some disagree with that strategy but I saw a lot of success.

I'd go through and see which missed words should have been correct because you have already taught the rules (possibly ignoring all the other spelling programs and focusing on the current curriculum). Then you can see if either all the tools needed haven't been taught yet or if there is a consistently missed rule(s). I can see her reasoning for the spelling she chose.

I like Alice best by far. I've never been a fan of Margaret and even less so of Maggie. I neither like nor dislike Beatrice. Trixie sounds a bit ditzy to me but I imagine, like some names, once you know someone with the name it changes your perception of it.

Hits thus far: AAR AAS Right Start Math B. Beast Academy Fix It grammar CAP Writing and Rhetoric Fable Pentime cursive RFP Aesop's writing for my first grader (thankfully he likes to color) Misses of the past: Writeshop primary Sonlight (we finished the year (core a for K) and did enjoy it to some extent, it just wasn't the curriculum for us)

My goal falls between legible and beautiful. I don't accept something that skates by just because I CAN read it but I'm not asking for calligraphy either.

We move in less than 3 weeks. We do school in the morning, pack in the afternoon. I've simplified a lot, all their needed school stuff fits on one small bookshelf and I'll pack it up almost last. We do a 6 weeks on/one week off schedule but I'm going to rearrange it a bit to end up with a week off the week we move. We are only moving 10-15 minutes away, we started school mid July, and my kids are younger (1st and 3rd grade) if that makes a difference. I think keeping them busy in the morning with school and having afternoons for free play (which frees me up for packing) had worked well. Hopefully the same will be true for unpacking.

I like both but voted Lucy because I looked how it sounded slightly better with the other names.

My kids love Fetch with Ruff Ruffman (Netflix).

I've never been a march to my own drummer person. I was vocally opposed to homeschooling (for myself). Then I got a kid who is severely allergic to all the foods "normal" kids live on (dairy, egg, peanut, tree nut). I was forced to go against the norm to keep him alive as a toddler. That's when homeschooling started looking mighty appealing. Once we started and I broke against the public school norm I discovered I do like having my own drummer. :)

We will be paying $125 for the year for both kids ($50 per kid for elementary age plus a $25 family registration fee). We also have to supply basic things like pencils, notebook, colored pencils and scissor for our own children. Field trips are additional costs dependant on the specific activity. Co-op is 1 day a week 10 to 12, which includes science (first semester), history (second semester), elective (life skills, music or Bible) and a short PE.

Ahh this post has me worried now that it'll all be for nothing. Our ortho hasn't mentioned the possibility of teeth extraction. I'm going to ask next time about the possibility that everything will just settle back how it is. Argh. I was finally not stressed about all his mouth issues!

My son is younger but his bite and jaw position are wrong (upper jaw not out far enough so teeth are sitting directly on top of each other). He has a palate expander to correct his side bite and wears a face guard to pull his upper jaw forward. Is she too old for that type of correction? We were told surgery was the next option of this doesn't fix it (eek!). If get a second opinion but would probably try to avoid surgery. Good luck!