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  1. Has anyone been to the award ceremony at Northwestern? My son has baseball games that weekend which he really doesn't want to miss. He went to our state ceremony last year and it was a real snooze fest.
  2. Thank you for posting this article. I found this background information fascinating. It appears that the source of the animosity with CPS is that the Tutts were helping children without going through official CPS channels. Which explains so much - this cuts down on revenue and head counts for the CPS budget. They don't like that at all. The social worker sounds like the typical young selfish, idiot we encountered in our foster parenting experience. There were some wonderful, knowledgeable, experienced social workers as well, but they did not help us avoid the clueless fools. The children's mother was in jail and they were living with their (alleged) drug-addicted grandmother and her (alleged) sexual abusing boyfriend. The children's aunt (who had been removed from the grandmother's care by CPS for neglect) asked for help with the kids from a different foster parent. That person contacted the Tutts, who agreed to help, and then Christina Tutt picked up the kids in a fast-food restaurant parking lot. That seems a bit different from seeing kids in a parking lot and asking for them. It is legal to ask someone to watch your kids without going through the state. Apparently CPS doesn't like it, but that doesn't make it illegal.
  3. If someone I didn't know emailed me informing me of my "duty", that email would go right into the cyber-void. You only need to communicate with your sister and let her know you love her but you can't be there that weekend, and you are very excited about the bridal shower and wedding itself. That's quite reasonable given the distance and your commitments at home.
  4. Mandyluvbug, we are in a similar season. It is not going over well with some people in dh's family, but I think that says more about them than it does about us. I would answer those questions with "Dh and I feel called to do church at home right now". It doesn't mean it's forever, and it doesn't mean you're abandoning your faith, it means exactly what is happening - you're living your faith and teaching it to your children in the way you see fit. If right now, that is not as part of a larger church body, that's fine - and it's your decision. I think warnings about losing the faith and suggestions for trying new churches are well-intentioned but not what the OP is looking for. If people leave the church and are observed to become "lukewarm", who's to say which came first? Did they leave because they were not "on fire" anyway? If someone's faith is dependent on weekly attendance, was it that real to begin with ? Furthermore, In many cases, the obnoxious politics and hypocritical, judgmental behavior encountered in a church push people away. If church is working for you, that's totally fabulous. But please don't assume that someone is a lesser Christian than you if their faith is lived out differently.
  5. If the campground has seasonal sites, contact them and ask if anyone is selling a trailer. You can sometimes get an older travel trailer or a park model for a low price that way. However, you would need to find another option for the competition travel. We have a travel trailer. Setup/take down takes about an hour and you have to learn about maintaining the tanks, etc. It is a huge hassle. This year we put it on a seasonal site and left it there all summer, that was much better. If you just want something to sleep in, a small trailer (like a Scamp) might be an inexpensive option. I think they have a/c (plug into the electric). If you use the campground bathroom instead of your own shower/bathroom, your life will be much easier. If money is no object, and you want to travel in the future, and you have time/money for maintenance and learning how to maintain it, I would go with a motorhome. But I personally wouldn't go to that expense just for dance competition travel.
  6. Yes, on the Compassion International website (compassion.com) they show children available and each child's description says how many kids/adults are in the family. When you click on that child to sponsor him/her, it will bring up other kids in the same family if they are also available to sponsor.
  7. Thank you, we are familiar with many programs but I was specifically asking Lanny for sponsor programs that have a good reputation to the locals in Columbia.
  8. Lanny, could you recommend a sponsor program? I googled 'foster parents plan columbia' and didn't find anything. Thanks!
  9. Thank you, that is really helpful. I am glad to know about the lack of writing now as I am planning how to combine this class with a few other materials for 9th grade English.
  10. Is your student in the range for National Merit Finalist? You probably saw USC's scholarship for NMFs - it's only half tuition but that's a big amount. http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/uscScholarships1415.pdf
  11. 1togo, I was wondering how the Romeo & Juliet class went for your student, is it completed now? I would love to hear any additional feedback you might have as I am considering this for my upcoming 9th grader. Thanks!
  12. Just so you know, USC is a private school. It is not part of the UC or Cal State systems.
  13. Oh my, I can't believe this is happening.... any recommendations for a drivers ed course? This is to replace our state's 30 hour classroom requirement prior to taking permit test. Homeschool parents are allowed to teach this themselves. So, I could just teach with the state manual but I like the idea of a course with a little structure, maybe video examples and practice tests. I found driversed.com which offers a book course with online videos and costs $114.
  14. I'm not saying one must have an iron-clad plan for the rest of one's life by age 24 or even necessarily be self-supporting. I'm saying one should get off the couch and do *something* to fill the day. Maybe that's a full-time job. If that's not financially necessary, one can take classes, help people, paint pictures, sell Amway, write a novel, travel, invent things, learn a foreign language, read the great books, bake cakes, restore an antique car, whatever. And getting out and doing those things is also probably the best way to come up with a plan for the rest of one's life. If at 24 someone is content with taking part-time classes and a younger girlfriend and no other friends or activities, maybe he's going to suddenly grow up and become a productive person later on, or maybe he's going to always be a slacker. The one type of person I could never be in a relationship with is a slacker, so this is a giant red flag for me.
  15. Barb, what do your dd's older sisters think? They might have more influence over your dd in the dating department than you or the younger siblings. Given the age difference, the lack of ambition - (I really don't understand a 24 year old with just part-time school and no work, volunteer, or passionate, productive hobby), and your general gut feeling that this guy is bad news, I would be concerned. I would try to keep her very busy and let him come to the house when the rest of the family is there, so that's basically the only time she gets with him if possible. Hopefully she will notice he isn't fitting in to the family. A summer trip away might be a great idea!
  16. hbmom, any update on this? I hope things have improved!
  17. I don't have anxiety with toll roads, but I despise driving in stop and go traffic. With all the construction we are seeing a lot of traffic lately - it took us two hours to get home from a tournament this weekend, and without traffic it's 40 minutes. You might want to try getting a hotel near the tournament so you only have to make the drive there and back once - I wished we'd done that this weekend!
  18. A quote from your signature: "We will live lives of integrity on purpose or we will not do it at all." - Beth Moore I don't understand a rec league driving weaker players out... how would that even happen? If there are no tryouts and her son is eligible to play, she has a right to sign him up and let him play. I know some seriously untalented baseball and basketball players that are perfectly suited for and totally happy in the rec leagues. It's completely expected in a rec league. Maybe her theory is true, or maybe she just isn't comfortable with her son being the weakest player on the team. Either way, if she has to lie, it's not worth it and it sends a bad message to her son. How old is he and what sport is it? Maybe we can help brainstorm alternatives if she is really uncomfortable with the rec league. It sounds like she lives in a large metro area so there are likely many options. Depending on his age, what about setting up pickup games, or summer camps, or a non-running sport like golf or bowling? For baseball and soccer, there are several sports domes in my area that have instructional leagues in the fall and winter that are like scheduled scrimmages/pickup games.
  19. This sounds like a paperwork problem to me, they could have each had their names on the birth certificates of their bio kids if they had done the legal paperwork properly, and then had the non-bio dad adopt afterward, but they wanted to make it into a big deal. The judge had no choice but to follow the existing law. A baby can't be born to two guys, so a *birth* certificate can't reflect that IMO. They still have legal custody and no one is suggesting take the babies away. How can it possibly be considered be in the same vein as having your child taken away because two doctors disagree on medical care?
  20. Dive's ICP is more like a stepped up Physical Science. It is suggested for 8th grade and is not a replacement for high school level courses in Chemistry and Physics. Dive's sequence is Earth Sci, ICP, Bio, Chem, Physics. The last three can be done using Apologia books with the Dive lectures. Here's a link: http://www.diveintomath.com/science-1/
  21. And thank you for your thoughtful feedback. I'll be sure to give it all due consideration.
  22. Thank you for clarifying, I can appreciate that that was a big part of your decision for your son. His class schedule sounds interesting and challenging, I hope this is wonderful for him!
  23. I have recently been through a similar decision-making process with my rising 9th grade son and I know how difficult it is! If you have found the best path for your son based on his individual needs, I am thrilled for you and for him. Hopefully the school's test scores and the principal's bad choices won't affect him too much. You also said "Back in the olden days he'd be in the fields with the men, not home with mom and littles all day every day." I want to be supportive of you making your decision based on your son's individual needs but a blanket statement like this kind of rankles. I find it a strange statement to make on a homeschooling message board, and I think it's untrue - yes some young men had to work in the field or the mines or the family trade from the earliest possible age, but it was hardly considered ideal, it was simply necessary. Many upper class young men were educated at home with private tutors.
  24. I tend to think that most of the carts left in the handicapped zone is from people who parked in the handicapped spot and for whatever reason, don't return the cart to the cart corral. If someone is parked elsewhere and is too lazy to return a cart to the corral or the store, they're not going to go to the effort of putting it in the handicapped zone, they're going to leave it next to their own car.
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