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Quiches made with heavy cream can be frozen. You can make whipped cream, dollop it onto parchment, and then freeze the dollops to use later on for hot cocoa or other dessert.

I shop at one of the larger supermarket chains in the area, and they have an app that I had been using for years to do clip-less coupons in-store. When I started to order for delivery last spring, I found that the app had stored every single item I had purchased EVER, and I could search through my purchase history for reordering. That is awesome! Makes it so easy to reorder. For substitutions, they have a button that you can click to accept/deny substitutions ahead of time, and they tell you exactly what the offered sub is for each item. They will sub things like two 4-packs of burgers for the 8-pack (at the cheaper price) if they need to (this happened last week). The only mistakes that I've had in the past year were: once, I got a zucchini instead of a cucumber (I let it go) and, a few weeks ago, I got the regular-sized package of sausages instead of the family-sized pack. I sent a note through the app, and they refunded the purchase price entirely. I paid $30 for a 6-month delivery pass that gets me free delivery on T/W/Th each week. I have them delivered each Wednesday morning, before breakfast. It will also get the packing fee waived if a put in an order for pickup any day. I have used that a few times.

I started Henle with my 6th grader this year. He's doing well! We use the Memoria Press teacher's guide. YMMV. This kid is a natural at grammar (he's working through GWTM for the second time), so Latin is coming pretty easily to him.

Thanks, everyone, for your input. I talked briefly with grandparents and, even if I wanted to, I would not be able to have regular/reliable/happy-to-help childcare lined up in order to teach in the fall. So, I emailed and said that I could teach online if they left that option open, but that I couldn't teach on-campus. I'm both relieved and disappointed. I still feel like I've let them (her) down. And I feel bad that my husband will be the only person bringing in income again. I was raised Irish Catholic - I excel at guilt!

We really should do it this way; I have their model cards already. I thought I would be lazy and do use a pre-made deck, but this makes more sense! Do your kids make their own cards, do you make them together, or do you make them for your kids?

DS8 has made me promise to make a mince pie with him tomorrow. It's in a Harry Potter cookbook.

It is $3k per class. Parking is free, but the cost of gas will be $300 for the semester.

We aren't desperate for the money. The extra money would be nice, but it's not a deciding factor at the moment. I am very. I hate feeling like I let someone down. Even if I haven't really. I get no extra benefit. The money is per course, no benefits at all. If DH needed to arrange his own help for soccer practices, he would just take them out of soccer. 😕

I have to make a decision about whether or not I will teach again in the fall, and I have to decide this weekend. I cannot decide. Argghhhh! It's making me sick to my stomach. [deleted] Decision made - thanks everyone.

DS11 and I have started Henle Latin, First Year. I found a complete Anki shared deck for Henle online, but it doesn't have any tags (declensions, parts of speech, etc). If you use Anki with your Henle (or any other Latin, really), how do you tag or organize your vocabulary words in Anki to help you study? Thanks!

He does not have the stamina that he did. He gets tired.

This is the thing that people forget when they talk about having chicken pox, and then it being over and done and "better" than the vax. My brother had shingles two years ago, in his late 30s, and he was MISERABLE. He was in so much pain, and nerve pain is the worst. He was very healthy at the time but he lost TWENTY POUNDS. He missed two full weeks of work (and definitely went back before he was completely recovered). He still has scars from the rash across his torso. It was terrible, and I don't think he has really fully recovered, even now.

DS11 is at the beginning of Henle, and I realized that I would need to do it alongside/ahead of him, or it was going to be hard to be helpful. I have just started, and need to catch up to him! We have the MP teacher manual and the quizzes. I have also printed out some of the free files linked to above. I really like the pacing and extra commentary in the MP manual. This is the only subject he has ever had quizzes in, and it is working as a good tool to help him evaluate his own learning. FWIW, I took the Henle books to the local Kinkos (FedExpress Office?) and had them spiral bound. Best decision ever! was $6.50/book.

I have nothing to add except that the "Project Baltimore" that reported on the original story is an arm of Sinclaire Broadcasting, which has a very specific ideological viewpoint. The story, on its face, sounds terrible, but there is likely lots of information that we do not know. Take it with a grain of salt.

Following along, but not yet ready to make any decisions. This year has been murder and DS6 is a very different learner than DS11 & DS8 were. We will see how the rest of the year & the summer go...

OMG. I snorted! Thanks for this.

The Girl Who Drank the Moon and The Witch's Boy by Kelly Barnhill are books I always recommend!

Have you had her hearing checked recently? Bridge/bringe and mention /manchim sound like a hearing issue. Fwiw, my DS11 can't spell either of those words, either.

Yes! I agree with this, but I don't know how to guide him in making the changes. I haven't had to write anything more complex than a grocery list since I left my doctoral program ABD 12 years ago, and I'm out of practice. 😞 She notes that one stage is the male's death and the other stage is the female's death. DS originally had them together, but we read the instructor notes that they should be separate and he added the 6th section. This is something I would have skipped right over! Thanks for pointing it out. He is actually pretty good at the assignments that require him to rewrite sentences, he just doesn't incorporate that into his writing automatically. Thanks - this is exactly the wording I am looking for, the 'how' to explain how to improve it. He acknowledged that the opening section could use work, but wasn't sure how to go about it. DS has made ENOURMOUS progress in writing with WWS. It really is scaffolded well, both so that he can learn from the exercises and so that I can help him. The time it takes him per lesson varies from 15 minutes to an hour, depending on the assignment. We schedule it Monday through Friday so that he can break up a long assignment (say, rewriting or copying a longer essay) into two days. He brings me his work whenever the directions tell him to, and we chat about the answers using the instructor's guide and then he goes back to the next part. Up to this point, it's never taken more than five days per "week" of assignments. However, we've had some stuff going on this week and have already pushed a couple of other things to Saturday (we never work on weekends!) and I told him we would go over this essay tomorrow, after his other work, and I would help him think about ways to improve it.

This essay assignment was from WWS1, week 22: Sequence of a natural process. This is his first draft; I haven't read through it yet, but he has been reading sections to me out loud while he was composing it this week. He hasn't yet proofed it for spelling, etc yet, either. Any help you can give me to help him would be great. Thanks! Octopi are intelligent and curious creatures. They can also squeeze through very small openings. These traits mean that it is very hard to catch and hold octopi. People have known about the octopus for a long time. For example, more than two thousand two hundred years ago, Aristotle studied them. But unfortunately, octopus research has lagged behind other sea animal research. Most things we know about them are from only two species. Adult octopi have eight arms connected by a thin sheen of skin. The legs connect directly under the eyes and over the beak. Connected to the back of the octopus’ head is a sack of skin holding all its internal organs. Octopus eggs have shells for protection, cushioning materials, and yolks for nutrition. After the eggs are laid it takes seven weeks for them to hatch. When they look like smaller versions of their parents. After they hatch they float around in the sea. During this stage in their life many octopi are eaten. After floating for a while, they settle to the sea floor. After settling to the floor, an octopus lives in creavases and caves. While living in caves,it leaves only to hunt. The only other reason it leaves its cave is to find a mate. After mating a male octopus starts to die. While a male dies it sometimes grows white sores on its bodies. They also sometimes go crazy. After mating a female octopus finds a den, blocks the entrance, and lays her eggs. After laying her eggs the octopus guards her eggs, washes them with water and does not eat. After seven weeks the eggs hatch. After the eggs hatch the mother dies. Octopi do not look after their young. Octopi live short lives. When the baby octopi hatch, the cycle of life starts again. The babies float around and then settle to the sea floor. They mate then reproduce and start the cycle over again.

handwriting: Zaner-Bloser 4 grammar: First Language Lessons 4 writing: Writing With Ease 4 - I know this level is 'optional/remedial', but he fought me over doing any writing at all up until this year. Now, he will do it gladly, so we will keep on with what he's willing to do. spelling: Spelling Workout D math & logic: He'll be starting Beast Academy 4 soon, so we will keep on wherever we are, adding in books from LivingMath U3, and MindBenders/BalanceBenders/Math Analogies/etc. history: SOTW3 and library books (not using the workbook) / read alouds from LivingMath U3 literature: reading list from the WTM recommendations (to go along with SOTW3), plenty of read alouds, audiobooks. He reads nonfiction constantly. science: chemistry (WTM recommendations) - we mostly unschool science, and will add in lots of Nova videos and such. foreign language: Greek with the Memoria Press Greek Alphabet and then Elementary Greek. misc: He unschools himself in anything that tickles his fancy. He needs a physical activity, but I don't know what yet.

I scoop it into a bowl and mash with salt, pepper, and a splash of lemon juice. Spread it on good toast, top with sliced salted tomatoes and shaved parmesan. So good!

She came back via Dr Strange's portals for the big fight scene in Endgame, and was there for the funeral for Tony Stark. IIRC, in episode 4(?), someone commented that Monica Rambeau reported for duty to SWORD a few weeks after she came back, so it has been maybe a month since the Thanos fight?

Nine. Only two left! Boo! (However, I'm dying for Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I love me some James Buchanan Barnes.)