this.

I am north of Boston, on the MA/NH state line. I've lived here my whole life, ans I can't imagine living anywhere else. I can get to Boston in 30 minutes, the beach in 30 minutes, and a wealth of amazing other places in 2-5 hours (mountains, NYC, Canada!). Homeschooling in my city is easy, but I haven't really found a 'community', per se; I have met some others, but we are all going it alone.

Your weekend plans sound fabulous to me! We will hang around the house reading, relaxing, and working on our own projects. We will go to church on Saturday afternoon, and I will bake a peach pie on Sunday. I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend.

I nearly cried at the end. Holy crap!

The goal for the next week is to finish up the 2020-2021 school year work for DS12 & DS9. The goal for the summer for the entire family is to do something to challenge their brain and their bodies every day. For DS12, that is AoPS Intro to C&P, Henle Latin, and training camps for soccer and cross country. For DS9, that is to start AoPS Pre-Alg and MP Greek, and daily trips to the town lake and/or playgrounds. For DS7, we will continue with daily phonics, spreading several short lessons (new, review, & practice) throughout the day. He's coming along slowly, but he's still got a long way to go before his reading ability matches his abilities in other subjects. (Apparently, for *me*, I'll be working through C&P, Henle, and MP Greek, in addition to my own review of discrete math *and* a teaching course to renew my license. I'm tired just thinking about it!) In the fall, the goal will be to get out into the world as much as possible (pandemic permitting). I'm planning a trip to D.C. for the fall, and hope to add day trips every couple of weeks to go along with our history study (early modern period, founding of America, etc). I also want to get my kids walking around town more, so that DS9 & DS12 could walk to the store, library, or playgrounds together. DS12 will also be taking an online writing course and will start in-person piano lessons at a music school (that he could probably walk home from).

So, I missed about 8 pages of comments since DS12 had his first shot. His second dose was yesterday, and he woke up this morning with a headache and a slight fever. Two advil took care of that, and he's right as rain now (except the obligatory sore arm).

If you were to set up a summer-long, light-ish course using AoPS Intro to C&P book, for a BA/AoPS kid and his smart, public-schooled cousin to work together (via zoom, email, & occasional in-person visits), would you: do only the problems in the book? do only the problems in Alcumus? do a mix of both? ignore the challenge problems? other? Are there sections/chapters that we can/should skip? (DS12 will likely go back and do those without his cousin after they finish working together.) Any other ideas? I'm going to work through/review the book these next two weeks before they start, but I wanted to get an idea from anyone who had used the book already. Thanks!

We have two of these (they were gifts) and DS12 & DS9 really really enjoy them! DS9 uses it often. ETA: How about museum or zoo memberships?My mother renews our aquarium subscription most Christmases, and it's a favorite place for my kids. (We haven't been in over a year, and my kids miss it terribly!)

First dose just gave him the usual sore arm. Two days later, he's fine.

That's good info, thanks! I don't have that feeling when I push down on my ribs. It hasn't hurt since I made the initial post (isn't that always the way?) but I will make a better note of my symptoms the next time it happens.

My DS12 got his first shot this afternoon. We will see how he feels tomorrow...

I second all of this!

Thanks - I'll check that out.

Two and a half years ago, I was 65lbs overweight and having chest pains (left side chest pains, no pressure, worse on breathing deeply). I had an electrocardiogram in the doctor's office, and they said it was perfectly normal. I have always had excellent blood pressure, and my blood tests are always noted as 'normal'. They (doc & nurse practitioner) decided it was 'heartburn', and I was directed to take antacids and watch what I ate. I started antacids, lost 30 pounds, and never really noticed when the pain went away, but it did stop. Since September, I have managed to put 15lbs back on and my chest has started hurting again. I'm going to have to schedule another consult with my doctor (I just had a tele-physical in March, before the pains started again.) I have had rare bouts of actual indigestion, for which antacids work fairly well. Antacids don't seem to help for the pain this time. (I honestly don't remember if they helped last time?) So, could this be directly linked to my weight? (Yes, I am trying to lose weight again - it was a long covid winter!) Has anyone had similar issues, and could you tell me what it was and what helped it go away?

I can see it!

That sounds like something my boys would like. Is it local, online, or home-grown? DS25 took a semester of ASL101 from the local community college as his 'foreign' language requirement in high school. He did really well! The high school waived the remainder of his language requirement due to his nonverbal learning disability and then I couldn't get him to sign up for the next course. We tried to get him to consider the ASL degree at the cc, but he had a severe lack of motivation... *sigh*

DS9 is a lefty and, despite being taught how to properly form all his printed letters, continues to write his letters bottom-up/inside-out/right-to-left/ass-backwards. He is slow and messy when printing. His cursive, on the other hand, is BEAUTIFUL. Writing in cursive completely eliminates his mirrored letters/words and has helped him to start to form *some* of his letters in a more economical (and traditional) method. Next year, I will start requiring some of his 4th grade output to be in cursive, and we will increase through the year. I did the same thing with DS12, whose printing is atrocious, but his cursive is at least legible. DS7 starts cursive next year, but he has some fine-motor issues so we will see how that goes.

This is one of the threads I reread often:

I added in a daily antihistamine when my DS12 was having PANDAS flares (now several years ago). Was very helpful with the advil.

I'm having a panic attack just reading this. May it go smoother this time!

DS7 is (re)listening to the Green Ember series right now.

Thank you for this - it was hilarious. I went to see my parents in Haverhill today! We go to Salisbury Beach as often as possible (beach pizza is the best pizza!) and it's pronounced SULZbuhree (that 'uh' is very soft) around here.

It's back! Huzzah! Thanks very much!

I logged out, restarted my chromebook, and then signed back in to the forums. The only star that I have is for this thread; the other threads that I had posted in even 2 days ago do not have stars, nor do they show up under "content I posted in". All of my other activity streams are still blank. Weird. Thanks in advance for looking into this!

Well, I am glad that it is not just me! I had some good threads saved and I want them back! Gah!