What do you do? Last week books were read on a topic. This week, I want a report. Brainstorming/outline, rough draft, first draft, final copy. If she were on schedule she should turn in her first draft today. But I'm still waiting on an outline. Besides taking away all electronic devices and fun reading books, what do you do?

I need to do Christmas for as close to nothing as I can this year. Here are ideas I have so far: Girls-- My old holiday barbies that have been sitting in the closet forever. When they were toddlers, they tried to open the boxes so the boxes are damaged. Take them out of the packages, put them on stands. Tshirt scarves I have a girls shawl and a blanket on my knitting needles that I will finish for them. ***** The Boy-- Some dinosaur fabric that I can use to make pillows, will just have to get fluff or pillow forms. Can frog a pair of socks I have going to make him some gloves And.... that's all I got so far. Any other ideas?

sometimes sci-fi just depending. I love dr who

I like british comedy, romance, romantic comedy, psycho thrillers

Well, here lately dh and the kids keep picking out transformers, captain america, they watched the avengers the other night. Anything so longs as it's not something with superheros. lol

oh Labyrinth! They've never seen that! Thanks

I have access to Netflix this evening. Never used it before. What's a good family movie to watch, and a good one for mama after everyone goes to bed?

Thank you guys

I like that. Yep, let's hang in there together

Thanks. I do too. Keep hoping this is opening up a new door that will lead to great things.

Interesting. Kids are in school 8hrs a day, I've never understood why there was so much homework when it doesn't take near that long to do a days worth of school work.

Sorry I haven't had much positive to say in the few times I've been on here lately. But things keep happening and I keep hoping there is going to be a light somewhere at the end of this tunnel. There doesn't seem to be one right now and I need a hug. :( I told y'all about leaving my dh, and then had to come back. We spent a couple weeks getting the house straight and just getting back in the groove. We decided to homeschool again and started that back up this week. THe kids had several extra curricular things they wanted to do, but dh was not able to come thru with getting me a vehicle so we could do those things. But, eh... he hasn't come through on any of the promises he said he'd keep if I came back. We've done nothing but fight. It's exhausting. Right after getting home, I fractured a bone in my foot doing something stupid while cleaning house. Have to keep my foot wrapped and propped up for a few weeks. Going a little stir crazy. Last night dh found out his company is closing and today will be his last day. There was a lay off a while back. He missed it, but now since he wasn't laid off he isn't getting the severance package they got.

I'm behind the times here, so help me out. :) I have a phone that has a kindle app on it, but i've never used it or a kindle. I see that you can get BFSU on the kindle, and am wondering if it's a good book to have on kindle, or if it's one that I will want in book form. Am I going to want to be able to flip back and forth, mark pages, make copies, or whatever?

Great idea :) Thank you.

Thanks!

:001_wub: Here comes trouble!

I would love to do this, and have looked into it in the past. But, our insurance doesn't cover it, and the closest place to go is over 2 hrs from here. I talk to our eye dr regularly and he thinks she could really benefit from visual therapy, but because of the distance and financial strain he doesn't recommend it. I'm going to keep checking into this though. Things change all the time, and maybe something will pop up in one of the towns around here. I really wish I could have kept her in that school long enough to have her tested before we moved, then maybe I would have a more precise idea of what's going on.

I never try to make her feel like she has a problem. What I meant is that she went from a situation where we were very child lead, she could follow her own interest and do things in her own time and own way while we worked on things she had difficulties with-- to a situation where she suddenly had to preform at the same pace as everyone else, regardless. She went from not knowing failure to failing at everything.

Over the last 2 years dd had made leaps and bounds. Once I found phonics pathways and apples and pears, I felt they were really helping her. Started using color filters, which she liked. She went from not reading at all to reading at grade level. Her spelling is atrocious, but AAP seems to be helping (we're only on the second book). Her reading comprehension is not so hot and neither is her handwriting. I didn't understand why it was so hard to get her in a modified class either. I talked to the principal when I enrolled her. I was hoping he'd say he would put her in her grade level but give her special classes. She is 11 and supposed to go into 6th, but I felt she was 5th-6th-ish, so I was ok with her going into 5th. They tested her for 5th and said she didn't do horrible, but not as well as they liked. They wanted her to be able to pass a standardized test for 5th to be able to go into 6th. The thing that bothered me about this was that we learned different stuff than what the school taught, so I don't feel like it was a reflection of what she had learned. But he was all about getting the test scores on the standardized test. Really big on that. So he put her back in 5th, and that's fine. She and I were both OK with that. He wouldn't talk about special classes for her at all. Then at open house, I talked to the reading teacher, let her know what was going on with dd. She said she was glad I told her and she would evaluate her during class and keep me updated. She did, and she was very worried. But she said she would have to get her tested before she could move her to a modified class. The school here tells me there is no way to test for dyslexia. All dyslexia is is difficulty reading, and if your child seems to have trouble they'll move her to a remedial class. I just don't feel good about it when I talk to them.

Thanks :)

Posted about this on the general board, but wanted to put it here also. I enrolled the kids in school this year. Middle child with ld didn't want to go at all. She liked making friends but didn't like school. She was failing everything, reading teacher was very concerned. They were about to test her for dyslexia when we had to withdraw her yesterday. (Moved from MS to TX, then back to MS) She had been tested in 1st grade at the college by students with a professor supervising. We didn't have a good experience at all, nothing for sure was figured out. They think she didn't have dyslexia, but possible something going on. She was considered a slow learner, had some visual perception stuff going on, ld. I've always felt it was a bad diagnosis. Reading teacher this year was very concerned about her having dyslexia and wanted to get her in special classes, so wanted her tested. Getting her tested here would be very difficult, only real option would be to go back to the college. I was using apples and pears and dancing bears. I think I'll keep that up with her, and other than that, just let her learn how ever she needs to as I always have. I really don't like the idea of public school for her, they were all about getting the test results. That just seems really bad for a child with learning differences, and well, I just don't like it in general.

In a nutshell, things were really bad between dh and me. I left for 2 months and lived with my brother. But things were bad there; he's an alcoholic and I didn't know this when I went there because I haven't seen him in years. Either a happy drunk or very cranky and sober. When he was sober he would blame us for things we had nothing to do with. He kicked us out yesterday. DH came and picked us up, brought us back home. Have to work some things out there still. :( Came home to the nastiest house I have ever seen in my life, oh my word! I have a day ahead of me. During the time I was living with my brother, I enrolled the kids in school. Oldest and youngest liked it. They didn't like the academic aspect so much, but the social. Middle child with ld didn't want to go at all. She liked making friends but did't like school. She was failing everything, reading teacher was very concerned. They were about to test her for dyslexia when we had to withdraw her. She had been tested in 1st grade at the college by students with a professor supervising. We didn't have a good experience at all, nothing for sure was figured out. They think she didn't have dyslexia, but possible something going on. She was considered a slow learner, had some visual perception stuff going on, ld. I've always felt it was a bad diagnosis. Reading teacher this year was very concerned about her having dyslexia. Well... all that to say, I've got to decide if I'm going to put them in school here (really don't like the school here), continue homeschooling but find more social stuff for them to do, and figure out what to do with dd2. Keep up apples and pears and dancing bears. Let her learn in her own way like I always planned I guess.

That kinda makes me wish the kids get an allowance

When you put clothes in the laundry that way at my house, they get washed, dried, folded, and put away that way.

I've tried having the oldest 2 do their own laundry, but they end up washing the same clean clothes over and over.