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  1. My kids do this thing that drives me nuts! On laundry day or the days they clean their rooms, they bring out 5 tons of clothes that they swear is all dirty. They wore every bit of it and it all needs to be washed. But I know it's not all dirty. And if it is dirty it's because it was on the floor instead of put up.

     

    Like right now, there are 5 sweaters/coats in the basket. It's been 90 degrees out lately. I ask them about it, they don't know how that got in there. So we go through the basket and find lots of other things that looks like it's still clean and they don't know how any of it got in the basket.

     

    I end up washing lots of things I suspect are clean, and I already have too much laundry, yk? Things I've tried are watching while they put their things away. Somehow everything ends up back on the floor. Boxing up excess clothes, so there is not more than they can handle. But then they think of things in the box they have to have and a lot of it gets pulled back out. I need some suggestions to get this under control.

  2. green smoothies were (and are) my favorites.

     

    Do you do raw baking? I make Jiliano's guacamole recipe from his book RAW. They go great with raw corn chips. I'd put frozen corn, peppers, zucchini, tomato..... I think that was it-- I haven't made them in forever-- in a blender. The spread them on the sheet of a dehydrator and 'bake' them.

    His oatmeal cookies were really good too. My kids would eat those as fast as I could make them. Kale and egg plant chips can be made by soaking them in braggs then dehydrating them.

    You could make stir fry veggies by marinating veggies in Braggs and olive oil.

    "Egg salad" from avocado. Avo taste like anything you put with it. Avo with coconut oil, agave, and cocoa makes a good fruit dip or pudding.

    Banana icecream. I buy bananas that are very ripe at a discount. There's a store that bags them up and marks them down. I peel then freeze them. They're ready for icecream or smoothies.

  3. and possible single parenting has been on my mind a lot lately. I don't know yet what's going to happen with me and dh, so in preparation for that, I need to get a job. My counselor recommends I find a job too, as it would give me a sense of power and freedom that I'm lacking. Also, I registered for next semester and at some point next year I need either work based learning credits or an internship. So, I gotta get a job.

     

    There's one part of me that loves the idea of going back to work. I recognize there's a part of me that needs this and the benefits that will come from it. But then there's a part of me that's really sad because I won't be home with the kids all the time and I may have to give up homeschooling. I think I may have been throwing up some mental blocks for myself in my job search because of this. This part of me really doesn't want to go back to work. So I ask myself if I could do it all-- work, school, homeschooling. What if I end up single? Could I still do it? Would it be fair to the kids to try?

     

    I'm working right now to make sure my kids are up to grade level in case they go back to school, and trying to prepare for any eventuality. But it's a tough place to be. Anyone btdt?

  4. The 7th grade literature and middle ages guides for my 12yo. I think she's at a really good place to start them.

     

    I went ahead and got the K package for my son. We were supposed to do K with him this year. Because so much has happened here over the last few months, I've really let school go for ds. he's nowhere near where I'd like him to be, so we're going to do K over the spring and summer.

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