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  1. Just bumping this up...hoping someone who has done it sees it :)
  2. Does anyone have experience with the Potter's School Chinese I? My son is interested in learning Chinese and I've heard good things about Potter's School. I've looked at local resources but am not finding anything close to home. I'd really appreciate any feed back or suggestions. Thanks so much, Kerri
  3. Hi Candace, I ready Ami's post on her blog and read this part of your post "And a lot of the units are still there, just rearranged. And many are being redone" and I'm not sure I understand the part of them just being rearranged. Does that mean I should still search under the name of the book? Thanks so much, Kerri
  4. Ahh glad to find this. I was having the same problem. Thought I was doing something wrong :)
  5. Well we are one of the ones who had the V and then regretted it. We had it done after our first two. We had moved away from all family and the second pregnancy was difficult. ( Although now I look back on it, I think I could have handled that second pregnancy better.) About 2 years later I started feeling like we had made a big mistake. There were several reasons I felt that way. I started talking to dh and he was shocked, but willing to listen. Eventually we came to the mutual decision to have it reversed. So about 3 years after it was originally done it was reversed. The surgery was a great success and the doctors were very positive. As soon as we could we started trying. Long story short it took us about 12-18 months to conceive (I can't remember!) because I started having some issues and I ended up going on Cl@mid. It worked at we had our first daughter. Fast forward one year and we found out we were pregnant again. We were totally shocked. You hear stories about women having trouble conceiving and then they have one and things start working again :D That is what happened with us. We just thought that since we had a difficult time conceiving our first daughter that we were pretty safe :lol: In August we had our second girl, fourth child. Having them close like that scared me and I didn't know how I was going to juggle it all, but she has been such a blessing. What surprised alot of people is that my dh then went in and had the V done again. We knew this time we were done. It was a different feeling this time around and we are much more at peace about it. I say go for it! :)
  6. I'm with you :) I've got a 10yr, 7yr, 2yr, 7mo. The 2yr can drive us crazy. I can tell you some of the things we've done that made it a little better. 1. Room time - DD2 has worked up to about 30-40 min of room time. Room time for her is in my room in a pack and play. I have her favorite CD playing and then I put some books and 1 or 2 toys. I do this early in the morning so that she doesn't fall asleep and then not take a good afternoon nap. 2. Blanket time - we do this on and off. I just put her in the family room with us and I have a big bucket of toys that we rotate each day and she can play with them. 3. TV time :001_smile: 4. I also try to start the school day with her. I read a book and do a little activity with her and then move on to the others. 5. One of the things that I've found useful is something called Tot School. If you google it you will find a bunch of ideas. It is a bunch of homeschooling moms that have come up with ideas for toddlers to do. Some of them can be done more on their own and others are more involved. I picked some out and gathered my supplies. Then when I need to, I can pull them out for her. They are similar to preschool bags, but for the younger set. Hope this helps. It helped me with dd2. I am looking at the 7mo old though and kind of dreading it :lol:
  7. We are using R&S 5 now, and I think it would be possible but difficult. How is that for helpful? :) You could skip the exercises that are on diagraming but there would be quite a few to skip. However if you could develop a way for your 12 yo. to either write down or show you what the words in the sentences were then maybe you could do it. That is a tough question. Kerri
  8. I haven't talked with my WW leader. To be honest I don't find her all that approachable. Normally I just go weigh in on a Friday and don't go to a meeting. It is just really hard to find time to go. I'm hoping maybe it has something to do with my cycle and that I'm retaining water right now? I've had two cycles already so I'm due. Ugg it just stinks to be trying and seeing the scale go up. :)
  9. Anyone doing this while nursing? I'm nursing my 7month old right now and have hit a road block. I've reduced my extra nursing points from 14 to 7 (dd is now taking solids) and had a good weight loss for one week, but now I seem to be gaining but I am still on plan. I can't figure it out. I getting frustrated with myself. Having said that I've lost 10 pounds but it has taken about 13 weeks. Kerri
  10. My boys have been doing Latin for about a year now. My Dad who took several years of Latin in high school is teaching it. He was asking me the other night what I wanted them to get out of it. He said he remembers much of what he learned, but that not all of it is or has been useful to him. He thought it was important to understand where words have come from and what their origins mean. He thought it was helpful to know latin roots so that when you encounter a word you don't know you can have a clue of what it means. He was talking to me about what books he had read in high school in latin and I mentioned that I'd like to boys to be able to do that. His next question was "why?". So now I pose the question to the hive. I'm not making any judgement here on if you do or do not, but just they why behind it.:) For me I like the idea of the kids being able to understand latin. I see the value of being able to understand the roots of words. I also so the value in the process of learning Latin. However, talking to my Dad and hearing what he had to say about what he thinks is actually valuable of what he learned go me to thinking.
  11. This is the first time I'm typing this out :001_huh: So I guess I'll get to see what it looks like laid out. Bible - Inductive Bible Study for kids, memory work, Who Is God (Apologia) History - TOG Yr 2 Literature - TOG Yr 2 Writing - TOG Yr 2, Brave Writer (trying this for the first time) Geography - TOG Yr 2 and Daily Geography Evan Moor Math - Math U See Zeta Latin - Latina Christiana I (we are behind on this, but it is combined with his 3rd grade brother and my Dad teaches it so I won't complain ;) Spanish - weekly class Spelling - SWR Science - Zoology 3 (Apologia) Logic - Mindbenders, Critical Thinking Bk 2 Extras - Weekly TOG Co-op, Piano, Scouts, Sport? Ok I think I covered all my bases....
  12. I've done the Old Testament Activity Pak with my 2nd grader this year. He needed a bit more help than my 5th grader, but he certainly enjoyed them. My opinion would be that if he really likes lapbooks etc. then he would probably do fine with it. hth Kerri :)
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