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For my musician dd I teased out music-related academic learning (theory, music history, aural skills) from performance practice (lessons, practicing, rehearsals, and performance.) Performance practice went in the activities slot. For the rest - she put in the hours, she earned the credit. In the OP's context, I would guess there are elements of theater that can be divided this way: history, stage management, tech? I don't know if your ds did any of these but if you want to acknowledge his mastery of theater practice other than rehearsals and performance, you might see some credit-worthy units.

I hope all is resolved. Happy to keep this challenge going into the new month. Yesterday was 2 cups of brussels sprouts then many bowls of lentil, carrot, celery, leek soup. I need to go produce shopping.

I've changed my travel plans to include staying at my mom's over Christmas so it will be we four sisters all together, probably for the last time. This week's goals are to finish putting the garden to bed today before it snows, find the right pictures and frames for mom's Christmas gift project, buy some more beechwood, start carving birds, and buy some hooks for hanging them, eat 800 g of veg every day, hike/walk/ruck every day. So I did move the piano and also changed the living rom and pantry pretty dramatically. The house feels so much more spacious and I'm quite pleased with it. I bought two new lamps and they help a lot. I did not find my desk space but did come to terms with the thought that my favorite area is on the couch next to the window. So I've moved a sturdy stool and a lamp and will call this my space until further notice. The new spaciousness of the house makes this feasible. Under the must-get-worse-before-it-gets-better category, I moved all the books from the house to the back house, and brought zero in from the sauna. This is the right move to be able to bring them pre-sorted to new homes but it is sort of funny that my two enormously compelling goals were to make myself a new desk and bring in all the books are the two I am unable to execute.

Aaaawww, sweet!

I've read about it as an Appalachian tradition. https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/june-is-the-mon/#:~:text=Appalachia has many interesting customs,banging%2C hollering%2C and serenading. https://www.ncpedia.org/shivaree

I find they make the soup or stew too sweet. The flavor is great for stew but I would cook them separately so they don't sweeten the whole pot.

The rain has saved my procrastinating rear-end. It rained enough the last few days to thaw the beds so I just put my garlic in the ground. I picked some fresh kale and thyme from under the leaves too.

Mmm, I love parsnips and think they would be delish mashed with potato and/or celeriac. They're quite sweet tasting. My grandmother used to make parsnip ice cream which was really good! You can also boil them then finish them like homefries.

Not covid, since I'm entirely better. Whew! So glad to have older dd home, we can start to get holiday-cozy.

Not about first year dd but grad student dd - I'm going to pick her up today but all of a sudden I think I might have covid, ugh. I've been tickly-throat coughing all night though don't feel too bad. We can both mask for the 8 hour drive home. Not great.

Blueberries Turnips, kale, tomato, onion Cabbage Today I'm traveling so will bring some cucumbers, carrots, and blueberries with me.

Great news!

My high school was a K - 12 public alternative school. We had an enormous and very complex wooden castle, it probably took up close to half a city block. The high schoolers would play a form of tag/hide and seek/Calvin Ball at top speed during lunch and occasionally take out a younger student. It's gone now but it was wicked fun.

Yesterday was a zucchini fritter with onion A whole delicata squash with a salad of lettuce, cabbage, zucchini, carrots, olives, celery. And, a burger, ahem. Ketchup counts, right?

Oh, 2012, what a terrible year for zombies.

I wonder if it's related to this high fiber challenge? Yikes!

"Listen to understand, not to agree."

I would guess that it is normal in that so many homes are now airbnbs, bought up by investors and furnished like little hotels. Not snarking on your use, just thinking it might be totally normal. The name thing is very weird, though. Trying to get around local regulations by using different names?

Yesterday was turnips, tatsoi, curried lentils with veggies, zucchini. I'm only measuring them as generous cups and have consistently gotten more than 6 cups each day. I'm hooked!

This question - and his wonderful answer - has really started me down a grammatical/theological rabbit hole: "going" to heaven as opposed to "in" heaven.

That's great! That seems very different than a job at the dining hall, etc, since it's within her major - good for helping her learn at the next level and good on her resume.

I found this with youngest. Olders never did any co-op things, and maybe they didn't exist here. They socialized and were lonely by turns and did many of the outside activities mentioned by 8, just not as a group of kids. The most organized multi-family activities we did involved creating our own Hogwarts complete with costumes, feasts, and classes, lol. Youngest was a caboose and an extrovert so I thought I "should" have her in with a group that formed when she was around 10. I know I've said here it was horrible, traumatic for both of us. Did they learn rigorous stuff? Yes, a bit, some very advanced Shakespeare and astronomy. Were the kids school-ified and bullying? Also yes. I wonder if it what you're looking for in terms of mom friends could be filtered by age and/or age of kids. The moms of the kids in this group had their firsts and younger in the group whereas my dd was a youngest with siblings in college and beyond. I was older with a very different approach to parenting, life, and homeschooling. I had known all of the women involved before the group formed and they weren't my friends before, just then I had to spend a bunch of time with them.

I hope your evening is peaceful!

Same! I was glad to see your name @Melissa in Australia