Alg 2 had review problems for each chapter in the back of the book.

His passing wasn't what was too hard though (although of course very sad for everyone), it was the 7 years of 24/7 medical care & us not being able to do typical family things like camping, park days, beach, or even playing out in the yard without doing cartwheels to find a nurse to stay at home those days.

Yes, a wonderful thing! Our medically fragile child, adopted from foster care, passed away last spring. He lived for 7 years. I could never do it again, the toll of caring 24/7 was too much for the rest of the family.

How to open those mini milk cartons.

My husband's employer has a scholarship program for employee kids. Awesome. The PSAT is required as the qualifier. You know, the test ds didn't take because he was doing SATs instead & not in the running for national merit scholar anyways. Oops. But, the application says that if you didn't take it, you should apply anyways & contact the college board for alternate testing instructions. So, I did, but now I'm waiting to hear back from them. Just wondering if anyone has experience with employee scholarships using PSAT to qualify? Thanks.

I have teens and toddlers. It's tough! I think the hardest part is dragging the littles around all the time to stuff for the bigs. And, the driving home from late night activities, when I just want to go to bed since I was up early with the littles. That's the worst, actually.

Did hear right back. They're caught up on grading right now, but we were still missing some, so I'm having ds just resubmit those all today, since it looks like they never went through on our end. Hope everything returns to normal now :)

I think everyone else has covered it. I'll just add- we moved to town this week from our rural property. I'm so over: heating with wood in the winter, 30 min drive to get milk or take teens to anything, bugs in the summer, gardening, canning... Mostly the drive though. My country place in the woods is for sale, we did t even wait to sell it to move. Been there 12 years, over it.

Well, we don't use gmail & are still having long delays. I emailed Mr. Owens to ask about the lag time today. I'll update when I hear back.

I loved how good he slept in the rock n play but not the flat head baby got from it :( Go with the arms reach co sleeper if u want a " bassinet" style thing.

I don't know the atmosphere these days, but back in the very early 90s, I attended & graduated from an American School overseas, North Africa. It was a good international experience (the American school was the only option for English language in our capital city, so most of the international kids went there ). I hated it at the time- just wanted to be back in the states. But in retrospect, pretty cool. Our school did not offer an IB option then, it does now. But it did offer AP classes, but only a few & not everyone took them. It was definately college prep, but not crazy making at all. I was an average student & took one AP senior year. Special Ed was offered back then, so I'd guess that yours would have experience with kids with special needs too- all sorts of people go overseas & attend international schools- we had royalty, to phone company kids, to enlisted family kids, to ambassadors kids. A true mix. Kids who didn't go onto college & kids who went to MIT. I'd find out now about the school & how they serve kids with learning disabilities. We travelled as a school a lot- Luxemborg for Harvard Model Congress, London for basketball tournaments, camel trip in Sahara for spring break. I have Fb friends from all over ;). But no reunion to go back to. (Occassional get togethers in DC though, where lots of the diplomat kids ended up) Eta- there was no base for us to live on, but the American kids hung together a lot at the embassy cafe. If you'll live on base, from your description of the homeschooling community, I'd probably highly consider having them enroll in the school. It's likely where all the social, sports, & club stuff is for base kids. Also- how exciting, what an adventure!

OH, thought of this too- hand her a Great Courses catalogue for browsing, lots of neat course ideas in there!

On another note- if he's into history, there's also Museum Studies and living history. Is he interested in historical re enacting (so many time periods to choose from)? Groups are always looking for new members who love history, but it's an expensive hobby. We love it though :) Secondary Education & history?

OH, I keep meaning to ask you about how it went. Ds wants to apply this year & we're very close to Norwich, but the description on their website sounded juveline to him, I think. (Scavenger hunts, etc)

I can't believe I'm planning 12th grade! Anyone else? Ds will mostly be doing DE. Not very exciting planning though. We pay full pay for DE classes, which is a bummer. But it is what it is. He's ready, this year's classes going great there. Right now, it's looking like: DE French both semesters DE Chemistry both semesters DE English Comp (maybe over the summer) Pre Calc with Derek Owens DE more computer science, switching to local 4 year from CC He's already completed his history requirements for high school, but may knock out another DE social science or history gen Ed too. And, college applications in the fall :). And lots of Robotics.

I'm like Evanthe for my artsy gal... Make me a list of stuff you want to learn about. She has pretty significant learning disabilities too, so it's not like we can even just order a curriculum or sign her up for a class on what she's interested in... I have to pull stuff together at her level. She does extracurriculars- lots of dance. Art on her own, hates art classes. 4 H, makeup for community theater events when her mentor can get her in. Volunteering in areas she's into- tried assistive living place, but now at Childrens room in public library & loves it. Summer camp (and dance most nights) a few weeks each year helps a lot with her social needs.

I used those meds as an adult & ruined all my towels, even trying really hard not to.

I remember ERiC. (Pre internet days) Online database for searching for academic articles, that were not open to the general public. I think now a days if you search, you can find the abstracts for articles like that, but have to pay to get the actual research. So, not " just" a Google search.

We got back a bunch of assignments last night, not all our missing ones, but about half, in one big email. Something must be off, maybe it is just a backlog of people sending stuff in over semester break ( we used that time as " catch up on math time", perhaps others did too). I'll go check his grade book & see if the missing ones were graded, just not returned.

2 hours is pretty close as far as driving to a children's hospital. If they can get her in there, they should go. Your local hospital usually doesn't have great mental health care, unless you happen to luck out. But most have a few day wait in the ER, at least, to be seen for mental health. Here, we drive 2-3 hours to get to the only psych who sees kids. When my child was suicidal, we waited 3 months for even a therapist appointment. That's after being discharged from the ER & being told good luck, get an appointment with a therapist. We too have to have our ped prescribe meds, there is just no one else to do it. Again, our mental health system is in rough shape.

Yes, that really happens. No beds, so you sit in the ER for a few days. Our mental health system, or lack thereof, is in bad shape.

I had ds write out the answers to the discussion questions in the great courses books (that was part of the fundafunda sullabus i think) & I added a research paper too.

I keep reading this title as "anarchy enthusiasts" & thinking "hmm, thats odd". :)

He's usually very timely (1-2 days), but we've had the same issue this past 2 weeks. In the middle of moving, so I havent followed up yet, but yeah, something must be going on on his end right now. Eta- he was very sick in the fall (meningitis? Hospitalized), but we got an email explaining that. Hope everything is ok. I'll call this week & see whats up.

Ds is doing CloverCreek this year, but Derek Owens for math. We love CLoverCreek, love, love, love!!!! Happy with DO math though too, so i bet his physics would be good too :)