Gymboss.com It lets me set my own intervals so I can change it up when needed (I use Jeff Galloway's run/walk/run but I also use the timer to stretch after I run. I can change from my running intervals to 30 second intervals to stretch). I clip it to my sports bra under my shirt and set it to vibrate so I can still hear my music and use my gps watch (which has interval timer capability but doesn't vibrate). And, their customer service is great.

:iagree: I had four c-sections and never any pain around the incision once it had healed. Stretching yes, pain or burning, no. I'd call just to be on the safe side.

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

:lol::lol: Glad to know I'm prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse! Last fall my dh gave me the greatest gift he's ever given me in the 20 years we've known each other. He sat me down one day and had a mini "intervention." He told me how beautiful I am, how desirable. Then, he proceeded to tell me I had to quit obsessing about my weight. I've run for years but last summer I decided I needed to lose weight so I ran hard 6days/week and ate 1200 calories/day. I'm 5'3 and weighed around 125 at the time. I wanted to lose 10 pounds and after 6 weeks of this I had turned into crazy, irritable witch mom/wife and had only lost 3 pounds.:mad: He suggested I stop connecting my running and my weight and focus on running faster or longer or find a race or something. He reminded me that I used to enjoy running and now it was a chore and burden. It was such a blessing to me (after I took a few days to think it over and decide he was right). The joy is back in my running and exercising now. I eat healthy, but I eat. (1200 calories a day is just NOT enough). I'm still 5'3 and I currently weigh about 124 (+/- 3 pounds depending on the day). But, I ran a 19-miler in under 4 hours last week and I loved it! I feel good, I play with my kids, dh still wants me, I have energy and I'm happy. I don't know if dh realized what a monster he was creating.:tongue_smilie: I went from running 4 miles 4 times a week, to running a 10k, then a Half-Marathon and now I'm training for a full Marathon (Nov 10th!!! Wahooo!!!:D). But, I feel healthy and look healthy and I've accepted myself: big hips and all. :iagree: If you are truly in a healthy place mentally, emotionally, and physically, I say let it go. Focus on some other goal in your life and continue to live a healthy lifestyle. Be happy in your own skin!:D

:iagree: PW here, too. I bet threre's a good number of us here who could/would support each other in a private social group. I have found a lot of support and willingness/desire to understand each other from WTM members.

:iagree: :iagree: Thank yous only need to be for those who sent something ($ or flowers) not for mere attendance! I like GVA's list.

:iagree: I love the idea of asking the family (assuming you know them well enough). I much prefer the idea of donating to a cause the deceased believed in than buying flowers that are, ultimately, fairly useless. No disrespect intended, but I think the comfort that comes from flowers isn't the flowers itself, it's knowing that the giver cares about you and is thinking of you. I always try and send a condolence card with a notation that I made a donation to XYZ charity in the deceased's name to honor their life.

Sounds like "phishing" to me. I wouldn't add my checking acct info.

This is me, only it's 15 years as of next month and we live in Northern Virginia now. Since I started staying home we have lived in every area of the country (including Hawaii) except for Alaska and the Midwest. It's a conscious choice for us, and I'm grateful dh and I agree on it. We are a military family and, ironically, most of the SAHM's I've known over the years (and the different duty stations) have been the young enlisted guy's wives. You wouldn't think they could afford it as many of them bring home less than $1000/month but somehow they make it happen. I think many of us prioritize staying at home because it gives a little more stability to the kids when you move every 2 years. (Moving in itself can be a job: getting the house unpacked, getting the kids in school/activities, helping everyone adjust and make new friends, learning where to go and when, etc. etc.). Also, I think it's harder for military spouses to have a "career" (not just a "job") because we move so often. JMHO :D I'm grateful to have the right and opportunity to choose what works for my family and for me.

This is what I used in middle school as a narrative alternative to SOTW instead of Kingfisher. There are three voulumes total. The first one gets you to basically 1400. The second volume goes up to 1914 and then the third gets you up to "today." We loved it! If you do an advanced search on this board and the K-8 board for "K12 Human Odyssey" and "k12HO" you'll find a ton of threads with all sorts of opinions that might help you get an idea of whether Human Odyssey would work for you.:)

Perhaps not what you want to hear: but ds did GWG3 mostly independently. When he finished the lesson we went over it together. What I found, though, was that without talking it over with me, he retained very little. We are using FLL4 this year and he's remembering a lot more. I wish I could find something in the middle...:bigear:

Just finishing up 1st grade here. FLL 4x/week WWE 4x/week AAS 4x/week We've gone through FLL 1&2 (the old blue hardback book) because we could, the lessons are short and easy and dd really wanted to do them. Plus, I skipped the narration and copywork since she's doing WWE. And, we have just worked through the poem memorization in the order they are presented in the book, but not at the times the book says to introduce them, when she's got one down, we just go on to the next, reviewing all the memorized ones every couple of weeks. Now, being #4, dd was begging to do a grammar and a spelling program last year in K. I put her off till 1st, telling her she had to finish phonics before we could start grammar and spelling. She finished phonics about 2 months into 1st grade, so we started FLL and AAS then, but we did start WWE at the beginning of 1st grade.:)

I don't have SOTW vol 2 lined up with HO but I do have HO lined up with k12's Human Odyssey book and I have all 4 volumes of SOTW lined up with Usborne and Kingfisher encyclopedias. The line-up with Kingfisher might help you line up SOTW?? ... if you want it just pm me your email address.

I have one for Ancients (SOTW and HO Ancients Level 2). If you pm me your email address I'll send it to you. The file is too large for the boards...:D

We did EG level 5/6 for 1 year with my olders (5th and 7th at the time). We learned prepositions really well, but nothing else. Part of that was my fault, I didn't know enough grammar to teach it and there's little to no explicit instruction in EG level 5/6 other than "memorize the list of preps and then eliminate prep phrases to be able to label everything else." :001_huh: If you're going to use a lower level it might have more instruction, I don't know. I've learned more grammar from FLL4 than anything else! We did FLL4 with the same kids the year after EG 5/6 and FLL was so much better for us. My kids hated the scripting (they were 6th and 8th grade by then) but they actually learned and retained what we did with FLL4. HTH

Yes. But I also use a separate grammar program. WWE isn't enough (imho). It's intended to be a writing program used alongside a separate grammar program. :iagree: However, we have discovered some gems to read together that we would never have started if we hadn't come across it in the WWE workbook.:D

Let us know when you're done. I'd pay good money for a well-done unit study that would be of such high interest to ALL my kids at once!:D

I found there to be too much repetition in How Harry Cast His Spell. But, he also made some really good points. Can you get the book from your library? I got is from paperbackswap. It's worth 1 credit, but I'm not sure I'd pay full price. It does have a lot of theology, it mostly points out connections between Christian ideas and the HP books. HTH:)

I have just used the workbook because I simply didn't have the time to find my own passages. When I did find them, I had plans for what books the kids will be reading at what times and then we would get ahead or behind those plans and my writing plans got messed up. I know, it doesn't have to be a big deal, but it was to me, I had gone through all the work of picking passages so they would line up and then they didn't.:tongue_smilie: I find the workbooks open and go with absolutely NO prep from me. I like it that way. Although, lots of people on here use their own passages. I think the lack of responses is more a result of it being a Saturday on a holiday weekend.;)

Brilliance from Merry, as usual.:) We do math twice a week through the summer so it's just a do-the-next-thing anyway. I have always tried to finish up the history, so we can start fresh the next year. I'm a box checker by nature, but I have learned (painfully!) to let some things go and let others pause until next year. I have to remind myself constantly that I'm teaching kids, not curriculum!:D

:iagree::iagree: We did SL core 3 and then core 4 (American History) and enjoyed them, but I combined all my kiddos together those years (focusing on oldest two who were 10 & 8, and then 11 & 9).With my younger two, they listened in on what they wanted to, we focused on the three "r's" and we just read lots of good books, which I got at the library for free. If you have a decent public library just read, read, read at that age. Buy "Honey For A Child's Heart" by Gladys Hunt or Jim Trelease's "Read-Aloud Handbook." Add in math, phonics, and fun science books/documentaries. When you have kids that young, you want school to be fun so you don't get totally burned out and they come to hate it. I would never do three SL cores at once: you won't have time for it all and you'll feel like you wasted a TON of money! This would push me to push them harder to "check every box" and not waste hard earned money. BTDT, didn't make for a good schooling environment at all. :(

We've never used the 6th or 7th grade levels, but pre-algebra has been really good for my son. My friend who introduced me to Thinkwell (who has an engineering degree from Stanford) has used Thinkwell with her high schoolers before and been pleased with it. That doesn't answer your question but it does give you a bump.:D

I don't know if this book by John Granger is what you're looking for, but I found it helpful. Warning: spoilers galore!!!! Don't read this book unless you've finished the series yourself. (Unless you don't care to know the end before you read it;)).

I have a schedule that lines up medieval, but not ancients. If you want it, please pm me with your email address and I can email it to you.:) (The boards won't let me post it or send it through them, it's too big).

I have no time or energy to teach handwriting and I honestly don't think it's worth my time in middle school. Yes, we work on it in elementary, but there's so much that's more important in middle and high school! I'd teach him to type, make sure he can read cursive and sign his name. We live in a digital age, our kids even more so. Typing is a much more valuable skill, imho. They need to be able to read cursive and sign their name, everythin else can be done on computer. Others will disagree, I'm sure.;)