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That would be really hard! I'm glad that there is an end in sight for you. Wishing you an easy floor installation :-)
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Dh and I have been throwing around name ideas. We will not be finding out the sex of the baby, so we need one for each. We can't agree on anything! Name should go with:
John Joseph "Jack"
Katarina Frances "Nina"
Leah St. Clair
Parrish Matthew, III "Tripper"
Baker William
Susannah Grace
Henry Schroeder
Right now we've been throwing around Remy, Charlotte, and Christina for girls, and Christopher, Montgomery, and Maximus. But we can't agree on these, so go with your own suggestions. Must use Quinn as a middle name for the girl. Thanks so much! Go nuts!
Kate
Girls- Evelyn, Alice, Caroline, Violet, Scarlett, Jane, Kathryn, Vivian
Boys, Sawyer, Sullivan, Xander, Mitchell, Everett, Landon, Miles, Owen, Oliver, Patrick
Of your suggestions, I like Remy. Charlotte is overused where I am, and Christina just doesn't appeal to me. For the boys, none of them really speak to me. Christopher is more of a personal aversion because of the people I have known with that name. But it's a fine name. Montgomery and Maximus just aren't my style.
Happy baby naming!
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There is nowhere that I wouldn't be willing to go if my dh was job hunting. Yes, some states are harder, but none are impossible. No offense, but job hunting and providing for a family are high stress situations. I would focus on relieving as much of that stress as possible, not adding to it. Jmho,
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What do you do?
6yo is so sweet. But does she really. have. to. cry. every. time. something goes wrong? I mean...she couldn't think what to write for a writing assignment that she DOESNT HAVE TO DO. She insists on doing spelling w/ 8yo, then cries when she spells stuff wrong. I try to tell her that she's doing great, give her easier words, etc.
Ugh.
My 12yo is like this right now. The scary part is that she hasn't always been. The crying came with the hormones, about a year and a half ago. Any time ANYTHING doesn't go as she expected it to, she cries. It's like living with a pregnant me. So, I guess I'm telling you it may get worse. Not what you wanted to hear? I know. My 5yo is what we refer to as "emotionally unstable." If hormones can turn my 12yo into a crier, I don't even want to know what they'll do to the 5yo.
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I would definitely NOT use it. It holds too precious of cargo for me to take that chance on. Our insurance covered the cost of a new car seat when someone ran a red light and hit DH.
:iagree: Dh rolled his truck onto its side about 5 years ago. He was alone, but had a car seat in the back. Insurance replaced it without any problem.
I'm so glad that you're ok!
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I do most of my grading on Friday. Anything done wrongbecause of lack of understanding, we go over together. Anything that is wrong because of carelessness (not reading directions) or skipped is assigned as weekend homework. Weekend homework that is not completed by Monday morning results in loss of computer time for the entire week (my dd's currency).
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1. Sending children to government school isn't normal, it's cultural. I would correct her on that.
2. Our oldest has earnestly asked to go. We have agreed to high school and we're considering sending her back next year, for eighth grade. We will take this school year to pray about it. My ds7 will probably never ask. Dd5 is already asking, but the answer for her is, "No, we homeschool.". My goal is to hs them through middle school. Homeschooling high school is optional in my mind.
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Wow, I'm so sorry. I wish my mother were the type I'd want to have around when I was having a crisis. But, she's not. And really, that makes me sad.
When I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma, both my father and his wife asked to come, as well as did my mother and her husband. But, I told them both not to, because it was an outpatient procedure and we already had meals, etc arranged. My dad respected my request. My mother, however, showed up the day before surgery, unannounced and uninvited (specifically told not to come). She made sure I knew how much it cost her to fly out here. She was very invasive and pushy with the hospital staff regarding private issues about MY body, she wouldn't let my-then-husband come back to pre-op with me, even when I emphatically asked for that. She wanted to be present for the pregnancy test they always give a female before surgery (all I had to do was pee in a cup; she was expecting a pelvic and wanted to be there for that. Can we say FREAK?), and as we sat in pre-op waiting for me to be wheeled away, she asked if I was prepared to lose my arm (not even a possibility at this point) or if I had a will and did it give custody of my kids to my brother and his wife! She told me she'd fight EX for the kids on my behalf. It was surreal and insane. The next day after surgery, she wanted to go sight-seeing and where did we end up? At the Funeral Customs Museum! The day after my cancer surgery, and before any test results had come back, my mother dragged me through a museum that exhibited how to embalm people and how funeral customs had changed in the US over the past 200 years.
Too bad we can't wave a wand and make our mothers what we need them to be. :grouphug:
We never told dh's parents that he was dxed with colon cancer. We caught it very early, so no chemo was needed. If it had been, we probably would have told his dad (parents are divorced), but I don't think we'd tell his mom unless death was impending. She's that bad. (((HUGS)))
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The short answer is we have an awesome church family and amazing friends outside of our church. If it REALLY hit the fan, our family is a 7 hour drive away. But in a moment's notice emergency, it would be our friends. Unfortunately, we've had to test that hypothesis more than once. In the last 2 years we've had a forest fire evacuation and my dh was in a motorcycle accident. Both times, our friends dropped everything to come to our rescue. Thank God.
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Your timing is funny. I was just debating bringing back DWC to the library tomorrow. We are also using it with MFW 1 and I think I'm over it. Off to check out the other suggestions!
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Another vote for MFW. I'm currently combining my 5 and 7yo in their 1st grade program. As someone who has done 3 SL cores, let me say that it would not be the right choice if you want to combine 3 kids.
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I am using Abeka's K handwriting this year with my first grader. They sell it in both manuscript and cursive. So far so good!
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Have you listened to Andy Stanley? He is really my favorite to listen too. Francis Chan is also fantastic.
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I have both ends of the spectrum. My dh's mom is extremely challenging. One might say unstable. The only positive is that she is extremely loving through her psycho-ness
Dh's parents are divorced and fil remarried about 4 years ago and his wife is amazing. Everything I could have ever hoped for.
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I think I would earn an assault charge of my own if somebody did that to my kid. That lady must be mentally ill.
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http://www.guesthollow.com/homeschool/science/otters_science/science_human_body.html
This is a free guide for a study of the human body using several different books and other misc resources. It is planned for 33 weeks which will give some extra time if needed. HTH
Molly
Two thumbs up to this!
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We are only 2 weeks into the program, but I can give you my first impressions.
The exclusives are good. Ancient Egypt especially looks like it will have some fun stuff. The supply lists are well organized, and overall I like the layout.
I think that they may have gone a little overkill on the book selections. Right now dd is using MOH, Usborne encyclopedia of Ancients, First Ancient History, Holman bible atlas, and Ancient Israelites and their Neighbors. That's not even all of what she's using, but there seems to be significant overlap just in those books. I haven't decided what we will be dropping, but I'm pretty sure that at least one book is going to fall off.
The notebooking has been take it or leave it for me. Some of it seems like busy work, and some of it my dd has enjoyed. I'm picking and choosing. The independent study sheets have been a disappointment. Some of the questions have actually been more mapwork added to the already assigned mapwork, which I think is just silly. Other questions have come out of books that aren't even in the program.
We're enjoying the readers/read alouds so far. We're also loving the pace and assignments that go with Case for a Creator.
Like everything else, with some tweaking, I think it's a great program. FYI, I had some major delivery issues and I would NOT recommend ordering anything but exclusives from this company. Our school year was thrown off by 2 weeks and it took months and many phone calls just to get that done.
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This article focuses more on the who and why than than the results.
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Stacey,
I'm just getting back to answer you and it looks like you've had a lot of input already. My parents did everything right, which is not an easy thing to pull off. I think everything fell into two categories- 1) grace/love, 2) responsibility/accountability.
One of the things I remember my mom saying was that I was only going to have my first child once, and she wasn't going to make it miserable for me. We worked through the shock and planning together (sounds like you are already doing this). She pushed us (dh, then boyfriend, and I) to start planning and saving. She did NOT do these things FOR us. We opened our bank account, I got a job, dh was already enlisted in the Marine Corps ect. She also made me call my grandma, whom I was very close with, to tell her myself. I also went to most of my ob visits on my own. She was my coach for lamaze (dh was at boot camp) and a constant sounding board, but she really pushed me to start taking on the responsibility of a grown up life. I saw the guidance counselor at school on my own to discuss my options. I made the decision to enroll in the "preggo girl program", which was one of the BEST decisions of all (more on that later). I talk about my mom a lot, because my dad was pretty much checked out during that time. He was actually great once I had dd. He would often take the 5am feeding and he's totally a baby guy, but it was really my mom who pushed me to grow during that time. It's funny, for as much as she was making me grow up, one of my fondest memories of that time was crawling into bed with her and talking at the end of every day. It was a sweet time in our relationship. A lot of my friends were dropping out of the picture and my boyfriend was in boot camp, she was the one who got me through.
After the baby was born my parents helped, but I was really expected to do the bulk of the baby care. They took on a pretty normal grandparent role. They helped, but this was my baby and my responsibility. This is the part I really want you to hear. I'm not even sure how to phrase it. The one piece of advice I can give you is to treat her like the kind of adult, the kind of mother, that you want your grandchild to have. I've seen parents of teen moms who lament the loss of their child's young and wild years, and they will do things like babysit so their dd can go clubbing, or to a party all of their friends are going to, or to Vegas (I live in Cali, and I'm thinking of a young adult here, but nonetheless..). I think it's guilt that drives parents to step in and babysit or take on partially raising the baby, so the dd can be a "normal teenager". I think that they feel like somehow they failed their dds, so somehow they need to step in and give their dd some of her freedom back. I think that is a grave mistake. I think it creates immature mothers who are ill-equiped for the REAL sacrifice that parenting takes. You need to help her to become mature beyond her years. To me it's not so much about when she has a baby, it's about when she has a 5 year old, or a 9 year old. If she doesn't start the process now, she won't be ready for the mental marathon that is parenting.
I'm going to backtrack a bit. I found out I was pregnant at the beginning of my junior year. I attended school as usual for the first semester, but transferred to a special program for the second. Obviously, the quality of these programs is going to vary, but the one I was connected with was fantastic. Really, it was the director who was fantastic. She looked over my records, realized I could graduate early if I worked hard and then pushed me to do it. I graduated a year early. She helped us (preggo girls) get signed up for WIC, MediCal, and a voucher program for childcare. She talked me through getting enrolled in college as well. We learned how to sew by doing community projects (quilts for moms with AIDS), were taught baby care, nutrition and kept accountable. It was a vital step in my growing up process and I would encourage you to at least check in with your local district to see what they have. Judge it by the director, rather than the facilities. We were in a doublewide portable classroom that wasn't impressive, but she made all the difference.
((((HUGS))))))
Let your dd know that there is a whole bunch of teen moms on this board (what a surprise!) and I think we've all made it. :-) I have a really great life and no regrets. (quoting Todd Wilson) It ain't easy, but it's good.
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Serena?!?! I think the "f" word was interspersed in there as well. Wow, I've never seen anything like that in all my years of watching tennis.
Well you've never seen it from a woman, but John McEnroe certainly said things close to that, didn't he?
I've never been a fan of the Williams sisters.
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I told dh that it felt like I was running a race this week! I'm so grateful for Saturdays. Having a 4 day week actually made it harder because Wed is our run around day, and we don't usually do much school. This week I found myself trying to shove school inbetween appointments. Add to that, we had dinner guests every day except Tuesday. The other thing that really fouled me up was that our WP stuff didn't arrive till Wednesday and we had a lot of catching up to do. We haven't even started science, logic or Latin yet! Oh boy.
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I would drive 5 hours each way before I would be that guys patient. I would get on an airplane and fly across the country. I would move. I would NOT be his patient. I would file a complaint if I were you. I'm angry for you.
I'm rather angry about it but I am trying to stay calm.Saying he evaluated my cranial nerves. Not. Saying he went into great discussion over my multiple concerns. Not. Saying that I have a longstanding history with anxiety even though he wrote I deny that I have anxiety. Not. Well not exactly, I did feel emotionally upset at a time in my life when I was diagnosed with a chronic illness. I may become upset sometime in my future if it takes away my ability to function. This would be true for anyone. My diagnosis was 7 years ago. I haven't been on any medication for 5 years or more. Another doctor took me off. He also wrote that I perseverate. Not. I barely said a word because I was trying to control my anger at how condescending he was towards me. There were many other things. Saying my mother has a history of depression. Not. He never mentioned her real history of heart disease.
During the exam I did burst into tears at the sheer frustration and anger I was feeling. I felt like the scene in the movie The Changeling where the main character is in the asylum and everything she says to the doctor he twists to make her look more like she needs to be there. It was one of the worst experiences in my life.
There are no other neurologists here. I don't need him now but maybe in the future I might be stuck needing him.
Any thoughts? Talk me down, share your experiences, send me hugs. :)
I'm feeling better about it now that I am getting it off my chest.
Thanks
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I can drop handwriting...no biggie there:) I would like to drop one of the languages, but I don't know which one. Obviously, I should drop the Latin. However, I paid *good* money for the Lively Latin and the Rosetta Stone is free to us (military).
I also forgot that we plan on doing some mindbenders and other logic type books.
I wouldn't mind dropping trail guide, but my DS LOVES it! He looks forward to learning about the states. I guess we will have to cut it back some. Today was MUCH better. Matter of fact, we were done by 1:00. We didn't do everything, but did do the basics. I think I do need to give it a little more time. If things go the same as the last week have, these kiddos may be in public school next month! Just kidding:)
I made the decision to do Latin only. Spanish can happen in highschool. Sounds like you had a good day! I love those :-)
Graduate school update. I am adding another class.......
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That's awesome Joanne! It sounds like you have found a great fit at your school. I'm really happy for you.
My dh's brother has schyzophrenia. I'm curious as to what that study says. Dh's parents are (bitterly) divorced and anytime there is an issue with bil, and there have been many lately, the old argument of is dad/mom doing enough to help comes up. Schyzophrenia is a b!&ch.