This.

St. Augustine, FL

If I had anything to say about it, I'd never cook or eat turkey again. But I don't :glare:

We have Madeleine dolls & a Miss Clevel :) Miss Clevel is shaped like a 40yo woman, no joke ;) I'm not sure if they're even still made, but I think the manufacturer was Eden. Anyway, these are the dolls that I'm saving for when I have granddaughters. They are very well made.

I'm going through the same thing, but for me it's milk and gluten I think. Yuck. I already can't eat raw fruits or veggies. Part of my thinks that I'm just going to have to start living on air :tongue_smilie:

Loved that book! But it's been a couple of years since I read it. :)

For us it was LOF as well. When my 14yo got home from high school last week and saw the 1st 4 books that I'd purchased to read aloud to youngest she asked if maybe we couldn't just all read them together in the evening :D

My girls like to like use kool-aid to put streaks in their hair. Can't beat the price :) They are both white blond. I don't know if it works in dark colored hair.

Netflix has seasons 1-5 on instant.

Lizards will keep the scorpion population down.

My oldest was an only for 6 years and I did play with him until he was about 8ish, but not all the time. This consisted of a lot of lego building (which I enjoy), making roads & train tracks for his vehicles, playmobil, and board/card games. #2 was reading well at age 4, so around that time I was off the hook ;) I also didn't have time to play by then, because we were homeschooling and there were 4 of them, including a new baby.

This., esp. the bolded. We've qualified for the past 2 1/2 years and never applied. There were just too many hoops to jump. I can't see putting in that kind of effort for so little gain, if you don't actually qualify :001_huh:

Well I know that the 4A 3rd edition text lines up perfectly with the 4A US edition workbook, because I just made a schedule for them last weekend ;) I imagine that it works the other way as well.

We are facing our second x-country move in under 3 years. This time I'm purging books.. I just cannot justify the cost in moving them. We've been homeshooling for 15 years and have a.lot. of books. It's hard because my youngest just started 1st grade and this time we're moving out of country and they could be expensive to replace if I end up needing them afterall. However there are things that I was sure that I'd need the last time around and I haven't used them, I just can't afford to cart a personal library around the country with me, iykwim. I'm not taking clothes that I was saving for the youngers. We're leaving our old couch, but we are taking the beds, too expensive to replace for 4 children. I'm leaving behind all my pfaltzgraf, I don't want to pay to move something so heavy that will probably break, plus dishes are cheap to replace, esp. when you don't entertain ;) We've made an effort over the years to only have good quality/educational toys and games. However with oldest being 20 & youngest only 7, we've accumulated more than we need. I always thought I'd have them for when the grandkids visited. Now I'm rethinking that. We're giving the chest freezer to my parents, and leaving the appliances because we'll be renting out our house here and renting there. Hopefully whatever we rent will have those things in place already. And really we could afford to take all of it with us because the new company is paying for the move, but down the road when we come back, that will most likely be on us, so we're going light.

I'd probably pay her between $5-6.

This is how my siblings and I were feeling, so we decided to do something about it. We went through a trial and error period but finally about 5 years ago settled on this scheme. We rotate the gift giving and we can give individual or family gifts. It has really helped to cut down on the stress and the expense. We have seventeen children between the five of us. Anyway, the year we started this we were assigned to the next sibling up (I'm the oldest so I got youngest brother) and then you move up the line. It has worked beautifully. This year we're back to the family that we started with. I love that I can get a nice present for them instead of little things. For instance, last year my brother gave us Settlers of Catan and the expansion set. He never could have done that if he'd been buying gifts for 22 different people :o My parents are not in the line-up. They are able, and like buying for all 22 of us. My dh family is very small so that hasn't been an issue.

We've had the best luck at the thrift stores.

only that it's beautiful :)

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Me too. I miss Azure!

:grouphug: hugs to you. I've traveled that road myself. It's hard. Here's another hug.

Me too :)

I hs'd my oldest all the way from 1-12 (though he did take some outside classes at the CC.) #2 started high school at the local public school this year. I'm still hs'ing the rest, all 1st-6th this year. This is year #15 for me.

piano, french horn & trumpet. I'm currently learning the recorder as I teach the kids ;) and I have a mandolin in my closet that I need to make time for.

The lights are "on" but attached to a motion sensor, so really they mostly stay off ;)