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We had 7 in 1200 sq.ft. w/ very small closets, no attic, no garage...
What helped: bunk beds, lots of shelves, bins under the beds.
What I should have done is just get rid of a.lot. of stuff.
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Interesting. I ALWAYS go to write it as "Dilemna" see it spelled wrong, fix it and then go :001_huh: I really thought it had an "n" in it. Very weird. I actually have always been pretty good at spelling, and I find this odd. I wonder if I was taught it at one time with an "n"? :confused:
30, private Christian school
42, public schooled in the NE
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
1000 Gifts by Ann Voskamp
ETA: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
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Did he sign up for it? Did you make him sign up for it?
Regardless, he was signed up for it worked on it somewhat and than was allowed to not go because you and your dh felt his speech wasn't up to par. Personally I think you did him a great disservice by allowing him to not follow through on this.
I would have made him go, give the speech and let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes they have to learn the hard way and at 15 he needs to start acting like an adult.
I agree with a PP he got what he wanted, to stay home and play on the computer all day.
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May I?:lol:
Okay, the truth from my house. It gets easier when they start leaving for college. Less kids to teach.:D
Other than that, I don't know that it gets any easier. The stressors just change. It becomes different. In some ways, the longer you homeschool the easier it gets just because YOU relax some because you know what you are doing and have done it so many times before. Then again, you keep trying new things, so it is always different.;) I did learn to relax a little at some point. That does not mean it got easier or less hectic. It just means that I relaxed about it all.:tongue_smilie:
This is my first year with my eldest in college. She is living at home, so I still am asked to help her with stuff now and then. (She cannot use her right arm, so I have to write out her note cards. She likes to bounce ideas off of me for essays. Every once in a while, she asks me to check a math problem. And, I have to hold her when she is having a nervous breakdown over an assignment. Only partially kidding there.) But, at home they are all in high school now. We are truly able to all work on the same level, and they mostly all combined for classes this year. It has made things way, way easier.
This. :iagree:
I have a 7, 10 & 12 yo at home this year. No baby or pre-schooler, no high schooler (sent her to ps this year), and oldest is graduated. I had come to believe that I just didn't like homeschooling anymore. Not so. It's just kind of overwhelming when they're all little, or the age span is large.
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I have a slow learner. We tried Easy Grammar for 2 years and it was not a good fit, not enough review. I had previously tried Rod & Staff but it was too hard. Looking back the problem was that I should have put her into a lower level. This year she is using English 4 (she's 12) and it is going much, much better. Because R&S orally reviews past lessons everyday, she is retaining the material, and the language used is simple enough. Really she'd do even better is she were in English 3 (everything is presented so clearly in that text), but her younger brother is using it and I didn't want the competition.
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She sounds normal.
I think my oldest was saying two words at that age, "doo" for rooster and Mama. People kept telling me that I should get him evaluated. Whatever. He understood everything we said to him. When he started talking for real it was in complete sentences and his vocabulary was amazing. I wouldn't be worried yet. Children develop at their own rate.
A mother of five.
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When my son had it years ago the doc said to gently clean the scab/crust off with warm water and use an OTC antibacterial ointment on it (neosporin).
HTH
This.
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If I had anything to say about it, I'd never cook or eat turkey again. But I don't :glare:
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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.
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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:
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Loved that book! But it's been a couple of years since I read it. :)
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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
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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.
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Sorry for the slight hijack Imp... but... MEganP where are you watching them? I can't find *anywhere* where they stream Bones. I don't want to purchase it, I just want to stream it!
Netflix has seasons 1-5 on instant.
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Lizards will keep the scorpion population down.
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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.
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I would assume that only a tiny minority of those people were actually rich folk perpetrating food stamp fraud.
Because, why bother? I mean that quite seriously. Why would somebody who was doing just fine financially go through all the effort of food stamp fraud just to have a couple of hundred dollars of grocery money--which they can only spend on groceries--each month?
I qualify for WIC; I don't get it because we don't need it and, quite frankly, it's enough of a hassle that I don't feel like dealing with it. I think that situation is far more likely--that people qualify for FS but don't bother to get them because they are scraping by okay and don't want to deal with the hassle--than people who have enough money to buy new cars and designer clothes scamming the system.
Does fraud happen? I'm sure. But, honestly, I don't think food stamp fraud is a widespread problem. I've seen no evidence to indicate that it is.
To the extent that it does happen, I honestly don't think it's well-off people illegally getting them; I think it's far more likely misuse of the stamps, and people trading them for cash. I was once approached by a man in the grocery store who offered me a $15 EBT card if I'd give him $10 cash. (I obviously turned him down.) He appeared to be homeless, addicted, and/or mentally ill (very likely all three), and I'm assuming he was trying to sell his food stamps so that he could buy alcohol or drugs. But, I see no reason to assume that he didn't actually qualify for food stamps, and every reason to assume that he did. Misuse of food stamps is probably the larger issue, fraud-wise.
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:
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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.
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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.
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I'd probably pay her between $5-6.
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We always end up spending mroe on everyone else than we do our own kids. It makes me sad to see all that $ being wasted and then in turn receiving gifts that I really don't need or want.
SO I'm just curious how other WTM families handle this.
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.
How much do you spend on Christmas gifts for the kids in your extended family?
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