Upward Journey
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A neonatologist,and I didn't want to ever get married or have kids. What a completely different life I lead. :lol:
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If I lived in Finland I would have sent my kids to school.
Me, too.
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I'm more typical than my own mother. She's... odd... One of the most... eccentric... persons I've ever known.
Love her to death though. She's my mama.
I hope my children are this generous towards me when I get older.
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but feel free to chime in...LOL
ha, ha.
Well, I do happen to be not exactly tall. I'm almost 5'3"
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How tall are you btw?
I find they simply don't make these sorts of jeans to fit short people. Usually the mid rise comes up a lot higher than that on me.
me? or OP
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I love mid-rise jeans :wub: because they're so comfortable. I don't think I can ever go back. I have a whole closet full of high-rise that never get worn anymore.
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The boiler in our apartment building is out. Cold showers, in March, in Canada, are not happening. :p I now have another reason to get myself to the gym. Will it be enough motivation? :lol:
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Thanks. Hot dd can deal with. We live in the South. The farthest north dd has ever lived is Richmond, VA. (I think study abroad in Russia is going to be a major shock to her system! ;) )
I am going to have dd contact both depts. I do wonder about ASU, though. I found one common data set that listed only 26 homeschooling applicants and 16 attending. With a university that large, obviously homeschoolers are not flocking there. The lab hurdle is obnoxious. But I wonder if there is more that I haven't noticed.
I'm thinking that the statistic is deceptive. Many homeschooled kids in AZ also finish high school with an AA, so they end up being transfer students.
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Just spewing here.
When the kids were babies, I felt good because I was saving us money on formula and daycare.
When I was homeschooling, I felt good because I was saving us money on private school.
Now, most of my kids go to school. Next year, my youngest goes to school. I'll have no kids home during the day.
My family needs a flexible adult. My husband is not that. So, it appears my job now is to cook, clean, drive kids around and volunteer at schools. That is what my family needs. There is no economic value in that. I would have never guessed that that would bother me but it really does.
We don't live paycheck to paycheck but there are big home improvements we're not doing because of cost.
DH is no help. He wants me to get a "regular job" and we'll make do like every other family in the world. He says that there is no such thing as a flexible job that pays enough to be worthwhile because that is what everyone wants. Honestly, he's tired of me talking about it.
I have no skills. I have a useless degree that is 20 years old.
I'm not interested in substitute teaching or anything else involving children.
How in the world do you figure out what to do with your life?
I don't know, but I'm in your same boat. It keeps me up at night.
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Do you mean that you could circumvent the aura? Or the pain?
The pain, for me that was deliberating part of a migraine. My aura always consisted mostly of losing all peripheral vision, nothing more.
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I found that if I took medication when the aura was first starting that I could somehow circumvent it. If I didn't take medication soon enough, no such luck.
I think mine were hormonal, because after one of my pregnancies I stopped getting auras. That was a bummer, then there was no way for me to head-off the migraine, and they really interfered with life for awhile. After my very last pregnancy the migraines just...stopped. I think I've had 2-3 in the last 10 years, after a lifetime of suffering through them. Go figure.
Hugs to you. Migraines suck :(
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1/2 & 1/2, and if I run out I mix full on cream w/ milk. I don't like that as much. I don't add sugar. I prefer my coffee unsweetened.
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The people I know on Medicare have many problems with it. And there is nothing they can do about it at this point. They have no choice.
All the people I know who have family in both Canada and US have seen significant problems with Canadian health care. Multi-year waits for things that affect life quality. How does a developed country explain a multi-year wait as unavoidable?
The fact is that nobody has it perfect. The grass always seems greener on the other side, but it isn't better, just different.
The knee-jerk reaction to compare our system (education, health, whatever) to other countries is really more of a distraction than anything else. The US system is different at a basic level. Our political process is too different to just graft some European practice onto it.
But speaking of how other countries do it, what would be the reaction in any of those countries to the link in the OP? Are young adults in other countries as eager about being treated like children as some are here? Or would this sort of thing embarrass them?
I always hear people saying this in the states. But, having lived under the US system almost my entire life, and now experiencing the Canadian system firsthand, I vastly prefer the Canadian model.
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I think there are so many variables. One thing that could be bothersome is not having a place to send them out without you, but then that might not be possible where you live now anyway.
I think if you looked for a family friendly building it could be just fine.
We're currently in an apartment and this was by far the hardest adjustment to make. I thought I was going to go crazy the first year we were here.
The others things that took a while to adjust to were: having shared laundry facilities and having to be so conscience of our noise level.
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French schools have longer days and at least as many subjects as ours.
Not that I want to emulate the French school system, just pointing out that we are not the only ones trying to pack a lot in and sending our kids from class to class. My schedule in French public middle school included French, history/geography, music, technology, PE, two foreign languages, life science, physical science, art, and math. School ran from 9:00-5:00, and the schedule was different every day.
My children in Canadian high school also have just as many subjects as their American (US) counterparts (over the course of the school year). The difference is that most of their subjects are semestered, so they only have 4 classes each term. There are optional periods before and after "official" school hours if they want to add more subjects, but they're not required to.
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I've lived in France, Germany and the UK. I did not find that I had more disposable income at all. In fact I had much less. My income was lower than a comparable job in the US and the tax rate was higher. Costs were also much higher. Even taking into account the health insurance costs that I would have to pay in the U.S. I had much less at the end of the day living abroad.
I didn't see people worshipping government. But there certainly was a feeling that government should take care of much more than I was used to.
All that said, I loved living overseas and getting to experience the different cultures. All of the countries I lived in were wonderful in their own way. Please don't read my post as being negative against them. Just comparing this one area.
I don't think living abroad as an expat is completely comparable. As an expat you usually do not qualify for all, or the same, tax/social benefits as the native population. This has been my experience anyway. ymmv
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Can you grow pomegranates that far north?
Pecans?
We loved our plum tree. The only thing I didn't love was that they ALL seemed to ripen at exactly the same time, and there was no way to eat them all soon enough, not even with five kids. It was also really hard to keep the birds away :tongue_smilie:
While living in the SW we planted quite a few fruit & nut trees. When we moved the person that bought our house allowed all of them to die :( Yes, they even managed to kill the massive pecan tree.
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I unplug the modem at night. Literally nothing else truly works. A smart kid can circumnavigate a lot of the controls.
Yup. This is our go-to control as well.
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I vote awesome.
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I actually have experience with this because I red-shirted my three youngest children.
The child that struggled (and still struggles) in math: I did not bump her back up when she started high school. Being behind in math means that they also struggle with all math related sciences. Why set her up for failure? She will graduate from public school the month after she turns 19.
Child number two is going to be skipping grade 9. He's currently at home and in grade 8, but doing all grade 9 work. He will start 10th grade at his assigned ps in the fall. High school starts in grade 10 here. He will graduate at 17 because he has a very late summer birthday (the reason he was red-shirted to begin with).
I would keep your daughter where she is.
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Yup, when kids were little it was Costco for goggles. We also did bungee strings when the straps broke.
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My only knowledge of deer and FL comes from The Yearling. And the only place I successfully grew veggies while living there, was in the compost :p
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This conversation has been going on for awhile....
Any Fort McMurray Boardies? Are you all right?
in The Chat Board
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Alberta is huge. That would be like almost the entire state of Texas burning. Overall, it's pretty sparsely populated. If Alberta were a state, it would be ranked 27th for population size. It has about the same number of people as Oregon.