Sigh I just can't see how to make Sonlight work for my family. I'm bummed. 1. I don't want to do a 3rd year of Am. History. 2. We're at the end of another sweep through history with everyone studying Ancients again at their grade level. If combine the older two, SL is recommending Core 100 - Am. History There's no good Core for combining my middle three + it would still leave me with additional for my 1st grader. Essentially 3 core hell. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

We're wrapping up a two year trot through Am. History. If we were staying with MFW we'd be back in the Ancient time period part of the 4-year cycle. I c o u l d team up my delayed 7th, 5th and 3rd grader in one Core. My 1st grader won't be able to join them. I wonder if this isn't why folks send their high schoolers back to ps.....can't fit them in with the rest of the crew any more. She's able to work independently with weekly check-ins with me. Hate to just throw her in, so to speak. Cuddle time. . . . . that doesn't happen around here with my energetic can't sit still kiddos. No one can sit still that long. No dreams there about it happening too. Especially for my one son with body tic's. He's always twirling, kicking, rolling, jumping, . . . . . constantly. A Sonlight advisor made the original recommendation and said that it'd be doable. It just didn't sound right! Thanks for confirming my thoughts. I'll keep playing around with things and see what I come up with.

Would 3 Cores be walking the edge of insanity? Specifically Core B, Core F, and Core 200. Can Core 200 be done mostly independently? There's a vitual ps that allows families to use Sonlight that I'm looking into. :hurray:

I tried crocheting the hat from red heart. BIG FLOP. It's flat. It's a flat polygon. I can't figure out what I did wrong. SC's and I blew it. :bored: And I stalled on the nadia beret with the decreases at the end...... I'm calling it a night. Frogging the crochet thingy tomorrow.

My ds is (a very active, super destructive) 7 who's pestering us for a double bass. :smash: It would be kindling by the end of the first day at worst, or by the end of the week at best. :smilielol5: No way are we buying it for him. So now he's been working gma. :svengo: And she's like, "Well he is interested. What if he's talented?" This is the kid who can't walk straight through a room on his feet!!! It twirls, cartwheels, hops, sommersaults, army crawls, martial arts kicking.....you get the idea. Gma's going to take him to an orchestra concert and pay for a couple lessons with an instructor (on a borrowed instrument. We'll see what happens next. She's offered to keep it at her house and he can only practice there if he's got any talent. I wish he was still pestering for his own horse. That I could manage. :lol: Maybe you can't get her a horse. But you could start on lessons. It would give her an advantage when she does finally get her horse.

Cables.....I've never done them. But this is the style of hat I'm looking for in a pattern. I found a crochet pattern over in the free patterns on Red Heart I've only crocheted a scarf so I'm a little nervous about trying something like this. They had this one too. And it's knitted. But I wasn't sure about the ear flaps.

Yay, I'm almost finished knitting for my girls 3 scarves, 2 hats--only one more hat to go! So for the boys.... I'd better knit them something too, right?! A hat & scarf for them. Scarves, no problemo a simple ribbed scarf I'm thinking. But the hat needs to be special, like the girl's berets. Free, easy to intermediate, handsome. :)) I've been posting my FO's on Ravelry.com if you're curious. I'll have another one out there tonight to match the blue fringed scarf.

:iagree: What a fantastic idea. "The Duggar's Eco Make-Over."

The interview went well. They'd already checked a few of his references. He's being recommended for the 2nd round of interviewing for the position. It'd be the better job if he gets offered. But he has the offer that starts in January. :)

WOW, You guys are good prayers, good thought thinkers, and good vibration senders! The interview hasn't even started.......... DH just walked in the door from his realtor gig AND He got a job offer from his financial planner contract gig he's been working too. Yes, he's been working two jobs. It's for a FT position starting Jan 1st. :hurray: He's still going to do this other interview today because it'd be a stronger offer and in his former technical field. If they make an offer that's the one he'd choose because it's almost double in salary and more stable. What a great problem to have. You guys are fantastic! Thanks. :001_tt1:

There have been more than a few interviews in the past year. And I hate to mention it because i hate it when we have to say, "Nope, not this time, again." But it wouldn't hurt to get a few extra prayers, good thoughts, energy sent our way. It would be a mostly telecommuting position. He'd have to do 1 to 3 months of on site training. It's contract work (of course). Now I gotta get the kiddos and dogs out of the house for a while.

if I say that my son's breathing & vocalization tics are really getting on my last nerve. He just started these this fall. Doc says to not mention it.

Yup, my 5 year old had trouble focusing, waiting, going in a straight line etc. Still does, but it's better. Her martial arts instructor has her pick out two plastic round "spots" when we check dd in for class. She gets to put one "spot" on either side of the mat. When they do activities part of her extra work is to "slap her spot!" She very good at finding her spot and slapping it. I have noticed that they tried this with another young fellow and it didn't work. He's not there any more. I was glad it did work for dd, at least in Karate class. :laugh:

Melatonin is the only way I get to rest. I call it "old lady sleep."

Hmmm, maybe I should rethink my request for tile on the cement floor spigot-on-the-wall-in-the-basement-shower that's most popular here. We have some tile left over from a remodel we did two houses ago and DH says it's enough to tile the shower. We do have a full bath upstairs but no one likes to use it and I can't imagine why not. It's nice enough.