CalicoKat
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It hurt when I realized this because I had to sacrifice my dreams of sitting on the couch and enjoying reading books with the kids. They hate it!
They'd rather listen to books on tape while coloring or browse an encyclopedic type book about the subject.
While they can read chapter books still aren't the book of choice.
For us Homeschooling changed to be about tailoring to our kids learning styles. . . not just mom's ideas. :)
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than with the former format?
I thought perhaps it was just because I'm still at about 75% power here, but I think it's more than that.
Not that the new format is bad, just different.
I have a harder time quickly following interesting threads or coming back to the ones I've contribute to.
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for school and no matter what it looks like it is beautiful.
(I desire this soo badly but it just doesn't seem like God is going to bless us with a bigger house, and I'm angry.)
Enjoy your space.
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And wondering why God seems to let good things us by. :confused:
The stress level in our house is huge.
-- 2 baby adoptions pending in court
-- 1 house that we would like to sell, but isn't moving
-- 1 down payment on a new house that is waiting to be built if/when we sell
-- dh's job has been in limbo and seems to be increasingly so, 9 mths will tell if he still has this job.
-- dh's slipped disk that isn't responding to treatment
-- my unexpected 10 day in the hosp. with surgery to remove body parts I didn't have a chance to use.
-- dh's car just broke down and will need replacing
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my least favorite thing is when they bicker and then they try to involve me to solve their problems.
We started to see some real progress when we stepped back and focused on coaching the kids on how to communicate with each other rather than focusing on how to resolve the current argument.
For example,
"Mom she took my toy!"
And did you tell her that?
"No"
What do you think you can say to let her know that you feel badly about her taking your toy?
"I don't know"
Can you tell her, "when you took my toy I felt bad?'
"Yup"
Ok, why don't you go ahead and see if that helps.
Stuff like that. The younger the kids are the more detailed your coaching is, but the basics are that I don't let the kids put me in the middle of their argument. I'm amazed at their solutions. They're usually better thought out than the one I think would work.
After a week of coaching it gets easier and the kids realize that they have to work together. My oldest dd 8 can see trouble coming now and we've overheard her working to avoid a confrontation with her sibs.
They still have their arguments, but they're getting better at resolving them, by themselves. A good skill to practice--one I wish I would have had more practice with.
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We're currently in Vernon Hills and planning a move to Volo. :)
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quiet honestly I think homeschooling my kids has made them nicer kids to be around. I enjoy them (most of the time). I enjoy their friendships. I enjoy seeing them growing academically and character-wise. I enjoy seeing them interacting and playing nicely with each other. We do have our bad days, but mostly they're good.
If I did just focus solely on the academics of homeschooling I think that I would be frustrated. I would be looking at the to-do lists and fretting over what did and didn't get done. And I'd be fretting over home many days we'd schooled, were we going to finish by June 1st, etc.
I make sure my attitude towards learning is progresss--however slowly or quickly each child is progressing. If academic progress is being made then we're good. Mostly what's going to get my kids ahead in life are their people skills and character. So it's those little unquantifiable, unexpected, and interruptions that I also have to remember are progress.
It sounds to me like ya'll need to take some time off. When I'm tired nothing looks good and nothing is all I want to do. Rest and then try it again. :)
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I'm diabetic too so it's more than just loosing weight it's about eating right every day.
I hate to say how many total pounds I need to loose because then I get discouraged and give up before I even start. :( (50lbs or so).
So I'm shooting for 15 lbs by July 31, 2008. An another 15 by Jan 1, 2008. A total of 30 lbs for the year.
My appetite is still fickle right now, post surgery. I hope I don't get ravenous as I heal. . . most likely, right?
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ya know, since I've not had much to eat for the past 3 weeks due to pain & nausea. Don't forget the ovaries and that 7+ cm cycst--it had to weigh something at least in ounces.
Nope, I've gained 2 pounds.
I'm bummed. I was thinking that a nice weight loss was going to be my "silver lining" in this whole adventure.
what'sup with that, huh?!
And here I was thinking fondly of food for the first time tonight -- ymmmm, doritos (in my best Homer Simpson voice).
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I did have a basket with a lid, but it got full and it was heavy. Now I use an old ice cream pail with a lid. It works. A general one for the cold meds, and one for the perscription.
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I've used them with all 3 of my kids to teach reading. My kids were/are empowered because they can read the words in the ETC workbooks by-themselves, right away. It's more practice and generally easy practice.
We are also using OPTGR, Bob Books, and MFW K with the 2 newest readers. ETC workbooks make them feel like super readers, it's fun and it's still school work.
I agree that it reinforces phonetic reading--and spelling gets a boost from their ETC work too.
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i'm not sure if my dr. would be amendable to that as he was more than willing to keep putting me off prior to the apt. that lead to me running to the hosp. for surgery. Do they have to be able to analyze my old ovaries?
I have to go see him and the surgeon this next week and I'd love to show him that I'm not the willy nilly housewife he thinks I am.
My medical history is quite complicated but basically it's that I take coumadin to prevent blood clots from forming on my artificial heart valve. My ovaries were victims of the coumadin therapy. The left one was doing what it was supposed to but because my blood doesn't clot well instead of just healing after/during ovulation a cyst formed and kept filling with blood. Dr.'s felt that the right one had to go too because of the tremendous risk of internal bleeding each cycle. I can't ever stop taking the coumadin.
My ob/gyn is firm that he explained this all me to 10 yrs ago -- not! My cardio. dr. says that it's something no one could have anticipated as it's mostly geriatric patients taking coumadin for yrs, not young people like me.
Either way. It doesn't matter now.
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Yup, my hormones are in a bottle.
I really wanted to get the hive mind's input prior to getting them out, not that I really had a choice. Can you believe the hosp. didn't have wireless?!!! And not that I had much time inbetween those lovely IV pain meds. :D
Sooo . . . it's not supplemental hormone therapy. It's replacement (they removed both of ovaries). According to my dr.'s it's a moot point, just trading the "organic" hormones for pill form.
Please tell me I'm not the only 38 yo out here chugging pills so my life isn't plunged swiftly into the Siberian Steppes of Menopause.
Also, if you could include your dh's take on this. This isn't only affecting me. :(
What can I expect, what should I be aware of, what aren't my dr.'s telling me, what am I loosing because of this change.
Thanks for sharing. Please send me a private message if this is way too personal. I'm still hung over on vicodin to be embarassed just yet. :)
I'm recovering. I'm sleeping a lot and I'm still waiting for the "plumbing" to sort itself out.
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I knew you guys were missing me. I kept trying to tell dh how to post a reply, but the new board must have already been up and running.
It was a scary time, so glad to have it over.
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I guess not with all these new board changes. . . . :) the board looks lovely.
well if you'd been wondering where I'd disappeared to I've been in the hospital for the last 10 days. I went to my apt. that my obgyn begrudlingly gave me and from there straight to the hospital.
I had surgery on the 14th to remove both ovaries and tubes. My cyct had grown 2 more cm in the 5 days since the ER visit to a whopping 7 cm. It was hemorraghic so they were concerned about me bleeding internally.
Anyway I just got home today and I'm tired. I'll catch up with ya'll another day.
:)
I have to be my own wife, don't I?
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:o OK, it's probably not what you wanted to hear because it's more money. But if you can't have a house husband and you some dedicated time perhaps a nanny can help.
My dh hired one for us because of my surgery but we're both loving it. I'm free to snooze guilt-free when my body needs it. And he's able to work late guilt-free at his job that he's probably going to loose anyway in the next round of layoffs--maybe this will help!?
A Nanny has been a wonderful addition to our routine.