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I agree with all of this. My daughter had a severe reaction to pistachios at age 4 and we have been carrying an epi pen since then. She has had incidents with other tree nuts:My son had an anaphylactic reaction to cashews. According to Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food Allergies, cashews and pistachios cross react. According to our allergist due to the way foods are labeled, we must avoid ALL tree nuts. He also said that some studies are showing tree nut allergies having reactions with sesame, so we're to avoid sesame as well.The unfortunate part about food allergies is that they do change over time and new allergies may develop.
I'd avoid all tree nuts. And be sure to carry the Epi pen.
--a neighbor gave us some cinnamon rolls that had walnut powder on the bottom, she complained of a burning in her throat when she ate a bite. She threw up, took a benadryll and was fine a few hours later.
--a friend had muffins at the pool, my daughter asked if there were any tree nuts, the girl said no. About 10 minutes later, my daughter told me that her stomach was upset and she was worried about having eaten tree nuts. I call the mother and find out that she ground up almonds in the batter. My daughter took benadryll, slept and was better later that day.
I will say that she avoids all tree nuts even though I don't think her reaction would be as life and death as others in the same scenario.
I wish you the best of luck in finding a helpful doctor and managing the allergy.
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I was born in Tucson and recently returned from a trip there. I will add that I have traveled to Sedona as well many years ago. I am familiar with both places though I will state up front that I am a bit biased in favor of Tucson.
Sedona is beautiful! It is pretty self-contained. It is a great place for hiking and biking. The drawback that I found was that it has a certain element of being exclusive and ritzy (to a certain extent) and therefore lodging and restaurants tend to cater to a crowd that likes to pay extra.
Tucson is a much larger city but has a lot of options for hiking and biking as well. You will have to drive to any one of the outskirts to do those things. There are lots of lodging that surrounds the city (resorts as well as B&Bs) so that you are not driving so much. A benefit is that your food options are much more varied in type as well as price.
If you decide to go the Tucson route you could PM me and I could offer up several suggestions of hikes as well as bike rides (mountain and road).
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At my kiddos school, 3rd graders and below do Shurley Grammar and Singapore for math.
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I hope he heals up quickly.
I have to share that I did the same thing with almost the same results...only both of my parents were at work and only found out an hour later when they came home to a crying girl and a bloody towel.
My dad later said that it was a lesson learned the hard way for me. I hope your son isn't being too hard on himself for the same thing
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My two entered a charter school two months ago. It was the first time in a traditional school setting for either of them.
The transition has been surprisingly smooth. I had considered myself a slacker homeschool mom ("I'm not doing enough!") so I was delighted that within just a few weeks the kids had a handle on the homework loads and the tests and that their teachers were thrilled to have them in their classrooms. The school is considered to be the most academically rigorous in the city and does not teach to the test yet regularly has some of the highest scores on it. It also uses curriculums that I have either used in the past or that I have at least heard of through WTM boards, so that was a plus as well.
So, academically, I have no complaints with their experiences.
Socially? Well, it has been mostly positive. My daughter is the one who comes home and tells me about something a kid has said that is troubling to her. We have interesting discussions about how peers say one thing but do another or how girls can act like they are the best of friends and then one day be decidedly not friends.
One incident that stands out is when she felt like some girls she was hanging around with were just not as friendly as at the beginning of school. Knowing that my daughter is at the top of the class, regularly finishes her work and then helps the teaching by filing papers or tutoring her peers in class, I asked--as gentlely as I could--if maybe they didn't like her because she always did well. She said, "Oh, because I'm a goody-two-shoes?" (:lol:) Yes, I said. Her response? "Well, I don't care. I think I'm well-rounded and that's all that matters." I think she'll be fine.
The downers from my point of view? The time preparing a healthy lunch with snacks. The 15 minute drive to the school. The homework. The bureaucracy. I had to fill out a load of paperwork simply for the school to have an epi-pen in case my daughter injested a tree nut. Then I had to do it all over again--with doctor's signatures--when there was a field trip. Ugh.
I will say that for my kids right now, this school is the best choice. I certainly wish it was still homeschooling. I miss them and feel as if my days are lacking a purpose that they used to have. But that is not the plan the universe has for me right now.
Best of luck to you as you and your family make the decision.
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I agree that there is no harm in letting her hang out with the big sibs and see if she can do it. FWIW, my daughter was a newly turned 4 when we started level A and she had no problems.
Good luck!
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LOTS of novels with terrible writing are edited by major publishing houses. I couldn't read Twilight because the writing was horrible. Selling well does not equal great writing.
Have you listened to SWB's lecture in which she talks about diagramming good sentences v. bad? I think this is a great exercise in how NOT to write sentences.
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Thanks for sharing the link, OP. I'm sharing it with family and friends that had to listen to my rants last year when I tried reading it and was personally offended by the poor writing.
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I don't think it hurts to ask the teacher for clarification in a non confrontational way. Just a casual,"dd is struggling with this and that, she can't see the homework board but doesn't want to get up and disrupt class. can you help me find a solution?".
This is spot on advice. I just went through the whole "man, I don't want to come off as that crazy over-involved ex-homeschooler mom" thing myself. I bit the bullet and contacted the teacher (much about some of the same stuff that you spoke of) and was met with utter friendliness and understanding. Things are going much more smoothly now.
I really urge you to contact the teacher in the manner that Cadam suggested. Trust me. :)
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You probably get tons of "great job", "what dedication", "what a great parent you are to devote so much time to your child"---we full-time homeschoolers have had to deal with much ridicule, finger-pointing and just plain rudeness.
Once you have homeschooled exclusively, then feel free to air your grievances against the blogger in question.
Which is what I thought I was doing. I HAVE homeschooled exclusively until this coming August 18th. So I felt like I could see where she was coming from. My kids have endured all the nosiness, the random quizzing and so on. We've lived it and I still say I "get" what she's saying, but I think she's too heavy on the vehemence. Finger-pointing, labelling and what-not are never positives regardless of the situation.
That's true. It's hard. But what isn't? I'd rather be positive in what I'm choosing to do, than feel an angry need to delineate what is/isn't homeschooling to validate my choice all the more. That's what I feel like she is doing. Again, IMHO.My guess is, she's probably had her fair share of attacks BECAUSE she homeschools...possibly from those ps'ers and afterschoolers...maybe if homeschoolers had not had to deal with the bullying FOREVER from others, we wouldn't be so defensive about the choice we've made.
Maybe if WE homeschoolers could be accepted we would also be more accepting...it's hard to play fair when you are the only one willing to do so.
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It's a wonderful thing to be able to be off the school grid completely. But it does not work for everyone all of the time.
This is all too true.
I thought I would be homeschooling until high school and in three weeks my two are going to be attending traditional school for the first time. *SOB*
Seven years ago--when we were first starting out--I probably would've pumped my fist right along with her. But along the way, things change and while my kids have gone through the inquisition from strangers regarding being homeschooled, I've stopped feeling threatened by others' choices and labels and concentrated on being okay with mine.
Maybe the author of the blog should consider doing the same. I mean, why so angry? *shrugs*
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I'll back up others suggestions of Yuban--the dark roast. I'm not an ultra coffee snob, but this one is pleasant but dark tasting without being acrid.
I can score 33oz for $5.99 when stores have a sale and I have a coupon.
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Even better than reading Twilight is watching a 20 year old British guy reading it and posting his thoughts on youtube. He starts with chapter one here:
If you can ignore some er, colorful language from time to time, then I say give his videos a chance. He's up to chapter 14 right now.
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Also, I wasn't expecting a lot of answers, but the ending felt like the writers truly didn't know what to do with all this mess, so they slapped something together and called it a day.
I found myself yelling at the screen during all the reunions, "Cut the cheese, people!" :glare:
LOL. A day later I am still upset about how the show ended. Jack was my least favorite character and it seemed as if everyone else was framed to fit his story arc.
I'm glad that some people loved it, but I sure as heck didn't. It was like the producers wanted to gloss over story arcs and consistent characterization in order to have all this glowy reunion flashes so that the audience would be so swept up in the emotion of it all that they wouldn't care to think about what was actually happening.
Ah well. Give me a few more weeks and I'll be over wondering what those six years of pondering Lost were for. :lol:
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My daughter came back from a friend's house the other day and shared a little convo they had about crushes:
DD's friend: I bet you'll get a crush this summer (:blink:<--me)
DD: Oh? Do you have a crush?
Friend: Yes, his name is Jake.
DD: Let me guess, he's cute and funny, right?
Friend: Yes! Do you know him?
At this point in my dd's recounting of the tale, she told me, "Mom, I didn't have the heart to tell her that I've seen enough movies to know that girls ALWAYS fall for the cute, funny, dumb guys."
:lol:
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Carrot cookies.
They are my no-brainer cookies for the summer because they are light tasting and most kids have no idea that they are eating a vegetable at the same time. :lol:
Mix:
3/4 cup butter (softened)
3/4 cup sugar (I usually do a mix of brown sugar and white sugar here)
Then add:
2 eggs
1 cup cooked, mashed carrots
1 tsp vanilla
In a separate bowl mix:
1 cup white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
Then add the flour mixture to the butter/sugar mixture (about 1/2 cup at a time) until it is well-combined.
Drop tablespoon sized amounts onto some cookie sheets and bake at 300 degrees for 20 minutes.
You can add a citrus icing on top:
2 Tbsp orange juice concentrate
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp melted butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp lemon zest or orange zest
My kids love the cookies without the icing, so if you want to keep it relatively healthier, then don't do the icing.
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So LOST ended up NOT being about Light vs. Dark....but about Reality vs. Fantasy?:confused:
No, it is ALL about Jack. Sigh. About an hour in, I had this eerie sense that it was going to be all about Jack, the hero treatment, the winning of the girl (despite the previous seasons of Jack/Kate being either ambiguous or creepy or apathetic toward each other--never bought some soul-searing love between them), the saving of the day, the WHATEVER.
So, I turned off the tv and went to bed. LOL. It's really strange that I was able to let it go with 90 minutes to go. I now wish I had stopped watching after season three. I get how lots of people loved the reunions (I did wake up this morning and read a synopsis of the rest, BTW) and whatnot--I liked the ones that I saw, but I absolutely despise that it all comes back to Jack.
I am on board with the "what a waste of my time" group. I have learned my lesson. I am off serialized television that is still currently filming and will only watch shows that are complete and come with high recommendations.
I still cannot get over how laughably bad I thought it was.
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I'm Kara. Surlygirlie is what my husband of almost 14 years calls me when I get snippy with him. LOL.
I've got two kids that have been homeschooled from the beginning--so I've been at this for roughly 7 years. WTM boards are where I started researching HSing when Surlette was 3 and then hung around for a few years while I got my bearings (I don't remember my username from the old boards).
I've recently come back to WTM while going through the internal debate of whether I should send Surlette to middle school or commit to continuing this whole journey.
While teaching the kiddos, I have picked up knitting and am relearning how to play piano.
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LOL. Yes, it's the little things.Desmond also says, "See ya in another life, Brutha" . . . with a charming Scottish accent. :DI saw this posted on a different site. It was in regards to growing feelings of disappointment with the show. I thought it was too funny not to share.
Yeesh. This is the episode where i'm really beginning to doubt that they know what they are doing. Well, 3 1/2 hours left, let's see what they can do with that.
My experience with LOST goes something like this....
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LOST: So there's this Island, and it's special, see. Time travel, polar bears, whispers, smoke monsters...
ME: Tell me more.
LOST: Let's ask the Dharma Initiative! Mysterious group of scientists, led by Alvar Hanso, searching for some unfathomable secret, with all their cool, 1970s-era technology. Cool, right?
ME: Yes! But what is the secret they are after?
LOST: You should ask the Others, they know. The Others have been around forever. At first they looked like savages, but -- surprise! They have modern ways and means. New Otherton, Mittelos Biotech... yes, sir, the Others are where it's at. Ben is the leader and he knows everything.
ME: Great... so what does Ben know?
LOST: Huh? Ben? He's actually pretty in the dark. The real big dogs here are Widmore and Eloise! They have all the answers!
ME: Super. Let's have more Widmore and Eloise, then!
LOST: Sorry, no time for that. We're going back to the '70s, when the Dharma Initiative was still around. Neat, right?
ME: Very. So the Dharma Initiative, they were...
LOST: Uhhh... just some scientists, i guess. They wanted to harness the electromagnetic energy for research, time travel, that sort of thing. Anyway, they are scientists, based in Ann Arbor. That's about it.
ME: Oh.... so what about Alvar Hanso? He must have some grand design, right?
LOST: Who? Alvar what-now? Nah, look, i've just been messing with you. Let's cut to the chase, time is running out. It's all about Jacob and his brother, Smokey. They are immortal! They play an epic game! There are rules, candidates, loopholes! Everything that has happened so far is because of them! Jacob and Smokey!
ME: Great! Let's learn about them!
LOST: Well... Jacob is just doing what his mother told him to do. He doesn't know why, really. His mother's dead. Smokey wants to leave the Island. That's about it.
ME: That's it?
LOST: Well, there's this light, see, this golden light underground. It's all the goodness in the world. But it turns people bad. It kills you, or makes you live forever. Something. It must be forever guarded but never used. It's inside everyone but can't be touched. Light! Light! Pretty light!
ME: .....this is getting lame.
LOST: LOL, PARALLELUNIVERSE! EVERYTHING DIFFERENT! WHAT IF LOCKE HAD HIS DAD BUT HIS DAD WAS RETARDED? WHAT IF CHARLIE STILL DID DRUGS? HOW IS JACK'S BABY FORMED?
ME: >__<
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The things that worries me is that it seems like Jacob has done everything that he has without really knowing why. That means since he is the oldest character there and he doesn't have the answers to all the questions, we may not ever get the answers either because there is no one inside the story that knows them and can give them to us. That would NOT be a satisfactory ending.
On one hand, I do agree that not having a kind of certainty to the Lost-verse would be a let down, but I do think that one of the numerous themes has been centered on faith. Perhaps it is enough that Jacob took his responsibility just as he did--who knows?
My biggest worry is about the core characters--the character arcs are my biggest love here--and what their ultimate fates will be. I was disappointed in the deaths of Sun/Jin so soon after reuniting, but I am not sure that a fitting tribute would be for them to somehow live on in the alternative universe either. Those two characters are Sun/Jin in certain respects, but not the characters that worked through their issues on the island. I guess I am saying that I don't feel as connected to these stand ins and my biggest worry is that the alternative-verse is going to be the final vision of these characters. Then again, practically everyone still on the island is dead, wounded, or discouraged--not much hope there either.
Maybe I don't know what I want. LOL.
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Yes, that episode was a disappointment. I think that when you get down to the nitty gritty of attempting to explain WHY, things can go very, very wrong with a show like this.
The only thing that I outright HATED about the episode was the heavy-handed use of the season 1 flashback in the cave when Jack and Kate found "Adam and Eve." I mean, c'mon, for a show that has a fanbase that is used to ferreting out clues and making connections, why oh why did the show have to basically kick us in the face with that scene? I pretty much figured out--before they showed that scene---that MIB and his mother were obviously going to be the two skeletons in the cave. Bleh.
I can't remember the exact wording, but didn't Alison Janney's character say something along the lines of "every question I answer will lead to another question," I think that was the writers little in joke that we just have to sit back and take what they dish out and stop expecting everything to be clear and understandable. On one hand I get it--there is no way that every element of mystery will be explained. Frankly, after this episode, the less they explain, the better it might be. :lol:
The only redeeming thing? Titus Welliver. Deep voice and piercing eyes? Yes, please. [/shallow]:D
I think I've said it before, I just am trying to get through the season for closure. Only two more weeks. Yay!
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My son started mowing our lawn last summer when he just turned 8. I will grant that we have a reel mower/push mower so I am a little less leery about it.
The neighbors have a gas mower and they started letting their 12 year old mow last summer as well.
It probably just has to do with your comfort level and the amount of trust you have in your children to not do anything glaringly stupid.
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What I really wish I had done? I wish I had not gotten sucked into Lost from day one. I wish I could have waited and watched the whole thing when all seasons were out on DVD.....that way I wouldn't have had to endure all their crazy long breaks in the seasons.
I agree. That's what has really driven me crazy over the years. Now I feel I am trapped and can't walk away from the show without knowing (for better or worse) what happens. It bums me out because I am not enjoying this last season, it feels more like something I have to endure. Like when you have to take antibiotics and feel better after the third day, but have to still slog through seven more days of pills before you can be considered free and clear.
Or something like that. :lol:
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Alt reality Sun is pregnant. Adam and Eve are Rose and Bernard. Though I don't remember if that was answered or my assumption.
I don't think they answered who Adam/Eve are just yet. I think it might be coming up soon, but we'll have to wait and see.
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LOL. But no, I don't want Sawyer to stay true to Juliet. I'd rather he'd be alone. Juliet was HIS consolation prize for leaping off the helicopter to save the people he cared about. She was his friend and companion for those years in the 70s. But Juliet as his true love? Nope. Therefore, not worth me--as a viewer (a viewer who watched Sawyer/Kate, their chemistry, their kisses and so over the seasons)--getting invested in. YMMV, of course.PEOPLE!! Sawyer is too good for Kate. She's got the morals of a barn cat, and probably half the diseases. Don't you want Sawyer to stay true to Juliette?
I'll second this.I couldn't take Hurley crying.
I think this all sort of boils down to how this show writes about women characters in general. Juliet was ambiguous and kick ass and all kinds of wonderful UNTIL she was stuck in the 70s and got all insecure about her boyfriend's first love. She what does she do? Sets off a bomb so that she doesn't have to meet him and lose him. *scratches head*just can't stand Kate. She has not grown in any way during this show.Sun was an awesome character as well, but last season and this season she was barely present and mainly was there to say, "Where's Jin?" at appropriate times. Again, another waste.
Kate is by far the extreme case, they wanted her to be cagey and with the dratted triangle business they had to keep her viable options for both men---with varying degrees of success. I think her character suffers the most under the weight of the back and forth.
Look at how many of the women characters have been killed off on this show. It really is a shame.
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eggs (but only on the weekdays--price goes up on the weekends)
Silk soy milk
half and half
frozen chicken breasts
frozen salmon fillets
provolone cheese
parmesan cheese
portobella mushrooms
button mushrooms
oatmeal
canned tomatoes
flour
yeast
fruit (depending on season and price)