Crocs. Or go to Fleet Feet and have them figure out sneakers and inserts for her.

Our fireplace. The fact that it is one story since I tend to trip down stairs. Our ceiling fans. It's a good size for us (about 1400 sq ft). Cathedral ceilings in the living room. My kitchen layout (kind of a square, counters and at least lower cabinets on every wall, but not closed in, lots of counter space). Oh, and lots of light.

Catherine's is great for plus size. I just got a bunch of stuff from them (online clearance), but we do have a store nearby. Best of luck shopping!

I also wanted to add that you might find it helpful to research "Right brain learner" or "Visual Spatial Learner." They do seem to be on a different time line than traditional learners, but really in my opinion it's more that they are big picture thinkers and curriculum is not written that way, almost ever. Dianne Craft has some helpful things to say about them, the gist of which is that color, pictures, stories, and humor are what makes things stick in their heads. This has helped us tremendously at our house.

Number lines really helped my visual learner. In her brain, she tells me, she jumps around on them. Maybe post up a nice big number line. It might really help. Demonstrate moving around on it. As a for instance, she didn't understand bigger or smaller until I mentioned that the number was smaller if it was on the left of the other number on the number line. Then she got it. FWIW, my dd needs her own way to learn stuff, too. For multiple digit multiplication, she wouldn't do it the regular way. She had to break all the numbers apart and then distribute. (By the way, after a year or two of this, she does do it the regular way now.) (But the regular way is actually a short cut and doesn't make much sense except as an algorithm.) The way I had to teach her to do long division is opposite of what the regular way is (she writes down what we do in our heads and she does in her head what we write down), but it works for her and she still uses it. (We're in high school. By the way, Mathusee is your answer for high school math.) We had a fair amount of success with Singapore Math and Mathusee for elementary. Middle school was eclectic, but the Key to books were pretty good, heavily highlighted (color is really important for visual learners). Now we use Mathusee for high school (heavily highlighted). Oh, for grammar, you might try The Sentence Family and Grammar Tales and Parts of Speech Tales and Schoolhouse Rock. Very visual, very fun. Totally helpful for big picture thinkers. Once she gets older, we liked Seton (even though we're not Catholic). It's short and really straightforward. HTH!

Hits: Mathusee Human Odyssey (yes, I use this for high school and we love it) Apologia Advanced Biology (Anatomy and Physiology) -- my dental or medical inclined student needs this and I would be utterly unable to teach it were it not for Apologia Figuratively Speaking (we have been using this on and off throughout high school. It's wonderful.) Misses: Abeka Chemistry French III (finally gave in to my dd's hatred of French as she has completed the obligatory 2 credits of foreign language)

I upload them to Shutterfly. There's an app now that makes it super easy. Then once a year, I spend a couple weeks making a hard-copy yearbook for that year, which I order and keep on my bookshelves.

What a sweetie pie!

You also might look at Academy Sports and Outdoors. We buy many things from them for my dd and have since she was little.

Why are mashed potatoes out? What dairy are you putting in there? Butter? Have you tried Earth Balance margarine? It's dairy free and very good. Or chicken broth. My dd has a milk allergy and we eat mashed potatoes all the time.

My college roommate used to test with her cholesterol a little higher than the doctor liked. She was very petite and thin. She started eating more cheerios and oatmeal before her tests, and that brought her levels down. Something about oats.

It is my understanding that you can take zyrtec again, if you have a reaction. I think it is faster acting and maybe longer acting. They want you to call if you have a reaction so they can know if it's so bad you have to go to the hospital. Some people might go anaphylactic or something. ((hugs))

So.cute.

Is he a morning person or a night person? If he's a morning person, getting up early to finish homework is a legitimate choice. Just make sure to get up early enough. We did this several times when my dd was at a rigorous b&m school. Also, on weekends, she would do homework on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Again, valid choices that worked with her personality. When she worked in the mornings, she was more alert and worked faster. You'll work it out. I know it's hard.

We just enjoy our history and our literature. If my dd retains it, great. I'm looking for exposure and interest. My dd is a reader, but if she weren't, we would do audiobooks or movies. And frankly, we tend to read easier version of the classic literature when we do read them. I'm looking for general knowledge of plot and characters. We actually do movies for most Shakespeare and the odd random classic that I pick. This year, we have seen Much Ado about Nothing (with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson) and our next movie will be Wuthering Heights (with Timothy Dalton). Last year, we saw Romeo and Juliet (with Clare Danes and Leo DiCaprio -- which she liked and understood better than the old version of Romeo and Juliet that I saw in high school). We read (easy versions of) classics in between this. I tie in literature to our general history time frame. We just read history, but if we didn't, I'd use something like Crash Course World History on Youtube. Sometimes I make up tests, if I feel inclined. Or I just assign A for effort. It's my school. I can do what I want that meets our needs. HTH!

It's been so long, I don't really remember. I have a natural speller, too. I'm pretty sure I made her do the workbook exercises. If there were two, she would do one one day and the other the next day. Then the day before the test (probably test on Friday), we would do an oral test and practice all the words. No unnecessary other stuff. Really, a good stare at the words and some oral practice, and she would have been fine. But it's so satisfying having the workbook pages complete.

My ob/gyn said that talcum powder looks like shards of glass under a microscope and never to use it. She recommended Arco (argo?) cornstarch instead. We get swampy here in Texas at times.

This week's menu: (It's not a super healthy menu, but we're recovering from a hurricane partial hit and I'm tired.) BLT's last night because my dh cooked a large batch of bacon. Tacos tonight. Use remaining lettuce and tomatoes from last night. Open 2 lb. package of ground beef and use half. Burgers tomorrow, using other half of ground beef package from tacos. I also bought some frozen waffle fries. Frito pie, using canned chili and fritos. Chicken bbq sandwiches. Throw chicken in crockpot with bbq sauce. Serve on hamburger buns. Smoked sausage with sauerkraut and potatoes. Lasagna.

We had a thread on this a couple months ago, and I can't find it. My dd had spinal fusion surgery in March. She was in the hospital 5 days. Someone really needed to be with her the whole hospital stay because she was pretty out of it and in terrible pain. Could not have driven herself home from the hospital as she was on a narcotic for pain. Needed round the clock attention to med administration because everything was on a schedule. That lasted about a week (after release from hospital). The second week home still needed meds, but eased up some, schedule wise. Fighting against constipation was a battle, too. Have prunes and yogurt ready. She was (and still is) on severe restrictions that include no turning, twisting, or bending. So no laundry. No lifting anything heavier than a milk jug. No bending over to pick up stuff you drop on the floor (the ability to squat well again takes a few months). Oh, no showering for two weeks. That's fun. I don't know how many vertebrae are involved for your MIL. My dd, it was most of her back. Maybe if it's only a couple, they don't have as many issues? I don't know. HTH!

Amazon has Children's Outrageous Orange Mango for $7.71. If I'm reading it right, that's for a pack of 3. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JUJ1BJG?th=1 Maybe they are just renaming and re-marketing it as a Children's Toothpaste?

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Well, I like Abeka for that level. This is the Child Kit: http://www.abeka.com/ABekaOnline/BookDescription.aspx?sbn=123633 This is the Parent Kit: http://www.abeka.com/ABekaOnline/BookDescription.aspx?sbn=312207 But Christian Liberty might be less overwhelming: http://www.shopchristianliberty.com/grade-2-clp-curriculum-kit/ And Timberdoodle is generally the most fun: https://timberdoodle.com/collections/curriculum-kits/products/complete-homeschool-curriculum-second-grade

I've never understood the societal obsession with families having dinner together. I think there must be a script that we don't know about of behavior that's supposed to happen. At dinner, we eat. We don't sit around chatting. We're busy eating. Now, we are very close, and we sit around chatting the whole rest of our lives. But dinner is for ingesting food. We generally do that on tv trays. And yes, my dh does happen to be home for dinner every night. But sometimes we are hungry before he gets home, and we eat anyway. Dinner is for eating, not following someone's idea of how things should be.

Yay!

HO has a volume 3. I know because I own it. :) I don't own any of its student pages and whatnot, so I'm not sure if they exist.