Posts by earthmama369

Demolitions expert.

Personally, I'd choose to work with animals. I love my kids, and I've worked as a high school teacher before, but I found that while I loved my students, I really wasn't able to handle the politics and structure of the school system. If...

This is the first year both kids have really dialed in to the concept of holidays and they're reeeeeally excited about Ostara. I'm excited, too, because we've found a group of local families who are either pagan or pagan-friendly and...

If we didn't have so much medical debt, I'd say $60K would be a comfortable income level for our area. We're in a pretty high COL state and starter homes in most areas are around $200,000.

Former teacher, former homeschooler (hoping to go back to it!), and yeah . . . most homework is pretty useless, imo. According to the school, my first grader should have half an hour of homework four nights a week. Personally, I think...

Is it possible to talk with your dh about the habit of saying "let's just buy it while we're here" rather than planning to get specific items at the other store because of cost? I shop similar to the way you do -- certain...

I had scarlet fever when I was pregnant with ds. I had had a mild sore throat -- nothing that felt like strep to me -- and treated it with honey and herbal teas, pregnancy-safe throat lozenges, etc. No fever at all. It went away, but a...

DH and I had an outdoor handfasting for our wedding ceremony. I really torqued myself over making the Christian guests feel comfortable, to the point of ridiculousness. Luckily, dh reined me in and reminded me that this ceremony was...

Quote: Originally Posted by TheSlingMama  Um really?  This is not the impression I got.  From what I understand it's meant to encourage and foster creativity and imagination. Maybe just...

Berlitz does a good introduction to conversational French (and other languages) in a workbook with written explanations and activities as well as internet-based activities. It also comes with a CD so that you can hear the actual accent...