Posts by quietplease

Try daveramsey.com. You will not be able to change your financial life until you get your spending and budget under control. Once it's under control, you'll be in a position to choose what will make you more fulfilled. Good luck!

We went to two awesome pinata parties this sumer. One had fake jewels that my daughters were all over. The other had small party-cracker type gizmos, and those were a huge hit as well. Hope that helps!

Thanks for the wonderful suggestions! Anybody else???

Hi everyone! We live in Washington State and are hoping to do a week of camping in Utah this summer in order to see some cool dinosaur excavation sites and museums. Can anybody recommend some campgrounds, museums, etc? We are tent...

I did REAL Science (life) with my gifted 1st grader, and used it with lots of additional outside materials for her gifted 4th grade brother. I really liked it and it is full of information. It is secular. You can find it...

I hated the ant farm because the insert said that in the wild, the ants could live for about a year, but in the farm they would live 2-3 weeks. It felt like a death watch to me.

We just started Challenge Math and 10yo DS really likes it. It does seem to cover a very wide range of topics. I am using it as a supplement to Singapore and so will not hit every chapter. We just did Chapter 2, which was very fun (he...

My son came home after 2 years of public school and 2 years of an alternative school. He loves it and never wants to go back. My DD had a wonderful preschool experience and has homeschooled since - she is much more curious about public...

There's a huge thread in Parents as Partners, I'm not sure if there's a minimum post number to access that forum or not. Good luck to you. There are a lot of us here with similar issues.

My kids love SOTW and love to hear the stories read aloud, even though they can read them themselves. We uploaded them to their MP3 players and they listen to them in the car all the time. We also do many of the activities, and they...