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Homeschooling rocks.  Good for you thinking out of the box.  At first you will wonder if you are doing the right thing, if the curriculum is right, if you know what the heck you are doing, if you're trained properly, and the biggie--what will others say about the S word (socialization), etc.  Just go with the flow, know you won't be perfect, but you are able to tailor what you teach to your daughter unlike in school.  If she benefits from the small class size in private school, you know that she will benefit from the one-on-one teaching and learning relationship with you.

I have no experience in schooling special needs kids, so I'm sorry that I cannot offer assistance.  Hopefully you have lots of support in your town.  We have a Home School Assistance Program headed by 2 licensed teachers who are homeschoolers, and they have been quite invaluable to me.  They head up lots of opportunities for the big S word.  If you don't have that support, it's okay.  You will do fine.  Have confidence in yourself, because you care the most about your child's education.

My favorite site is time4learning.com if you are looking for something secular and fairly comprehensive.  It can be used for supplement or as a core curriculum.  My daughter does not like learning on the computer so much (she's 6), so we use textbooks and workbooks instead.  We are library hounds as well. 

Homeschooling does not take 8 hours a day, either.  We don't line our kids up to go to the bathroom. 

as well as the ones that answered this!

My 86-yo dad is the same way.  Sticking his nose into my business.  He also constantly rags on me about my son not mowing the grass, etc.  I have explained to him that I LIKE to mow the grass and to please drop it and he just keeps on and on.  One day he walked in my office and shook his finger at me and said, "You just wait, you just wait, y'all are drinking way too much pop."  This because I buy it when it's on sale and it lasts a very long, long time.  And, by the way, neither my son nor I are overweight.  Older people just can't (anyways he can't) realize I am 53 years old and have lived on my own without his valuable input for a long time.  He just doesn't have anything else to do. 

The thing that really bugs me is when he comes over and just plops down in here when I am working and I tell him he can't be in here when I'm working and he gives me all kinds of excuses ("I can't see read what you're typing") and I have to just keep the screen minimized until he goes.  He just doesn't get it.  The other day I told him to go over and check on my cousin's new fence, and that got his train of thought going in a different direction and off he went.  He called me one day and told me not to commit to the big diocesan pledge thing that's going on, that I am to tell them I am a single parent just barely scraping by, etc., etc., and I wanted to tell him I am not quite that destitute yet, but I just agreed. 

Oh, and I have an extremely screwed-up sister, too, who Dad thinks can do no wrong and her son is the greatest, etc., etc.  Oh, the stories I could tell about her!  Well, it was me who gave him a place to live after Katrina and it was me who gave him my couch for his new house because he didn't have one (another delusional idea, he thinks he is broke), not her, so I just keep quiet and keep civil and remind myself he's old.   When it gets to be too much I tell his sisters, who tell him to back off then he does for a while.  All part of life. 

I always have my TV on in the next room just for noise and every now and then to catch something going on. If it was turned off now I think I would be asleep! 

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
  
• 1 lb chicken breast, skinned, boned, cut into 2 x 1/2 inch strips
  
• 1-2 teaspoon chili powder
  
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin (not in original recipe)
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  
• 1 cup thinly sliced onion
  
• 1/2 cup green bell pepper, strips
  
• 1/2 cup red bell pepper, strips
  
• pizza dough, for 12 inch pizza (you can use refrigerated pizza crust if you like)
  
• 1/2 cup mild salsa
  
• 2 cups monterey jack cheese, shredded

• Heat oil in large skillet.
  
• Add chicken and cook, stirring frequently until lightly browned.
  
• Stir in seasonings.
  
• Add onions and bell peppers, cook an additional minute or so until vegetables are crisp-tender.
  
• Heat oven to 425°.
  
• Sprinkle pizza pan with semolina flour and press dough into pan.
  
• Pre-bake dough until it is a very light golden brown, about 6 minutes.
  
• Remove from oven and scatter chicken over crust, spoon salsa over chicken, spread vegetable mixture over that, and finally, top with cheese.
  
  
• Bake for another 15 minutes until crust is golden brown.

I like lighthearted stuff mostly - How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Lucky Seven, Wedding Date, Wedding Planner, Never Been Kissed.

But, also really liked Contact and U-571 and A Time to Kill (see the Matthew McConaughey pattern emerging?)  And Dead Poets Society is also one of my favorites (I cry at the end every time - My Captain, my Captain!  )  Oh, and It's A Wonderful Life - I watch it every Christmas by myself because no one else will watch it with me.

Good question.

I figure you can do one of two things:

First, buy the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus books and learn how to talk like a man.  You know - short, sweet and to the point or maybe just a couple of grunts.  No blow-by-blow descriptions.  None of that emotional/feelings garbage.  Don't use him as a sounding board for ideas - ask his opinion only if you want him to fix the problem.  All that [insert your expletive here] stuff.

Second, and the one I would prefer, is to go out and buy a T-shirt that says *If I'm Talking You Should Be Taking Notes*.  Actually, I'd get several in various colors, one for every day of the week. 

And I wonder why I'm not married! (she grins)

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1)  I was on the phone with my boyfriend sitting on a no-back barstool.  I was rocking back and forth against the wall when the barstool went out from under me.  It not only went under me, the leg came back to jam me up the rectum.  Of course I dropped the phone and immediately started yelling, IT HURTS, IT HURTS!!  My boyfriend stayed on the phone all that time and my mom had to pick it up and tell him I'd have to call him back later I just gave myself an impromptu colonoscopy.  Talk about red!!  My butt hurt for like a week.  I couldn't even poop for 2 days after that.

2)  My boyfriend (now husband) and I were making out in an orchard one night.  Afterwards, he took me home and the next morning I awoke to find my entire backside covered with poison ivy.  I also noticed I was missing about $60 I had shoved into my pockets the night before.  I immediately called my boyfriend and explained that it must have fallen out of my pocket in the orchard.  Since $60 was a lot of money to me then (now it barely fills up my tank), I asked him to go back and look for it.  Lucky for me he found it and I used it to buy some Calamine lotion.  Man, did my butt itch for a week.  We still laugh about this one.

out something perfect for them.  I heard of a youth group name the other day and it is kind of cheesy but it stuck with me for some reason.

God Squad!

300, Forest Gump, Bram Stokers Dracula, 50 First Dates.

Those are probably my top ones that I never get sick of watching. I have a pretty huge movie collection and pretty much only buy ones that I really love though.  I'm a fan of most all types of movies.

Let's just call you stinky girl