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I know! Paiolini I shall get you... LOL

I'm sure she will be flattred that you thought of her. :) Sounds as though she is into litature. A book sounds like a good idea, or maybe a border gift card. What types of books does she read? I myself am a bookworm so I may be able to recomend an book. (I am also writing a book. ) What else does she enjoy? Music maybe? trouble is I always buy her a book or music - might just get her a big bunch of flowers for being such a great friend she is my favourite babysitter as she looks after my dog and cat so well as well as the kids. Charley LOL She's a teen. There's no such thing as 'too much music' and from the sounds of it books as well.

Yeah, I hope he gets Bellatrix...........

OMG! That was hard! I loved him... He was my favorite.........

For me school was a disaster I am bright enough and got to univeristy, but I have something called Dyspraxia (when I was diagnosed it was still called clumsy child syndrome) so I have always been untidy and the one that got 'picked on' - Do you find being homeschooled as a teen makes being LDS easier? I know the home ed teens round here seem so much better able to look after themselves. I wish I was musical - my husband is he plays the trumpet but I am about as tone deaf as a person can be what music are you into? I really like George Harrison, Robbie Williams, Johnny Cash, Charlotte Church (as in her pop stuff), my daughter loves old fashioned Diva's like Diana Ross, Shirley Bassey, Nina Simone, Eartha Kitt. I Do love books though I am currently reading Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hern and Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson the latter is about cosleeping with babies, I studied family archaeology at university and find the ways children are brought up in other cultures interesting. I used to read a lot of SciFi Fantasy books but started to find some of them a bit dodgy lol and had to be very careful. Have you read the Dragons of Pern series? I think they are my favourites. And I read on another board you love Harry Potter I do too - my all time favourite is CS Lewis though he wrote the Mars Trilogy - there is one of them Perelandra which is about a world where the fall didn't happen? have you read any CS Lewis apart from the Chronicles of Narnia? The Screwtape Letters are funny too? I've been helping my daughter write stories - we have been writing a series together called the Colour Fairies - she tells me the story, I ask her questions and then we draw the fairies or I get my husband or my brother to help.e If I ever did them into a story book though the villian would have to change as we borrowed Evil Edna the TV from an old cartoon series in the UK - guess she could become Petulant Petula the PC or Ellie liked the idea of a cat called Custardy Carnage, but he would have to be yellow and we have just written about the yellow fairies would make the pictures a bit yellow. Any ideas of a grey and dreary super villin? Have you got plans for college? at 30 I am still trying to work out what I want to do with my life aside from bring my kids up - I am doing a counselling course right now? Charley being HS makes being LDS alot easyer as I am almost always surrounded by good influences. I can look after myself pretty well, although I still need and want my mom's attention. My favorite music is alot of the christian artists. Krystal Meyers is my favorite female singer, (she is amazing) and Hawk Nelson takes the cake in the male department. Other favorites are Flyleaf, (Stay away from the song "i'm so sick" the rest is fine.) Jump5, Steven Curtis is good, Tobymac, Building429, like 3 songs from Skillet.., Superchick and soooooooo much more. If your into girl power check out Superchic[k]! Jhonny Cash is good! As is Charlotte, but I will always love Elvis. Books... Yes, I do read C.S. Lewis, although I didn't really like The screw tape letters. Sci-Fi is a hard market but I have found many good ones. Try Eragon and Eldist, Dragon Rider and Twilight. I have been writting a book too. Any tips? Villians....Hrmmm....No ideas now. But check out my website, there's some tips on developing villians. www.freewebs.com/bandageingthewounds College is sketchy right now, I am thinking about "The Art Instatute of Houston" as my grandfather works there and my entry would be free, but it's so far from home....... I want to work in art. Art has always been my passion, Music would be my second choice. It too is one of my passions.

I just need somthing I can hold, put music on and have the music sorted into files.... I have so many songs it ain't funni....

Ever have any "semanary Jokes" that only those in semanary know what your talking about?

Saving for one. Any advice? So far an Apple looks good....I do not like the Nanos! Too small. Then I've been hearing somthing about a pod that's used to a Mac computer can't be plugged into a PC....and vice versa....

LOLI am a slug. I value my sleep very much..

Rock is good, you just have to find the right groups. Same w/ punk.Alot of the christian rock and punk is good. Like Hawk Nelson and Krystal Meyers. Krystal Meyers even has a song on premarital sex. (Anti of course!) Your a cool dork. :)

I dunno, as much as I hate it. I'm pretty sure he's gone. With death it's so much easyer to just accept it..

Semanary..... The Good: It's fun, we have an awesome teacher and there are some nice desscussions. It's helped me alot, especialy with dealing with my father's passing away... The Bad: 5 Am....Need I say more? The kids can be so wild! Some days we wind up just singing...( ) I am the only homeschooler...... What about you guys?

Ouch. Sorry about that. When I get my licence (working on permit) I'll have to pay half. about 80$. So no Licence till' I have a job. So I can Kinda sypthasize... Kat p.s. Nice to see some fellow youth! :)

My fiance doesn't think he's dead. She thinks he's lying low so that Harry will then take on the task of defeating "he that must not be named" alone. Plus I think he dies at the end of the next book, but that reality is altered and he's a baby with his parents again. I think he's gone. The locket was proof Harry brought the "Horacux" back with him. Inside was a note from R.A.B It said, "You will recieve this long after I am dead." or somthin' like that... R.A.B was Dumbledoor

My father passed away last November. It's been hard but the church has been wonderful. I have homeschooled my whole life but most of my friends are PS, so I hear a plenty. I love litature! Reading and writing are my thing, I am currently writing a book. Fantesey and Sci-Fi are my favorites. I also love to draw. I've been doing that since 2. Music is on the top tho, I play guitar. (although I have been taking time off for awhile now.)

I'm sure she will be flattred that you thought of her. :) Sounds as though she is into litature. A book sounds like a good idea, or maybe a border gift card. What types of books does she read? I myself am a bookworm so I may be able to recomend an book. (I am also writing a book. ) What else does she enjoy? Music maybe?

My fiance doesn't think he's dead. She thinks he's lying low so that Harry will then take on the task of defeating "he that must not be named" alone. Plus I think he dies at the end of the next book, but that reality is altered and he's a baby with his parents again. I think he's gone. The locket was proof

Fifteen. The reason for this is all the talk I hear among adults about, "I wish I knew how they thought.." "What were they thinking?!" and such.... Wanted to help. :)

LOL He is a sweetie It's just that whole scene in the 6th were he was suppossed to kill Dumbledor.... He hesitaited. That and he's a kid, plus how he went to moaning mertle. I think he's just lonley.

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Think of your favorite Hymn!

Well technically the person that posted was wrong, its my soap box being an historian who studied, but its a common ignorance most people in the British Isles don't know what each term to describe our country means. England isn't an Island its 1 of 3 countries that make up the island of Great Britain (the others being Wales and Scotland) the UK - refers to Great Britain and Northern Ireland (so one island and part of another island). The safest term is the British Isles which then takes in the Isle of Man, Isles of Scilly, Channel Islands, etc, but then we are a group of Islands, and don;t even have governments in common. Have met several conventionally schooled Americans that think UK stands for University of Kentucky and GB stands for Green Bay Wisconsin:). Many people in England particularly forget that the other countries are distinct and there are still calls for independence, even within in England itself the South West area (Cornwall) is Celtic rather than Anglo Saxon and some people there call for independence but less so now I should imagine. Ignorance comes in all forms and schooling imo even in normal schools is only as good as the children and parents make it. The beauty of home education is you can just drop things and go and do something else - we just spent the night at a campsite, met up with another family that home ed and a group of French Bikers, some older people and Ellie had a great time, socialising your children out of school is easy and the socialisation is more natural, those that go to school later tend to be stronger and more able to say no to things they don't to do - this is how I am going about things right now but its just the days we are at home Unschooling for us happens as we go through our lives, as well as the Steiner writing I am trying to do the Waldorf Idea of having a rhythm to each day - we do some housework, then we do the Steiner bit of baking bread (OK not every morning, most mornings), 5 parts flour to 1 part butter, rub together then add enough milk to make a dough is a very basic recipe can be tweaked to make something that resembles a tortilla, small soda type bread or corn bread etc - cheese and carrot can be added. Doing this we do some chemistry (Combining ingredients), physics and we do measurements as well as making bread. I can give you some of the proper recipes its not proper bread but takes less than half an hour We try to take a walk outside, when we go we take books and binoculars with us as I am not very good with birds and plants so we look them up, even at 3 Ellie can help find pictures that look like the. We are working in our garden I am hoping next year to have a vegetable patch and greenhouse set up. If we don't manage and its a clear night then dh takes Ellie out with his telescope. Our house is full of books of all kinds right now I am very interested in Japanese culture so we have been learning how to cook Japanese food, speak a few words (how to greet a person), and I am looking into the architecture. And we have done what we can to take our baths Japanese style, which is great. I try and do some yoga but I have an illness and somedays can't manage it. We may do some painting or crafts - again the Steiner ideals come in here because I use real watercolours and acrylics which I scavenged off dh. Would like the beeswax crayons and clay but they are expensive so I scented some homemade playdough instead. We have time a soft play centre over the week so she mixes with other children outside of church. And then some days we sit in our PJs eat popcorn and watch say a wildlife show or even a movie. I think learning to relax and take stock is an important life skill. Or we can even just read books, do jigsaws. Right now she is very into She-Ra We are trying to do a lot of camping as we get plenty of visitors from the rest of Europe are here over the summer so I am hoping she will pick up bits of French, German, Spanish etc My daughter is bright and intelligent and would learn inspite of me - I know parents that unschool entirely never actively teach a thing their children generally learn to read and write at about the aged of 8 but they start with chapter books, some in a home ed magazine were 12-13 but then went on to college/university. I just personally feel that I want my daughter to read and write earlier because I know I would have missed out on a lot if I had left it that late. Home education will become even more important with my son - schools in the UK at least are seriously failing boys they are underachieving in most mixed schools even the good ones they don't come upto the same standard of girls. Helping my son suceed and fulfil his potential at home will be much easier as he won't have to compete in the same way he can learn to compete with himself. The unschooling for me is just grabbing their interests and helping them explore them and not really sitting down, but showing children how interesting and magical life really is, for example my daughter has a squint (lazy eye) and did have a hearing problem - gave us the opportunity to learn about how the eyes and ears works. For the last year she has constantly asserted to anyone who will listen she wants to be an ear doctor, so she has books on the skeleton and the workings of the human body, I want to invest in a Grays Anatomy, but will have to wait until my dh finishes college and gets a proper job. There is an interesting discussion going on in my national home ed magazine right now about Unschooling and how in its various forms its been treated as the norm for home ed in the UK and more structured parents have felt pushed out and are now speaking out. Charley e LOL I am thinking if anyone is gonna brainwash my kids its gonna be me - I do agree the joke in the UK community is the parent on a trip to a castle with their kids during term time and they are asked the usual questions, is it a family holiday, the home ed parent explains no they home educate, the parent of the other family asks aren't you worried about socialisation - the home ed parent looks at her children carrying on a conversation with an old man about the battlements, and then looks at the bored children of the family on holiday, just smiles and says no:) I have seen it myself - my daughter will arrive at a playground and go upto children and say hello will you play with me, and so many children get scared by that and hide behind parents legs etc I find it refreshing when we do meet children she doesn't frighten by a forward nature:) How do your parents homeschool? Charley My Mom homeschools me as my father passed away. She prints up scheduals, (weekly) and we do everything we can alone. Then we do what we need help with... It's been rough tho, with my dad gone and all. Kat p.s. My mom maybe joining here soon.

Okey, then. For the girls, you must look at some pictures of Kasey Kahne....

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just turned off the tv...after watching HOUSE!!!!!!!!! I love Hugh Lorie! OMG! Yeah! He is so Hott! Even my mom thinks so! LOL Yeah! I watched him on Sturt Little and was like.. That is so wrong! He's perfect for the charictar of House!