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the only help I have to possibly offer is that we buy food in bulk at sams club - meat and such. about once a month we make the trip, and we come home and I make it into dinner packages to go into the chest freezer. I have packs of chicken, pork, beef and veggies in the freezer. so all I have to do is figure out in the morning while getting breakfast ready what we're going to have for dinner....sometimes the crock pot works, sometimes not....and then I have to make something else for jason.
another idea is making WAY more than you need on weekend days....I do this often. make a HUGE dinner on saturday and freeze packages of it for use later. after a while you have a ton of food in the freezer for those oh shit days. you have to rememember to mark it all though koz if you dont you will wind up with random packets of food...heh
talking to you today was lovely! I miss that.
I wanted to tell you about handwriting without tears. I have it in cursive. do you want a copy? you can buy it online. it's great.
also look at type 2 learn you can download a free 30 day trial.
Yup, we do the Sam's Club thing too... but I've been getting away from the massive weekend cooking and I need to get back to that.
We have used Handwriting Without Tears actually. I used the printing one a while back, and loved it. Then we started in on Calvert Cursive, and after doing it for just a little while our Cyberschool sent us the Without Tears Cursive book as well. I thought it was great - Werner didn't find it "as pretty as Calvert's cursive." So he flatly refused it. I thought it was a great simple cursive system though, that any child but mine would obviously prefer to Calvert's complicated loopy letters. But hey - I'm still fighting with mine because he wants to put a cursive like tail on all his printed "a" letters... because they are "prettier" that way. The problem with Werner isn't that his letters don't look good, it's that he just gets worn out by having to write very much and he gets frustrated if the letters don't turn out the way he wants them to look (my overly perfectionist boy *sigh*). He just isn't up to writing paragraphs, as even a sentence wears him out. I think he just needs more time in that area, and I'm grateful our school is allowing him to skip composition for a while (though we still do spelling and handwriting).
I'm really interested in the typing program though. I tried typing with him about 6 months ago and gave it up. He just seemed "too young." But sometimes I don't have a good idea what is appropriate for his age...if Jason's fingers are managing typing it might be that Werner could tackle it at this point. I'll go check out the program.
Take care, and I'm glad to have had the chance to visit too!
so all I have to do is figure out in the morning while getting breakfast ready what we're going to have for dinner....sometimes the crock pot works, sometimes not....and then I have to make something else for jason.
another idea is making WAY more than you need on weekend days....I do this often. make a HUGE dinner on saturday and freeze packages of it for use later. after a while you have a ton of food in the freezer for those oh shit days. you have to rememember to mark it all though koz if you dont you will wind up with random packets of food...heh
talking to you today was lovely! I miss that.
I wanted to tell you about handwriting without tears. I have it in cursive. do you want a copy? you can buy it online. it's great.
also look at type 2 learn
you can download a free 30 day trial.
call again soon when you have time!!
miss you!
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We have used Handwriting Without Tears actually. I used the printing one a while back, and loved it. Then we started in on Calvert Cursive, and after doing it for just a little while our Cyberschool sent us the Without Tears Cursive book as well. I thought it was great - Werner didn't find it "as pretty as Calvert's cursive." So he flatly refused it. I thought it was a great simple cursive system though, that any child but mine would obviously prefer to Calvert's complicated loopy letters. But hey - I'm still fighting with mine because he wants to put a cursive like tail on all his printed "a" letters... because they are "prettier" that way. The problem with Werner isn't that his letters don't look good, it's that he just gets worn out by having to write very much and he gets frustrated if the letters don't turn out the way he wants them to look (my overly perfectionist boy *sigh*). He just isn't up to writing paragraphs, as even a sentence wears him out. I think he just needs more time in that area, and I'm grateful our school is allowing him to skip composition for a while (though we still do spelling and handwriting).
I'm really interested in the typing program though. I tried typing with him about 6 months ago and gave it up. He just seemed "too young." But sometimes I don't have a good idea what is appropriate for his age...if Jason's fingers are managing typing it might be that Werner could tackle it at this point. I'll go check out the program.
Take care, and I'm glad to have had the chance to visit too!
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