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too staged.

My daughter got hooked on reading from Magic Tree House books. She is about to go into the third grade and she can tear through two in one day. After she read the titanic book she found a documentary online and wikipedia'ed it to learn more. She has read almost all of the books and it has really helped her reading skills to move on to books that are very much above her reading level. She has completed about 8 full length chapter books along with several Magic Tree House Books.

My son on the other hand was not a fast reader in Kindergarten. We found that he didnt want to read unless it was really interesting to him. My husband found that a "simple" card (Magic the Gathering" came really honed in on our sons math and reading skills. The cards have a lot of text on them with complex words and there is a lot of fast math, all of which he has picked on on rather quickly usually beats my husbands friends at the game that they have been playing for years. Now the only things besides the cards that he will really likes to read are comics and Goosebumps Books. Which, as a second grader, I dont feel the need to push other books onto him until his proficiency has increased.

i save every wine bottle that i drink. This may seem excessive, but i have a catering business and use them for carafes on all the tables. I never put lemon in them for i wont know how to easily get them out.

Mr. K, click on the link for the submission form:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/news/house-tour-submission-form-072314

My husbands family makes banana mush. Its peanut butter, a banana, and mayo mixed. I have never been able to try it, but he now has my kids hooked on it.

I did once in Asheville NC. It was my first house, and we froze. Especially since i had no car and had to walk to the bus to get to college everyday, so there was almost no escape. We watched reruns of Twin Peaks all winter in our sleeping bags in the living room and i took a lot of hot baths. After about 2 months of cold, someone broke down and got it the gas turned on. We were so relieved and excited, until we got home that first night. All of the windows were fogged up and the heat would not turn off (we didn't know anything about a house, as now i know we could have just turn off the pilot light or flipped the breaker). We had to leave the windows open until the heater guy could get out there the next day. But walking around in our skivvies for a night was much better then being in our sleeping bags constantly.

I have got to give it up to the designers for a rad design and the ability to market these to hipsters that are willing to pay $200 for these. I also love that they charge the same amount for their stools even if you send them your thrashed decks.

My hat is off to you.

If you have aluminum or plastic blinds, take them down and wash them in the shower. Doing this allows you to get all of the excess build up of grease or dirt off of them with a good soaping.

You will definetly need a vapor barrier for this project before the wood goes down.

For most magazines, i cut our the articles and photos that i like and scan them to my computer. On a rainy day, i go through and compile them in a scrapbook like photo album on a per page basis based on kitchen, living room, bathroom, if i ever had an extra room to decorate, ect. I print and put into binders by topic. I know it might seem redundant to print them, but i enjoy the inspiration books that i make.

For the magazines that i love to keep, like national geographic and dwell, i made a plexi-glass tall box on casters with a removable lid for storing them each. I then use these oddly tall boxes as plant stands that i have in my entry way.