I love Halloween and yes the extreme part bugs some people. However, going to do it with gusto.
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I love looking at the "extreme" decorations! My house isn't visible from the road so I mainly decorate inside, but I think the people that go all out are great. Maybe the folks who don't like it are jealous?
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I love Halloween, but yes, walking into a store like Walmart is a bit much, even for me.
I love Halloween, but yes, walking into a store like Walmart is a bit much, even for me.
Our Walmart seems to have skipped right over Halloween and Thanksgiving. They already have Christmas trees set up.
I was at CVS pharmacy yesterday and was amazed. The store had Halloween, small section of Thanksgiving and Christmas all out. I guess pick your holiday.
Same at Dollar General. My son keeps asking for Christmas decorations, but I keep telling him not until after Thanksgiving. It's gonna be a long 8 weeks
The upside-It is not too early to start layaway in some stores for the items you want.
I am fascinated by sign language. Always have been since I was a little girl and my grandma taught me a two-handed alphabet (which I forgot).
And of course, that's how we talked to each other in class when we couldn't talk in school, using the one handed alphabet.
The two little boys I watch both learned some basic baby sign language, which was so great because we could communicate before their verbal language evolved.
I think it's a beautiful language and someday, I am going to go back to school to properly learn it.
And I think Walter Oobleck's wife is a sign language interpreter.
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I took a couple of classes at the local community college, and knew enough to use it with my daughter as a baby. You are right, it is sooo helpful!
You should look around for some classes to take. I haven't practiced in years. I have forgotten so much!
Good for you! I would love to. I just find it so beautiful. Anytime I go some place where they have a sign language interpreter, I end up watching them more than the actual speaker!I took a couple of classes at the local community college, and knew enough to use it with my daughter as a baby. You are right, it is sooo helpful!
You should look around for some classes to take. I haven't practiced in years. I have forgotten so much!
Have you ever seen this video? This girl was deaf all her life, then got cochlear implants.
This shows the first time she hears herself.
I took a couple of classes at the local community college, and knew enough to use it with my daughter as a baby. You are right, it is sooo helpful!
You should look around for some classes to take. I haven't practiced in years. I have forgotten so much!
I took three semesters when my daughter was a toddler. She learned signs, too. The day care complained to me once that she never apologized, just rubbed her chest in a circle with her fist. I tried not to laugh as I explained that she was apologizing.
Loved sign and wanted to go into an interpreter program but there was none close enough.
My son was non-verbal until he was 6 yrars old. With the help of a couple therapists, we taught him many basic signs and life was so much easier for all of us. He's now 12, but occasionally when he talks, he throws in a sign...especially when saying "sorry"
My oldest daughter took sign all three years of high school. She still occasionally uses it in her job, but I really wish she'd take a class at the college to keep it up--it's a valuable skill, in high demand.
I've been doing these quizzes and actually doing quite well! Of course it helps that I have multiple choice and some idea how signs are tied to body parts and spatial clues.
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This just chokes me up and makes me cry.
Isn't is beautiful?
We so take for granted all we have.
I've taken a couple of sign language classes at the local community college, too. It's a lot of fun to sign. I think you might like it.
Oh, My bestest friend from 1st grade and I learned little sign language after a incident with a deaf boy in a pool.
We have used it so much during the years. Like you said, during tests, later in bars we went to and
(spell out, what a jerk-off)
Ah, we still use it, for all kinds of things.
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