Well, I think we're just about settled in now.  There's a few little things I'd still like to get (a table in the family room for school!), but it's liveable now.  A couple weekends ago we were able to go out and buy new furniture for the formal living room (with the money we earned by moving ourselves).

So today we marked our first day back to school.  I actually have lesson plans made out for 3 months!  I think that's a record for me!!  It was a little daunting, but I found an excel spreadsheet at www.donnayoung.org (or is it .com?) and that helped a LOT!!  Then, as I was arranging school books on the bookshelf, I took a deep breath and purged some books we really didn't need (and thus further committing myself to my lesson plans!  Yay!)  A local homeschool group had a picnic/used book sale so I was able to get rid of some things and pick up some things (NO!  Not a lot, just a few little fun things)

School went well today.  I was kind of surprised though, because Daniel really buckled down and got his work done with a good attitude and Alycia just dragged through the day.  Ugh!!  I have them do school right after breakfast and then chores have to be done once school is done in order for them to earn movie/computer time and play time.  Worked well!  What I hadn't planned for was David!  He really wanted to be right there doing school too, so thankfully I found some things for him to do today, but I'm going to have to get some kind of plan for him too, I guess!  Yikes!!  He was a little sad that he wouldn't be going to school at the daycare across the street (he REALLY wanted to climb on their castle), but he finally understood that we were doing school here.  I told him I would be so sad if he was gone from me all day (too which he replied that we could all go to school there with him!  Hee hee!)

So that's pretty much it.  Well, for extra curricular, Alycia will be taking part in an American Girl's class twice a month, plus there's preschool story time on base every Wednesday (and Daniel will volunteer at the library during that time).  I'm hoping to find a choir or theatre group to get Daniel into as well.  We'll see!

So there you go, all the news fit to print for now!

Blessings!