I'm still reading and learning about blogging. It's fun to see so many fellow homeschoolers!

Today we spent most of the day running to different activities. I love how much we can get done when we stay home, and I am better at keeping the house together when we stay home. So why are we always running around? Some activities seem so worthwhile, and others are things my kids really love. I wonder how much is really necessary and how much is just a waste of time and money. Sometimes I worry that if we didn't do anything, my older kids would have blank college applications--no activities, no outside interests, no recommendations.

We're going to watch Fiddler on the Roof tonight--I just love Topol in that movie! We've been watching a lot of World War II movies (we're doing year 4 of TOG/TWTM) and it gets pretty depressing after awhile. DH and I have stayed up to watch Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Enemy at the Gates and Casablanca over the past few weeks. It's hard to teach my kids about these horrors when I just cannot wrap my brain around people doing these things! With the kids under ten we're just looking at the life in the US during the war--and even that is harder than what we are used to.

OK--time to pop some popcorn!