... okay, I really am weird!  But I like being weird. 

What is "excogitating"????

ex·cog·i·tate   (k-skj-tt) tr.v. ex·cog·i·tat·ed, ex·cog·i·tat·ing, ex·cog·i·tates To consider or think (something) out carefully and thoroughly. [Latin excgitre, excgitt-, to find out by thinking  : ex-, ex- + cgitre, to think; see cogitate.] ex·cogi·tation n. ex·cogi·tative adj.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Okay, okay ... I've been planning.  So there ya go.  My brain is mush.  I even let my 5-month-old practically eat a file divider this afternoon just so I could get more excogitating done. 

I came across this quote ... "For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned."  An hour of what?  Of free time?  I sure hope so because that would mean I have earned ... ummmmm ... let's see .... about 5000 hours of free time - that's 208.33 days!  WooHoo!  Oh, wait, back to reality ...

I went to Office Depot today and spent entirely too much money ... when the cashier told me my total I thought she was wrong!  But she wasn't ... so here's what I've got left to do:

*gather all K materials, projects, lapbooks, etc. and put them in special boxes I bought today.  That will clear out room in my file cabinet for an entire drawer devoted to Five in a Row.  As you have probably gathered, I am a planner.  I like a good plan, I like to make good plans.  So I plan on planning out the entire year of Five in a Row and then printing out everything I need in advance.  I am actually looking forward to this!

*attend a Catherine Levison Conference  and then decide just exactly how I am going to do everything else  ... no, I pretty much know what I am going to do, but I am looking forward to the conference on the 24th of June to get much needed Charlotte Mason help!  Louise ... are you still with me?!

*Finish writing out some of my lesson plans ... I know I can't really plan too far in advance for things like math, etc., but I like to at least have an overall plan ... i.e. for the first 6 weeks we will cover this and that, etc. etc.

*return some things to Rainbow Resource and get some other things  (BTW I have spoken with them 2 times now and both times the person I spoke with was not so nice )

*Get our school room/bonus room more organized

okay ... I'm done exco ... what was that word again?  Oh yeah ... excogitating ....

I think that's it ....

~Heather