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Is there really such a thing as "normal"? I'm not sure that there is... but after what seems like months of chaos, our lives are finally beginning to fall into somewhat of a routine again.
First, the move...with 90 days notice which will be up the-day-after-tomorrow! However, we quickly realized that when they said "90 days" they really meant "as quickly as possible" so we just basically threw stuff in boxes and tossed it in the new house in the most haphazard fashion... and we're still digging out! (BTW, the house we were living in has long since sold and closed... and they got close to their asking price! It's crazy what people will pay for real estate around here these days.)
We managed to get all our stuff dumped into the new place before time to leave on vacation. We hadn't been home long when the kids and I took off to Texas to help with a family situation for 2 weeks. While we were there we managed to pick up a Texas-size cold virus that has pretty much wiped out the whole family for more than 2 weeks. (Yes, DH even caught it from us as we brought it home!)
So... we've mainly been dabbling at school for the past month, but finally today, with just lingering mild coughing and sniffling, I announced that It Is Time To Get Serious About School! Oh, the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Today's schedule (and every Monday's) called for a trip to Spokane for vision therapy for my oldest daughter. Her appointment is at 11:00. It takes 45 minutes to get there. So we left shortly after 10:00. VT lasts an hour and then it's about 12:40 by the time we're passing the shop where DH works, so we are able to meet him for lunch. After lunch I had 2 or 3 small errands to run while we were in town, so it puts us about 2:45 getting home. I had offered my 13yo the choice this morning of doing school before VT or waiting till we got home. She chose to wait. We listened to her history book on tape in the car as we drove. I did some one-on-one stuff with my younger daughter while we waited at VT. But, yes, there was still school work to be done when we got home...
"No, Mom! We can't do school now! It's after 3:00! The public school kids are out of school? Why do we have to do school?" Can you believe it? The little turkeys! Needless to say, they did not get out of doing school just because it was supposedly after school hours!
Our routine for the fall calls for fitting homeschooling around:
So... no, ma'am, you don't get excused from school just because it's not on the public school schedule!
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