18 April 2007 - vacation recovery
It's pretty aggravating to type a long post, hit "Save changes", and the server doesn't connect. The whole post is lost! So, trying again, and learned to use the "save as draft" feature.
On Easter Saturday, my family arrived in Orlando, FL, for a week's vacation. With my ruptured L5-S1, the trip was a bit rough, but I took my pain pills and wore my TENS unit. No way was I going to miss that trip, my kids had never been to Magic Kingdom, and since they are 12 and 13 now, it's time for them, you know? Next big vacation, I told them we need to go inland and see other beautiful country the USA has to offer.
We left a day early, on Thursday, drove half-way home and stopped overnight at Pensacola Beach. It was beautiful, clean, clear, and a GORGEOUS day. I settled my butt in the sand and read a book, yes, a BOOK (I don't get to read much anymore) for about five hours. Got me a nice lil tan, too.
All in all, it was a really nice week off. Of course, since I only get paid for what I get done, I'm having to push myself this week to make sure taxes and health insurance are covered by my next check.
I'm facing surgery, I guess. My appointment with the neurosurgeon is tomorrow. I really DON'T want surgery on my back, not at ALL.
I spent a little time looking at costs for curriculum next year. Not bad, considering $350 of the total $650 is a one-time payment for the two-year Spanish course by Rosetta Stone, and we all get to use it. $650 isn't bad at all for two kids, either, but of course since we use Switched-on-Schoolhouse my younger daughter can use my older daughter's curriculum. Next year I am deleting Bible and Math from the SOS, and instead they will use Math-U-See for math, add the Spanish, and of course I can handle Bible quite well on my own in our family devotions. Just no more picking things at random, but using a teaching method to make sure they know as much about God's Word as I can teach them.
I am also considering enrolling both of them in an online writing course, which I know is a good one since one of the mom's in our homeschool group is a teacher, and knowing her like I know her, she's a wonderful teacher, having majored in Language Arts in college herself.
