Work, work, work.

That's what I'll be doing this weekend. The mom's night went okay. We played Trivial Pursuit and then just talked and ate and had a good time. I guess that was the point. Anyway, it's back to real life today, doing medical transcription.

Whew.

I've been having computer problems all morning. It was running so slow that it would let me type 2 letters or so and then I'd have to wait. The digital dictation that I listen to was getting stuck and repeating itself. I couldn't blog. I couldn't email. Ooh, it was awful. Then my husband came home and fixed it and also brought me Heath bars. Ahh. Things are better now. I'm going to try and get some transcription done before the other homeschool moms get here at 6:00 p.m. No school today but sometimes life just intrudes. We may do some things over the weekend to make it up or we might not. We are looking at going later into the summer this year than we have years past, but you know the kids get bored in the summer anyway. The 2 older ones say they won't mind a little school. My youngest said he doesn't mind as long as it is science and art. Hey, it sounds good to me. Every year, we are moving closer to the learning as a lifestyle instead of the school model that we started out with.

Freezing Rain.

We're stuck at home. We didn't get to go skating or to the library game night. I really wanted to go to the library because I finished my book ight and haven't have anything to read all day long. It's terrible to be in the mood to read and have no book! I'm reading the Zion Chronicles series by Bodie Thoene and I just finished the fifth one last night. Next time I even think we might have wintery weather, I'm going to lay in a supply of books and Heath bars.

Hopefully, we'll get to venture out tomorrow. I need to pick up a few things before the mom's night tomorrow night and maybe I'll get to the library and get that book!

It looks like ...

we might be in for some bad weather today. I'm getting the laundry done this time in case the electricity goes off! I hope it doesn't. I'm a wimp when it comes to that. I like my comforts, my microwave, my fridge, my laptop, the heat pump ...

The plan for today is to do a bit more work on the house and get school and work done. Hopefully, we will be able to get everything done we need to. We've got skate night and game night tonight if the weather is good, but I kind of doubt we'll go at this point. I guess we'll see. Even the meterologists don't know for sure.

I've been trying to write a bunch of things, but my writing ability seems to be kind of off-kilter this morning. Things aren't coming out right and I seem to want to do a lot of ... dot, dot, dots, which ... I guess ... means I should get back to work and not blog too much today ...

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I spoke too soon.

The new dog has not had a good day today. She's had 2 accidents in the house and now is trying to intimidate Max, which I won't tolerate. He's the number one dog around here, in my opinion and she can be the number 2, if she stops going number 2 in the house, that is. There is a reason we don't get puppies, a reason all our dogs have been older dog adoptions. We don't want to have messes in the house!!!!!

Anyone want a dog?

Sorry regular readers.

My blog seems to be kind of boring this week. We are cleaning and getting ready for the homeschool mom's meeting on Friday. I have let myself get more worked up over this than any other event I've ever had at my house. I've been more nervous than I was with any of the four home inspections we have had for adoption/foster care. These ladies are all good housekeepers. I've known them for 3 years almost and none of them have ever been to my house, so I've allowed it to become nerve wracking (racking? however you spell that). We've cleaned the walls, floors and ceilings, inside, outside, underneath. One reason it was such a big job was because we still hadn't moved my husband's office back after we did the living room floor. All that stuff was crowded into the kitchen and we had to do some moving as well as regular cleaning. The kids and my husband have been absolutely great, very helpful and not complaining. The kids have an ulterior motive, they want to have the whole homeschool group, including kids, over soon. My husband's just being nice.

We didn't do any school at all today. We worked and then we did Awana and now I'm gearing up to do a bit more work on my job tonight. We seem to be taking a lot of days off this winter, but we'll just go a little bit longer in the summer. It won't hurt us. I need to get back on the ball tomorrow and at least get American History done so we can be done with that and start something else!

Reading the Carnival of Homeschooling.

The carnival is here this week. In the carnival I found my new favorite quote:

"Many are schooled but few are educated." Thomas Moore.

I'd better get very busy today. I have a lot to do.

Good news!

We got some really good news tonight. I don't know if I'm allowed to share it so I won't, but trust me, it's good. ;-)