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School progressing well inspite of outside "troubles"

School has progressed fairly well this year.  We are averaging 5 hours a day (http://homeschooltracker.com/).  Yes, I do track what we do each day - it's not required.  However, with all we have going on, it's nice to have a written record of what's been done and when.  Also, between all the out of house trips to doctor's appointments and grocery shopping and extra curricular activities - it's nice to see we are actually getting some "real" school work done.

Z is playing flagfoot ball this year and that has posed some dinner challenges, especially on Thursday's when S has piano lessons in the early evening and A has violin lessons in the late evening.  We've eatten out a few times more than planned this year - there just isn't enough time between activities on that evening to go home so we've found that DQ has some great on the go deals.  Fortunately, the Thursday evening activities are over and we have just 3 more games - just in time to avoid the big road closures to the football fields!

In addition to school, we have been working on re-integrating all our storage items back into our house.  Last year, we decided we'd try to move out of town to darker skies.  To help facilitate that, we packed up all our "extra" items - like school books I've purchased at great deals or books the kids weren't using any more and 5 bookcases.  The house was very well staged.  However, the economy isn't working in our favor and even after the summer - a normally busy time - we still haven't sold our house.  So, we have decided to let the contract expire and wait a few years.  It's not that we don't like our house - I love it!!  It's we don't like the bright sky.  

Because the books I packed were those needed for this year's school, we've been slowing bringing things home from the storage room - 1st the required school books - math, science, history.  Now, we are onto all the big furniture.  It's been fun re-arranging and repurposing furniture.  We've re-arranged rooms and given the girls their own bookcase upstairs since they have been collecting books under/around/on their beds.  We've also moved toys around so that there are some upstairs and some downstairs. Since we'll be spending more time upstairs staring in December, I thought the younger 2 might like to have something to play with.

Finally, we've been having alot of sickness and other medical things going on.  S has strep throat several weeks ago and we've all had some allergy troubles.  I had a sinus infection and am now working with the dr's to get my blood sugar back under control.  Boy, that's been an adventure!  Some day's, it's been great and some days, my blood sugar goes way down and we spent the afternoon watching movies.  We're hoping that it should be "back to normal" this week.

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Just Me said…
Hope you continue having a great year, and that sickness leaves soon, especially before the baby arrives. Your schedule issues remind me of ours! Multiple kids in multiple activities equals strange dinner plans sometimes! But it's all good. just hope that blood sugar gets under control.
October 10, 2011 at 10:37 AM
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