August 1, 2006

• Things have been crazy round here. Both girls are back in school (we switched to year-round schedule state wide this year). Silver_Fangz in now a Sophmore, and Squirt started 7th grade. She is doing an online school through a charter. This summer she went and had her orientation and tech training. They were supposed to send via mail her username, password and email info. Guess what? Didn’t happen.

  
  

  I called Thursday (6 people, left 3 messages, never talked to a human, just directories and answering machines), sent emails out Friday, and Monday at 1:00 called again. Finally got a human and got her username and password. Her classes started on Thursday, by Monday she was 3 days behind and unable to submit a bunch of stuff.

  
  

  We have had many conversations with the Science teacher. We contacted all teachers, but we are still getting caught up and still getting the work submitted. She has been working like a dog and Monday night at 7:30 she was crying. She had worked 6 hours straight and was already failing science. She’s no longer failing, but we are still “deciding” whether she will stick with this program, or bail on it and go back to home schooling or try another charter that uses the K-12 curriculum (which I like, I love the Core Knowledge idea and the K-12 was based on that). So — we are in a wait and see mode.

  
  

  I’m working on my Master’s online and it’s not as difficult to navigate and doesn’t have as stringent and immediated deadlines as her 7th grade courses. We’ll see.

  
  

  In the midst of all of this, I decided to move our antique robe (that’s 1/2 a wardrobe) from the loft to the dining room, and move my 5 shelf bookshelf that held my scrapbooking stuff upstairs to the loft. I also went through all the school books and packed them up, cleaned up the desk area (since Squrit now only needs her laptop) and set it up for my scrapbooking. I threw away 2 bags of trash, Stored 2 boxes of books, and had 1 box of donation stuff.

  
  

  Yesterday — as the sweat rolled off my face, hands arms and back — I thought to myself “Why the HECK did I decide to do this now?????”  It’s blistering hot –well since there are no tradewinds right now, and with all the stuff going on with Squirts school, I really did not need another major “project”. It looks great however, and I’m hopeful about being able to scrapbook and leave my stuff out, instead of having to put it away for meals!

  
  

  Enough yapping…. off to vacuum. Woot.

  
  

   

  
  

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