Miscellaneous Update

I cannot believe how fast time is going. Here's my updates on recent activity....

We registered for another home school conference in the area. I'm excited since this is the one we get to buy stuff at :-) I'm praying that our budgeted curriculum money makes it that long. My husband is still working part time and things are getting tight. God has been faithful though. Money has come in from various sources, just when we needed it. For instance, my husband will be doing a side job of installing a floor this weekend which will make up the $400 deficit for this pay period.

Our au pair has to fulfill an educational requirement of 6 credit hours during her stay in the US. We are required to pay for $500 of that education. Because of bad planning on my part, I forgot that we still needed $250 for that. We just had to pay it on Friday, and had to use curriculum money to cover it. We still have some time to make it up, so I'm still confident we'll be able to get what we need.

Speaking of curriculum though, there is a local curriculum fair coming up this week. We know of very specific things we are looking for, so we'll see if we're able to come across it this week for a bargain.

I still haven't notified my job of my plans. It's a delicate balance between letting them know what's going on and playing the corporate 'game'. The risk is that they say "Ok go now". Then we'd really be stuck. I really don't think they'd do that, so I'm prayerfully considering when to tell them. It'd be nice to have fewer unknowns as the time approaches. The 'unknown' being whether or not they'll continue to have some part time or contractor work available for me.

We also haven't notified the school system yet. I think I'm going to wait until closer to the end of the school.

I'm really excited it's getting close. The boys are excited too... for now. I'm sure about a month into homeschooling, they'll be asking me to send them to school :-) Guess we'll see.