Mindy's Non-Adventures

Before I go into my regularly scheduled programming of what things are going on in our little square of the world, I feel the need to make a disclaimer. I am sarcastic. I mean, I think most people pick up on that fairy quickly, but...you know...some people are a little slow on the dry, sarcastic humor. Also, I don't ever intend to come off as ungrateful as I tick off the little interruptions that are actually my real life. I wake up every single morning and think to myself "how in the world is this my life?" And I mean that in a good way!  At any given moment I am simultaneously incredibly thankful for my dishwasher that washes my dishes, irritated that I have so many dishes that need to be cleaned AGAIN, overwhelmed by the list of other things that I really need to get done, thankful that I have the opportunity to do the things I need to do instead of focusing on survival  every waking moment, and stressed that I need to be across town at rush hour. If you don't know...

I think I've written on this before, but since the homeschooling world is chugging along at full-speed now that Labor Day is past, I'm sharing how we're doing homeschool this year. Every year looks different, and this year I am cautiously optimistic because we're already halfway through September, and I'm not hiding in the bathroom every day extolling the ways I'm falling behind in my imaginary schedule. Part of that is because I never made a schedule this year. Make of that what you will. I follow a lot of homeschool themed Facebook pages, and they are buzzing with these beautiful, drool worthy downloads made by incredibly talented moms that know how to do things like Photoshop. There are worksheets for everything. PDFs of lists for what we should be doing each week for every conceivable curriculum. Since I have given myself wholly to Classical Conversations, I've seen mostly pdfs for Essentials (both for moms and kids), timeline characters to print and c...

So what have we been doing for the past few days? Just using up all of my friend's goodwill and staying at her house since Friday. Jon's job has its drawbacks, but one of the perks is that the government takes care of their people. Generally. (I'm not allowed to talk about the stupid stuff that went on with this evacuation because it's the government and they have eyes everywhere). Anyway, he was paid and ordered to evacuate to avoid the storm which means we don't have to decide if we should stay or go. We just do what we're told, and since we have framily (friends, family, and friends like family) in the upstate, it's not a huge ordeal for us to leave. So we left. It took two extra hours to get to Greenville, but we expected that. And then the storm projections changed. So let's talk about that. Basically, hurricane projections suck. These meteorologists do things like show a giant cone pointing in a direction with a red in in the middle. They talk ab...