Mindy's Non-Adventures

Okay. We're almost done with August so it's time for the new school year reminder. My homeschool facebook pages are filling up with questions. The bright, shiny, new homeschool moms are full of optimism, morning baskets, and unfilled laminated charts. They are posting all of these great blogs and pinterest ideas that they've only just discovered. They are precious, and I love them. They quickly realize that things are not going as smoothly as they expected, but they're still overflowing with hope that everything will be pintastic once they find the right curriculum/organizational method/meal planning calendar. They remind me of myself before I was overrun by the actual work of homeschooling. Then there are the homeschoolers that have a few years under their belt. Their oldest might be around 9 yrs old followed by a stairstep of youngers. These are the ones that are looking around their house and realizing "Wait. What if this can't get better? What if  this  i...

Hello friends. It's been a couple of weeks. We've been getting into the business of beginning school, but I don't want to talk about that. I have nothing new to add at the moment. Okay, except this. Last week was our first real week of school for my two oldest. It also happened to be the week that I'd scheduled four dentist appointments and three eye doctor appointments. The dentist was scheduled 6 months ago before I knew our August schedule. The eye appointments had been put off all summer so I had to get this monkey off my back. Charlotte's glasses broke a few months ago and, being the middle child that she is, her need kept getting pushed to the side. Sorry, child. I'm doing my best here. At the end of six appointments (because one child decided to get sick for our first week of school. Ahem. TOMMY), we had zero cavities, three kids with glasses on the way, and one child being directed to the orthodontist for evaluation. Yes, we're going from one child...