I ordered the kids' school curriculum more than a month ago, in preparation to start school in early July. The goal was to be done in April of next year, to enjoy the nicest weather in our neck of the woods before Ridiculous Hot season started.
The beginning of July was spent out of town, visiting Grandpa several hours away. So we waited and planned to start the third week of July, when we were home and settled back in.
The Sunday we planned to start school, we realized that the curriculum we use had drastically altered their lesson plans and instructor guide (for the better, it turns out) and my husband and I decided we'd better wait a week to look it over and get ourselves familiarized with the new layout.
Then came last week. We were all geared up and prepared and ready to go - and realized that Kid 1 would be out of town spending an early Birthday vacation at Grandma's house. So we decided we'd start this week.
My kids were invited by a very dear friend to join their Vacation Bible School group at their church. We still struggle with finding a church family - between my very strong preference to work weekends as much as I can, and the fact that if I'm not working the weekends then my hubby is, and the fact that we have four children and Kid3 qualifies as several handfuls all by himself these days, added in with the fact that some of our values don't "fit" well with the churches we have tried ... finding a church is a challenge. So I jumped at the chance to send our kids to VBS.
Looks like we'll start school next week. Right exactly at the same time as last year.
So much for that plan to start early! Oh well, maybe next year.
