*Drum roll* School starts....

Monday. Yep, two days from today we get to go back to the grind of learning, coaxing, begging, pulling our hair out, and walking away before you say something you'll regret later just so out kids will actually learn something. School is upon us.

Driving to work this week I saw the public school had started up. I watched new mom's walking their little ones to school, both scared and nervous about the first day. First day of school and adventures for the kid, first day of no more little one at home with mom. Broke my heart, I remember those days. Always wondering what my boys were doing, if they were safe, if they needed me. Those days are no more for us.
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Wrote out a school schedule this week, in pencil of course. hehe I know there will be changes to this baby before the month's out. Got a call from our homeschool support group yesterday, they had a meeting that I couldn't attend. Looks like I'm the go to person for information, getting things done, etc. Don't know if I'm in charge of the group or not, I'll find out soon though. Even so, I'm seeing that no one wants to or can get things going. So I sat down last night and came up with some things we as a group could do together.

Field trips once a month. I tried to make them on the 2nd Friday of every month with the exception of February. That's when we will go see the Maple Syrup begining made, but its in the last part of the month. Another idea I had was schedule a play day once a month. Say the 1st Fri of the month. Everyone knows that if the weather is nice (warm, no rain, etc.) then it will be at a local park. If it is not so nice outside, then we can meet up at a church and have arranged games/activities for the kids to do for a couple hours.

So, today I'm going to get my household chores done first. Then I'm going to come up with more ideas on what we can do as a small group. Co-op classes will have to wait until Spring because this fall there are too many of us weighed down with extra things in our life. Like a new job, a new baby, other commentments, etc. We'll get together, do what we can this Fall and start planning for Spring.