~I think Elijah is going for some sort of finger knitting world record!~

I’m full of typos today, so be forewarned…the reading may be rough.

We’ve had some difficulty with easing back into our academic year. We were supposed to be moving right around the time we usually get back to things. I thought it best to wait until we had settled and concentrate my efforts on packing. Then that house fell through and there was the panicked and frantic searching for a another one.

We did a combination of some mini lessons during that time, but still weren’t really back to our usual full days.

Then came the second house and I shifted back into packing and prep. And well when that house fell through (there really is no accounting for the daughters of landlords who get kicked out of their houses, right before you are supposed to move in…who do you think too precedence??), there was the even more panicked and frantic search, which as of yet has yielded nothing.

Meanwhile, half of my books were packed with the first attempted move and another quarter with the second. Lots of my supplies and stuff too. So now every time I go to draw up a lesson plan, I’m inevitably missing something I need.

And I’ve been putting off buying school supplies all the while, not wanting to move them as well as not wanting to put out the money when we might need to put down first, last, and security deposit any moment now, with all the other moving costs thrown in on top.

But it’s October now, with nothing promising on the horizon, and it’s time to get a move on.

The math review and intro to some new concepts that I had planned for our first two weeks has stretched to a month (punctuated with frequent car trips to what more often then not turns out to be over-priced, dilapidated, holes). It’s time to move on to our long language arts blocks. I’m really, really looking forward to these this year! It’s going to be tricky and it’s going to be hard, but it’s going to be rewarding too. Time to get on with the life we are living now. I can’t keep waiting for the life that we might be living some day. Hopefully it will come, but in the meantime, there’s work to be done.