This weekend was a nice summer weekend. We went to a friend’s house for a picnic and to swim on Saturday and we went to a potluck after church on Sunday. It was both busy and lazy at the same time. I worked on the homeschool plan during a few free moments. The plan is coming together very nicely. It feels so good to start getting things in place. Mostly, I have worked on Kelly’s plan because it is a lot different than in the past. We talked it over together and believe we have a schedule she will be able to complete every day in four or five hours if she works hard, but that will push her a little bit. We think it is similar in difficulty to what she has done in the past, but the content is different. Kelly’s plan changes have given me some ideas on how to improve Christian’s plan, too. I will start on that plan with some input from Christian starting sometime this week.
This Saturday, I think we will go out and buy school supplies. That is one of our great joys of the year. It is so much find to chose just the right notebooks, pencils, pens, and other materials to be as ready as possible to start school with vigor. We really need to prepare the bonus room, too, by getting all the books organized in the homeschool bookcase, setting up the computer with the latest software, and getting all the furniture back in place that we took downstairs for the summer. It is a little different here in North Carolina than in Oregon. We used the bonus room above the garage in Oregon all year long. Here in North Carolina, it is a lot cooler downstairs in our house during the summer, so we did not use the bonus room very much when the weather turned hot.