Tough decision has been answered.

We got the phone call Friday that Mackenzie was accepted into school! I don't know whether to be :) or :( .

She starts school on the 30th of August.

I guess we'll see how it goes. It I don't like it, or she doesn't like it, we'll just pull her back out and homeschool again!

I'm still here!

WOW! I haven't updated our blog in FOREVER. No worries, I'm still here.

Right now, I am trying to make one of the toughest decisions I have ever made. I'm trying to decide on homeschooling again this year, or to put Mackenzie in a brick and mortar school.

While I loved having her home with me last year, I think she would benefit from being with other kids.

I found an AWESOME school here in Erie, we are just waiting to see if she's been accepted or not. If she has not been accepted, I will continue to homeschool.

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On another note, after 15 months of Brian being on unemployment (thanks to the attorney he worked for, for stealing almost 200 thousand dollars from estate money and going to jail), Brian has found a new job. When he saw this job in the paper, he really wanted it. He applied, got it and the company offered him a higher salary than what was advertised in the paper. He must have really impressed them.

So, he starts in two weeks. We'll miss him around the house, but it'll be nice to have him working again!

Well, I must go for now. Movie time for Mackenzie is over and she's asking to use the laptop. Isn't it amazing that at 6 years old, she's using the computer. I don't think we even had household computers when I was 6.

More pictures of our fall decorations!

I just found more pictures on my camera of some other fall decorations we have done and put up.

I found these fall die-cuts at our local Dollar Tree, took them home and laminated them and viola! For just a few dollars, we have a TON of decorations!

Slacking . . .

We have been so busy with school lately, that I haven't had the time to update our blog.

We have decorated the school room for fall. We made an alphabet apple tree using just poster board, and construction paper. Here's some pictures!

















I'll be updating what we've been learning and all about our apple/Johnny Appleseed lapbook tomorrow!

Our school room is complete . . . for now!

I have spent the last few days finishing up our school room. School starts Aug 31st, so I wanted to get it done.

For now, it's complete. The only thing missing is a bean bag chair that I want to put in front of the window for reading time. I'll probably pick that up this weekend.

The wall above Mackenzie's art desk is empty, because that's where her art will do that I want to display.

What do you think?













Now next week I can focus on planning out the first few lessons!

Made my own calendar for our school room!

So, after all the hassle of finding a calendar for our school room and came up with nothing, I decided to make my own!

I found the empty calendar and the numbers at a $ store. I had the calendar laminated at a teacher supply store and laminated the numbers here at home.

I also found month headers that I also had laminated.

I'm going to put this all together tomorrow on the bulletin board, but I was so proud of my work so far, so I wanted to snap a picture!

So hot . . .

I think summer has finally arrived in PA LOL. It has been so hot here the last few days and I'm ready for it to be over. Today I walked into ACMoore and smelled fall scents. That's my favorite time of year and I can't wait for it to get here.

I bought a bulletin board for our school room and hope to get started on that in the next day or two once this heat breaks. School starts two weeks from today so I've got to get going on this. I'm excited for the year to begin. Not only do I get to teach Mackenzie, but I get to learn all over again :-)

Okay, I need to find a way to cool off. Maybe we'll break out the sprinkler again!