Weekly Wrap Up - Hello March

I sat down over the weekend and worked on lesson plans.  We're quickly wrapping up this academic year.  If everything goes accordingly, we should be finished all lessons by mid April.   I'm in research mode now as I look at items for the upcoming year.    I'm really looking closely at the Good and Beautiful Language Arts for Lindsey....anyone have any input??   Along those lines, if you're shopping for things already, check out my post Curriculum For Sale, you might find something you need at a great price!

Our church hosts a HUGE consignment sale twice a year.   This event turns our gym into a children's boutique of over 10,000 items in less than 48 hours.  Both the girls provide childcare for the worker's during the set up, sale and tear down process...so they've been gone a lot this week, starting last Sunday, and have padded their pockets with extra cash for the summer.

Monday's school work went well. Olivia doubled up on some subjects in anticipation of being at the farm later in the week.   In the evening the girls had archery, but Lindsey missed class since it was her day to provide child care at the sale...money talks, even at her age.

Tuesday Olivia worked at the farm from 9:30am until 4pm.  Lindsey knocked out her school work early, and then worked ahead to free up her time later in the week when she's babysitting again.   Olivia came home exhausted, but finished her geometry before dinner.  We finished up the Unit 6 Spanish LifePac and are seeing light at the end of the tunnel for Spanish.

Wednesday I had my monthly lunch with my pal Yvette.  We try to hit new restaurants, but we're running out of new options so we did a repeat visit to the Thai place, yum!!    I fixed dinner for the family when I got home, but didn't eat anything.  This whole weight loss thing has gotten much easier, I don't feel I have to eat just because it's "dinner time", and I'm rarely ever hungry.   Church wrapped up our evening.s

Thursday I dropped off some used curriculum to a buyer and ran a few quick errands.  The girls worked on their academics and then Lindsey was off to babysit for 7 hours.   Snow and ice were in our overnight forecast.

Friday was just gray and rainy and drab.   Lindsey had to babysit all day, so she and I were out the door early.  I dropped her off and went to get groceries, totally forgetting that it was the first of the month, and the store was crazy busy.   Once done, I came home and graded the rest of the school work for the week.  It looks like Olivia may finish geometry this year with a B, which is HUGE!!

We've been researching colleges, trade schools and various programs.   I've got a couple of college visits scheduled, and have one or two more in the works.    The weekend will be spent (by me) researching curriculum and colleges, the girls will be babysitting...busy, busy, busy.

Are you in search mode for the upcoming year, or do you already know what you're doing for curriculum?