Third Week of School in January

I am finding it very difficult to keep posting, although I really want to succeed at this for my children's sakes. We had Monday off for MLK Jr. Day. This week has gone relatively uneventfully, although I have to admit that our long days are pretty wearying by the time we're done. Our short days are too frenetic to post.

Next week, we will take Tuesday afternoon off to volunteer at the Capital Area Food Bank with our field trip co-op that we've newly joined. I may decide to just take the whole day off and take the kids to the Wildflower Center before free admission in January ends. We've got some botany activities to do, and what better place could we go to? (Oh, there's also Zilker Botanical Garden, I guess. We haven't been there in years.)

I had also purchased a voucher for 3 individual entries to Wazoo's bounce house that expires in February, so I've got to take the kiddos. The voucher only lets in one pre-paid, and additional kids are $8 each. I know they'd like to have their friends go, but we'd have to ask their parents to send money with them. It would be too expensive for us to cover the cost of additional kids.

I suppose I could also take the kids to Pizza Hut for lunch on Tuesday while we're out and redeem their certificates for December. That would be a full day taking advantage of opportunities and using up vouchers and free admission and working alongside other homeschoolers. Do we end our Tuesday by going to Wazoo's? Well, the Engineer has basketball practice that evening, so he can't be completely worn out or he'll goof off during practice. What to do?   ;^)