Oh, and make sure you head on over to BlogNosh Magazine to get a taste of some straight talk with Straight Shooter!  A great post of hers… hand-picked by yours truly… will be re-published in its entirety over there Tuesday morning- that’s tomorrow, folks.  Believe me, she gives good laugh!

So, despite the best of intentions a whole lotta nuttin’ happened on the academic front while we were away. However, the kids got great cousin-time, grammy-time and endless pizza-time.  Not to mention the abundance of beach-time… that is, when the freakin’ weather decided to cooperate.  We smiled smugly to ourselves as we left the dropping temperatures of our Rocky Mountain Valley in happy anticipation at another kick at the summer can, heading south to Virginia and then on to the sunny Atlantic coast of Delaware.  Wouldn’t ya know it, they too get to enjoy unseasonally cool temperatures… the second day we arrive.  And last the entire week.

A perfect lesson in irony for maniacs.

But we’re back in the saddle, so to speak.  We’re home.  I’ve been organizing like a fiend, trying to get some kind of system in place that not only takes care of our homeschooling schedule here at home but on the road, as well.  I am tired of feeling guilty with our lack of structure.  Despite being fairly ‘relaxed’ in our approach…  however, there’s relaxed… and then there’s just so pitifully ill-prepared and disorganized that nothing is getting done.

So, a big thank-you to cousin homeschooling nine kids who has shown me a few fundamental strategies for reigning in this circus… and alleviating what is fast becoming a perpetual case of the homeschool guilts!