Archive for April, 2007
My exciting discovery
You know you are a homeschool
nerdmom when the following discovery totally MAKES YOUR DAY:In our local area we have 3 separate library systems. Not 3 separate branches or buildings, but 3 completely separate SYSTEMS. There is a system for the Big City near here. There is a system for the county that that Big City is in. And then there is a system for the county that I live in. (I live about 5 miles from the county line.) If I were to live in the Big City or just in Big City's county (outside of Big City's limits), I could get free library cards at both systems since they have a reciprocal agreement with each other. But I don't. So I have to get a library card at my county system. (For a rural county, it really is quite a decent library system!)
Well I discovered that I can purchase a library card at the Big City's library system (the county system doesn't have a branch near me) for only $42/year. They have a TON of books that we'll need for school next year that my county's system doesn't have. So I would have ended up having to buy all those books. Instead I can pay $42 and borrow them from the library instead! I will end up saving soooooooooooooo much money because the cost of those books is probably triple or quadruple what I'm paying for my library card.
:cool: (It's the little things, I tell ya.)
I have not fallen off the face of the earth
I just haven't had much time to blog lately, and when I have, I've either had too much or too little to say, so I don't say anything.
We had another, WORSE stomach virus go through a few of the dc a couple weeks ago, so that threw a wrench into things as well. We had better be done with barfing for a good, long time. It took 5 full days for each of my dc that were sick to recover.
We bought a new (to us) van. It seats 15 (although we took out the back seat, so now it only seats 11). I guess I can officially have the baby, since we now have a way to get her home.
Baby still has no name LOL. For some reason we're having a terrible time this go-around! Usually girl names are so easy for us! There is one we both like, especially if she ends up with red hair (which is a possibility since my dh has red hair...or did when he was little, now it's auburn), but we aren't sure how well it jives with our last name.
I am attempting to get a head start on next year's school plans so that I don't have to do as much over the summer. Don't want to have to do all that and deal with a newborn. We've never had a colicky baby before, but I want to be prepared just in case.
Anyway...still alive...hopefully I'll post about something "interesting" soon.
