exhaustion.

yeah.  that's how i feel.  BUT, i still have a bit of energy left over to be excited about a few homeschool-related things.

first.  MATH-U-SEE SHOULD GET HERE TOMORROW.  this is important.  i have been looking forward to this all summer long, and now i don't know what to do with myself now that it's finally almost here!  i've been tracking our order like an uber dork yesterday and today on the UPS website, and they've estimated that it will be here tomorrow.  which is extremely exciting.  and also a bit daunting, because it means that we're going to have to figure out how to incorporate another subject into our already-too-busy lives...

second.  we're almost through with week three (even though in my gradebook, it's technically week four, which never fails to throw me off JUST a bit) of my little trial period.  see, a few weeks ago (you may recall), there was a MEGA breakdown in my family in which a couple of the homeschool nay-sayers were saying that i couldn't POSSIBLY do everything we had planned for this fall AND homeschool at the same time.  hubby was worried as well, and he gave me sort of a "trial month" to see if i could handle it.  at the end of the month, if i couldn't, i'd have to drop something or other.  little did they all realize that i am sooper homeskool mom!  with amazing powers to multitask and get stuff done!  sort of.

anyway, the point is that the trial period is almost up, and i've been record-keeping like a crazy woman and we have TONS of work that i can just pull out at any time to show anyone who'd care to see it EXACTLY what we're doing.  i know i sound like a broken record on that point, but it's very crucial to me.

third.  bella starts ballet next week.  which is going to throw us into yet ANOTHER loop since we're going to be starting math-u-see that week as well.  we'll figure it out.  meanwhile, she is more excited than any three year old little girl has ever been before about starting ballet.  it's really quite funny.

fourth (man this is a long list).  i'm putting this off until the week after next, unless something else happens and we need to wait yet another week, but i have these really cute little sight word books i bought for beau a couple of years back (which we never used because he didn't really like).  i saved them because, hey, i have two other children, and sure enough, xander found them the other day and he wants to start doing them.  so we'll start them in another week.

finally (what?  i got tired of numbering), tomorrow at the library, THE FIRE TRUCK IS GOING TO BE THERE.  i think i'm more excited than the kids.  i've heard that the kids get to climb all up inside the truck and all of that awesomely fun stuff.  i wonder if they let the mommies do that, because that sounds REALLY FUN...

i. am. so. tired.  but i can handle this.  i totally can.  i'm going to stay positive.  sure, there's a lot going on, but that doesn't mean that i can't do it.  but if i hear one. more. thing. about lego star wars, i'm going to shoot myself  scream  throw the video game out the window  give myself a time out. 

well, i'd probably sit here and procrastinate cleaning for a while longer, but i've got to start getting the kids ready to go to beau's football practice.  today is picture day and we have to be there fifteen minutes earlier than usual.  yay.