Getting Impatient!

A few more days have passed and we are still waiting on the criminal background checks to surface so that the agency knows for sure that we are "decent" people. Without those documents, once again, we will not be able to go pick up our daughter this weekend. We are getting very impatient. We do get to talk to the child on the phone about twice a week, but we want her here with us so that we can get her settled and get to know her before we begin to home school this year. We will wait on her because we do not want her to be behind and have to play "catch-up" as soon as she gets here. Even my son is getting a bit anxious! He wants his new sister to get here and he is ready for school to start as well. Creator knows best, but goodness....sometimes the wait is awful!

Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to meet another home school Mom in the area and trade off a box of curriculum that we will not use for a box that we will most likely be able to use. I know this county has over a hundred home school families .... but it is almost impossible to find them. I would like to be able to get together with some of them and get to know them and allow our children to spend time with each other as well. Maybe, sooner or later, I will find more of the home school families. As I said in the paragraph above, Creator knows best!

The weather here is beautiful, but the temperatures are scorching! The heat index will be around 115 today, I think I heard. Wow! Everyone's lawn, flowers, and gardens are dying rapidly now. We haven't had anywhere near enough rain to help them out and I don't see that we will have any time near soon.

Today, Tuesday, I am planning on printing out some of the curriculum that I have written myself for my children so that it will be ready to use in the next week or two. I am really excited about starting school with the kids this year, but I also wonder if I will have time to study my own college courses. I am worried that I won't be able to finish them by the deadline that I have to complete them. Granted they are not that hard and they are correspondence courses, but the print in the books is so tiny that I don't see how I will ever get through them....even with my glasses on, I can barely see the print. That makes me NOT want to do the work even though I am really enjoying the courses themselves. Well, I guess I will just have to buckle down, sacrifice some of what little sleep I get, and continue on with my own studies anyway.