Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

The title has nothing to do with butts (I know, you're disappointed OR relieved, depending upon who you are) OR any illicit drug.

It has to do with school. Or rather, the lack thereof.

Yesterday we had the opportunity to go to a free college planning financial aid thing. We had full intentions of going. Then we found out it was going to be a 45 minute drive instead of about 10 minutes.

Urgh. Well, we'd still go, we decided.

Saturday was Casey's ballgame at 8:30am, then two pals of his came home to do the paintball thing. Tommy and Corey played too since we had never had the one boy over and didn't know how "nice" he'd play paintball. We've had some nasty incidents with boys getting carried away with the paintball guns. Anyhow, it went fine and they played til about 4pm.

Then Tommy worked from midnight Saturday til about 3am Sunday morning. It was the only time this dairy/milk processing-packing place is shut down, so it had to be done during this timeframe.

It was windy and rainy and yucky, so he was completely wiped out by the time he got home. Then he woke up about 7am going, "Oh crap! Oh crap! I forgot, I forgot!" and holding his forehead. I thought for a minute he'd um....soiled himself, but after a preliminary sniff, I decided that wasn't it.

He'd forgotten to issue an advisory for the area affected by the work that night. He'd have to drive to his office across town and do it. I offered to go with him.

*sigh* So we got dressed and headed out. During the getting dressed he came up with the idea of going out for breakfast, too. I dressed faster. Heh.

We haven't gone out together like that in quite awhile, so it was nice. Casey beeped me about an hour after we'd left. I hated to tell him the plan and was telling Tommy we could just stop by the grocery and pick up a tube of cinnamon rolls and they'd be happy.

But Tommy told Casey our plan and Casey was like Good. You never do that kinda stuff. I'll fix me a bowl of cereal and go back to bed.

LOL! My kids are pretty amazing sometimes.

Anyhow, so we went to Cr@cker B@rre! and took our time having a nice breakfast, then headed home. I made him go straight to bed and I settled down in the living room to finish watching Lawrence of Arabia. Yes, you read that right. I'm slowly making my way through the classic DVDs on Bl0ckbUstEr. But, alas, I kept drifting off myself, so I just went and got in Casey's bed to sleep.

So, we'd been planning on going to this financial aid thing. I couldn't get Tommy awake enough to go, so I decided that Corey and I would just head over there.

He pulled out his high school planning binder and we started looking over the stuff there...and we began thinking that maybe it was a bit premature to attend this thing.

Corey doesn't want to go straight into college after he graduates later this year. He wants to stay with the ambulance service and get his EMT-b license, which he'll be much better prepared for if he sticks with this program. And it will give him a fairly high chance of employment anywhere he goes while also counting toward college credit in certain classes.

So today we've been reworking "the plan", reevaluating what he wants to do and how fast he wants to accomplish things. Same for Casey, too. And it makes me SO glad to see them putting so much thought into their own education! You can't imagine!! A homeschooling mom spends a lot of time second-guessing her choices. When you get a glimpse of fruit coming from those choices, it sure makes the load a bit lighter!

Along the same line, we have all our tax documents in, so I must also begin sifting through the mountain of papers and trying to translate them into useable info for the Eye-Are-Ess, otherwise known in our house as Idiots Reign Supreme. *siiiigh* Don't ask. I can't talk about it right now.

Urgh.

Hope you're having a beautiful Monday!