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One Step Closer

In our state we have to register under a church school, in order to homeschool. This gives you a "covering" or an "umbrella" to homeschool under. They keep your school records and produce your transcript should the time come to transfer or start college. I've been looking for one for a while now. There are plenty of them out there but I was running into overpriced tuition or unreturned phone calls. Here it is August and I didn't have one yet. I was getting a little panicky! But I kept praying over it and asking God to lead me to the right one.

Then The GuitarMan went over to a neighboring town to help out a friend with a Kid's Rally. He thought FlowerChild might enjoy it, too so we brought her over at the appointed time. He knows many of the people there so when we walked in he immediately scooped up Cornbread to take him around and show everybody "Little Me" as he called him. Cornbread really is a miniature of him!

As we stood there chatting with folks a woman came up to ask my husband about locating a scripture. When we met I realized she was one of the homeschool coordinators I had been trying to reach! She was a real sweetheart and took the time right then to give me an overview of their school. This, even though she was about to dress up as a pirate and lead a Bible Study! Talk about multi-tasking! Everything sounded exactly like what I was looking for so we scheduled the paperwork and interview for today.

I had a great time talking with her. She has a very warm personality and a real love for teaching that came through in our conversation. I think she will be a big help should I run into any questions. She had not heard of Heart of Dakota but was very interested when I told her about the layout. I am anxious to get her take on it. She had very positive things to say about Saxon Math and Abeka Reading. Our experience with Saxon was not a very good one but I like what she said about the approach for younger students. I am going to check it out again.

So we are one step closer to being ready for school to begin. The girls are wanting to go shopping for school supplies! I have to admit I love it too! Wal-Mart has some really cute notebooks out right now with Christian themes geared towards guys or gals. Some come with neat stickers too. So you may want to look for them if you or your children might like them. I also noticed that one display of say, glue or pencil boxes, for instance, might be one price but if you kept looking there would be a cheaper display of the same items elsewhere. So if you are on a very tight budget for school supplies go when you can take the time to look and then scan your prices on a price checker before heading to the register.

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