Co-op Day! (Well, Park Day w/Co-op)

Until our Hillside Co-op starts up on Oct 16, we seem to be doing "park days" on Fridays. We aren't really planning to participate in park days at this point since the parks are often far away for us and we really want to get comfortable with our home schooling, being the newbies. I don't want Fridays to be wasted school-wise for us since we have so many adjustments and adaptations to deal with first year. HOWEVER, since park day was scheduled to be at OUR HOUSE today, we of course participated, and it was so fun!!!

3 families were out with illness etc., so we had 5 families involved. That meant about 21 kids were here. My kids did Math in the morning before the folks arrived, but the rest of the day was spent playing out in the woods and enjoying time with our friends. The kids get along so fabulously...one of the highlights for Dane was that 2 of the boys brought their pocketknives, so he felt fully justified in carrying his around too. I saw lots of kids spending time in the treehouse and swinging out over the ravine on the new rope swing. The ladies mostly sat out on the deck together under the sunshade...we enjoyed our sandwiches and listened to the kids play. Pretty relaxing!

At 3, Bailey came to watch the kids so Dave and I could go sign our mortgage refinance papers. The happy news is that our payment is slightly lower than we expected and we also don't have to make our first payment until Nov. 1. Pretty cool! We also get some cash back from our original lender, so that's pleasant.

Dave is headed out in a few minutes to celebrate Dale's birthday with the rest of the co-op guys. I think he's pretty worn out, but he is trying his best to get to know the guys.

I don't think I wrote about yesterday's school day--it was very good. We started 1/2 hour later than usual since we'd been out to the musical the night before. We didn't do Latin, so that meant we got back on schedule pretty well. We finished reading our first chapter in our Science text, and we got through chapter 6 in Henty. Kat has nearly finished memorizing her poem for English and both kids spent time writing out sentences of the 4 main types and also doing some journal time. Good stuff!