I keep saying "You are not behind. You are not behind." I'm hoping if I keep saying it I'll believe it.

William did do some science and history this week in between bouts of illness. All of us came down with colds but William also ran a slight fever for a few days. Thankfully, it all seems to have finally gone away.

Thursday was a big day for us. My dh began school - he's working towards a radiology program - and that began day 1 of worry month for me since the only income we'll have coming in is my income, dh's last paycheck and the money from a part-time job he also holds down. We're hoping we can keep it together and in the meantime he's looking for another part-time job he can do around his school work.

Thursday was also our monthly homeschool meeting and field trip. We toured the local newspaper office. It's a small local publishing company that prints 5 local papers. We only have a weekly paper in our area. We saw how the paper was copied and pasted on computer, then printed. It looks like a negative when it's printed. Then it's copied onto aluminum sheets and put into the press. We watched the first run of a paper section. It was kind of scary at times, this huge machine whirring away with 3 guys walking around it, making adjustments here and there as the machine was running. We also saw the insert machine and watched it do a few inserts for the paper. Some pictures were taken and will be in the paper next week. We also got to see the morgue and I am planning to back one day and do some genealogy research there since some of the info I needed wasn't on microfilm at the library yet. They have papers that go back to 1909.

This was the best picture that came out of the ones I took. That's William in the red shirt, towering over the others. He is getting to be very tall!



We then went to the park and had our monthly meeting. The moms are planning to see a new movie called "One Night with a King", based on the book of Esther. It's coming out next Friday, October 13. **You have to fill out a brief form for a password to see the trailer**

Today was also our weekly park day. The kids had fun, as usual, and we got some much needed talk time amongst the moms. I was able to speak to one mom who had 3 finish school already with 2 more beginning high school now and still 2 little ones doing grammar school work. She gave me some tips for middle school and had some things for me to look through to help with my planning for the next little bit.

Next week we'll be getting back on track, I'm working over the weekend as well as starting on the newsletter for next month for the group. Our next field trip with the group will be in early November and we're going to make a float for the Veteran's Day Parade on November 11.

I'm really glad this group started in our area. I know I said a while back I was going to be a hermit, but I guess I just needed to be patient and wait for the right group to come along.

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