School Year Changes

Adrian was in an online charter school and I had enrolled Bella as well for Kinder starting this fall.  Unfortunately, I received an email stating that the school was closing!  I was wondering what in the world we were going to do because this online charter school was the BEST fit for our family out of the others.  They were very flexible.  Well, we have figured out our plan!  We will not be enrolling in our local public schools because I am not happy with them either. This year we are going to be traditionally home schooling!

I have figured out our school calendar.  We have to have 180 days of instruction a year.  Indiana doesn't require testing or portfolios.  We are working in 6, 6 week increments.  We are starting at the end of July and should be finished before the end of May.  I'll post about our curriculum once it arrives!  Adrian's charter is also letting us purchase his laptop for a very good deal!  Now we just need to get a printer/scanner and the rest of his math curriculum which can be ordered as he finishes each level.

$422.88, That's It!!!

$422.88, that's all we owe on our Disney package!  I can't believe it.  At the end of this month the most of the trip (package, MNSSHP tickets, and memory maker), except for car rental, stroller rental, and spending money.  The stroller will be reserved next month and the rest will be saved up over the next couple months.

This trip would not have been possible if it weren't for  a lot of budgeting and my husbands 2nd job, which he is hoping to turn into his one and only job in the future.  I hope that can happen.  It would give him at least one day off a week and he would even get a raise and be making more than he is with the 2 jobs he has now!  I am so happy he gets to go to Disney World with us this time.  Hopefully we can do this more often in the future.  Next year our goal is to get our kitchen redone and if we can go on another trip we will, maybe a longer one!

I Can't Keep a (Disney) Secret!

So I totally caved yesterday!  I didn't think surprising my kids with our arrival to Disney with our arrival to Disney World would go over well....We were going to just let them know we were going by them seeing the sign when we got there.  I am so glad I told them yesterday because my oldest as we found out (yesterday) HATES surprises!  He was not thrilled with our after dinner announcement of our upcoming vacation.  He was mad.  My daughter on the other hand was so happy she couldn't speak but just smile.  She knows how to make mama happy with out knowing it,  She always has the best reactions.  My youngest in his true form could care less and was more worried about going out to play, but hey he's too young to understand what a Disney vacation means yet.  He will LOVE it, I'm sure because when he looks at pictures of when I was prego with him and went he asks why he wasn't there.  He also says he wants to go to Mickey's home, as he calls it.

 Hopefully, I can get my oldest excited about it somehow before hand.  He is going through this phase where he is driving me nuts with his attitude.  He is otherwise a happy and good kid, that just needs to be more POSITIVE instead of negative.  We are working on it.  I am so happy to have revealed the trip to the kids.  Next time it will have to be some kind of gift for me not to spill the beans!  I also found out a cousin of mine works at a car rental place and can get us a much better price than a non family member.  I think we may go with an SUV, but we may get a minivan instead if the price is right ;) .  Does anyone have any ideas of getting a child excited about a trip or is he just at that age where boys are just blah to everything. All well at least I have one Disney enthusiast, and maybe another in the making.