Good News, Bad News

The good news is that Caroline was accepted into the homeschool co-op for the fall where she will take Algebra 1, Spanish 2, and a writing class! The rest of her subjects she will do at home mostly online, except for literature, of course. Nothing like the smell of a book you can feel with your hands! I am so relieved that she will have the opportunity to make new friends but always a little nervous as usual since we have been through this cycle: school acceptances, then something goes wrong, and she is asked to leave. With this last year's school success, perhaps we are in a different phase. I know that we will be watching for the annual mood shift at the end of September/beginning of October.

The bad news is that Bill still doesn't have a solid job lead and the main place where he could have gotten easy employment has just been axed by Secretary Gates. There go 6000 jobs in our area. Neither my husband nor I understand Gates' reasoning at all on this huge cutback on joint forces planning. So we may very well be looking outside of the area. This present administration isn't favorable to the military or contractors.