Jenna called about an hour ago and Gillian is now going to Stephanie's for a sleepover tonight. Cobb County Schools are out today and tomorrow, in case you were wondering how Gillian was going to attend a sleepover during the week.

Hopefully this means I can wait to get her after API tomorrow. I mean, I'd still have to take Jacob, but ooh, it'd be nice to just have one kid for the morning.

That's the downside to homeschooling. I truly don't want Gillian gone for six and a half to seven hours daily, five days of the week, but also like having some time where we aren't all together all the time. I even more am uncomfortable with the local preschool choices, so Jacob isn't in one and, at this point, won't be in the autumn either, but again, having one or two days a week where they were both occupied for a few hours would be nice. At this point, having a few hours just with Gillian would be nice, aside from the hours where we are doing school. Alas.

My cast iron dutch oven arrived today! Hooray for UPS for delivering on Presidents' Day. I also bought my new shake mix/protein powder via the internetz and so it arrived as well. I added stevia to it but other than that it was good. We are almost out of milk, which marks the first time we've used the entire gallon of milk in a week. If I can successfully transition the kids to drinking it (right now they say it tastes funny), then we'll need two gallons a week. The interesting thing, to me, is that sometimes I have symptoms of lactose intolerance, but I absolutely don't with the raw milk.

Now I am reading. Again. I finished Collapse this morning. It was very engagingly written, IMO.