June 2008
I hate vacation
June 30, 2008 by Mara Burke · Leave a Comment
No, I don’t mean the actual time I get to relax. I mean all the planning, packing, and buying things that we’ll need FOR vacation. It’s amazing how you go to the store for a list of 6 items and wind up spending a lot more than you planned. And we’re not even completely done. [...]
Have you thought about homeschooling?
June 26, 2008 by Mara Burke · Leave a Comment
You’ll be proud of me. I haven’t railed against my mother-in-law for her comments about our homeschooling. My husband didn’t say anything, that I know of, to her either. I guess she’s just going to get away with skewing my children’s minds. At this point, I think if I said anything, I’d probably dredge up [...]
Looking forward to some time away
June 20, 2008 by Mara Burke · Leave a Comment
We’ll be going on vacation soon, and it can’t come soon enough. I’ve been busy with my writing, homeschooling, and trying to keep the boys from fighting with one another, and I need a break. Yeah, I know, I’ll still have to deal with bickering boys, but that’s OK. I’m so ready to leave my [...]
You’d think I’d learn
June 19, 2008 by Mara Burke · Leave a Comment
I have been thinking things were going along swimmingly as far as our homeschooling our boys. I thought my mother-in-law had decided that our homeschooling was good for the boys. The other day, my youngest was playing a computer game. I was working on my computer and the oldest was on another computer. Out of [...]
Tiger Direct will rip you off!
June 14, 2008 by Mara Burke · Leave a Comment
DO NOT buy from Tiger Direct unless you have a lot of disposable income and love to be lied to and taken advantage of. I have to rant here for a few minutes, so I hope you’ll bear with me. We purchased a bare bones system from Tiger Direct on May 10. It took a [...]
