I have nothing to say.

I can't come up with a cohesive theme for this blog entry, but I'm blogging anyway.

The girls all did a homeschool gymnastics class today and they all liked it enough that they want to do it again. At $5 per kid, per class, I'm happy with that. It was the first time we've been to a "real" gymnastics place, as opposed to a gymnastics class put on by a community center. Irina had a blast, especially. She had a bit of trouble figuring a few things out, but overall she did fine.

Tomorrow we have our weekly park day with the Life Learners and I have one kid who isn't so keen on going because, as an introvert, more than one activity per week (plus a lot of errands over the weekend) feels like too much for her. As it is, most park days she's the one who is asking if we can just go already, while the other two are always upset to leave. I'm trying to figure out how to balance the needs of all of my children, but it seems to be my eternal quest. I just can't figure out how to make everyone happy. The compromise this time is to go to park day, but after lunch and only for a couple of hours. It would help my introvert immensely if she had a good friend who was always willing to play one-on-one with her and who was there consistently. She's had two in the past, but both have moved away.

Pat bought a bike today for taking to the bus stop on the days we need the van. Meaning he starts riding it tomorrow. I feel nervous about it and it isn't even me who has to ride it. Stupid car-crazy society.

Speaking of which, I am starting to realize just how far out we are from pretty much everything. Today going to gymnastics I was thinking it would be about a 15 minute drive, but it was more like 25. Every time we are driving home from somewhere and we just keep...on...going... it just hits me again.

Lastly, we've been looking around for a couch. We need either a small sectional or a sofa and loveseat because I want all of us to be able to sit down comfortably in the living room, no fighting over seating. New stuff is expensive. And the stuff that is new, but not all that expensive makes me wonder how long it would last. There's always craigslist, but I think I'm leaning toward a consignment store at this point. We've been to two and have seen a couple of possibilities. We'll go out this weekend and hopefully get it all taken care of. I have decided what I want and we'll just have to see if the universe delivers.

Oh wait, not lastly. Speaking of the universe delivering, we also needed a dining room table because the one we had was not big enough and also it was meant to be the craft table. On Sunday, after going out and about looking at furniture, we came home to find a table sitting out in front of our neighbors' house with a "free" sign on it. It's not the best table in the world, but it's big enough and it's good enough for now, so that we can concentrate on getting a decent couch. I like it fine and will probably hang on to it for a couple of years. Free is good.