Our busy schedule is killing me. I've known for a long time that we need to cut back but there's just so much fun and educational stuff to do! We could be gone every day of the week if we did everything on my calendar... and that's just homeschool stuff. I'm not including sports. If there are any "unsocialized" homeschoolers around here, it's because of choice, not lack of opportunity!
But I just added up our gasoline spending for September. It's high... very high... higher than our house payment!! We spent $577 on gasoline in September. That's a problem b/c our gasoline budget is only $300/month. Something's got to give and I've decided it's going to be music. Isn't that the first place the public schools cut? LOL
It seems like a bad choice to keep football and cut band, or keep soccer and cut piano. But football is closer than band. And soccer is closer than piano. AND they actually enjoy football and soccer and put forth effort. They're not musical prodigies and they've gone as far as they want to go with the music lessons. Not only am I saving money but I'll also be saving time by not driving to lessons twice a week and energy by not having to force them to practice, though I do hope they'll keep their skills up so they rejoin later if the urge strikes them (or me). I'm not sure why I feel the need to justify my choices but there they are.
Stand and Wait
9 years ago
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Oh my, that's a lot of gas money! But what I'm really shocked at is your house payment. Wow! Ours is $1282 and we live in a relatively small house (3 bed, 1 bath, 1250sq ft with virtually no land) in a bad neighborhood.
BTW, you and your family ended up on my dream the other day. It was a very odd dream with three homeschool families living in and sharing the same house.
Can I have my orange piano books back :-D
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