Just when you thought you had it all figured out....

A big decision made at the Doty household this week....the kids are going back to school. Now the question comes, do I change the name of my blogsite? Obviously, when I chose the www.homeschoolmom2four.blogspot.com, I never intended to quit homeschooling. But, Life has a funny way of changing things up on you----Kirk and I got to assessing everything currently going on and decided that putting the kiddies in private school this year would be the best thing. The boys have actually been asking for awhile to go to school. Abby isn't really hopped up on the idea but is going along w/ it. We came to the conclusion that since we were going to be driving to the school anyways to take Hongru, it would be a good time to try it. (It also is a nice perk that the school is offering half off tuition this year to try to increase enrollment since the economy took a toll on them....) So, we just came to this decision 3 days ago and school starts Friday so I've been running around getting school clothes and supplies, taking kids to placement testing, getting haircuts (which was a little less drama filled than I had anticipated as Keaton was very fond of his hair and had to cut it to go to the school---probably the difference between Dad taking him to cut it and me doing it. He now has gone to spiking it into a mohawk and seems okay w/ the change) etc. etc. etc. So, we will see how this set up works for us around here. We debated as to whether or not to put Alexa in their preschool program but decided to go ahead and keep her home one last year since she will be in kindergarten next year--which is INSANE to think my baby will be in school full time next year! So, that's that story....
What else? Hongru comes in 4 short days so the next couple days w/ be more organizing and cleaning to prepare. We are also still working out details to possibly be purchasing a 15 passenger "bus" (ya know--like a shuttle bus type vehicle). We went and test drove it last week and really like it. Just waiting to hear back from our insurance dude to find out if the rates would be ridiculous or not.I had posted on facebook about what I want to do if we buy this thing. I thought it would be fun to paint it up like the Partridge Family bus and put "The Doty Family" down the side of it. When I told Kirk my idea, he liked it but his response was "Sounds like an expensive paint job". Always pinching pennies when you've got all these mouths to feed. Maybe I could pick up some overtime to foot the bill.... We do have the minivan still and it can seat 8 but it's pretty cramped. Since our house is usually full of other people's kids, if we have even one extra, we are taking 2 cars everywhere so the shuttle bus would be nice. The only not so nice part is that it gets like 10 miles to the gallon but whatcha gonna do? So, we will see on that one...Darn it! Now that stupid Partidge family theme song is going thru my brain again...."Hello world It's a Song that we're singing...come on get happy!"
So, that's pretty much the lastest from our household.....just thought I'd jot the update on the schooling subject. Part of me is kinda sad about giving up the homeschooling really. I love being w/ my kids. We have been together pretty much 24/7 for the most part for the last 4 years so maybe it will allow them to spread their wings a litlte bit, which isn't such a bad thing. We will see how this year goes and decide if school is for them or if we will go back to the homeschooling. Hope this school knows what they are in for! If not, they are about to find out....LOL.