A Homeschooling-Mom Update, two+ years and counting

The question of doing or not doing daily blogging became a non-issue after May, 2006, when my son and I moved our homeschooling location to our new condo, which -- quite intentionally -- did not come equipped with a land-line phone, cable TV, or internet.

Our workarounds for those formerly critical items ... are working!

Instead of a home phone ... we have cell phones ... and text messaging ...

Instead of cable TV, daily and weekly favorites incorporated into our schedules ... we have overcome those addictions (my son is very proud of himself for kicking his TV-watching habit when we moved!). Now we have full seasons of shows available for rent or checkout (at our local video stores or at the library, depending on finances), and as many DVD and videotape movies as we wish, for those few nights each month when we're at home and ready for some video watching.

Instead of internet ... well, let's face it, we really weren't all that interested in giving internet up completely, and there really isn't anything else that compares to it, is there? -- So we still have internet in our lives, lots and lots and lots of it, as much as we can stand, just ... not at home (we use the library computers, and borrow my son's dad's computers a few times each week, before or after my son's overnights), and not always every day. (We can access the internet via our cell phones, if we really really want to proclaim daily connection!)

At some point ... perhaps ... we will get ourselves laptops, and wireless connectivities ... but for now, we save ourselves a few dollars each month and, more importantly, also save ourselves from those countless hours of former addiction-times that we used to experience, before we moved!