> We're getting ready to go on vacation in a few days.
 > We're traveling down to
 > the dunes area on the Oregon coast...which is about as
 > far as a tank of gas and
 > $200 (including food) will take us. I expect the
Sounds like a lot of fun! Those are the best kinds of vacations in my 
opinion, where it's not how much you can spend, but how little you can and 
still have fun!
 > full, but there's a national forest campground about
 > 20 miles inland that we
We always camped at NF or NP campsites when we were tenting. Now we're 
spoiled and like hookups, which NF campgrounds don't have (but some NP 
campgrounds do).
 > I've started school at home the week after public
 > school let out. We do a
Well, our decision has been made. IF (and it is a big IF) my studio grows to 
a specific amount of students this year, I pull the kids out of public school 
and homeschool them. It may mean pulling them out in Sept or Oct after 
starting, but at least any activities like Band or Choir will have started 
and Jenn can remain in them if she likes.
I'm working on forcing that IF to actually take place. The kids have 
volunteered to help me, because they see what it will mean to them (and the 
youngest will do anything to avoid going back to that school next year, I 
think!).
                                 -donna
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