The Conference Scramble

As you might know, our family is very involved in putting together the annual MACHS Homeschool Conference. I wrote this in early March 2013, I believe, and it is still true around Conference time.

'Twas the night before the night before Conference,

and all through the Lawrenson house,

All the creatures were stirring, even a mouse.

The school work was done in a flurry with care,

The children cleaned house,

in hope that play-time soon would be there.

And Mama in a panic, and Papa in worse,

Did not leave the computer, oh, what a curse!

There were emails to send, and jobs to assign,

Would this conference ever come into line?

There was laundry to do, and food to prepare,

And every girl in the place was worried about hair!

What should I wear, that looks clean and neat?

What should go in the oven to eat?

The situation is desperate, only two days to go,

And what do you think? There's sheep loose in the snow!

Oh no, we all cry, it's time to leave,

And then the phone rings, and we all nearly scream,

''IT'S TIME FOR THE HOMESCHOOL CONFERENCE!''

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The Homeschool Conference Tornado

I waxed eloquent in my diary just before the first conference that my Mom and Dad were wholly responsible for. That was the most hectic one, but it still completely runs over us and leaves us by the side of the road for dead.

March 19th, 2014

The Conference approaches slowly but surely, getting faster and faster as it comes. We scramble to batten down the windows, frantically preparing for it until it bursts upon us and we are engulfed by the whirl of excitement, work, organization, stress, enjoyment, crazy homeschoolers, and late nights. Then it will be gone, leaving us to pick ourselves up in bewilderment, look down at our rumpled, dirty clothes, our trashed house, and our crying children, and try to pick up the pieces. Yet the funny thing is, we won't regret that this terrible tornado came. We'll say we enjoyed it and we're glad it came. We'll be prepared to be involved next year, and might look forward to it a bit. How is it that the little bit of excitement in watching a tornado approach, and that little bit of enjoyment in working together to survive it as it goes over you ride over everything else in mind as you recall it, so much that you look forward to another tornado, knowing it will cause no less destruction in passing? I think it had to be so, otherwise nothing would get done in this world.

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The First Three Years - Big Hair Daze and Bad Brothers

Is Mercer gonna get a brother or a sister?

It's a girl....illa!

Playing Doctor

Dad fell asleep and left the kids unsupervised....

I remember this

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