So on Monday I had my third homeschool review (at least from this stint of homeschooling). As I noted earlier, I was wondering if they had forgotten. But they hadn’t, which gave me a few days to pull together the necessary materials. My husband–bless his naive heart–said I should save everyone’s time and just call [...]
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