I heart Excel!

Homeschool can get very messy and unorganized very fast. I don't mean the kind of mess that is made from a fun art or other creative project. This mess is the one created when the teacher is also the mother. What needs to get done in school sometimes gets lost in the rest of, well life! 

This year I wanted to find a planner or program that would have the whole school year laid out. Not specifically what to do for each lesson but what lessons need to be completed each week. Make sense? No, well read on anyway. You are either Mat, my Mom or Dad, Debby or Danielle and you are hoping for a cute picture of the kids. Good news, I'll add a picture at the end because you are so patient to read my ramblings. 

Back to my planner....so I couldn't find anything I liked. I don't want to write it all out by hand. Hello, this isn't 1984! I didn't want to pay for a program that had tons of features I won't  need and was missing the ones I want. The free stuff I found wasn't right either. So I created my own!!! I know you are thinking, "Can we just see the pictures of the kids already?" 

I used Excel. I bet you guessed that from my title already though. I've been cutting and pasting and freezing cells and all sorts of fun things. Oh how I miss using Excel on a daily basis at work. Anyhow, I am not completely done but I am very happy with what I have thus far. I really hope it helps keep me on track and stops me from freaking out and thinking I am behind. I'm Happy! (At the moment. I'll find something to freak out about soon. It's my gift.). 

And now for a picture...(You may be thinking this better be one heck of a picture after I just read all of that blah blah blah) 

  Hmmm, that's blurry. Let me try another. 

Better. They are painting with corks and feathers. Short boring story. 

We also had fun with water balloons today.   That's all. Hope you enjoyed. Now you can go back to what you were doing. :-)