Is it really time to be thinking about the holidays?

Life has been interesting here. My dh is working a full-time job, but it is only temporary. It ends Dec. 31. I will be working a temporary position also, starting Nov. 16 and ending Dec. 15. So.....I'm thinking about the holidays a lot right now because I will not have the time to get ready later. My job will be 6 days a week, leaving Sunday for church. So my parents are coming to help with the kids. The problem is, we rent and are not permitted to have a pet, and my parents have one. So we are trying to work it all out. (There is a lot more that has been going on, but this was all I had time to share.) The great thing is I'm almost ready for the holidays!!

Needless to say school has been a challenge through all of this, so I think I'll be trying to use this as a way to keep myself accountable. My dd has been wonderful at doing a lot of things on her own, but I've been terrible at doing my part:( My ds needs a regular schedule and I haven't provided, so he says that he doesn't want to do school when I mention it, just because he's not use to it. (That makes me so sad to write.) When we get into doing his school, he loves it! I really hope this will help me by being brutally honest that I've blown it lately.
Hope everyone is doing well out there in blog world and especially in your homeschool journeys.

So Sorry!!

I haven't been on here in too long!!! Sorry!! Life has been crazy! It's late now, but I will post more tomorrow. I apologize and I've missed reading what's going on with everyone else.