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Once you have determined the amount of fees that are due for your family, please go to Paypal and submit your payment to ff.homeschool.md@gmail.com sending as Friends & Family. This eliminates PayPal fees to the homeschool group and you can pay fee free when you use your PayPal balance or a linked checking account. If you choose to pay with a credit or debit card the PayPal processing fees will automatically be added to your payment. Steps to pay with PayPal can be seen below.

Paying Your Registration Fees

Start by going to PayPal.com and Select Send from top menu bar

Select Friends & Family

 

Log in or Sign up

Fill out Email to Recipient with your families name and each student's name and class group. Then click Send Money.

You will see a confirmation page. Click View Transaction Details to get your transaction ID that is necessary to register for class. 

**If you forget to click it here, you can also find your transaction number in your email confirmation or click view details on transaction in your paypal transaction history.

Copy your transaction id number and paste into first question of registration form to begin your registration process.

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Ramblings and grumblings about Aunt Carol.

Memories of my Grandma Ferne are very special to me. I love that I now have a memento to remember the early morning talks we had over her kitchen table while drinking coffee and reading the newspaper and mapping out our day. My grandma was a real woman, not worried about her hair or makeup first thing in the morning, she simple came out in her blue silk robe and sat across the table from me and really look at me. She treated me like an equal, not always like a granddaughter. 

I spent a week at her house leading up to our wedding in May of 2008. By then my Grandpa had already passed, I believe he had passed in Feb 2005. Grandma has always been so strong. She braved through grandpas passing with what looked like grace and ease, even though I am sure she was hurting. My grandparents fought with one another, but it was little bickering that never really meant anything. They had just been married for so many years. 

Yesterday Aunt Carol stopped by, while I had both the kids down for naps, which had been sleeping better than normal, so I was starting to gain some progress on my site. But I stopped what I was doing to talk to Aunt Carol. After a few minutes of her being here the kids ended up waking up and she got to visit with them. She told me the same story about the cell phones being in grandmas name until last December when she wanted to renew them and got it changed into her name...the reason they renewed was so they could get new phones, not to appease Grandma like Aunt Carol kept leading me to believe. I hate that she lies to me over petty stuff like that. Instead of taking responsibility for wanting a new phone and getting the contract changed over into her name and adding aunt ruth's line, she blames my grandma that probably didn't know any better. It drives me literally nuts that she can never take responsibility for anything, yet knows everything about everything. So in the same conversation we had yesterday she told me the same cell phone story. 

When she first walked in she brought in the mug from Grandma's house. She had a bag I crocheted stuffed in it. She said that my brother really wanted my sister and I to have these, although they were a gift that Aunt Carol had given grandma, along with a cookie jar that she gave "Larry, your dad," she kept referring to my dad in this manner. But when I was there visiting in July with Kristina we talked to dad and aunt carol about the mugs and even then Aunt Carol didn't seem to know what was going on with them...my dad said that the girls would like to have a mug each. I seriously think aunt carol needs to go to therapy for her issues.

aunt carol mentioned that she would still be going "home" every summer to visit, probably not as long, but to go and see her friends and this one lady that is really special to her. It all the sudden popped into my mind that aunt carol could be gay. She has another group of women that she goes to retreats with out here in md, but downstate. It doesn't seem very likely because she is so uptight, but its a possibility that she is a closet gay. She doesn't love Ron, I think she is just hanging around for the estate money on that...which she most likely won't get much of since he wants a lot of it to go to his kids. Something just seems off about aunt carol and fred agrees that she hasn't been right for sometime...but really she just seems a bit worse than normal. I wonder since I am her only family out here if I am going to be the one to have to take care of her as she ages and make the decisions she is making for her aunt ruth. I kind of want to talk to my dad and see what he thinks...if there is anything i can do to help her. 

First Rambling, Many More to Come

Do you ever get that uneasy feeling inside, where you just feel all mixed up? You are being torn in a zillion different ways and it's all inside your head? This is a feeling I sometimes can't shake and I have given it a name J·U·M·B·L·E·F·I·E·D
This blog is just for me, to explore a way to get unjumblefied by getting my thoughts out on paper. I am not writing this post on this blog for anyone else but me. I know that sounds selfish and self absorbed, but I don't take time for just myself. I am constantly wrapping myself up in project after project. I am a mother of two beautiful children and I love them dearly, but although I am a stay at home mom, I feel like I don't spend enough quality time with them. Maybe that is just mom guilt talking, but I seriously feel like I spend all day with them, but it's not quality cause I am a bit stressed.

Let's talk about the stress. Stress comes from me piling way too much on myself. A couple of years ago I started a cloth diaper business, that has now grown into a cloth diaper store and we are starting to get our name out there, which is excellent and I am so blessed that it has really taken off. The business is really been putting us into debt though...it seems like every time we are close to getting out, like spring of 2012, when our central air system broke and needed replaced for a very pretty penny that we paid on credit, which is now going to be coming due in April of 2014. Then we have all of the credit cards we used to get the business where it is now. Keeping the store stocked is putting us in a bad place again. I have recently decided to hold off on ordering some more wool covers because we just can't afford it right now.

We carry a lot of brands and it is good to have these options for the various clientele we have. It is awesome when we have walk ins or referrals and have been consistently busy the last couple of weeks, ever since The Big Latch on in Frostburg on the 3rd. Which also happened to be the day that they celebrated my Grandmother's life and buried her ashes. I decided not to go back to Kansas for the service because I had just been out there on July 4th weekend and got to spend some time with her and help comfort her in her last days. She passed away on the 18th, just two weeks later in a nursing home in Edwardsville, KS. I was told that she was being worked with by a nurse there at the time of her passing and the nurse didn't even notice she had passed right away. It breaks my heart to have seen her that way. The drive to the nursing home was hard and leaving her there was even harder. What is really hard to coup with is the fact that there will no longer be any holiday's at grandmas in Kansas. Dad keeps talking about how he wants to have us do something for either Christmas or Thanksgiving, but I don't know if we are going to be able to afford it this year.

We have all of these finanacial cliffs we are facing, one this month, then again in October and then in April. I just really wish that I could sell all of the product we have in the store...like come up with a huge open house party or something that will get people to buy almost everything we have in stock, just so we can make it though these next few months. I know we can sell the grand prix, but it's nice to think that we have a back up car, like for when one of the vehicles is in the shop or something...but that's not really often. I do need to get the van to the body shop here soon to get the dent repaired that i put in it by backing into a telephone poll out front about a month ago. We just can't afford the $500 right now, and I want to have a car for the three days it will be in the shop, so we hang on to the grand prix....but then we need the money to pay off the debt I keep putting us into with store purchases.

I am planning a cloth diaper 101 classes for next wednesday, I am hoping that entices people to purchase something. I have tried sales before and I end up losing money at times cause the profit is so low. I am seriously hoping things will turn around for us soon. I shall keep you posted.