Yesterday was full of nice things. We went bowling with the local homeschooling group (Emma wants to go again today and tomorrow and…), ran a few errands, made plans and talked to lots of people.

When I was finally home, the phone rang. It was the head of the local (bigger) library. Seems she was filling out some sort of form or survey she has to do every year, and there were questions on it about the number of homeschooler in the area. She had no idea, and didn’t know who to call to ask, except me.

Which was good, because I know that stuff. Hopefully, now that the library knows there’s a bit more homeschooling families than they thought, they can make adjustments and updates to their selection.

I also dropped off food to the food bank, again having to explain to Emma that some people didn’t even have enough money for food. Not even *treats*. Not even some family with kids, just like her. She’s thinking of getting some of her usual treats – oreos, fruit snacks – and dropping them off. As it was, I had to make two trips to bring everything inside.

“Who’s it from?” the lady behind the counter asked, after her profuse thank-yous.

I smiled. “No one.”

“No one?”

“Just us.” Grins all around.

And then I had trouble with the door. “Oh, did I accidentally lock it?” the lady asked me, since it was near closing time.

I tried again. “No,” I sighed, ” I was pushing when I should have pulled.”

We also gave an unused monitor to one of our single-mom homeschooling friends who coincidentally had their monitor die right before I called to see if she wanted this one. We knew what her computer was like, having helped her with it before and we knew the extra monitor we had kicking around was better than the one she had, so it was a no-brainer to give it to her rather than toss it to the curb.

Also, a dear sweet new friend heard of Emma’s Pixar love and loaned us a video of Pixar shorts, which she dropped off last night. Emma has watched it three times since then and is estatic. Just so you know.