Rachel ~ I know what you mean about class and the timing of mass, etc. I live about 2hrs away (one direction) from any church and for us to get up early enough to get there in time is sometimes more than we can do. If I want to make confession before the first mass I would have to leave my house no later than 5:30am. If I came straight home after it would be about 11:30am before I was home.
I also know what you mean about the nuns. Some of them now are very, very "modern" The ones in the parishes I attend still wear the traditional habits and the order at one of the churches is filled with the sweetest seeming women.
I don't have as much contact with them, but my sister does as she is a member of that parish - her boys take catchism classes there and she homeschools otherwise. Just out of curiosity, what curriculum do you use for school? I think my sister used Seton for awhile and then switched to "Our Lady of Victory". Everything is faith based. I have their Latin lessons for DDs.
Another question (which you may have already answered somewhere else) You say you attend a Latin mass, is it the Tridentine like I attend - priest faces away from people, old mass, etc.?
HHMMM Jim and Kara does sound really good!
