Home*School*Home: It seems crazy to me.

Saturday, May 08, 2021

It seems crazy to me.

That it is already MAY. This year is both flying and crawling by. I keep having doctor's appointments and assessments and surgeries and recoveries and altogether it is going to take up half my year, with me hopefully getting my knee surgery done and being recovered (mostly) by the end of July. I am hopeful (it's the only way I can cope) that after that, I will feel decent and will be able to walk reasonably well without pain and I can then commence with my life. I feel like I'm on pause right now. I'm trying to deal with the frustration of that by getting some things done at home, but I feel like I'm failing at that too. My knee is pretty bad so it's hard for me to walk outside to garden, to do much housework, etc. I have launched a Youtube channel and I've put a couple of videos up on that. That has given me something to do to occupy my time while I'm in limbo here. I'm having my surgery next week and will be in healing limbo for weeks and weeks but then I'll be able to walk normally (I hope) without pain and I can get on with my life.

We've been having some good times here and there amid the waiting. I went back into work 3 days to help out and it was good to see everyone there again after several months of working at home. We had a for-no-reason party last night and had a really nice time. We made ourselves some of our favorite fruit dip (2 ingredients, cream cheese and marshmallow cream) and ordered a takeout dinner. Then we did Mad Libs for old time's sake (had a ball with them~!) and then played some board games. It's just nice to do that sometimes.

The weather here has alternated between rain and days that are breathtakingly beautiful. It's been a nice spring and it's great that we have been able to get out and see people and go shopping in a limited way. My best friend and I got to go shopping last Saturday and that was so great. It had been over a year.

I'll share some pictures of the things I've mentioned, plus probably a few extra of the cats and the dogs.

Wish me luck this week!!

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Homeschooling Advice.

1. Try it. You might enjoy it. It might change your life. It might not be your thing, but you won't know if you don't ever try.

2. Find out what your state (or country) requires, the bare minimum. Do this and then with the rest of it, have fun with it. It doesn't have to be all serious and it doesn't have to look like the inside of a classroom. You're at home. Relax. Play. Read. Learn together. Enjoy your kids. They grow up way too fast.

3. Don't let a written curriculum boss you around. If it works, great. If it's not working for you, throw it out. If only parts of it work, use those and throw the rest out. It's not the boss of you. When shopping for curriculum, read reviews. Try to go somewhere where you can actually hold the book in your hands and look through it. Print out a sample day or week and try and implement it or borrow it before buying. It's kind of hit and miss buying books without being able to see them.

4. Find a homeschool support group. Or two. If you can't find one in real life, find one online. Get support where ever you can.

5. Make a mess now and then. Go outside and put some mentos in coke. Make alka-seltzer rockets. Make some great art. Make a timeline and a map. Grow some borax crystals. Use levers to lift things. Make a trebuchet out of whatever you can find around the house.

6. Go on as many field trips as you can.

The point of this blog.

"there is a theme, if you read, you'll get a growing conviction that homeschooling is a lifestyle that is worthwhile, that it is extremely good for kids and families, that it promotes bonding, is a personalized education that is superior to what you can get anywhere else for your kids, is fun and can be done even if you have a 400 track mind, no math skills (thankfully my husband does though), through working, job changes, bad hair days, home remodeling, deaths, illness, surgery, broken bones and various other things and it actually makes dealing with these things easier, not harder, than it was when we were in the public schools, because homeschooling is so incredibly flexible. That's the point I've been trying to make for the last 5 years or so."

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