It’s amazing how easy a mom can feel like a failure. Mid July my daughters wrote me a note. A very eloquent note in which they wanted to go back to public school. Simply put, they missed the structure. I cannot provide that structure as it’s not in nature to force people to conform to [...]
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Tags: admission, communication, curriculum, failure, home school, hurt, methods, note, public school, structure
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It’s Friday. Ironically, since I am now home almost all the time, Friday has lost it’s luster. I used to love Friday. Now it’s another day lol. There is some prep to be done for the weekend. I have to redo the lesson plans I have worked so hard on and it’s not going to [...]
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| Tags: birthday party, cake, calendar, cheese & crackers, chores, city, free book, free pizza, gazebo, gift card, homeschool, laundry, lesson plans, library, pretzels, public school, reading event, reading program, snacks, used books, weekend
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Yesterday was an absolute roller coaster ride. It started out great. Claire and Alex had vacation bible school and seemed to have a blast. Too bad it’s only 4 days this week. When they got home Claire wanted to spend time doing schoolwork. So I pulled up the curriculum and she started. Not 2 minutes [...]
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| Tags: benefits, bills, decrease, drama, feeding kids, frustration, grammar, heart attack, homeschool, juggling act, lack of income, minimum wage, pay, public school, punish, schoolwork, stress, vacation bible school
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So yesterday was a hell of a day. I won’t go into massive details because they are utterly boring but exhausted me. We did have the girls’ awards ceremony yesterday at school. I forget every year what kind of torturous hell it can be to sit through an awards ceremony. First though I must brag. [...]
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| Tags: academic excellence, administrators, awards ceremony, brilliance, graduation, homeschool, honor roll, intelligence, kids, parents, public school, reading, students, teachers, torture
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So for my commenters yesterday, thank you! I thought about commenting to each one but really it will all be right here with my news. I came to the realization yesterday that I had not done Alex’s enrollment paperwork to get him into Kindergarten at the girls’ school. That has to be done by end [...]
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| Tags: children, enrollment, homeschool, kindergarten, public school, teacher, teaching, teaching licenses, time limits
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