Struggling To Find Ourselves

We just finished the end of the first 9 weeks at the public school my son goes to.  He, of course, is doing SUPER great, academically!!!  The only problem he’s got socially is being TOO social….*L*

I’ve been having him read extra here at home, and do some extra math and such, as well as review his phone number and address and such when we get the chance.  It hasn’t been on a REAL regular basis, so far, but things SHOULD calm down a little bit in our lives over the next few weeks, so we are hoping we can be a bit more consistent.  Only time will tell, though!!

I think I just stuck that last personal entry in some categories that it didn’t belong in….*shrugs*…Oh well, I guess I’ll find time one of these days to go back through and recategorize my entries and get them all where they belong.

School for my boy is going pretty well.  Can’t say much about the academic progress, but he is loving it socially, like I knew he would.  Too bad he’s not at school JUST to socialize and that his academics has to fall behind where I have him while he’s there.  We still do quite a bit here at home, just so he will not lose the skills that I’ve already taught him that they aren’t using in the public school yet.  Overall, he’s doing GREAT!!!!

More later…maybe…

Yep, I would have to say that it’s been way to long since I’ve been in here on a regular basis.  Things have been so busy with appointments and everything that I have been letting the time on the computer slide quite a bit more than I probably should.

Has anyone noticed that the days are going by WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY to fast?  We are almost into October already.  It’s kind of hard to believe, if you ask me.  It seems like only last month that I was helping some people do their tax returns for the year.

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I’m here again, but not quite as soon as I was hoping.  But, at least, I’m here!!!

Things are going okay here.

School started a couple of weeks ago for my boy.  He is enjoying it, though I get the distinct impression that there are days when he is bored with the schoolwork itself.  He LOVES P.E., and Music, and recess, though….and he has been eating ALL of his lunches, at least part of the days, according to him.

More later, maybe….

Yep, the public school that my son goes to started last Thursday.  He seems to be enjoying it, though we aren’t real used to the earlier mornings yet.

Looks like rain today.  We can use a little bit, though, because it’s been a week or more since we got a GOOD rain last.

Not much going on here today.  I’m getting some computer work done, as well as some miscellaneous cleaning around the house, and maybe even a bit of reading or something for a bit.  Already took a walk, though it was shorter this morning because of the threat of rain.  Might just take another one later, though.

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Well, public school starts again in the first half of August.  Can you believe that?  If the tend for public schools keeps going like it is now, they will be getting out of school on May 24th and starting the new school year on May 25th.  And there are some that don’t understand why I want to home school!!!…*shakes her head*  Oh, and with lunches, can you believe we are looking at approximately $450 for the cost of school?  I guess it’s a GOOD thing I don’t plan on him eating breakfast at school much at this point, huh, because that would be about another $175 or so.  And to think that I could home school him for SOOOOOOOO much less at this point!!!….He is looking forward to going back to school, kind of, I think…even though it wreaks havoc in our lives with the mental health appointments and everything else going on…*shrugs*….Oh well, it’s what we have to do right now, so we’ll do it and make the best of it that we can.

Schooling, if you want to call it that, has been going okay.  The Reading has been coming along nicely, and my buddy has been doing SUPER GREAT on Math and such.  We’ve been doing some Science, Social Studies, History, and Agriculture, just to name SOME of our “subjects”.  And frankly, we haven’t been working TOO hard on it, so far.

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Well, school is out, at least for those in public school.  My buddy’s last day was this last Thursday.  I HAVE to admit that it’s been nice sleeping in the last couple of mornings!!!  We will be working on his reading, as well as several other things over the Summer, and we’ll see what happens.  Hopefully, the Summer doesn’t go by TOO fast, but it’s already looking like we’re going to have ALOT happening, so I expect it WILL go by fairly quickly.  But we will try to take one day at a time, and enjoy as much of it as we can!!!  And maybe things will settle down some in the not-to-distant future!!!….*crosses her fingers*

Schooling is going okay.  We haven’t really done much “bookwork” here at home in the last couple of weeks, but we HAVE done quite a bit of other stuff that would count.  Public school is over this week!!!  This is a GOOD thing!!!  It will give us BOTH a MUCH needed break!!!  Then we have to start looking at buying school supplies and school clothes for next school year, providing my buddy still has to go to public school.  I think I’ll start saving money for that now, ’cause I KNOW it’s going to be expensive to get him supplies and clothes and enrolled in August.

…are filled with running, it seems like.  Even when we don’t plan it.  I planned to run into town for a couple of hours yesterday morning, and ended up spending all afternoon there.  Had just enough time to get back to the school and get my buddy picked up.  So much for getting some stuff done around the house here!!!

Today was SOME better.  I had an appointment at 11A.M., so I had about 3 hours at home in between errands and the appointment and getting back to the school.

I will have to do an entry about schooling here one of these days soon.  Nothing major going on there, other than my buddy WANTING to do some of the pages I had left from the Kindergarten work he was doing when I was home schooling him.  So we’ve done a couple of those the last two nights, in addition to his 5 minutes worth of homework from school.

Other than that, things are okay here.  Had some Spring-like weather a couple of days ago, and then it cooled off again.  But it’s warming back up, SLOWLY.  The grass is starting to pop up green all over the place, and a couple of the trees are really starting to show they are getting leaves.  That’s a GOOD thing, ’cause I am SOOOOO ready for Spring!!!

More later….