Is this thing on??

Hah! So it's been like a couple months or something since I thought I was going to get my blogging back in gear and what do I have to show for it? Nada.

Life took a little turn and my creativity went missing for a bit. My poor Maggie has been the one who's probably missed it the most ... she suggests with a huge smile that we should do a craft, and I come up with nothing. It's like my mind has gone completely craft-blank. Sad, sad stuff.

The good news is that we're all pretty happy and healthy, even if it is hot and muggy outside. School's out for summer, I've got a new job (love it!), and Tomas and the kids are getting their summer planning together. It's Camp Tomas for them this year, so I might end up posting about the things they do while I'm tucked away in the office.

A particularly horrible graduation speech at the elementary school has us researching the alternatives even though the kids both tell us they want to stay there ("where would we make friends?!"). I just can't stand to see the light and genuine curiosity sucked out of them (a bit melodramatic, but that speech sure had me feeling that way -- the principal was all about how the kids needed to do their assigned reading over the summer, and how their new teachers were going to judge them, and how everyone they would ever meet would judge them, bla bla bla -- Gah!).

So, yeh. A bit of homeschooling research and experimentation might be coming your way this summer. We're not set on it just yet, but at the very least we now know that we'll need to actively supplement what they're getting at school.

Wow. I'd forgotten how good it feels to get stuff written down like this. Must remember to do so more often :-)

Comments

[Ali]

Sounds a touch heavy-handed for the Elementary School set! Never mind - you'll have a brilliantly non-judgemental and experimental summer I'm sure!

[Dana]

Good luck with the summer of research and experimentation! The beginning is the toughest, but also the most exciting. :)

[Anna]

Glad your back.