homeschooling, Little by Little

I attended my first homeschool conference last weekend! While Maelle goes to ‘morning kindergarten’ at a local church this year, we plan to homeschool her more traditionally going forward. Next year, I plan to keep her home each morning and do most of her subjects, and then have her attend a homeschool co-op a few afternoons a week.

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frazzled February

If January was our busiest month yet, February has to have been our most stressful. For real. (Harder than IVF, I swear.) To be quite honest, we’re a week into March and I don’t think I’ve recovered yet. And to be fair, we (and by ‘we’ I mostly mean ME) are going through A LOT. In the span of about two weeks, we packed up our entire downstairs, moved into Andrew’s parents’ house and then Andrew had ACL surgery. All three of those things are hard. All three of them at the SAME TIME has been a bit nuts. However, I’m trying to remember what M is for Mama says: Hard is Not the Same Thing as Bad.

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