Yeah, so I haven’t written much in here. I’m busy like ALL the time. I’m tired like ALL the time, too. We do Audrey’s homeschooling at night before she goes to bed, and she’s doing fine with that. Right now we are focusing on reading, writing, and math. I throw science and history in there when I have time. She likes history ( we’re working on ancient Egypt right now). One thing is for sure, working and having two kids is er, interesting. I have been trying to decide whether I want to keep sending the girls to daycare while I work my butt off and come home cranky and unavailable to anything except the TV, or quit my job and learn to live without money. Hmmm. So, beginning in February I will try staying home for a while. I’m feeling sort of panicked, excited, and disappointed at the same time. Doing this will make some things easier, and some harder. If we can make it work and get ends to meet without tons of stress I will be happy. Right now our house is a mess, I feel like I don’t know the kids, and I just feel like there is something else I should be doing.
Anyway, as far as the homeschooling goes I’m planning to look into a program here in Kirkland that let’s you pick and choose public school classes and do the rest of the schooling at home. I’ve only read about it online, so I could change my mind all together after talking with someone about it on the phone. It’s a small learning center, the classes are not held at a big public school ( but the children are considered public school students). Audrey is interested in trying school, but I don’t want her in school all day long so I figure this is a good trade off. If we don’t like it we can skip it next year, and if she does like it we can add another class. I need to be able to school her at least part time so I have something to do- plus I feel like she picks things up much more easily when she is learning them from me at home. I just know how she learns- she’s a really straight forward auditory learner. Her memory is scary good, too. She just needs things repeated to her a couple times, and I feel like a teacher trying to deal with other kids is probably going to get annoyed and move on before Audrey really “gets” a concept.
Alright, bed time.
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