Life Here in These Parts

It's hard to come back to life after being carefree and kidfree for several days.  I spent today feeling overwhelmed with catching up with life and preparing for the coming week, AND processing the convention we went to, which has my head swarming with plans for our future.

On the schooling front, I am ready to mix things up.  We have been very loose in our structure since June, but I want to get more scheduled.  Need to get more scheduled.  This is how it tends to go each year.  Maybe it has something to do with winter coming.  I have an inner need to change with the seasons, I guess.

This time it also has to do with getting Reuben more involved in the formal education process.  And I have some personal daily goals I want to accomplish and I just don't think they are going to get done if I don't schedule them.


So, we are going to try night school with Peter.  He currently goes to bed at 8:30 but is awake until ten or eleven.  So I'm going to try doing some lessons after dinner for a while.

Nolan comes over from 2:30-5:30 and all the boys play together.  Then dinner, then how about some lessons?  Send him to bed at 10 or 10:30 and let him sleep into the morning.  Rube gets up early and I can have some time with him.

Going with the flow of natural rhythms.  We'll see.  I've done lots of experimentation with scheduling and structure over the last three years.  Changing as we need to.  One of the nice freedoms of home education.


And I just want to say, if you have the opportunity to wear pink shoes, they are a lot of fun.