This has been quite the challenging year for me. We made the choice to homeschool my oldest, as the neighborhood school was doing poorly. I knew at the time that it would be difficult to add in the time it takes to properly homeschool a child to the time...
We finished quite a project here recently. Just barely made the deadline, in fact, and there’s still some extras that need doing. It was a truly exhausting project to deal with, more than I had expected it to be, but oh, so fun! We entered California Virtual Academy’s Winterland...
I have to admit, these past few weeks have been just hammering me. Very challenging. It’s hard getting used to the demands of homeschooling a third grader. Especially since the K12 program is so demanding. The amount of work is pretty amazing some days. It’s mostly good. But some...
It’s about a week and a half until my daughter’s homeschool program officially starts. To be accurate, it’s an independent study course through an online public school. CAVA provides us with a teacher to contact, and classes to attend on Tuesdays so there’s some in person interaction with fellow...
Working at home means taking on a lot of extra work, especially with kids running around underfoot. It means long days and working into the nights. My family is used to me doing this. What has some people telling me I’m nuts is that I’m about to add homeschooling...