I just sat down after this CRAZY wonderful week. I figured even though it is insanely late (I just got the house semi-straightened out and I am waiting on Devin to come home from work while watching the Morning Show on Apple+) that I have a few minutes to write about how our second week of homeschooling went.

Like I said this week was just chaotic, and you know what that is real life. Life is unpredictable and chaotic at times. We have to learn to be flexible and just take life as it throws things at us sometimes, and our girls got to learn a lot about that this week.

That doesn’t mean we didn’t get our school work finished, because that we did. Some days it was just we did school later in the day than usual. Some days we got to use a real life example of how to spend and count dollar bills and coins, and they seem to understand money WAY better now.

This week we had cheerleading and dance that really took ahold of our lives because one of children had their first football game (ever!) and the other one had their first parade (ever!), so there was days we had to run and get the last minute things. Not including our regular scheduled programming and the fact our two older children’s school switched back from hybrid to full time in person.

Our girls learned so much this week, even being able to count 1-20 (and 10- 100 by tens) in the languages they chose. We started the Tuttle Twin series, which they loved and asked so many questions. We did a photo shoot, we went to the library, we visited Ms. Pat at Klassy Kids probably more then she wanted to see us this week, and we did our usual grocery shopping (along with an ice cream trip).

We started Lalilo, which helps with language arts and they responded well to it. They discovered their scientist for their science project. We used our bins for fun and for class.

There has never been a moment that I have not been sure we made the right choice for these girls, but I did have moment this week and I felt like “oh my goodness did we start this at the right time because October is the busiest month of the year for us,” but then it hit me (kind of slapped me in the face) is there truly a right time? The answer is, we did this not being about the right time for Devin or I , but the right time for our children. So, regardless of how chaotic or busy life is; homeschooling was the right choice at the right time for these girls. It’s a big change in our lives, but welcoming it instead of stressing about time has worked out so much better for this momma.

Anyways, as the years go on I hope to look back at this week and say we made it through, and it actually turned into a really great week with a fabulous ending.

As Always,
Brittany K Hodge