Kate and Luke have finally gotten through the ATROCIOUS waste of time that was the “introduction to cyberschooling”. That was seriously hellacious. Sorry for the swear word.
After 10 years of homeschooling, my tolerance for time-wasting is ZERO. So, no, I don’t have the patience for a 3 hour “introduction to online learning” class which is mandatory (that doesn’t count toward school days-just sayin’) then in the first week, nearly every teacher has a series of graded activities that repeat that information. Tears everywhere. I was literally running up and down the stairs and completely abandoned Mark for the first 2 weeks. He’ll be fine, he’s plugging along in math, reading real books and practicing spelling and trying his best to care about cursive. His cursive is award-worthy….if only he could do it without a model….please don’t tell him. I’m not freaking out about it because he can sign his name and I’m told by a lot of parents that elementary schools aren’t really even teaching cursive anymore or considering ditching it. That’s a big BOOOOO from me. I really believe important brain connections are happening when pencil or pen meets paper, I think those kids will be cheated.
Fall is here. My patio was carpeted with leaves for a few days and it was bugging Mark (little). We cleared them today but looking at the beautiful tree that is responsible, I’m not sure our work today mattered.
As I do yard work, I seriously envy my neighbors that can make their yards look so clean and manicured, spend about 1 minute wishing I was like that and then I realize that MY life doesn’t work like that. I have a constant goal to purge and simplify to make maintenance possible and enjoyable but we’re not there yet and life is happening, so I don’t get upset.
Congratulations to Hannah. The kid has worked so hard to make tennis and school coexist. She’s gotten a little ink here and here and she deserves it! But the press doesn’t really even phase her. One of her good friends from tennis was the “cover girl” for a feature article today about athletes who play more than one sport in the same season and I actually think she was more excited for her.
Maybe I’ll post sometime about the whirlwind that has been our purchase of investment property in our neighborhood for my mom to occupy. That’s been fun.