Back to School and Not Back to School

Summer is not over!

I feel the need to say this because it seems like as soon as those yellow school buses start appearing on our neighborhood streets, everyone starts acting like Fall is already here. I, for one, am holding fast to summer as long as I can. The Autumn Equinox is still several weeks away so until then it's still summer, despite the backpacks and the slightly cooler temperatures. Besides I'm sure we still have many more warm, summery days in store for us. In fact I plan on taking the kids to the pool this week before it closes- we'll call it P.E. class. We will mostly likely have it all to ourselves since everyone else will be away at school. :-)


Okay now speaking of school and my denial of summer coming to an end, we have in fact resumed our homeschooling. Monday was our first day of the new year but it was a little different than usual. Remember how I mentioned those yellow school buses? Well, my second eldest child got on one of them that day and off to public school she went. She had been asking if she could go for 5th grade and we finally agreed. It's not something I'm entirely happy about, but I'm happy that she's happy about it (so far) and I'm proud of her for trying something new. She's only two days into it but so far so good.

On the homeschooling front, today was our traditional Not-Back-to-School picnic since the rest of us are not going back to school. Well not to public school anyway. My 6 yr old however is excited about officially being a first-grader now and my 13 yr old has happily jumped into his 8th grade studies, glad to have something more interesting to do. His words. :-) My 4 yr old daughter is having fun starting another preschool year and the 2 yr old is just happy to be along for the ride.

So off we go into our 4th year of homeschooling....minus one, but I think it will be a good year for everyone. :-)