School Year Changes

Adrian was in an online charter school and I had enrolled Bella as well for Kinder starting this fall.  Unfortunately, I received an email stating that the school was closing!  I was wondering what in the world we were going to do because this online charter school was the BEST fit for our family out of the others.  They were very flexible.  Well, we have figured out our plan!  We will not be enrolling in our local public schools because I am not happy with them either. This year we are going to be traditionally home schooling!

I have figured out our school calendar.  We have to have 180 days of instruction a year.  Indiana doesn't require testing or portfolios.  We are working in 6, 6 week increments.  We are starting at the end of July and should be finished before the end of May.  I'll post about our curriculum once it arrives!  Adrian's charter is also letting us purchase his laptop for a very good deal!  Now we just need to get a printer/scanner and the rest of his math curriculum which can be ordered as he finishes each level.

Lately...

Life has been a blur lately...We celebrated my son's 3rd birthday last month and my wonderful husband's 30th birthday all in the same week!  I made a video of C over the past 3 yrs... I can't believe how much he has grown and changed...He is definitely a handful!  He tries to get cute when he is in trouble to get out of it...He also gives this look when he wants something...I love him so much...He was such a HUGE surprise when I found out I was pregnant with him...I had had a mirena in when I got pregnant and somehow my body kept the pregnancy and got rid of the mirena! God knew what my little family was missing and gave it to us.

My grandmother also passed away.  She was such a kind woman who loved little ones!  I will miss her tons.  Even though we aren't super close I still remember time I was with her when I would stay over occasionally or she would pick me up from school.  I remember her singing in the car and grocery shopping in her little red hatch back,,,I remember the peanuts jelly jars that she would keep as drinking glasses for the kids...I remember the smell of  the fireplace at her house and I almost always fell asleep on her couch when it was burning...I still have all the bunnies and bears and dolls she made for me...My daughter even loves on one of the rabbits she gave me for Easter one year!  I wish I would have gotten the chance for her to teach me to sew...

My sister's baby is doing exceptionally well and should be home from  the NICU soon...She is now in an open bed and off of oxygen support completely...now she just needs to quit having Bradys and take all her feeds from breast or bottle...right now she is only doing every other feeding.  I don't thing she has had any Bradys in a few days but it has to be so many days before its checked off...she over 4lbs now too...

I have decided to do traditional homeschooling next year with my daughter for sure...I'm not sure if I'm sticking with the online charter for my son or not.  I'm leaning to traditional home school him as well.  The testing is too harsh for kids in the elementary years.  Its longer than college entrance exams and they have so many of them...maybe we will go back to online charter once they are in middle school...

Going to try to do one to three posts a week if possible but idk maybe a recipe day, a home school post day, and just random thoughts and life in general...