I'm so excited, just one maore day until I go off to NH to do a week with twelve homeschooling families and Beth Sutton. I so need the inspiration since we have a co-op group starting in the fall and I'm so tired with the pregnancy and no kitchen thing.

Just had to share, I'll post when i return about how it went :)

Have fun! It sounds divine. I can't wait to hear a full report!

Have fun and tell us everything!

Fun! Oh and I owe you a pm (sorry :( ). I can't wait to hear all about it.

I'm BAAAACK!!!!

WEll, I want to post a really really long post... but I just can't yet. I had the most amazing week. I would say it was easily in the top five things I've ever participated in in my life!

I just wrote out seven pages longhand about my thoughts and feelings reguarding Enki, the whole week, Beth Sutton (amazing woman) and my initial grasping of the whole concept of Enki.
I will type them up at some point in the near future, but right now I have a ton of work to do since my kitchen is still in progress.

I will say that at one point we all spoke with Beth about how Enki occasionally gets bashed on 'real' Waldorf lists or on boards because it has ''too much '' info and she said two things that summed up how I feel about it.
1. The cirriculum is meant to be a mini-library where I can choose the right stories, crafts (and later academic tools) to help my particular child through her developmental stage by meeting her needs. It is NEVER EVER supposed to be used in its entirety- not even over several years by a classroom teacher!!

2.Enki has a bit of a reputaion for being hard to understand and implement. Well, Enki is alive and it requires struggle... so does life. That's the nature of it and part of the beauty. I can say now though, that I feel fully capable of taking the kids through first grade without trouble. It's not going to fit everyone- not probably everyone who would like it to fit, but it's perfect for us.

I hope someday I can take the full foundation course that is four weeks long, but next year I'm defintely going to do the grades 1/2 intensive. I also met twelve of the most incredible parents and a hoard of awesome little kids who are on the Enki list and am so glad we got to spend the week together.

Oh and camping with all of our food cooked for us was way way way more fun than living in a house with no kitchen :)

Sounds like you had a great time. Where was the training at? One of the moms in our local AP group just returned from one back east.

It was in Henniker NH- was it by any chance Nancy?? She was in our group- what a sweetheart and my daughter absolutely loved her little girls!

Yep, that's her. We haven't met her yet, she's fairly new to our group and lives about 20 miles away.

That's really cool that you live near other AP mamas... I bet you'll like Nancy, her whole family was very nice.

We are very fortunate, we have a huge AP group in our county (100+ members) and a smaller subgroup for our immediate area, with around 20 members. I have been entrenched in my own little community of AP'ers for so long that I often forget that we aren't the norm!