I'm having such ambivalent feelings. :(

I think it's good to offer her options. She may or may not decide to continue with it, but really, what's best for her is what's best for her, and she's the one who has to do the learning, right?

Roro sometimes wants to go to school. When she's old enough, if we're near great schools, it will be an option.

What'd I miss? Did Lindsey decide she wanted to go?

what happened?

(says the mama whose kiddos got on the bus 30 minutes ago...and whose kiddos LOVE every minute of every day...and who had a really hard first week but now wonders what the hell she was thinking...)

ROFLMAO @ Tracey...:hahaha: I am right there with ya woman... :lol: I can't imagine next year when all three of my olders are in school. I have daydreams of all the stuff I can get done :lol:

all that said, really...jodi...what happened? did she decide she wanted to go or did you?

i understand the ambivalence. believe me...i GET it. i cried. i fought it. in the end, i'm SO very glad i put them in. it's not for everyone and for several years it wasn't for us...in the future it may again not be for us, but for right now, it is the right thing.

they love it. they are making friends. they have a routine and structure that i was not able to give them and they LOVE it in a way i've not seen them love anything else. THAT makes me feel pretty crappy but i see them thrive so i realize that part is all me...my feelings, not what is nec best for them.

charlie is in a program for reading. that was hard for charles to accept...that he's in an "early intervention" type thing...but they pulled his IEP from when he was in speech before and added to it. they are giving him DAILY specialized reading help, tailored 2 teachers to 8 kids by specialists who can see WHY phonics and whole language failed him and help fill in the gaps with various methodologies i can't even begin to figure out. hello. the kid needed it.

morgan will be back in horizons (gifted) soon. we're weeding through the paperwork. it wasn't as critical as charlie's need. daniel is coming home with new things every day. it's little things he's doing. yesterday he called me on the fact that i was upset that he had oreos for class snack (:vent: but i'm picking my battles) since they contain soy. he pointed out that on the first day of school we took him to cold stone and he got oreos in his cake batter ice cream :lol: um, yeah, well...cough. academically though, he's starting to read too. he counted to 200 in the car over the weekend, just for the hell of it and because he could. i had no idea he could do that!

my point? it was hard for *me* and they were nervous. but i learned a valuable lesson in doing it, for our family. i'm very happy with them in school. much more than i was with them here all the time...and that is hard to admit. i was not giving them all they needed any more. i know some people can and do homeschool well, but i'm not one of them.

<gee, did i type that out?>

Jodi, I am right there with you. Adam and Lauren are going to start Jan 15 (back from Christmas break and also start of a new quarter)

*sigh* it's her decision. There are some girls in her ballet class who are in 1st grade at the local school.. she's upset we don't have our homeschooling friends closeby.. most people she knows here that homeschool aren't close.

it's a very good school.. cool set up - 5 small buildings, they walk from one to the other for things like art and such.. there's only a couple classes in each building, plus a restroom.. and they eat lunch in their room.. two recesses a day, one after lunch, one in the afternoon. We got a tour the other day, she met all the teachers, spent time with the counsellor, found out the school nurse lives a few houses away from us.. and that pretty much cemented it for her. She wants to ride the bus - pick up is across the street from our house, and drop off is in our front yard, so it'd be convenient.. eventually there will be walking trails (put into the greenbelt by the city) from our house to the school.

I just feel like I was blindsided.. we'd talked about maybe next year, and she wasn't thinking it was a good idea.. to now she's staring in a few short weeks. Eric did agree that if she's not happy, or I'm not happy, we'll go back to homeschooling - we just have to commit through the end of the school year.

Josh is going to be tested in the spring to see if he should go kindy or 1st next year. Kindy here is 2 full days and one half, which is a bit strange - but the counselor thinks he'll test into first.

I think she'll love it.. it's a great school and I think she'll thrive there.. but... *sigh* I'm just having such a hard time with *my* end of it.. homeschooling was fine, and I didn't intend to have it stop, esp. so abruptly. I figure I've got a couple weeks to deal with it before I have to send my baby off...

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}} sweetie. I can relate.

One day at a time.

:hug: It'll be ok...!

No advice :hug: