- I resigned from my teaching position with our local public school board. This was definitely a hard decision, but the right one given that attempting to balance homeschooling and teaching was not working out as well as I had hoped. I LOVE teaching in schools, don't get me wrong, and I miss it a fair bit some days, but my place for the time being is in my home. I fully intend (Lord willing) to go back into the system once my homeschooling journey is done.
- We bought a new house, and then moved into it! There are quite a few renos that we need to do, but we adore the neighbourhood. It is located in the middle of the city, yet it has a country feel to it, quiet and well treed. We see blue jays, woodpeckers, racoons, and other members of God's creation on a regular basis. Just in the past couple weeks we have had a fox come and visit a few times, much to the delight of the children. My neighour called the MNR, but they assured us that they could do nothing and that it would go away in a couple weeks...hmm.
- Monkey and Bumblebee are now seven and twelve, turning eight and thirteen in September. They are both doing wonderfully, for the most part. Monkey has certainly lived up to his name, managing to break an arm, fracture a toe, get eight stiches in his knee, pull his intercostal chest muscle, need stiches in his knee (he wasn't able to get them because the tissue around it was damaged scar tissue from the year before when he got the stitches in his knee *sigh*), and on it goes. My husband began calling him "Captain Injury" and the boy wears the name like a badge! What's a mom to do? Bumblebee is less accident-prone, which I am thankful for. We have had no major injuries to speak of. She did have an ear infection once or twice, which I successfully treated at home with garlic and olive oil. They are both thriving, doing well in school and have made some wonderful friends in our neighbourhood, community, and through our local Homeschool Association.
- My homeschooling style has grown more eclectic. I attribute it to the fact that I am a bonified "research-nerd". I just can't help myself! I don't want to be a sheep following blindly whoever leads the way, so I HAVE to look into near everything. It could be alot worse I guess. It can be time consuming, but so can alot of things. Say, for instance, if I took up smoking crack....THAT would be time consuming. (And I wouldn't)
- My DH, otherwise known as "Magic Man" for the sake of this blog has been busy also. When he was laid off for six months (about 2 years ago) he decided that he would invest some time into something he was always interested in. So, he went down to the public library, checked out some books on magic/illusions and the rest is history! He now works (as a side business) regularly performing at schools, birthday parties, corporate events, fall fairs, hospitals, libraries and a variety of YMCA and other childrens programs. He usually takes Monkey with him to his performances. It has become a little part time job for him and he runs the video camera, changes music, helps set up, etc. It's been a great learning experience for everyone!
So, the preceeding was obviously just a super-condensed version of the going-ons in our life. There were some big changes and I don't want to overwhelm anyone with a book on my first day back :)
