January kick-off

First day of school! This is year 4 for Sunny and year 2 for Posy.

Birdie will be added to the official school group next year - she'll turn 5 later this year. She and Magnolia do have binders for their art projects and alphabet writing pages because they thinks it's cool to be big, but the books are just for fun and not any major record keeping. Magnolia and Azalea are just-turned-3 and almost-2, so they still have a lot of time to play and read and draw and just hang out.

Sunny wants to learn cursive, learn to cook, read a lot of books, and avoid math.

Posy likes to draw, looooooves to read, and doesn't want to do anything at all "school" related.

It's ... a challenge. Every day is a battle. This is, quite frankly, nothing new. It's just getting increasingly obnoxious to deal with. AC and I have had the public school conversation as a way to get them into a different scene and maybe they'll be more responsive to someone else. The only thing we've concluded so far is that if (when, according to AC) we put them in public school, it will be at the beginning of a school year and not in the middle. So the conversation is on hold until the summer when it will most likely be revisited. So in case you were wondering, from all our fun field trip and co-op notes, no, homeschooling is not a bed of roses.

And as a sidenote, whoever thinks that homeschooling is the "lazy" way of educating one's children, because we sleep in and stay home ... believe me - the lazy thing to do is kick my kids out the door every morning at 8 am and not see them again until 3:30, and let someone else do all the work.

No, this is not the most optimistic post on which to begin a school year, but it's what we've got right now. Into the fray ...