Journal

In terms of my personal life, we’ve been stuck in a streak of bad luck for awhile. The water heater broke and had to be replaced, we went on a hike and got attacked by wasps, car trouble to spare … plenty of big stuff mixed in with tiny tragedies. Enough that there hasn’t been a moment to stop and breathe.

This year I decided to sign my kids up for an online charter school, and we’re making the adjustment. It’s got more structure than what we were doing with our homeschooling before, but it’s still self-paced and interest-driven, and shouldn’t be confused with “school at home” that a number of parents participated in during the pandemic (hur hur).

My five-year-old’s kindergarten class is basically playing on an app for 30 minutes a day to learn reading, math, and science. It’s pretty easy.

Anyway, my biggest reason for making the change is that it opened up a lot of resources to us for no cost; for example, my 7-year-old received a STEM circuitry kit for one of his classes, and so far it’s his absolute favorite subject.

And apparently, there’s a Minecraft Education Edition.

Hopefully once we get settled into our new routine, we won’t have any more time to deal with bad luck. Right? HA HA!

At the very least, a lot of the plumbing was updated, the cars have been given an enormous amount of TLC, and we know to stay away from logs while out in nature. It’s been a season of personal growth, that’s for sure.