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In my bid to keep up with my blog, I have joined several daily postings, and am enjoying them immensely. However, it occurs to me that I am neglecting the chatty side of my blog, so on we go with the readjustments!
'Tis the time of year for all good home educating companies to send out their catalogs, and send them out they have! It has been a veritable treasure trove each and every time someone is sent down to the post box. Between home educating catalogs, online school book purchases (for me, to help me plan), and receiving our PaperbackSwap requests, each day brings its own little gift of happiness.
To that end, I have been consumed with next year's planning. Each year I eagerly dive into planning, but this year is different. Why? Because: Piper begins high school. Dunh-dunh-duuuuunnnnhhh, as Jigger would toll out.
I am almost finished with the order list for Jigger, because I keep telling myself that once Jigger is done, I can fully focus on Piper. True, but also an extremely valid stalling tactic. Because the truth is, high school initimidates me. A little less each day, as I talk myself down from the ledge, but still, when you start with a large chunk and whittle away a little piece each day after several weeks you still have a large chunk. (Chocolate popped into my head during this recitation; what do you think Freud would say about that?)
So, for all of you mothers out there who are educating high schoolers, please don't laugh at this High School newbie. I really, really don't want to mess this up, and I keep vowing to myself that *this* is the year we would be more focused, whether we actually were or not. It didn't really matter, because in the back of my head it didn't seem to somehow 'count' until we hit high school. And now we have. Hit high school. With the full force of an eighteen-wheeler slamming into the concrete below as it careens off the edge of a cliff. Air bags are deployed, seat belts are engaged, and the dust has yet to settle. Stay tuned.
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