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At Home With Jesus!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
the blahs.
Sorry I haven't been updating more....We all have the 'blahs.'
(It's too early in the year for this...isn't it?)
Part of it is the weather - ( the cold hit early this year),
part of it was the flu -(that took a lot out of all of us!), but mostly...
we're just not as excited about school this year for some reason. 
The material is just as good,
but we haven't found our groove and settled into a comfortable routine like we have in past years.
It isn't MFW that's dragging us down this year -
(Yes...we're all ready to move on from Rome, and I've been a bit frustrated with some of the readings, but in all I think that we've all enjoyed it....)
It''s our core subjects that have hit us hard this year.
Julie, especially, has reached a point in which her main subjects have increased quite a bit in the level of difficulty. (She's hit the 'logic stage' for those who subscribe to the 'Classical' model.)
Because they are more difficult, she often needs to spend more time on them.
This frustrates her, (because she sees Joseph 'whizzing' through his work,)
it frustrates Joseph, (because he has to wait for her so we can all do our MFW readings together,)
and it frustrates me, because we get further and further behind...
(and this extends our time in Rome!) 
Also, Julie has begun her catechism work that she must take in order for her to become an 'confirmed' member of our church. This is a very intensive Bible study course, and I think that doing two Bible programs (MFW and catechism) is wearing her out. I'd hate to give up either one, though...as they both have so much to offer... One is church history, and the other is Church history!
Thinking ahead to next year already, I have already decided that - while I have really loved combining Julie and Joseph for Bible, History and Science these past few years...I did so because I thought it would make things easier and less complicated for me. At first that was true, but now that they are at different levels of comprehension...this is proving to not always be the case.
So next year, I am pretty sure that each will have their own completely separate program for all subjects. whether those are textbooks, or unit studies, or possibly even literature based programs - I haven't decided.
We'll stick it out for this year though, and who knows...
once we're out of Rome - our whole outlook may completely change.
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