Lydia is a Freshman this year!! She chose a rigorous schedule, taking AP Human Geography, Honors English and Science, Algebra 2, American Sign Language, and band. In addition, she made the 9th grade volleyball team. If busy was her goal, she accomplished it.
Reggie is in his last year at the middle school. He continues to play percussion in the band and started taking Spanish. He loves his morning lifts at the high school and was on the city's 8th grade football team.
Brett decided Sophomores wear white, grey, and black and Under Armor is his favorite brand. His goal is to take a gym class every trimester of high school and he is also taking ceramics. Those are the only classes he ever talks about. His favorite gym teacher encouraged him to join the adapted soccer team, and that was a really fun addition to our fall athletics!
I also had a first day of school this year! While homeschooling, I allowed my school counseling license to lapse. I'm not set on ever returning to that profession. Ultimately, I think I would like to work in care ministry, but that doesn't compliment family life well. In January, I took a part-time job at a young adults' homeless shelter. I was scheduled to work 3 weekdays a week and there was no flexibility to change that. I unsuccessfully attempted to access some programming for Brett over the summer - that much unsupervised time seemed like a bad idea. At the last minute, Lydia got a full-time babysitting gig and I was relying on her to be some support at home. So I quit. I quickly secured a job as a skills support para at the elementary school in my neighborhood and had most of the summer off. Now I work 6 hour school days and am a mile from both our house and the high school. Some days are hard, but the payoff of being so easily available to my kids and having their same schedule is well worth it!
