I have been going non-stop since my feet hit the floor this morning.
** 40 minute walk and then a short bike ride
** personal care & AM kitchen tasks
** went to DMom's to get DS9 (he spent the night with her)
** Homeschooled 2.5 hours
** lunch prepared, served and enjoyed
** Homeschool 1.5 hours. We completed 23 lessons today. It was a very good schooling day.
It has been bittersweet to see all the pictures of the first day of school. I need to have a visit with the principal about DS9 doing part time school again this year. A DFriend told me that she saw DS9 name listed as being a student in Mrs. W class (4th-grade teacher). The 4th-5th-6th grade students share 4 teachers. The 4 teachers stay in their room and the students rotate between 4 teachers for their basics. The rest of the subject locations are shared between all the grades (elementary thru high school) and are taught by one teacher for each subject (pe, art, computer). Last year I had one teacher to coordinate with about DS9. This year there are 7 teachers. That just seems to be overwhelming coordination to do for part time. It would be much easier to officially pull DS9 out of public school and just do homeschool. But I want DS9 to remain in contact with his friends and feel like it is still his school too. I haven't given up on the possibility that DS9 will be able to return to public school when/if the Tourettes calm down. I don't know if I'm being realistic or not. I consider homeschooling DS9 to be a temporary solution. I'm can't imagine homeschooling all the way through high school.
WW was good last night. My morning weigh in doesn't give me a clue what I will weigh at 6pm so I step on the WW scale without a clue what it will show. WW said I lost .6 lb. It was totally acceptable to me considering we ate out 6 times during DS9 birthday trip plus having 3 birthday cakes and ice cream. DH gained 2.8 lbs.
I'm actually surprised he didn't gain more. He made conscious choices to over eat at every meal that we ate out. I didn't say anything but I did make the best food choices that I could. DH later brought it up that he regretted his food decisions. I consider it part of the process. We each have to learn to downscale our portions and make better choices.
1. Know what you want.
2. Go after it relentlessly.