Plans for next year

It has been well over 6 months since I've updated this blog, and last year I had a sort of feeling of ... being lost, unsure and that I was doing something wrong/leaving something out. I have a better sense of what I'm going to do for this year, and I'm already planning it out. I had a moment of "maybe they should go back to public school", I'll admit, after they came to me and said they wanted to go back. They said "we miss our friends". I had a moment of, maybe I'm being a bad mom by keeping them out. Luckily, I have a husband who is almost always opposite of me, so when I'm down, he's up, and he can help bring me up. He reminded me of why we signed on for this in the first place, why it wasn't a "lets see if it will work" but a "this will work, and we will make it work, because this is what is best". and while the kids say they miss their friends, when they are at school, they whine about not having any friends. and when they go to school, they will be gone all day from about 7 am to 4 pm (riding the bus) and have to come home and still do homework. So, he pulled me out of my "bad mommy" funk, and now I am excitedly looking forward to next year's curriculum.

Trying to get my ducks in a row, I started out with a list of the subjects we wanted to work on, and then fill in the blanks from there.

Typing -
art - Class?? (Sister Wendy disks)
history - History Odyssey for the Middle Ages
science - biology for logic stage (elemental science)
math - MM, LOF

spelling - AAS
writing - WWE/WWS
logic -
latin - Lively latin
grammar - Advanced Language Lessons
nutrition - Just an idea I had when I saw THIS

Obviously, I'm still looking for Logic and Art. I seemed to recall there was a list of artists and composers that corresponded with our history of the middle ages, so I'm still looking for that. I keep falling short in logic, though. I originally thought I'd use the Fallacy Detective, but after purchasing the book I found a thread talking about it and how it was very pushy from the author's perspective on certain things (and apparently abortion was considered an ok topic, which is NOT ok with me) and then I get the book and the first pages are all bible quotes and whatnot.. that book is going back. I'm still looking.

Ms. Artsy-Fartsy has asked to sign up for soccer again, and this year will be her last year to be able to sign up with upwards. I'm not sure if the hubs is planning on going back to kung fu, but if they do, that will pretty much take up any and all time they would have for various extracurriculars. I think its a great thing, but it also takes up 4 days a week, which is not always a great thing.

Now that, for the most part, I have my curriculum picked out for next year, I have to start making my schedule to see where it all fits. and I'm looking into some of those "playful preschool" blogs where people give ideas on what to do with rambunctious toddlers underfoot.. that'll be a challenge, as well.