The following
post is written by Steady Mom's monthly contributor, Hillary.
"Your son is five? That's means he'll be in Jacob's kindergarten class!" says a well-meaning, really nice mom I'm chatting with at the neighborhood park.
I want to say yes and join in with the excitement. We could muse about which teacher they might get and how much we love having a neighborhood school.
However, our family is committed to keeping our children home. This is a decision that felt very exciting a few years back and now feels very normal--just another beautiful September day.
Yes, we are excited in general, there just isn't a huge exciting force at this particular moment.
No new classroom, new lunchbox or school supplies. No first day of school picture on the front steps or brand new friends. These are all things that happen over time in our family and throughout the year.
I love the way we do things, but I am feeling a little left out of the back to school excitement.
Since I'm relatively new at this I'm curious how other homeschoolers feel and if you do something special or just keep going right along with your regularly scheduled every day life.
If you're a homeschooling mom, do you do anything special in September with your family?
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Hillary
is a thoughtful mother, loving wife, and a conscientious cook and
consumer. She
credits her two sons and one daughter to her ever expansive
knowledge base and blogs about mindful family living at infinitelearners.com.
