08.25.06
IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE HOME!!!
Not to make our friends from New Mexico feel bad, but our homeschool group here just had their fall kick-off ‘Not going back to school’ swim party and it felt so great.
The weather was about the best you could get for late August, the pool cleared up (barely, but it did) and we had a blast. There was about 30 kids here ranging from (not counting the mom the shower was for) preschool age up to nearly 18. There was tons of food (most of it eaten) and great conversation.
The moms all had fun catching up and tossing ideas around for projects for the fall. The energy level was amazing and I found myself just going ‘yeah, I’m home.’
The group won’t have it’s ‘formal’ fall planning meeting for another week or two (due to the holiday and traveling - not me!!) but we are popping with ideas. One of the families just bought a new place and it has a wonderful artist’s studio in the back. She has offered the space to the group and so the Wavaho (Wabash Valley Homeschool) Schoolroom is now available to any one who wants a space to do something.
The Thursday co-op is moving there and I’ll do the Shakespearean Drama there as well. One of the moms who is into more formal highschool than I (she’s doing NARS and needs grades for things) is doing a Highschool Art class after the drama and someone else said that she’d try a Beginners Spanish class before. To keep the little ones busy during drama and art there’s going to be a pre-school class and a craft/art class in another room (there’s more than one room).
At this point when we get to the planning meeting we’ll just have field trips and parties to set dates for.
BTW, I do miss the group out in New Mexico. It was not nearly so active, but OTH, it was full of more people that I see eye-to-eye on other issues. It was fun having a year with homeschoolers that match me better on social issues. The group here is secular, but I often feel like the most liberal, token non-christian in the group.
But it is great being back with this group!!
Jane said,
August 28, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Sounds like a great group! We have never found a group that we click with. Having moved so much when my kids were younger may have a lot to do with it. Now the kids are older than most of the homeschoolers we run into and if they aren’t there tends to be a wide enough gulf in beliefs/interests/etc., that it just doesn’t work.