I learned something this past few weeks having the girls all home and doing lessons. I am NOT capable of successfully homeschooling independently. I do not have the self-discipline or motivation to do it, we just aren't getting anywhere with it. I knew this would be an issue for us because of my lack of discipline, but I had no idea it would be as big of a problem as it is. In 4 weeks I have managed to do 1 week of lang arts for each kid, and a few pages of math with Melissa. I know its summer break, but I keep finding reasons to not spend time doing anything with the girls for lessons. They ask every day to do schoolwork, but I just can't seem to make myself stop dragging my feet about it. I have our approval letter and we have to report for Melissa this year, so this is really something I need to overcome.
So I came to a decision. Back when I decided to go independent I called my OHVA person and told her I wanted to withdraw the girls and she said ok then hung up on me. I never knew if she actually did or not until this morning when the UPS truck came to my house with boxes that contain a computer issued by OHVA for us to use for the kids' education. I was in the middle of cleaning up for an appraisal on the house for our refinance (gotta love the low interest rates!) and it took me a bit to figure out what it was for, I didn'get figure it out until I had already signed for the delivery and was taking boxes in my house with the UPS guy helping. I was totally clueless and then WHAM it hit me like "*slap slap* girl get a computer desk and get ready for the ride!" Ever have that feeling? Well, I am going with it for now. We will be sticking with OHVA after all I guess, it isn't even close to what I saw myself doing for educating the kids this year but with my stroke that happened, I feel like I need to just step back and let other things happen for a while. I know that the local public school is not where the girls are supposed to be, and the fact that things are working out like this for me with my mobility issues and memory problems, I just know this is a divine intervention. Am I irritated because the ohva person didn't withdraw our enrollment like I requested back in May? Sure I am. But now I see why things are happening this way. God knows that I can't do this on my own yet, that I need the help with it all to be successful. I really didn't imagine that I'd be withdrawing my notification to homeschool, but I am definitely doing that as soon as I can get through to someone in that department.
But I'm still going to be using as much of our Sonlight materials as possible, and I plan to pull pages from our Miquon books for each kid that go with the k12 materials, or use them as extra work if they want more after lessons for the day are done. I'm definitely NOT going to be returning what I bought, we're going forward with it and pushing through. The kids can't get enough schoolwork anyway, after all I'm the one that gave Sonlight the Christmas morning tale in their catalog for this year (its in one of their articles) My kids love doing schoolwork, and can't get enough of it right now (well, when they aren't practicing soccer for the season they are bugging me for schoolwork)
