Make Time For It: July 2014

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Days of Summer

July 25, Finally I can drive! So I took my date to "How to Train Your Dragon 2"

July 26, A Midsummer's Party!

Lots of fun, friends... and babies!

Pool fun

Face Painting

Porching it up way past bedtime!

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

I have been having second thoughts about sending Miles to CoOp this year. He seems to do so well at WSNS in the Butterfly Room. Next year he would be going to the 4 year old room where I don't really like the head teacher, nor the SEIT he would be getting as part of their school policy. True I know I won't like every single teacher my kids get, but at this point I have a choice. His kindergarten readiness is at stake, although I'm not entirely sold on the full-day kindergarten for him either. He is a happy kid and I want him to stay that way.

So far homeschooling has worked beautifully with him. He's making loads of progress even when he's not in school. I'm still keeping an open mind about kindergarten, but next year's decision needs to be made soon.

If I send him to the HLACNY academy on Tuesdays he will be prepared for kindergarten, allowed to learn at his own pace, and close to home, but it's only one day a week. And I would have to pull out of CoOp because it is only on Tuesdays.

I know what to expect from CoOp which is both good and bad. Good because I know he will go on field trips, be prepared for kindergarten, make new friends, get his services at school, and have lunch at school. Bad because I know what the women at this organization are like, and Jarod has agreed to teach another semester, and the program does not offer as much freedom as I would like to see.

I have been praying on this for quite a while and can't seem to come to peace with my decision. My only solace is that he has no idea the anxiety that this is causing me. I feel like it's one of the last vital decisions I can make for him before he has to learn to make them for himself.