First Day of School

Well, that was weird. Not weird in a bad way but definitely weird.

That’s how I feel about our first day of school this year.  It’s just Sarah.  Katie is taking classes full-time at Sinclair, so she is officially graduated from our homeschool. This doesn’t mean that I’m completely uninvolved with her education, but I’m definitely taking a backseat and only getting called upon to help her figure out a few assignments or to proofread a paper before she submits it.  So it’s very weird for it to just be Sarah and me.

In any case, our first day went well. This is in spite of Marbles and Missy deciding to get into an epic battle and chase during Literature. (Back and forth, run, run, run, hiss, fight, tumble, meow, in the family room, down the hallway, etc.  It’s extremely distracting when you’re reading something that’s already a little bizarre, like Gilgamesh.)

The second day has also gone well. We had some more entertainment from Marbles, and the water softener decided to do a refresh cycle during Gilgamesh. (It's feeling disjointed enough, as I’m already skipping certain parts of that. Um, holy cow. What in the world?)

So I’m still feeling weird about the whole thing. It’s going to take me awhile to find my new footing.  I guess I can look at it and say that God is preparing me slowly for the soon-coming day when my homeschooling journey is over. It’s just that it’s such a big change, and INTPs don’t like dealing with the big emotions that accompany big changes. 

(We prefer to stuff them, so that they turn into fun things like shingles!)