Shifting

So, about the exciting news you've all been on the edge of your seat for?  Here it is!  We have made the decision to homeschool our daughter next year.  Disappointed?  We aren't!  Actually it is something we are growing more excited about as time goes on.  We are going to give it a shot for first grade and see how we like it.  If it doesn't work, we can always enroll her someplace.  We have many reasons for wanting to homeschool, and it has been on the periphery of my mind for some time.  We will never know unless we try.  You can follow our journey at Homemade Learning.

Other than that, life is chugging along, mostly at an alarming speed.  I have a kindergartener now, a one year old (when the heck did that happen?!?), the holidays are approaching, I am in the throes of finishing a professional endeavor (for which I am more than SO ready to be DONE with already), and we are trying to get back on track with eating and such before the food coma season hits!  That is really it in a nutshell.  We are feeling busy and my job is to balance it all out, and I am being pulled to purge and simplify yet again, which is a good thing!  Currently I am feeling out of whack with regards to the house, our eating, habits, clutter, our schedule, etc, so it is time to shift the pendulum more toward the middle.

I absolutely LOVE Thanksgiving and am ready for this holiday, not only as the harbinger of the Christmas holidays, but as a time of reflection, love, and gratitude.  Looking forward to next week, but have some major work to do before then!  And, as is usually the case, I feel like I am going nowhere fast.  But, as with life, if I just keep chugging along, I will get there.

More to come, I always have something on my mind or heart that I'd like to share, it is just finding the time at the computer to get it out that is the problem.  Wishing you all joy, love, and thankfulness next week and through the weeks to come!



***I may have a small problem with creating new blogs :)  Especially when I am sporadic, at best, with updating the ones I have now!  For some reason having my personal blog, my family blog, and the homeschool blog all separated make sense to me, while in reality it is enmeshed in one big jumble of life!  Maybe it is my way of making sense of it all, to compartmentalize it.  Other friends blog about everything in one place, but I guess my brain likes to have unique spots for each.  I will keep it this way for now, because it works, but when it doesn't anymore, I will change it!