don’t blink

Summer is over, when did that happen? My cousin back in Ohio started school today, SCHOOL! I thought that kind of thing was at least another month away, shows you how plugged in I am to that whole thing. Which brings up an interesting question in our lives, and one that comes up at least once a week from various neighborhood folk and friends. What are we going to do with Finley for school. Well here is what is decided we aren’t doing any kind of preschool programs. Besides the fact that we flat out cannot afford it, I don’t really see the benefit besides the socialization thing which he seems to get in fine amounts. This isn’t by any means a cut to those who decide to do the preschool thing. I totally get it, we are just going to skip it. As for kindergarten, as mentioned previously in this space we are considering homeschooling. We are considering it for lots of reasons, but I have to say I am terrified. Not that he will grow up some kind of reclusive, spelling bee champion, not that he won’t learn all the “stuff” he is supposed to know but I am terrified of…see that is just it, I don’t even know what it is is I am so scared of. Is it the stigma? Is it the fact that he will probably have to make new homeschooling friends and so will I? Is it the amount of work that it will entail? Maybe it is all of it. The thing is I am also SO excited. I think it will be so interesting and so enriching for our entire family but I would say I am 75% confident and 25% freaked out.

Maybe I just need to do more reading, and research. Maybe.

Anyway, besides the obsessing about education, I have been: working on a monster bid for a job that I so so so hope I get, making jam, delicious sweet peach and apricot jam, finished another skirt, started my anniversary sweater for Tobias, cut pieces to make a rabbit for Finley, bought more fabric and more yarn, searched on ebay for a vintage fisher price barn with the door that moos, got a pedicure and wished that I had gone to the Mets game with Tobias and Finley so I could see his face when he got to run the bases on the field.