So long since I've sat down to write my blog. It feels a little strange and awkward and I'm sitting here thinking that I can't remember how to put the photos in. I think about the blog often, but I simply don't have time these days. We're working on that - this week Ember will start at a Montessori full-day preschool. For now she'll just do two days a week, but as soon as we can we'll up that to five.
Chris and I look at each other and wonder what were we thinking last spring when we settled on homeschooling both boys and having Ember at home too. The truth is we weren't thinking because too much happened during the first 6 months of 2010. The foot surgery and the long recovery period, the road trip to CA, and then after we returned my doctor found a "solid mass" on my right ovary. We lived through a couple of scary days considering the possibility of cancer, but I had the surgery, they removed my right ovary, and it turned out to be just a big tumor. A week post-op we cruised to Alaska and the day after we returned we had some very dear friends visit from Colorado for another week.
Summer slid by and then the official school year started. And that's when things started to get really rough on me. Ember is bored and frustrated. I'm pulling my hair out trying to keep her busy while I teach the boys and take them to all their classes (swimming, archery, art, Kumon reading...)I've been dropping her off at a "drop-in" preschool which is limited to 4 hours a day, but squeezing in a drop off and pick up time is just adding to the craziness. Add to that the laundry, the constant vacuuming, picking up, kitchen and bathroom cleaning -- well, you get the picture.
Ember. As it turns out, she has been the most challenging of our kiddos. She likes A LOT of attention all the time, she is extremely possessive and volatile and gets angry fast. Don't get me wrong - she's also funny and quick to learn new things, she loves people and is super friendly. It's just that this situation is not meeting her needs. Or mine, for that matter.
I'm hoping things start to open up a bit with her spending more hours at school. And I'm hoping to re-start Homecake. We'll see how it goes.
Photos. You can see me and Beck flying kites at the mass ascension event at the Whidbey Island Kite Festival.
Beck and Yogi standing proud on a fort they discovered on the beach.
4 comments:
I've been thinking of you and wondering if life had gotten in the way of blogging. Leela is at a Montessori Elementary school on the island and is loving it and Abby's doing 5-day afternoon preschool at Montessori. I would love to catch up with you sometime!
I didn't mean to be Anonymous! It's Shelly from PEPS who now lives on Bainbridge.
Isn't amazing how they are all so different and have such different needs. Bet she will love the all day preschool - especially Montessori. Glad you have a few minutes to blog. We can hardly wait to see you all in December.
I have heard great things about Montessori. I hope it works well for you and Ember.
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