{"id":623,"date":"2009-08-18T21:36:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T01:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2009-08-21T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T13:09:32","slug":"2nd-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/623","title":{"rendered":"2nd Day of School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"null\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3437\/3834820149_8312e3cc6e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notes from my kids MAKE my day&#8230; (this one is from EJ)<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to be SO predictable and post about the kids 1st day of homeschool :)\u00c2\u00a0 Today was our SECOND day and it went really well.\u00c2\u00a0 This is my 9th year teaching at home &#8211; Abbey began her homeschooling in 2001 when she was 5, the triplets joined the &#8220;class&#8221; in 2003 (boy was THAT an interesting year&#8230;), and Lainey will\u00c2\u00a0officially begin\u00c2\u00a0in 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 I try to avoid thinking of how many years I have left to school &#8230;too stressful to consider!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3500\/3834627055_8f0e797996.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3509\/3834627107_afc4ee3945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though, I can&#8217;t imagine doing it any other way.\u00c2\u00a0 There are certainly days when I question my abilities, patience, and strength to get through each day &#8211; especially as they grow older, subjects become more difficult, and studies take longer to complete.\u00c2\u00a0 But, there are many more GOOD days than bad.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2672\/3835420588_87ebd764a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am BLESSED to be able to stay home and teach-train-raise our kids with the knowledge and beliefs that WE desire they have.\u00c2\u00a0 And, our kids wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2422\/3834626977_1d0bf3d720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The teacher with her future student.\u00c2\u00a0 (note to self &#8211; try a little eye makeup next\u00c2\u00a0time maybe?)<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Lainey, are you excited to do school one day?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2663\/3834627023_aa445aab23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll call that a yes.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2623\/3835420638_1cd5b4d345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, no, this pic has ZERO to do with the topic of this post &#8211; but it&#8217;s too darn cute not to include!\u00c2\u00a0 Lainey gave lots of lovin&#8217; to Cammie while she was here (we were dog-sitting for friends).\u00c2\u00a0 She went home today, and the kids hated to see her go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from my kids MAKE my day&#8230; (this one is from EJ) I didn&#8217;t want to be SO predictable and post about the kids 1st day of homeschool :)\u00c2\u00a0 Today was our SECOND day and it went really well.\u00c2\u00a0 This is my 9th year teaching at home &#8211; Abbey began her homeschooling in 2001 when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}