Dear Diary, so we are getting things figured out. After homeschool with my son today I will be going to the store to get bubble wrap and I am going to start packing the decor of the house. Get this place clean and bare so that we can access exactly what we need to do to bandaid this place up for selling. My husband has found some companies that purchase homes but we would have some time after selling to be able to move, that will give us time to close on a new home. We are still waiting for his work to tell him its alright for him to transfer but however long that takes, we will be fixing this place up to be able to get the most for this place. The more we get, the more of a downpayment we will have for the new home.
This weekend my in-laws have our son for the weekend. 🤮 but whatever, that will give me some time to do some more work on the outside of the house without my son stopping me every 5 minutes haha.
This week he is doing so great with his school work. Homeschooling is really a great route! We decided to do the year round approach. 3 weeks on, and 1 week off. This is the second day from being back from our week off, and man, he is doing great! Practically doing everything without my direction, his reading is really great as well, he is reading his multiple choice on his own! He is more eager to read and it is amazing. Yesterday he read a book that is "the next level up" from what he is used too and he did the whole thing with minimal help from me!
It is really great seeing all this improvement frmo when we started in January. Just makes me feel more confident and excited to continue the homeschool journey. As of right now, my son is far more advanced than what he would have been if he stayed in public school. (His peers can't read yet). Every child learns at their own pace, but I feel that public school just doesn't cater to the childrens individual needs. How could they? With most schools having nearly 30 kids in each class!!
I'm just blessed that my husband agrees (he he actually was the one who pushed me to do it). We as a family couldn't be happier (other than needing to get out of this hell-hole.
Schools also don't give kids much appreciation or praise. How could they expect kids to WANT to learn and be excited about learning if they are just told all the things they are doing wrong all the time and never praised for the good? My son was labeled as the trouble maker from the beginning, but how is it my son's fault that his teacher refused to follow his IEP? My son always came home crying and dreaded going back everyday. Frankly I was exhausted as well, they never told me the good things he did. Picking him up everyday was terrible because it was always DS did this or DS did that. Now DS wants to be on his classes because he has so much fun doing them. Waking up saying he's ready to learn. It's quite amazing.
Homeschooling is also giving us the option to be able to get him into classes he would never have the opportunity to be in if he had to be in school for 8 hours a day. He is starting martial arts next week! (At least the trial classes) which will help him with his energy and his ADHD.
When we move, we are going to make it a complete start over. Change our phone numbers, emails, remove social media. Only hand out the new phone numbers to those we really want to have it (that does not include my husbands parents haha, he's the one that suggested that, not me, but I completely agree that we don't want their drama in our lives) we aren't even going to tell them we are moving until the absolute last minute. This isn't anytime soon since we haven't even got the okay for the transfer, but things are picking up so sounds like it won't be long before things get moving. It will probably mean my husband will have to be there ASAP when they do give the go ahead and I'll still be here dealing with the house stuff. It's ok, I'm used to it. I do most of that kind of stuff while he is the breadwinner. This is what works best for our family and it is what makes us the happiest.
I hope you all out there get to run your lives the way you want to and you find happiness within yourselves.