I'm Back, perhaps?

A little "music appreciation"

For the one person who reads this (I'm looking at you, Julie! ; ), I have been inspired to write some more.  I had taken a bit of a break because I would say I have been in a bit of a season of discouragement with the whole homeschooling thing for the last couple weeks (when your season of discouragement happens to encompass almost 50% of your entire homeschooling history, I don't think that's a good sign).

So, I took a break.  I took a break from blogging about it, I took a break from actually doing it.  I did not seem to take a break from thinking or stressing about it (therefore, it wasn't like it was much of a "vacation").  Regardless, I didn't want this to turn into a place where all I did was complain all the time. 

Let's be honest.  I started out with the intention of recording my experiences homeschooling and pretty all I've done so far is list all the ways my toddler prevents me from homeschooling (and although they're pretty funny stories--always in hindsight, sometimes during the actual event).  That said, it's not his fault I've been such a homeschooling slacker, I think I've just felt completely and totally overwhelmed. 

This week (just in time for when my family comes to visit so we'll be having a more unstructured week anyway), I actually felt re-energized and so yesterday we really "hit the books" hard.  It was really exciting.  I got to see him have a few "lightbulb moments" as he was catching on to some new math concepts and we had some really great time together.

 Of course, 30 minutes later, he was driving me crazy again, so it's not like we've entered a land of magical rainbows or anything.  But there was a ray of hope.