School year plans

It's going to be an interesting year.  Brian's return to work has made us rethink and replan.  I have one more semester to complete my associate's degree in accounting, so it would be foolish to stop at this point. 

Noah is in 6th grade and is going to continue to homeschool.  This is the best fit for him/us, and he is old enough to work independently some of the time.  He'll be coming to college with me and working there while I'm in class.  His math, science, and computer courses are online, which he seems to really like.  English (Language Mechanics and Editor in Chief from The Critical Thinking Company) and History (Ancient Civilizations from Answers in Genesis) will be done with me.  Those are both new for us, and I am super excited to have more one on one teaching time with Noah.  I think he's going to like these.  Writing reports will be a focus this year, which he does not love, but I am hoping with interesting topics, he will find it less painful.  He'll continue swim and gym, AYSO soccer, AWANA, and start guitar lessons.

Nick is in 5th grade and will be attending public school.  This year is his first in middle school, which means a new building and a LOT more kids.  He'll be playing football this fall, and hopefully be back to spending more time with us.

Hannah is in 1st grade and will be attending Christian school.  Her bestest buddy/rival :) will be in her class.  She's been begging to go to "real school", and if she can stop socializing long enough to learn, I think this will be a great year for her.  She will miss swim and gym greatly, but you can't have everything, I suppose.  She will continue AYSO soccer, AWANA, and I hope will take dance lessons at some point this year.

Levi is in preK and will continue in his special needs preschool program.  He is doing amazingly well there, and I am very pleased with the services he has received.  I hope that getting him help this early will pretty much negate the issues he/we are dealing with.  He'll start AYSO soccer this year, hopefully go to AWANA more regularly, and I plan on keeping him out of school so he can attend swim and gym on Thursdays.  That sounds bad, but I believe it will be useful for him as a kind of OT.  Swimming is relaxing for him.

Esther will be in preschool at the same school as Hannah.  There is no way she is old enough for that, and yet...she is.  She'll be 3 in 16 days.  How time flies...  It will be interesting to see how she does on her own.  She has rarely even been in the church "nursery" without Levi!  I know she will love playing with so many kids and learning new things.  I will be glad to know she is with wonderful people while I am in school.

I will not be working this semester, which is WONDERFUL.  Last semester was beyond rough, and there is no way I could work and go to school while Brian is working too.  I counted on him to run the house and take charge of the kids last semester.  It's nice to know I won't have to work.  So very thankful for that!

So...my classes...I will be taking anthropology, cost accounting, pre-calculus, business statistics, and businesss organization/management.  I have to be honest.  Business statistics scares the snot out of me.  I know two other people who are taking the same class at the same time.  I hope they don't count on me to help them!  Back in my pre-marriage and kids life, I took statistics and, well, let's just say it did not go well.  I am excited about anthropology though...heard the professor is really good!  Cost accounting will be very interesting, and I liked the chapter I had on it last semester.  Pre-calc will hopefully be alright.  I did reach the point last semester where math got to be actual work for me to learn.  Business org/management is my only online course this semester...no idea how that will go.

Lots of changes, but we can handle them!  Going back to using my planner for EVERY appointment and assignment, for sure!  Here we go...