Planning for Next Year...No Plan

I figured I was having the seasonal "homeschool burnout" that begins to hover the house around March-ish.  We just haven't gained much momentum since January. 

Maybe it was the change in evaluators.  Maybe it was trying to work in three different sciences and keep them all interesting.  Maybe it was the angst over my son's recent learning disability diagnosis.  Maybe it was our personal struggles that have plagued us for the past 3 years.  Maybe it was my employment after a 20 year hiatus.

Yeah...it was that life thing.  Life is making homeschooling burdensome.  So burdensome that I considered public school for everyone next year, including a preschool for Luke.  We are attending an open house at the public school next month.  The relief I expected to feel at the anticipation of the open house is not being felt.

It has occured to me that yet another major change...everyone going to school is adding in another stressor.  It has also occured to me that it's not really "homeschool burnout" but it's "life burnout."

We have lots of "stuff" going on in our family.  We are in need of refreshment.  That, of course, means different things to the differing personalities in our home.  We're figuring that out.

In the meantime, we are covering our basics of math and reading everyday.  Surprisingly I am not stressing out over this at all.  We are all carving out a space of the day to give attention to Luke's activities.  Working together like this is working for us.

The workboxes are ideal for us to keep on track and encourage personal responsibility.  However, they take away from the together part of our homeschool that's always been part of our homeschool personality.

And I have found that I just can't pull myself in 4 different directions; not in the middle of all life's recent charges anyway.

So we are reading together, plugging away at the math texts, playing with Luke and getting out of the house to learn in life.  I'm not even thinking about next year's homeschool, yet.  I'm not even thinking about next year's public schooling, yet.  I am keeping myself in the present and choosing live life instead of grinding against it.