Always the Unexpected!

My life has been anything but predictable through the years. I married my high school sweetheart in September of 1980. We decided we wanted to have children so we had four beautiful sweet adorable babies. They are all grown now with babies of their own. After many years we adopted three of our beautiful grandchildren. We just reached the two year mark of the adoption on January 27, 2014. In June we will have had these sweet children for 5 years. Loren and I are so blessed to have them in our home.

On Monday of this week, we pulled our children out of public schools/traditional school and are now home schooling them. We realized that with our sixth grader that we could not keep them safe, and teachers could not keep our children safe. No matter how much they loved our children or wanted to help them, they could not keep them safe. With our sixth grader, things went bad in a hurry. Early in the year I had had many conferences and emails with the teacher. I had tried to work with the school with some issues that kept coming up and nothing seemed to be working. The bullying, the tormenting, and the spiteful nature of some children just ruined the learning experience in the classroom.

Everyday when I would go to pick up my kids, there was a story. Most of the time there were tears when my sixth grader got into the car. I was so hurry for this person because I sent my children off to school to learn and this little one was not having a good experience. I hurt for my kids, I wanted the best for them. On Thursday before I withdrew the kids. My sixth grader came home and said some kids had been really bullying to the point that this one would rather die then go back to school. I was shocked and so worried. I asked lost of questions. On Friday, the same thing happened again and after school the school psychologist called me we talked and this little one had said the same thing to her and to me. Loren and I agonized over what to do.

My answer came in the form of a sweet answer to my prayer. Everything started falling into place over the weekend. I looked up home schooling, talked to some friends who home school. I got some recommendations on what to do and then I just did it. On Monday morning, two years to the day that our adoption was final, I walked into the school and withdrew my sixth grader, then that afternoon I walked into the school and withdrew my second grader. Monday morning I will withdraw my seventh grader.

This week we have had our kids home all week, it has been so awesome. We have done fun things. We went to the library, worked on Science, Math, History, language  Arts, Art, Reading and we have gone to the store, budgeted for a garden project we plan to do in the spring. Everything just feel together. Last night I gave them a math placement test to see where they were and I was appalled at what I found out. Therefore, starting today we are going to learn together.

I feel so blessed that we can home school our kids, that Loren and I have a partnership that will allow us to work hard to teach our children. We also will just have fun learning! I told a friend today, that I have to stop asking for adventures. I keep getting ones that are challenging. ;-) I love my life!