Quick check in.
We have finished Day 2 of the school year!
Jacob is settling in and Joseph is waiting for his school to start a week after Labor Day.

Benjamin and I are trying to find our groove.  We have had some great times and some really hard times...in 2 days.  However, I am giving us lots of grace and just hoping within 4 weeks that we can hit our stride.  There is a huge learning curve...from him adjusting to being at home alone with me (and Joseph), to me finding the best flow of subjects and a place for everything so that school does not take over the downstairs.  (Would be nice to have a separate room so we could close the door at the end of the day, but not happening).

At the end of the day I think he is pretty tired and I know that I am mentally wiped out.  We have completed 2 days of Spanish.  The course we are doing is beginning Spanish but geared for older students, so I am hoping it will be a good fit.  Otherwise will have to find something else.  The math website we use I really, really like it.  I even found myself setting up my own account and working problems.  They get progressively harder.  I finally got a problem that I could not even identify what the elements were called.  I found myself continuing the round of problems.  As strange as it sounds, I can see that website being a way I decompress at the end of the day.  I love the mental challenge.  Who knows by the end of the school year I might have relearned some algebra, trignometry or even calculus.

A quiet weekend in store for us.  No plans as of yet.