February 29, 2008--New homeschool co-op

Yesterday we went to our first homeschool co-op group here. There's a good group that meets in a town about a half hour from here that has about thirty families. They have three classes in the morning and then gym time in the afternoon one day a week. They have classes from nursery up to high school. I took Timothy with me yesterday, but I think next week I'm going to leave him home with Erick. Tim doesn't feel the need to socialize yet. He'd rather just be with mommy or daddy. Besides, that way I can drive the car instead of the van if I'm only taking five kids and myself, and it will be better on gas.

Rachel is taking a class on safety, a Bible class, and tumbling. Abby is taking a money class, a class on favorite stories, and tumbling. Joy and Sarah are taking a drawing class, a music class, and a class learing multiplication facts. Jay is taking the drawing class, Taekwondo, and another art class, this one about drawing portraits.

They are really enjoying making new friends. I'm glad they have a good co-op here. We're also going to be going to our first 4-H meeting here on Monday. We had been talking about doing sports, too, but we might wait on that for awhile. I don't want to get in over our heads until we find out how well we do with this schedule. I'm thinking of getting a part time job, too, although I'm still praying for direction in that area. I want to have a good balance of being involved in things, but not being so busy that we are never home. Eventually I'd like to start taking some classes, too, and I can't do everything at once. There just aren't enough hours in the day for everything I'd like to do.