July for one.more.day

Today is still July.  Tomorrow it is August.

In August, I prepare for another year of home school.  The boxes of books arrived weeks ago and have been stacked in a corner, unopened.  This year, I seem to have an aversion to opening them.  Normally, I open them up as soon as they land on the front steps and begin to pore over them.  But this year will be our last year and opening those boxes feels like the beginning of the end. 

You see, Sam will be a senior.  All those years ago when we first sat down with home school catalogs and the boxes of Saxon Math and Phonics arrived on our porch in Kentucky, we never saw this day coming.  Never.  Ever.

I wish it could stay July forever.  Or at least a little while longer. . .

Comments

[Leslie]

I know you don't write about homeschooling very often, but I enjoy it when you do. We're still at the beginning. I get to teach my youngest how to read this year. Beginning phonics again...for the last time.

[ellen b]

Well I only technically homeschooled Katie for 3 years and I remember good ole Saxon Math. I didn't start feeling these emotions till we started all the graduation plans and then it really got to me when I was driving our firstborn to college for his first year...
Enjoy the year Kim! Good for you for persevering all the schooling years...