My New Job

I am getting a new job. It is nothing like what I used to do, and financially, it is not going to be a big deal, but overall, I expect it to be amazing – very challenging and very rewarding! I am going to be a teacher! A teacher at Pittard Christian Academy! PCA – yep! I am going to home school the boys next year!

OK, before you go all crazy on me, let me tell you how this all happened. This past school year was difficult and full of changes and adjustments. We had a new baby in the house who was taking a huge chunk of time and attention, and that drastically changed our study routine from the previous year. We also had our house flooded at the end of February, and my babies had to live like their parents were divorced for two months. The adjustments at home were difficult.

About the end of November, Michael’s assignments started disappearing and would never turn back up. Because I wasn’t spending as much time staying on top of everything, his literally slipped under the radar until the end of February. So we spent a lot of time making up a lot of work. When I thought he was straight, a few weeks later, I would find out that he was not. This went on until the end of the year. I literally ended the school year feeling like I either needed to sit in class with him or bring him home so I knew all his assignments and if he was getting them done.

In addition, our relationship has been so strained. I feel like I had to ride him to get his work done, and we would just fight every evening from the time I picked him up till bedtime. I was worn out, and I know he was too. Then, out of the blue, I was talking to one of the mom’s on Mavrick baseball team, and she asked when we got out of school, and we started talking about school and she told me that she home schools. I don’t remember much about the conversation, but one thing she said that really hit me was, “I just decided that I was tired of sending him to school and them getting the best part of him, and I would get what was left.” OMG! That is exactly the way I felt with Michael. I knew at that very moment that was what I needed to hear. That was God encouraging me through her.

For about a week I thought and prayed and worried a little bit about bringing Michael home and sending Mav to school and how the dynamics of that would work out. Then, the day before school was out, I met with Mavrick’s teacher and the school principal. I expressed my concerns and they expressed theirs too. The bottom line is that Mavrick was struggling in phonics and math and they did not feel that he would fare well in third grade and wanted him to repeat second…but they would leave it up to us. Again, I felt like this was a sign from above that I needed to bring the kids home.

Sidebar – I was totally blown away by the turn of events with Mavrick. I had him tested for a learning disability through LISD and for them and their ciriculum, he needed a little speech therapy, but overall he scored really good – either on the upper end of average or above average in just about everything. BUT in the private school, they wanted him to repeat! Really?

So, now I am reading and studying and trying to find all the resources I can to help us home school in the fall. Another mom I spoke with told me that if I even feel the least bit led to do this to really dedicate myself to a year. If at the end of that year we decide it was not the right decision we can make a change then. And that is just what we are going to do. One year at a time. So, if you pray, please pray for us as we take on this new adventure! We are all excited for what God has planned for us!