Dear earth dear sun by you we live5/10/2023 It meets her needs in a way I simply cannot right now. I know her inside and out and I know that this year is the best possible thing for her. Anyway, I am finding a lot of emotions surrounding school for N. My mother because she says mothers need a break from their children (maybe she did) and my father because he says that homeschooled children are smart but odd and just don't fit in (of course, I was sent to school and I was always the poster child for smart and didn't fit in). My mother and father too have leaped on me to say that "real" school is better and homeschooling is never a good idea. I suppose that people often go through this, fighting with their family to get them to support homeschooling, just to find that the support was only out of one side of their mouths. ![]() She is buying things that the teacher needs for the classroom (having read the list on the fridge) even though I already bought them, and she asked if they need other things too that aren't on the list, like hand sanitizer and Kleenex. Because she is all over this "real" school thing. She always said before that she supported the Waldorf & homeschooling thing, even if she didn't understand it, but I think she was lying. (And then, when she was watching the children shred cheese for the dinner recipe, she said to me approvingly "They really love this stuff." And I'm like, yeah, no kidding. She asked me if Natalie would be "behind" since she's never been to school before? If she would know less than the other children or if I had kept her up to date with what she should have been learning? That made me so angry. My MIL came over and visited with the children and I showed her the Nienhuis Montessori Classroom Materials catalogue so she could get an idea of what Natalie was going to be doing in school this year. ![]() Sunday Steve took the children down to the sidewalk chalk-a-thon (we couldn't do it before because it was raining) where they had a blast then after naps he and they made brownies from No Pudge Raspberry Fudge Brownie Mix.
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