Review Extravaganza: The Finale

The last three months of 2011, were pretty darn good. In October: I had this unique thing to say about home school:

Homeschool in the community is just soso. I have had two different experiences. Ruth and Kate are taking a Shakespeare class in Salt Lake. They are with a group of teens that are good and nice and talented. They like it. The moms involved are sociable and pleasant. I wish I could be sure that we would have interactions with this same group post Shakespeare class. I have not yet been able to find anything very social for my younger kids. I tried doing a park day in our area for young kids-- that failed. I tried do a teen night out for older kids in our area-- that failed. I have tried to join two different co-ops-- both of those have failed. We have gone to a party and two field trips with homeschoolers in Davis county. (See we live just on the Davis County and Salt Lake border. So the Shakespeare class is pretty equal in distance to most of the Davis county events.) I can hardly get anyone to associate with me or my children at field trips and parties. With the acception of two women, I can't even get the mothers of homescchooling families to associate with me. I go up to them. I introduce myself and my children. I try and find things to talk to about with them-- but nothing. In many cases I feel like they just wish me to go away. In one way my experience has been weird, in another way, I feel like I am dealing with an HOA when dealing with the homeschool community. I would completely think I was  socially retarded and the fault is all on my side except that I have not had these experiences with public school moms while volunteering in school and planning parties. I have not had these problems with my neighbors or my fellow church members. Socially, homeschool has been very unique.


Also in October, I wrote this personal story and had a lot of interesting commentary, which prompted me to do a week of faith, with guest writers in November. So in November I had a whole bunch of amazing things written about faith. You can find all of those awesome articles under the "Scripture Musings" tab.





Also in November, one of our vehicles broke down twice, so I wrote about how I deal with stress.

December, has been fairly quiet. We chose to be a one car family rather than spending all of our Christmas money repairing a car. We had a great Christmas and will get the car looked at in January. So 2012 will begin the decision to fix a car that has been breaking down a lot, or buy a new one.