Teacher of the Year

Dear Al,

Someday Isaac will realize that you were a cool, brave, smart, and awesome mother. He will be 35, but he will realize it! I think we spend our adult lives making up for being such idiotic adolescents and teenagers. He will figure it out someday.


Are you surviving over there? Is Phil letting you get anything done? I could spend all of this time avoiding school at your house just as easily as at my house you know.

I have 2 observations about homeschooling that I made from coming to the expo on Saturday.

1. Everyone is always kind of doing their own thing. Which is cool, because that is the whole point of homeschooling. Moms are nursing babies, kids are dressed as characters or not, they are doing presentations or not, they have created something to share or not, dad's are helping or not. This is very different from (especially) public and private school where everyone is doing exactly the same thing. And if you aren't, you are not cool. There is one way to do something and in one order.

2. Everyone is willing to share. They are sharing ideas, books, food, etc. From the outside, it seems like a very friendly group of people who isn't competing about how great their kids are at school, but like they are willing to share things that work for them. Also very different from public school. Kids and parents are competing about everything it seems.

If there was a PTA for homeschooling, you would be the president. Or if it was a real school, you could be the superintendent or principal or teacher of the year.  I don't know how you get everything done. I secretly hope and imagine that you have one really messy, disgusting, horrid closet or something where you are hiding everything you can't clean or do. There's like a dead animal and a months worth of laundry in there. But I have never seen it. I have lots of really messy closets and I don't do nearly as much as you do.

Anyway, you are cool, despite Isaac's best efforts to convince you otherwise. And I can't change this blog layout because I'm not the administrator I think. We continue to be lame.

Love, Em