Next, some of us are in our high school years at this very moment in time. A momentous moment. Not that this actually says fall, but it's a new development in our homeschooling oeuvre. Not an entirely welcome one, mostly because some of our ways of spending the day have been, well, curtailed somewhat drastically, but I can already see that the challenge alone will be a good thing.
The early learning years are all about the fun and excitement of the hunt, sniffing out new paths and new scents, new interactions and new lands; the later years are all about settling down to something more earnest, more searching and serious. And that's where Max is finding himself these days. He's spending more time with assignments and computers and math texts, while his brother and sister are still in relative Frolic Mode. I expected more tension and Awkward Learning Curves, but so far there have been none at all, which makes us all very glad. New developments, indeed.
Or maybe they just like having me take their pictures while they're doing silly things with frilly paper umbrellas. That FDPG, she loves a good camera op.
Although they were pretty good Yorkshire puddings...
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Oh my, you're making me hungry. I LOVE Yorkshire pudding and hadn't had it in ages until E made some (JO recipe) last week. Delicious. Pie for breakfast always makes me think of Farmer Boy.
It really IS such a big change to have a high-school age learner in the house. Our whole family has found it to be a very big adjustment.
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