Laurel Academy

Last Friday I dropped withdrawal forms off at both of the boys' middle schools. I had had the paperwork to do this for a while, but I had been putting it off for a couple of reasons. For one thing, if for some reason we ended up not going on the trip it would be a huge pain to re-enroll them. So I wanted to do it as late in the process as possible. But the more honest reason is that officially pulling the kids out of school was the thing, for me, that meant that this trip was really going to happen. It wasn't signing the rental agreement on our apartment in Barcelona. It wasn't the family trip to NYC to apply for visas. It was handing the school secretaries those simple forms that made it real. And I guess a part of me wasn't ready for it. But now it's done and I have to say, it felt pretty good. I was super-impressed with both schools. Word had travelled behind the scenes and at both schools they knew to expect this form. We were especially nervous about Ryan'...

Laurel Academy is reopening, and for a much happier reason this time! We are doing a six-month sabbatical in Spain starting Feb. 1. We are withdrawing both boys from public school and enrolling them in homeschool for an educational European adventure. It's been two and a half years since I took my fake shingle for my fake school back inside and I had to do some research to figure out again how to start homeschooling in DE. Not surprisingly, my private-school ID had been removed from the system so I had to start over by requesting a new ID so that I can set up my school. I'm hoping I can reestablish rather than completely start over, but we'll see. Boring stuff for now; maybe I'll have interesting posts once school's in session?