A new day - Becka

Well, a new day has dawned at the Thomas household and I'm not sure it's going to be a good thing or bad thing. Let me go back a little to explain.

As most of you know I have an auto immune disease called Behcet's disease. I have been without insurance for a long time and have had a really hard time getting medicine. I also have some really challenging kids and taking care of them has always been my number one priority not myself. I have also been homeschooling for the past year because the way my kids learn doesn't work well with the public school system. My six year old also has Aspergers which makes homeschooling him even more challenging.

A few weeks ago my husband and I were talking about what we could do to take better care of my health. One of the things we talked about is putting our youngest (Clara) in Kindergarten next year instead of homeschooling her. She doesn't have any of the same problems that our other kids have and we both think she would thrive in school. I told him I wanted to check out some local charter schools before I put her into our local school. We have three here in Fort Collins and were really impressed with the Arts and Knowledge charter school. When we went to their open house we realized that they would not only be great for Clara but might be really good for all of our kids. It's a charter school that emphasizes Arts. They have an extra long school day and 2 more weeks of school a year but almost no homework and almost everything is learned through art.

They actually had openings for our older kids right now and after carefully praying about it and talking it over with all the kids we decided to put them in right now instead of waiting until next year.

Now the reason I went on this whole rant is because my goal this year is to get up every morning. Well, I guess I'm not going to have much of a choice now. The hope is that I will be able to heal my body by having the time during the day to myself. I will also say that the whole reason that was my goal is so that I could be a better home school mom. I'm feeling a bit like a failure even though Dave constantly tells me that I'm not. And who knows, this may not work out at all but I feel like I at least need to try.

So, as of next week I won't be a home school mom anymore, at least not for now. I know I need to sit down this week and come up with some current goals to help me to be the best charter school mom I can be. So, I'll be back on soon hopefully with more info on my new goals. I know no matter what they are you'll support me in them.