Report Card Day!

It's parents evening next week for my other 3 children. This inevitably led onto some banter with the kids about S's parents evening and what sort of report he would get! Ironically a few days later I got a phone call from the council asking me to submit a report on our first full year of home school. I think this is an annual thing but from chat amongst the home school mums different council folks have taken different views, some taking this very seriously and some leaving us to our own devices. To be honest I'd been dreading this a bit wondering just how much detail I needed to go into but in the end it was fine. I wrote it in an hour today and actually was quite amazed to think back over the year! This week has been a big week for me! After 7 years I have decided to abandon facebook! There are loads of reasons for this. The trigger in the end was a wee privacy scare which I'm not actually sure had much basis to it but was enough to tip me over. I have had several conversations for and against Facebook recently all of which have made me really think about its value! I love it and had very many fruitful conversations through it with folks privately (although that was the privacy scare called into question this week!). However, I am addicted to it! I do check it frequently through the day and it is never far away! Life tends to be thought of in terms of facebook statuses and it is very quick to get in the habit of looking someone up and finding out all about them without actually speaking to the people themselves! So, I decided that enough was enough and I'm virtually finished deleting everything on my account to prevent me from simply reactivating my account! I think I'm going to regret it but I think it will be good for me! The upshot is though I think most folks who read this blog do so through facebook so think I've not helped folks here!! Oh well! Schooling in the past week has gone ok. S has been very controlling in how we do things and his motivation has certainly driven things which I find so frustrating! My twins decided to have a day off on Monday and well and truly pulled the wool over their dad and my eyes! They were very unwell until 9:30am when a miraculous recovery took place! They were going to have a ball! Or so they thought. I was very annoyed with them. Not only does it waste their teacher's time but also wastes S's time as he finds it so difficult to concentrate when they are having a ball! So, Monday was a bit of a write off! The rest of the week has been fine. Following a couple of weeks of lots of different things going on I had decided that this was going to be quite a stable week without too many distractions. I think S really did need this. He has settled right back down after quite a hyper time. I'm going slightly stir crazy but can cope with this! We only have one week left until the October break so I think we can afford to take the foot off the gas a bit and be less structured again next week!