My participation in the day to day operation of the homeschool ground to a stop when we decided to graduate Kelly and Christian from homeschool at the end of the year to put them in college. I did a bunch of administrative stuff like prepare transcripts, order test results sent to the college, plan schedules, and that sort of thing, but the reading, correcting, planning, explaining math, and the things we did together stopped. That ending was quite abrupt. The kids transitioned from school work to end of year testing and that was it.
All that happened just a couple of weeks ago and what followed was not that pretty. Without something planned to put us together for a purpose, we went different directions. Kelly often drew her Betty Blonde or read up in her room. Christian wrote code on his computer. I worked on my side programming projects and planned for college, mostly on the computer. Lorena is the only one who did not change her routine. We were all together, but did our own thing. Yesterday, we decided we did not like the way things were headed.
We decided we would try continue to read aloud together in the evenings when I get home from work. The kids like to have something to do with their hands while I am reading. Of course, Kelly always has a new Betty Blonde she needs to draw so that was taken care of. Christian decided he wants to knit something while we read so we ran down to JoAnn Fabrics after meeting yesterday and bought some yarn for a new project he has in mind. I found a good book on the historicity of Jesus
