So its been what like 2 months since my last blog. I have no excuse I just plane suck. I do good for a few days then I'm gone for months. The hubs is still in AIT at Ft. Eustis. He has two months left (an eternity in my eyes) and then hopefully we will be moving somewhere together. I say hopefully only because as of right now the only opening for his MOS is Korea! My heart dropped when I found this out. Korea could be no Hubs for a year. We have to get command sponsored to go over with him, which in Korea is not an easy task. Most of it is done by rank which will make it that much more difficult considering he is only a Private. The other problem we have is that Buggy is only 1 year away from being in Kindergarten so they would have to find a spot for her in school unless we decide to home school.
I have wanted to home school for quite sometime now, but the Hubs has been very against it. He of course goes straight to the socialization issue. Clearly that is any ones main concern, but I read a great blog today Homeschool Menagerie that really helped me to see that home school is not the death of socialization. I think my favorite point made was when she said that you don't see a lot of home school kids who can't socialize, but you do see a lot of public school kids who can't. I couldn't agree more. My husbands sadly suffers from this problem. He was never taught how. He is extremely shy and socially awkward until he gets to know someone and he went to regular school. So with socialization out of the way whats left? Nothing. I am perfectly capable of doing the research, finding good lesson plans, and deciding what I want my child to learn and when. I teach her every day. Now my mission is to arm myself with as much information as possible so my husband has no reason to say no. My number one attack will of course be us being split up for 1 to 2 years over them not being able to find Buggy a school to attend. We have already spent almost 6 month apart for the training.
On a happier note the kids and I have now been up to Virginia 2 times to see BJ. The first time we went we got a whole 4 days with him. We went up to DC and hung out there for 3 days. We got to go to the Smithsonian national zoo and walked around a bit. We also spent a crazy amount of time in our hotel room just being a family again. It was so awesome. Then last weekend Boo Boo turned 1. We hadn't planned on a trip to Virginia, but BJ's company won some type of competition thing and he got a off post pass for the weekend. So Saturday morning at 6am I loaded the birthday boy and buggy up and we drove 9 hours to Virginia. This time we stayed in Newport News and again spent most of our time in the hotel room being a family, but daddy got to spend his boy's first birthday with him! He had to go back late Sunday night and this was the hardest good bye to date. Buggy even cried. I thankfully held it together till he was out of sight, but even he is really feeling the weight of this separation. So for now we are praying for no orders to be cut until right before graduation. Hopefully we get to stay in the US and then I'll really have to come up with good information about home school.
I'll try not to make my next post two months from now :)
I have wanted to home school for quite sometime now, but the Hubs has been very against it. He of course goes straight to the socialization issue. Clearly that is any ones main concern, but I read a great blog today Homeschool Menagerie that really helped me to see that home school is not the death of socialization. I think my favorite point made was when she said that you don't see a lot of home school kids who can't socialize, but you do see a lot of public school kids who can't. I couldn't agree more. My husbands sadly suffers from this problem. He was never taught how. He is extremely shy and socially awkward until he gets to know someone and he went to regular school. So with socialization out of the way whats left? Nothing. I am perfectly capable of doing the research, finding good lesson plans, and deciding what I want my child to learn and when. I teach her every day. Now my mission is to arm myself with as much information as possible so my husband has no reason to say no. My number one attack will of course be us being split up for 1 to 2 years over them not being able to find Buggy a school to attend. We have already spent almost 6 month apart for the training.
On a happier note the kids and I have now been up to Virginia 2 times to see BJ. The first time we went we got a whole 4 days with him. We went up to DC and hung out there for 3 days. We got to go to the Smithsonian national zoo and walked around a bit. We also spent a crazy amount of time in our hotel room just being a family again. It was so awesome. Then last weekend Boo Boo turned 1. We hadn't planned on a trip to Virginia, but BJ's company won some type of competition thing and he got a off post pass for the weekend. So Saturday morning at 6am I loaded the birthday boy and buggy up and we drove 9 hours to Virginia. This time we stayed in Newport News and again spent most of our time in the hotel room being a family, but daddy got to spend his boy's first birthday with him! He had to go back late Sunday night and this was the hardest good bye to date. Buggy even cried. I thankfully held it together till he was out of sight, but even he is really feeling the weight of this separation. So for now we are praying for no orders to be cut until right before graduation. Hopefully we get to stay in the US and then I'll really have to come up with good information about home school.
I'll try not to make my next post two months from now :)
Korea is not that far from Japan :-). Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteLOL no it isn't. How are you liking Japan? We would love to end up stationed in Japan, but since there are no Army bases we'd have to get lucky enough to get posted on a air force base. Its possible since BJ is in Aviation, but not likely.
ReplyDeleteI actually really like Japan. It snows a lot up where we are, but I'm enjoying. I will say that I will definitely be ready to go when the time comes. I couldn't live here long term. Sounds like NY will be good for you guys. Always take advantage of what you can wherever you are. It's one of the great things about military life. Good luck. Email me if you need anything! :-)
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