this is FALL??

today was finish up things for the week and hit the beach day. it was so nice. the leaves are starting to fall, but the air was so warm we went swimming!!

back to our comfortable way of doing things

and man I love it. It is such a relief to be done with iq. I am sure that program would work for someone but it sure didnt work for us! Maybe because we had already established a way of doing things around here and not being creatures of change we didnt like the change. The kids both just wrote a paper for me. I have not yet read Cody's but Chrysta's turned out pretty well I believe! She wrote about getting a new kitten and all the things one must do to take care of it. Cody wrote about dogs and training them. I let them choose the topics. We have been focusing mainly on writing this last week or two, working on taking notes and organising notes into a paper and then making changes to the rough draft and writing a final draft.

I have been looking for a date book or assignment book or lesson plan book but have yet to find one. I can find date books that start Jan 1. But how do I record the 4 months before that!!!?

I returned the computers today via USPS. As Ethan says thanksbetogoditsover!

I did it

We are done. And I for one am relieved. They will send us a letter how to return the laptops. From here on out our homeschool adventures will not include IQAcademy.

still sucky

I am so over this program. Not sure why everyone thinks we should stick with it. I am torn. Every day she tells me she hates it and wants to go back to doing it the other way. I keep waiting for us to get our life back. I hate feeling like that. They might as well go off to PS if its going to be that way. How do I tell E who thinks they ought to stick with it? I need to get a bcakbone and just do it and say look this is what we are doing. I cant deal with this anymore. I have to do it the other way.But hey! I am a people pleaser! Oh sounds like he is home now.

one week down

they still hate it. but they finished everything for the week. I still want to send it all back. they want me to send it all back. Eric doesnt want us to. He thinks they should stick it out. I think I am more and more leaning towards unschool/homeschool. I just dont know.

more tears today. and an assignement we just absolutely can not do as described. We have no track at our home, not at the school in our town. there is no track for her to run on. She was SO exscited to do this course but now she hates it. and it is only the second day. I am less and less happy overall. At the end of the day I will look at their grades and see how it is so far.