Oak Meadow all around

Not one day after updating my curriculum plans in my menu bar, I decided to do what I had been contemplating for awhile - I bought Oak Meadow curriculum for everyone: Rose, Skye, and Jane (6th, 4th, and 1st).

I needed something planned for me. I (and they) needed multi-sensory, creative, artistic. I needed something with much LESS focus on read alouds (sorry Luke!) for now as it was just NOT working with 3 others under 6 who need a lot more direction/attention in the day. I wanted something Waldorf-like but not Waldorf.

With the help of a dear 4Real board member I'm realizing I'm really physically burning out (exhausted adrenals, most likely, and crashing fast) and need to reduce my stress. "Shout reading" over the din was just too much, and happened too often.

I don't know why I feel the need to explain so much, other than the fact that we have used Sonlight all but one year of our homeschooling, and I loved learning like that and will miss it next year. But while I loved *learning* like that, I just can't *teach* like that right now, and I'm realizing the difference. Maybe I'll just buy myself Core 400 some day and revel in it. :)

So we're just going to take it really slow when the books come in, have fun, and not worry about it. Right.