Well, I did great for the first month.  Then I hit a wall.  So we’ve been on vacation – already – from school for the past two weeks.  Today, I got Cole going again. 

I’d heard somewhere – wish I remembered where, because I would look into it more – that when going off medication for depression, people will often relapse at about 3 months.  The reason given was because that’s when the medication is actually all out of your system.  So it takes a bit of time for you body to regulate back to doing it all by itself.  I truly hope that’s what I just went through, and that now I’m on the other side.  I’m definitely doing the Vitamin D – have been taking that for a bit, but I think I’ll have to stick with things like diet and exercise more than supplements as I’m still nursing.  Somehow there has got to be a way to stay on top of this monster without being medicated for life. 

Anyway, here we go.  Getting back on track with school.  This week, we’re having a fun field trip to Kings Landing. We all enjoy getting out, and hopefully this will increase our forward motion.

The great thing about homeschooling, is that if students or teachers find themselves not well, or for some reason unable to do school, or even just stressed, we need no doctor’s note to take off for a couple of weeks, if need be. And we have so much time to make up for it. And there is no guilt!

Keep going, everyone! We can do this. Sometimes it’s tempting to fantasize about that big yellow bus pulling up and whisking all of our young ones off to the care of some strangers. But in the end, for those of us who have chosen life this way, it’s really amazing to know we not only are educating our children, but demonstrating a key life lesson – if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!

Giddyup!