Homeschooling While Teaching Full Time

 I’m going to get real for a minute... We are embarking on a very new and very unorthodox adventure and I want to be able to share the whirlwind with you throughout the journey. This is an adventure that may be called crazy by some and as I type the words, I think they may be right... I am going to be homeschooling my boys this year while also teaching in school full time. 😲

Okay, hear me out... we are incredibly blessed to have my husband already staying home with our baby girl, so that part worked itself out. As wonderful as he is, my husband is NOT a teacher. So, I will be doing the planning and formal lesson-giving on evenings and weekends and he will be monitoring the boys schoolwork during the day- while also taking care of the 9-month-old. We know, we know... it will be hard. We will be exhausted and we will want to quit, but for our family and our unique situation...this is the only real option.

You see, our oldest son has severe anxiety. One of his main triggers is fear of contamination. Needless to say, sending him back to school is just not the best thing for him right now. We are not willing to risk a possible regression in his mental health and feel that the environment most conducive to his learning, for now at least, is in our home. 

After making this decision we had to then decide between signing our boys up for the virtual school option that our local public system is offering or to completely withdraw and homeschool them. We chose the latter for multiple reasons.

1. The virtual school asked for a full semester commitment. We wanted to keep the option of transferring back to brick and mortar school open. 
2. The virtual school requires the logging of 4-hours each school day. That’s a lot, especially for our younger one.
3. We wanted the freedom to build and create our own curriculum. Since I am a teacher, I feel quite comfortable in ensuring that we are following grade level expectations.
4. We need flexibility, obviously, since I am still working full-time out of the home. 

I am both excited and somewhat terrified but here we are, jumping in with both feet. I hope sharing our unique journey