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Me, my 5 kids, Laura, and her 2 kids are gathered around the dining table starting to eat.

Me: Ok, let's pray everybody.
*general cacophany as they all try to cram two bites in their mouths and get a sip of tea before we start...then, quiet.*
Me: God, thank you so much for all this yummy food -
Brian: Yeah!
Me: And for this great day -
Brian: Yay!
Me: And help us to remember you in everything we do and to have a good night. Amen.
Brian: *clapping wildly* WOOHOO!
Laura: He's Baptist.

I'm contemplating sending Isaac and Jake to first and K at the fine arts charter school that is like, 3 blocks from my house and attached to City Church, where we sometimes attend services.

Pros:
-They REALLY WANT TO GO. BAD.
-That is super close, and already familiar
-the school is small, and well rated (and I know some of the super nice staff)
-Jake and Isaac are both really academic and social, they don't have any of the issues Ananda and Aaron do (dyslexia, selective mutism, SID)
-it would be kind of a relief in some ways

Cons:
-It would be a little overwhelming to deal with the scheduling aspect of structured school - we've never dealt with having to get up early every morning or having to do things at peak times when everything is crowded, and there will surely be times when specifically homeschool activities that are still important to A and A interfere with pick-up times...especially with Grant on this late schedule it seems challenging. This might seem menial if you're used to school, but we're used to road trips and have a whole family slumber party tomorrow night and left my mother in law's at 2 am last night. It would be a massive adjustment.
-We are beyond broke right now, with all these medical things following NY, so the uniforms and supplies could be truly prohibitive, whereas I have everything I need here already for homeschooling them
-uniforms, what? Come on. So weird.
-Just weird in general to send a couple of them to school when we're so entrenched, as a family, in homeschool
-this might not even be an option, for all I know they have an insane waiting list

There's a meteor shower tonight at around 11:30...for South Florida anyway...and I'm thinking of driving out to the Everglades with the kids to check it out.

The AM will be all Usborne, all the time. I'm heading out alone to talk to various people and then coming home and making a million calls.

In between, school, and maybe scones and tea outside with books.