homeschooling?

Someone might ask, "Wouldn't it be easier if you weren't homeschooling? Maybe you should put the girls in school for this year." To which my answer is: here is a non-homeschooling day for you: be out the door with 4 kids by 7:45 every morning, having not only fed them breakfast and gotten them dressed, but made at least 1 lunch for school; be out the door again by 1:45 every day to pick them up from school - or, 11:45 to pick up Emily and then 1:45 again to get Katherine. Regardless of whether that's in the middle of anyone else's nap at the moment, including mine. Then use whatever time is actually available in the afternoon for the girls, to help them do homework and hear how the school day went, as long as Peter is still napping (oh right, I had to wake him up to go pick up the girls). So if Peter's awake, I'm doing therapy with him, so I can't help the girls till he naps again.

So the summary would be: sleep deprived children (have to get up earlier, and little ones get interrupted naps every day). Girls would not see much of me, and what time they see of me would be spent helping them do homework. I'd miss my naps, and have to get up earlier than usual, and not have much time with the girls. And also, Jeff would be bored silly with no girls to play with all day, and they couldn't play much with him after school either till their homework was done. So I wouldn't get much done either with them gone.

I think it's easier to keep everyone home. Have naps when they happen without having to leave the house 2-3x/day. Do schoolwork with the girls in the morning when Peter is napping. Check their schoolwork later. Read history and science together, learn art together, do P.E. and Spanish together, whenever they happen. Then at least they get to see me at the same time as doing schoolwork. And they are here to help play with Jeff or help with Peter when I need them.

For now. This is easier for me.