The first week of school has come and gone without too much drama. Mornings are much earllier, but I don't have to drive in the morning! Brooke and Dallin leave with Chris at around 6:20, and John leaves with our neighbor at 7:15.
Jared and Noah and I are still making adjustments to our homeschool schedule, but it's coming along. I'm sure these first few weeks and maybe even months will require much flexibility in working out what works for us. Both boys have enjoyed more freedom to explore and discover things on their own, as evidenced by the accompanying photos. They decided they wanted to build a fort, so instead of building a tall one, this one will have a basement. Chris has helped them with measurements and other technical details, but they have done a lot of the digging themselves. Upland is built on rocks, so it's not really digging, but more like picking dirt from between the rocks, and then pulling the rocks out of the ground. The other photos show a cool discovery they made while hanging out in the front yard--a praying mantis enjoying its lizard dinner.
Chris starts school Tuesday, but it's been a little chaotic because they've been doing modernization construction at Serrano, and his classroom is not really ready for students. He doesn't have much choice, though, so they will just have to work around the clutter until it can be put back together. It's really quite ridiculous that the contractors have such poor timing as to not have things put back in time for school to begin without messes everywhere. Hopefully his week won't be too bad, in spite of things being out of place.
