SO MANY CHANGES

 

I recently mentioned that our school year is different.

We do have a recent high school graduate.  That in itself is a big change.

He is working at the job he has held for a couple of years at the greenhouse, working as an "on-call/as needed" photographer's assistant, just started an unpaid internship with a former teacher with photography related direction, AND helping out with our co-op theater program.  He's keeping busy.  Just strange not to have him around with us.

The three next oldest are attending TLC again so that eats up our Thursdays.  

The biggest change... Friday co-op ran into some building issues+ during the summer and made the difficult decision to NOT MEET THIS SCHOOL YEAR! There were many factors in this decision and we recognize that God is in control, but it was a hard and sad blow.  Thankfully, we have an awesome and capable co-op administration and we have been able to go forward with a very, very limited class offering of theater and private or semi-private lessons at a different location.  We are also going to have some 5 or 6 week intensives throughout the year and hopefully a whole lot of field trips or meetups to keep up the relationships. We love TLC, but KFA has really come to be our "first love." Most of the kids' good friends (not to mention mine) are there, we attend as a family and I teach several classes.  Not to mention, it has always been less than 10 minutes from home.   Bean's senior year, so it makes it extra sad but again, we are trying to make the best of it. Lord willing, the co-op will be back up and running for the 2025/2026 school year better than ever.

It does give us some flexibility to do other things and we don't have such a hefty bill which is always good.

Both girls have jobs, Bean's job really doesn't affect the school day, but Missy's job is during school hours and so we are flexible with that so she can make some money as well as complete her schoolwork.  Good life lessons, no?

There are a couple of other minor things, that I'm not going to go into now.

It just feels different, not better or worse, just different and I guess that is just part of life and growth.