It's been awhile

It's been nearly 2 years since I posted on this blog.  My homeschooling journey has taken me places I never thought it would.

Ellie is 8 1/2 year old.  We are more on the "unschooling" side of things than ever except we, meaning Ellie,  participates in a ALE through a local school district.  Ellie has a dream to get far in gymnastics, and frankly without the program we can't afford it.  The costs of tuition, meet fees, uniforms, etc is about $4000 for the year, this does not include travel to/from or our expenses to go watch her!  She is now competing in Level 4 and she's doing fantastic.  She just started this year, her first meet she scored high enough to make it to sectionals.  She's an awesome gymnast and I couldn't be prouder of her.  Technically we do unschool, because we do what she chooses, She understands in order to appease the school district we must do certain activities as "school work" and they in turn help finance gymnastics, so she does it.

Elyza is a sassy 4 year old.  She's super smart and loves learning.  She also does gymnastics because she wants to be like her big sister.  So likely next year she will also go into the ALE and we will evaluate it as time goes on.  Being in K the requirements of learning can all be done in life unless you live under a rock!

So, there's my update.