Homeschooling and more 3/13/13

3/13/13 @ 2:30pm

Yesterday the boys and I did our schoolwork & we had a lot of fun. Matthew and I did Social Studies & he got to learn about the Constitution. We had a lot of fun yesterday. Both f the boys are doing really good in school and I have noticed they are learning a lot better at home than they were in school. They are able to take their time on the lesson and have someone explain it to them to where they can understand it. The other thing that the boys like is the fact we can take our own field trips to places like OMSI, the zoo, Kids Club, etc and they love that. Back when I was in school we went on field trips at least 4 or 5 field trips a year. Since the kids started public school they only went on 1 field trip & that was to the pumpkin patch, not even a place that is educational. Back when Neil and I were in school we would go to the zoo, OMSI, The Children's Museum, The Water Resource Center, places like that, plus we would go to the pumpkin patch as well. They love the fact that we can go on our own field trips and they also count towards their PE as well. I know a lot of people think that kids who are homeschooled don't have social interaction, but that's not true at all. We have outings that they do with K12 and meet kids in the area that homeschool as well. 

So as some people know, my youngest son, Aidan, is developmentally delayed. He will be 6 years old on November 28th, but he is mentally the age of a 2-3 year old. He was born at 36 weeks, now I know that some babies born a lot earlier and don't have problems, but each kid is different. Aidan now goes to physical therapy and will start speech therapy and occupational therapy. There is no guarantee that he will ever grow out of it, he may be like this for the rest of his life. Everyday is a struggle & a new challenge, but everyday also brings new goals & achievements. Neil and I also think that he has a form of Autism, but we have to get him tested for it first, but he does have signs of having Autism. He has been doing so good at physical therapy & is slowly catching up to where he needs to be age wise, but its going to take time for sure, but I know if we keep working hard we can do it and make it through all of this and get him up to where he needs to be. I am applying for disability for him, which he will for sure get.

I have been trying to clean the hotel room and get things ready to go be put into our storage unit, but it's been hard cause I also have no where to put anything at the moment. Literally everything that we own is in this hotel room, so we had to go and get a 5x5 storage unit because we basically live paycheck to paycheck. We lost everything and loosing everything is not easy on a person. We have one 5 drawer dresser that has Neil, Cheyanne, Matthew, Jackson & Aidan's clothes in it, all of my clothes are in a tub. Living out of a hotel is no where near easy and yes it sucks, but it's the only place that we can live right now since no one will take us in.