Homeschooling with a chronic illness is more about what don't do, than what I do, do.
I sit in a chair and we read together. ...and then they go off and do the rest of their schoolwork.
We don't go on many field trips....
We don't belong to any homeschooling co-ops...
We don't have the kids in any sports (because mama's too tired and ill to drive during the kiddie sports happy hour time of day)...
Dad helps out with taking them to scouting activities when I am too sick. Dad takes them door to door for fundraisers. (Mom sews the badges onto their vests. )
And my oldest DOES do volunteer work at the local Public Library a couple of times a week.
We don't have warm cozy friendships where we get together with lifelong friends on a regular basis...at least not since we moved.
But we DO learn sacrificial LOVE together, in the context of our various illnesses. And we DO go to Church, and we DO pray together.
I sit in a chair and we read together. ...and then they go off and do the rest of their schoolwork.
We don't go on many field trips....
We don't belong to any homeschooling co-ops...
We don't have the kids in any sports (because mama's too tired and ill to drive during the kiddie sports happy hour time of day)...
Dad helps out with taking them to scouting activities when I am too sick. Dad takes them door to door for fundraisers. (Mom sews the badges onto their vests. )
And my oldest DOES do volunteer work at the local Public Library a couple of times a week.
We don't have warm cozy friendships where we get together with lifelong friends on a regular basis...at least not since we moved.
But we DO learn sacrificial LOVE together, in the context of our various illnesses. And we DO go to Church, and we DO pray together.
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