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Month: March 2020

This is NOT homeschooling

Posted on March 30, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

I’ve heard a lot about how we are becoming a nation of homeschoolers. But, as someone who deliberately chose to homeschool her children for seven years, I don’t believe that is what is happening here. We are a nation of people who are schooling at home, yes, but we are schooling to someone else’s requirements….

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Letting Go

Posted on March 27, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

I feel like I should be better at this quarantine thing. It’s not like I don’t have experience homeschooling or living like a hermit. I’ve done both, extensively. I guess it is the unexpected nature of this experience that is throwing me for a loop. The unexpected nature, and the end of the world aspect….

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Today I Ventured Out

Posted on March 26, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

Today was my errand day. Usually it is a chance to get out of the house and see what exactly is going on in the world. I almost always have a child with me and we always hit the library. I went alone and the library is still closed. I hope that they open up…

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Random Bits of thoughts

Posted on March 25, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

One of the first rules of homeschooling a group of children is that one of you will be having a bad day. Every day. Without fail. The second is that everyone will need to change their clothes COMPLETELY at least once, if not twice a day. I don’t understand how, with all of us hunkered…

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I guess this is life now

Posted on March 24, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

Yesterday the governor of Virginia closed the schools for the rest of the school year. Not only that, but they closed ALL businesses where you cannot maintain a distance of six feet – basically all personal care businesses – salons, dentists, chiropractors, etc. It seems utterly insane to do this without an economic plan in…

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Schools are Closed

Posted on March 23, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

Holy Mother. Our governor has just closed all schools for the rest of the school year. I’m not even sure how to process this. And, I’m not sure what this means for my high schooler. Or what this might mean for our potential move. I just can’t even…

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Puzzling

Posted on March 21, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

I feel like a bit of an internet cliche, but here we are. Four of the six of us have really been getting into puzzles since we’ve been home during our “quarantine.” We put this puzzle together on Thursday night and Friday. Thursday night I made analog night – no devices, no tv, no movies,…

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Quarantine, one week in

Posted on March 20, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

It seems that everyone has more time due to the quarantine and forced social distancing. It’s not that way for me. My life goes on. Still the same, but now complicated by the fact that my three older children are home. One is in high school and has been in contact with his teachers, one…

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How’s Your Quarantine?

Posted on March 19, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

I’m not going to lie. I’m frazzled. As I alluded to in the previous post, I am a person who makes rules for myself. I don’t make a lot, because I want to keep them all. But, I make them. And, the thing is, to make rules is to assume a certain order. Order has…

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Breaking Free

Posted on March 16, 2020February 1, 2021 by Gwen Shaneck

Last week, seems like ages ago now, I was thinking about rules. My rules. The rules I make for myself. The rules I live by. I always imaged that everyone did this. But, my husband doesn’t. Why would anyone else? On Gretchen Rubin’s personality quiz, I’m a questioner, which makes sense. It also makes sense…

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