When I first started this journey I had planned on trying to blog about the experience at least every other week.  Well since it has been so long since I posted anything you can all see how well that plan worked.  Plans well if I have learned anything about schooling your children virtually it is that you have to have a plan.  And a backup plan and another plan just in case plan A and plan B fail.  You see it is a great opportunity in a perfect world.  But as we all know we do not live in a perfect world.

        Some of the things that can just cause havoc on our weeks are the same as when we attended brick and mortar schools such as doctor appointments or repairman calls.  However what you do not think about is that the house next door is having several furniture deliveries so the dogs are barking like crazy so school is a little hard to focus on when you have Fido wanting you to let him in and out all day.  Or my favorite was at the holidays I was doing a lot of baking and my child informed me that it was not his fault he couldn’t focus it was mine for not having an exhaust fan on scents from the oven.

        So in the perfect world there are days we must have the entire house be silent for the focus to be there.  Then the most wonderful thing in the world happened at the start of 8^th grade our child fell in love with his teachers.  Gone were the battles of doing your work.  This was a joyous occasion to say the least.  We were shocked at first and kept waiting for the novelty to wear off.  Our child has ADHD so sticking with things was a new concept.  However before we knew it was Christmas time and the report card was a field of A’s.  Now don’t get me wrong I have always known my son was smart (even when he didn’t act that way) but to see the proof, tangible proof on a report card, well it just about made this mom cry.