This week I am blogging from Richmond Virginia. The kids and I are traveling with my husband who works as an IT (Internet Technology) contractor. We wanted some extra time with him and a change of scenery as well. Since he travels quite a bit, homeschooling makes it easier for us to get quality time with him because we are not necessarily tied to a school year calendar.
Sure, the children and I have commitments that do not allow us to travel all of the time. There are arts and academic classes, which are important, and we hate to miss a class. Sometimes my personal workload does not allow it either. However, the classes are flexible, and end and start later than the standard school year. My work (as an artist and web content writer) is quite flexible as well. In addition, the children’s’ classes ended two weeks ago and we are currently reviewing the year’s curriculum before calling the 2006-2007 school year complete. This work can be done from anywhere we please.
My husband’s job takes him to lots of places. Some are fun, and some are boring (like where he has been for the last 6 months and still is now), but we still managed to find the children’s museum last time we were here, and are thinking about trekking over to Washington DC later this week.
It is great fun to be able to hop in the car with him on some of his business trips or to meet him at the tail end of a conference. In most cases, we just cancel a couple of appointments (though we try to take advantage of appointment-less weeks); grab our laptops, lessons, and go. Doing the same old stuff is a lot more fun when you are doing it from a different place. Homeschooling gives us a special advantage to enjoy a change of scenery often.
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*Want to know more about homeschooling? Start with the 2006 homeschool blog in review!