Happy New Year!

Do you have resolutions? Every year I make this list of things I want to accomplish. I don’t think about it again until about July, and then the week of Christmas I get weirded-out because I haven’t accomplished the things on my New Year’s resolutions.

One thing I really need to put on my list and actually take care of is re-evaluating my homeschooling. I know this is something that is on a lot of homeschool parent’s list of things to do at the new year.

Whether you are unschooling, or a strict curriculum driven homeschooling, there is just something about this fresh start of the year that makes you want to evaluate what worked last semester, and what didn’t.

So, what am I re-evaluating about our homeschooling? Well, to start with, we need a better schedule. My daughter is a night owl, she has ADHD, and she has a sleep disorder, which means sometimes she doesn’t sleep for days on end. This seriously causes havoc with getting up and getting started in the mornings. To add to that problem, I work late at night, and it is hard for me to get up in the early mornings as well.

My plan is to slowly back our schedules up, so that we get up a little earlier, and go to bed a little earlier. I would love to say we were going to be up by 8am and finished school by noon, but that is just going to make us both frustrated. Instead, I want to make sure we are up, functional, and starting school by 10:30am or so, and be done with school by 3pm.

This would allow me to still work at night, get school done, and maybe even get a little house organization going before dinner time. We are looking at being able to “retire” to the homestead this year some time, and that house organization is going to be a vital part of getting us out of our current house, and into a smaller one.

I would love to hear what your lists, resolutions, and changes in direction you are dealing with, here at the beginning of the year. Please share!