Homeschool Co-op

At the beginning of the year we joined a homeschool co-op. It meets once a week for three hours and is pretty laid back. They do a brief opening exercise, then an hour of art, a 30 minute snack/recess, and an hour of some other topic. L's class is doing fairy tales. H is in preschool, and P and J are both in nursery, where I am the "teacher". They also do a field trip once a month. So far we like it. Most of the families are LDS and all of them seem pretty nice. So far the field trips have been a trip to the Puyallup fish hatchery in January, and this week we went to the Boom Shaka Olympia trampoline place, where the kids had a lot of fun. I was a little wary since a former ward member very recently broke his neck at a trampoline place and is now quadriplegic. :( It's very sad. I don't love spending a couple hundred more on homeschool, but I do love that my kids get to be around other kids their ages, since I'm so introverted I am very bad at arranging playdates and whatnot.

We also recently went up to the ski hill for a free snowboarding clinic for kids. H is a natural but he was very wary and stopped his lesson early. L was eating a lot of snow but had a lot of fun. Taking 4 kids skiing is exhausting!