Pass the Waldorf
Well we canceled our interview at the Waldorf School. I'm not sure how sad I am about it yet. The bottom line is it is $5200 a year to send The Son to a 3 day a week program there for preschool. His current co-op is $130 a month and that is quite a difference. Not to mention that the Waldorf school is 30 minutes away and the co-op is 12 minutes away. I'm feeling all these doors shutting for his education... I don't know what to do. The schools I like are impossible to get into, the schools I like that I could get into are either astronomically expensive or too far away. Homeschooling is still a possibility although I really don't think I can do it if I'm working and right now it looks like I'm working.
Tonight we're having my best friend's family and J's family over for dinner. I usually iron my placemats and either find a flower from my garden with a long stem to use to "tie" the napkins or I place the napkins over a bowl and use a gardenia in the center of it. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have any blooms in my yard :( so now I have to come up with something for the table. The Husband says I shouldn't bother because these are just my friends but it is important to me. I'm making creamy tomato soup (no dairy) and a summer vegetable frittata. I love having friends over.
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This is when it would be useful to know how to make flowers out of vegetables, like they do in some Chinese resturants. I KWYM about the napkins, but I'm not too fussed about flowers. As long as there is a bottle of wine around, it's fine! Oh, and my house *has* to be tidy!
Do you know, the only thing I've found that actually works about deciding what to do about anything ... Is first deciding what I *want*. Not what I'll settle for, because that's never what I want, but what I really, really want. And then I just work out a way to work towards what I want.
I found that useful when deciding what to do about Orion's schooling. He's 5 now, and we checked out the local alternative school and it looked good and he wanted to go... But I just couldn't do it. The thought of it just felt *wrong*. Not to mention all the time involved with having to be somewhere 5 days a week with dropping him off and picking him up. After all this time working towards a flexible lifestyle (ie own business, working from home) having to fit in with a timetable 5 days a week, it was just icky.
So, as you may have gathered, I'm working, DH works, but we split our working time. We're slowly building up links to the homeschooling community in Sydney so that Orion can have a peer group. I want to live this way so that we can do the ultimate of living in several places (one of my goals), and not being tied to a school makes that possible.
Anyway, my advice is - work out what you *want*. And then go from there.
Posted by: Lucyna | April 14, 2002 5:19 AM