I (the Mom) am struggling and adjusting with my new life. Homeschooling with a new baby is sooo challenging. After twice or third trial, I gave up our scheduled HS routine - 10am in the morning with MFW-K and switched to child-led method. I am just trying to be realistic what we can achieve at this time.

I have to devote so much time to baby Chloe (7 weeks) during the day. Changing diapers every now and then, nursing every two or three hours (not to mention when the growth spurts happened), soothing the baby, and so on. My life is so unbalanced right now, I’m trying so hard to maintain every child’s routine. And I feel that Joel (or me) miss our HS routine. He kept asking, “Mom, let’s do school.” I don’t want Joel to be ‘left behind’, because I am focusing so much of my attention on baby Chloe.

But, thank God, the greatest advantages of homeschooling is the gift of freedom.

All we have to do is adjusting everything to our own family style. School environment at home just not for us. When I was feeding the baby, we all cuddled up on the bed and Joel would read a story for us. When I took the baby for a walk, we’d talk about the cars we met. Joel was learning to tell the area where a car registered from its license plate number. Joel also found his new interest on computer. Google Images, interactive learning CDs are his new friend, and he could take up to almost 2 hours playing with them. Pipo is one of his all-time favorite.

In short, we are (striving) continued living and learning, just like before. I just wish I could be more disciplined (and rise earlier!).