My husband has been working about 60 hour weeks, between his 2 jobs; he plans to be done with the 40-hr job in 2 weeks and take that last week to help me pack things up here. In discussing it over the weekend we've decided I should not pressure myself too much on the packing right now and focus on taking care of the kids and getting in full days of school while we can. We've had to do so much traveling over the past few months as we scoped out the possibility of this move; I realized the other day we have not had a full month of doing school since October!! 
Needless to say, we're behind where I wanted to be at this point in the school year. We do school year-round, and I try to build in and plan for plenty of short breaks; I plan for the guides to take us about 12 months, and right now we're looking at about 14 months for my older two kids and about 2 years for my Kinder guy.My Kindergartener is the source of my question tonight. We're just not getting his school in as completely as I know he needs.
There are way too many days that I have absolutely nothing left to give him and we do his phonics, handwriting, maybe math, and maybe a story (either from the History Box or Burgess book) and call it good. So, he's basically moving through the guide half speed. In some ways I'm perfectly okay with that-he'll still be in the age range for the guide next year (turning 7 in November) and I'm having a hard time keeping his attention when we try to do school. That last problem is what has me concerned, though. I'm noticing a poor attitude in general when it comes to school. He went from loving school to trying to get out of it. I mention school and he starts begging to not do all of it. He complains about the poems and activities, calling them "boring" or "for babies"; he completely zones out during the stories, and when we come back to do discussions he has nothing applicable to say because he wasn't listening to most of it. I feel my inconsistency with his schooling has been the biggest problem. If I could do everything with him every day he'd probably lose the idea that it was even an option to try to get out of it, and he would know that complaining wasn't going to get him anywhere; but I don't know how to handle the parts of the guide that he sees as babyish. I've been making him do them anyway, but they're half-hearted attempts with lots of eye rolling and slouching going on. And then time and energy-wise I'm just not sure how to accomplish all of it. I'm tied up with teaching Preparing and Beyond, and the 2-yr old terror in the house is making school of any sort very, very difficult. My late-night brain had this idea tonight that maybe I should combine him with his older brother, and then, he'd atleast be getting some consistent learning going on. My concerns with that are several. 1) His attention span can barely handle LHFHG. How could I expect to get through anything above that? 2)He places right in LHFHG. 3)My next older child is almost finishing Beyond; he'd have to be sitting in on Bigger, and that's going to require a lot of tweaking on my part, since skill-wise he's back in LHFHG (even though he'd be in the age range for the older guide.) On the flip side, I think he would do very well combined with his big brother. He loves to do anything and everything just like him; and I also think it would be a good thing for the older brother-with a chance for confidence building and helpful competition eventually. (I once tried combining the older brother with my oldest dd and that was not helpful for anyone involved; but I do think ds could work well with his younger brother.) I know academically-speaking he's best served by staying in LHFHG, but I'm having a big problem juggling 3 guides and a toddler terror. Any advice?
Thanks, Becky
and I pray that the Lord will give you wisdom and His grace will be sufficient for you to get through this time, feeling accomplished and not feeling condemned if you are not able to do school every day 