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My son and I were supposed to start yesterday, but it snowed so I let him have the day off. He spent it outside sledding with the neighbors. So today was our first official day back with HOD. We both loved it! I am so glad to be back! I know it was only the first day so some of it is the newness, but Samuel had a blast. He kept telling me over and over how fun school was and how he was so glad we switched. He was his old happy, loving to learn self that I had been missing. It was great confirmation for me that I made the right decision to bring back his love of learning. Even doubling up on the Beyond plans (adding our own math & apologia science) we were done in 3 hours. I couldn't believe it! Of course we didn't have any big projects or experiments today so I could see it going longer if that was the case, but that is so much better than the 6-7 hours our old stuff was taking.

I realized just a few minutes ago that our schooling before had thrown our whole day off balance. I always felt stressed and like I was way behind not just in school, but in everything. Today we got up, did school, I got some cleaning done, made it to the grocery store and ran a couple of errands and still have time to be here on the computer for a few minutes before starting dinner. It is such a change of pace from before and I can see this bringing peace and balance not just to our school time, but to our daily activities as well!

Yay!!! So happy you had a great first day!

That is awesome. My kids also love school with HOD too. And I even though my day doesn't take forever, I feel like they really do learn a lot in the time frame that we do school.

So glad your first day went well!!! My kiddos are in Unit 20 in LHTH and LHFHG and we had a great day today as well! No one complained about anything and they did all their work cheerfully. I really do LOVE HOD and am so glad the Lord lead me here

That's how we've felt going back. My boy is about the same age as yours, I think. This is the happiest he's been with school for a while.

Hooray!

I have been spoiled with HOD. Right now, with 3 guides and a 1YO, if school takes 4-4 1/2 hours for all of them, I should be pretty happy with that but sometimes I am not.

Thanks for sharing your joy with us.

HOORAY! Congrats on an awesome first day with Beyond!!!

In Christ,
Julie