{"id":1086,"date":"2016-01-14T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/a-walk-in-the-park-2.html"},"modified":"2016-01-14T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:26:00","slug":"a-walk-in-the-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/a-walk-in-the-park-2.html","title":{"rendered":"A walk in the park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So today I took the boys out, just to stretch and get out of the house.\u00a0 Homeschool is the best and worst of times.\u00a0 We signed them up for some online classes, and those have been nothing short of a nightmare.\u00a0 Mostly owing to connection and compatibility issues, they\u2019ve fallen behind and are struggling just to survive.\u00a0 For boys who have spent their lives in public, private and homeschool earning As and an occasional B, barely surviving goes down hard.\u00a0 Especially when it hasn\u2019t been their fault.\u00a0 Most of it.\u00a0 I admit, they\u2019ve become discouraged and keeping them focused hasn\u2019t been easy.\u00a0 We\u2019re praying that the school continues to work with us and give us a third or fourth chance, though as one teacher has said, they don\u2019t have to.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll see.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Sadly, that has come to dominate this school year, with their other courses almost being swallowed up in the chaos.\u00a0 With the frantic nature of online courses and the pace that accompanies them anyway, add to that the myriad problems we\u2019ve encountered (and not all of it has been on our side, a couple of the issues early on were on the school\u2019s side), and their other courses have almost been \u2018do what you have to so we can get back to troubleshooting the online courses\u2019.\u00a0 I especially hate it because this is my Junior\u2019s year to focus on Medieval studies and Medieval literature: my favorites; dare I say, my specialty. <\/p>\n

Anyhoo, with all the chaos, stress and mad dashes for survival, I felt a little chance to get out and breath some air (and get some movies and books with gift cards from Christmas) might be in order.\u00a0 The movies will keep us busy: The Lion in Winter, Blade Runner, Red Dawn <\/em>(the original), The Heiress, The Martian, The Killing Fields<\/em> and a season of Dr. Who<\/em> (for the middle boys).\u00a0 I proudly say I picked out Red Dawn<\/em> and The Killing Fields<\/em>, but\u00a0the rest were their ideas. Then it was off to Highbanks Park to take in God\u2019s side of the art world.\u00a0 There is something about looking out on wooded hills in the snow that always evokes; I get all Robert Frost and a bit melancholy, thinking of those days of old, trudging through landscapes like that, rabbit hunting\u00a0with Dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Whose woods these are I think I know\u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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I could listen to water trickling through broken ice all day long<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Sunset and snow, a great combination<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Frozen waterfalls are never not awesome<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The boys.\u00a0 The snowing afternoon.\u00a0 2016. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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