9.22.2011

Aloha to the Sunflower State

Just a quick note to let everyone (all 3 of you!) know that we are still alive and kicking. Even though it's almost the end of September, we've not yet started our school year. The Army decided it was time for us to leave the Rock and move to the absolute center of the continental United States. The Sunflower state. About as far away from the ocean as is humanly possible while still being in the U.S. After 30+ days of visiting, traveling, and house-hunting, we are about settled in. Well, we have a house. No stuff to go IN it just yet but we have a house.


The wonderful thing about this move (well, there are MANY wonderful things about this move...and many not-so-wonderful things about this move but that's a different post for a different blog) is that, because we homeschool, we are not under the same time-constraints as public-schooled families. There was no rush to find a house in a "good school district" because we ARE the school district. And, if our house-hunting had gone on for months like it did when we moved to Hawaii in 2005, it would have been ok because we have our school books with us and could have started whenever we needed to. There was also little pressure to begin because both The Boy and The Girl are ahead in just about every subject.


So we will begin on October 3. The state we are living in requires that we register as a "non-accredited private school" and that we also name said "non-accredited private school" (or N.A.P.S., if you prefer). After much debate and some funny suggestions, we settled on the name "La'iki Puka Pa Academy". "La'iki Puka Pa" means "narrow gate" in Hawaiian. You can read Matthew 4:17 for the Biblical reference. I love that it combines both the biblical reference as well as Hawaiian words. And I love that no one at the DOE for this state will get what it means. I'm ok with that!


Once we get settled in our house and get internet set up, I'll post about our choices of curricula and how I see our upcoming year going.




Pau.




- hfs