This will be the best year yet.

This is one of my thoughts I'm trying to hold onto this year: "This will be the best year yet." My brain doesn't want to accept it completely with all of the evidence I'm seeing to the contrary. The Pandemic, the Election, the Education System, and my expectations are all playing a role in how my brain should definitely reject this thought.

I'm pro-Public School. I've never liked thinking outside the box when it comes to schooling. I've always supplemented and mentored my children's education from home but I've never considered keeping them home full-time. This year is different. This year, in some form or another, 4 out of 5 of my kids will be doing online school. I know I'm not alone.

My thought when we figured out this plan for school was "This is going to be virtually impossible." How will my children get the best education and become well-rounded individuals virtually? Covid has stomped all over my expectations for this year.

But I quickly realized those thoughts would not serve me. And I was willing to recognize that I could even be wrong in my thinking.

"This will be the best year yet."

What if this thought were true?

What if doing Virtual School for the indefinite future would actually be the best education I could offer my children?

What if worrying about how I would help socialize them would lead them to better socialization than any other year?

What if my children would be smarter at the end of this school year?

What if I would be a better mother?

What if my kids would be better humans?

What if what feels like a virtually impossible year would actually be VIRTUALLY POSSIBLE?

Join me this year as we make this the best year yet.

Virtual Hugs,

Shae