One year ago, Nathan was a fifth-grader in the public school around the corner from our house, loving the kids and his teachers, and I was scrambling to prepare Sarah Kate for college. I was also working part-time as a freelancer from home and my days were…comfortable. As I shared last week, in August the Delta variant of COVID hit our community right as the school year was about to begin and we threw on the brakes, switching Nathan to virtual school at the very last minute, and then pulling him out altogether when, a few weeks in, I realized that virtual school wasn’t going to work for him.
My days are quite a bit busier now – Sarah Kate did leave for college but I still have my freelancing gig – but over the past several months we’ve managed to work out most of the kinks and create a new rhythm. I’ll walk you through a typical day homeschooling my son with Down syndrome.
