School Started

School has started! It's going to be a busy year as Ezra and Isaac get used to doing their schoolwork again. Job will continue his pre-med education with, apparently, some tutoring on animals from Isaac prior to his upcoming "internship" at the hospital.

We've been working throughout the month of August with a soft start on our curriculum, but it's always a bit of a shock to get used to the new school year and I'm a bit apprehensive about the transition for Ezra and Isaac in particular.



We're homeschooling for many reasons, but our extracurriculars (like co-op and Sunday School and BSF) start on Monday. It's hard to move to new classrooms and teachers and be held to a regular schedule, but to do so with the added emotional context of your little brother in and (hopefully) recovering from surgery and your parents not totally present?

I know we'll make it through, but I don't anticipate it being easy.

Complicating everything is our roller coaster of emotions. Every morning we wake up and announce how many days are left until the Glenn (only 10!). We wonder, daily, if Job can make it 12 more days, 11 more days, 10 more days...

He needs this surgery so desperately! But taking him in and giving him up to, well, be sliced open, is a difficult task. I know that we have no choice, but it's hard. Really hard some days, some hours.