The New School

My children have mixed feelings about me right now. Most of them like me, but one of them doesn't like me that much. It's OK. I know she'll get over it.

My husband and I made a big decision this year. We decided (for a variety of reasons) to send our children to a Christian school instead of keeping them in the public school system. We made this decision for a lot of reasons, and each child has a supporting reason for benefiting from a Christian school.

My three-year-old is a genius. He's really smart for his age, and we wanted to get him into some type of preschool program. We considered Head Start, but then we decided to look into a new school that was opening up in Horseheads, New York. Foundations Christian School. He's really excited about starting school like his big brothers and his big sister. He likes me.

My ten-year-old is going into the sixth grade this year. He has had a problem with getting bullied in school for the past few years. I'm not sure what it is, but many of the boys in his class picked on him, and he got his glasses broken more than once by mean kids in school. As a result of the bullying, most of his friends in school are girls, which is OK, but we want him to have friends who are boys. He's really happy about the new school, and he likes me too.

My daughter is the one who isn't really thrilled with me.

She is thirteen (almost fourteen), and she'll be in ninth grade. She will be the only ninth grader in the new school. This has her pretty upset, as you can imagine. Her social life is very important to her, and it's bothering her that she won't have that as much at her new school. Her friends from middle school look really attractive to her right now, however I'm remembering the drama she went through every day when "Sarah" wasn't speaking to "Emma" and "Sarah" expected my daughter to take her side when she just wanted to be friends with both of them. It was a big mess. I'm also thinking about all of the bad choices and behaviors we had to correct last year. There were many of them.

So, she doesn't really like me much right now. However, my husband and I have given this a lot of thought, and we both feel that this is really the best thing for our family. We're trusting in God to provide us with the finances we need to make it happen, and I'm confident that it will be a great thing for all three of my children.

I do know that it will be very...different in my house while my kids are all in school all day long. Even so, it will be a great time for me to really dig into my writing. With so many interesting projects coming up, I can't wait to see what's in store for me when September gets here!