Worldschooling
Scariest moment on our trip 😬: the moment I hit SEND 👇🏻💻 on the email to Olivia’s school stating that we would officially be unenrolling.
Up until this exact moment, we had been (somewhat) committed to the idea of taking one year off from traditional schooling and homeschooling instead — but I was still very nervous if it was the right decision or not!?
I had started doing my homeschool research a couple of weeks before remote learning began, preparing for what I felt was coming. It was an intuition hit ✨ that I could feel, but wasn’t ready to act on.
Instead, we gave remote learning a shot and after one week of online Olivia came to me asking for another way to learn. I felt it was the only sign I needed to give homeschooling a shot.
It felt odd at first, probably mostly for mama (hello 16 years of traditional schooling over here 🙋🏻♀️) but it brought so much ease and joy into our household right away.
Our mornings went from struggling to get online, frustrated and irritated with one another, to free flowing and peaceful.
A couple more weeks passed and we were off on a vacation we planned months prior — unintentionally throwing ourselves into a trial worldschooling trip — a term I had learned about (and daydreamed/obsessed about doing) over a year ago after we lost our son, Ben.
Confirmation that we are all on a journey, revealing ✨ itself to us one step 👣 at a time.
Fast forward to this moment, and I was finally ready to hit SEND 📧. I knew this email was overdo, but still I felt myself hit the button with my heart beating and one eye open.
Moments later we decided to put our learning materials down and explore instead. We landed here at #waterfrontparksandiego and spent the afternoon laughing, running, jumping, and free.
We don’t have a “plan” as to how long we will homeschool, how often we will worldschool, or what this version of our lives will look like, but we’re listening. ❤️✨