So, we are making some big changes around here.
The boys are officially homeschooled.
I decided to homeschool the boys for several reasons and yesterday was their very last
day of public school.
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We are heading to Medford right now because we're going car shopping!
We have to get a second car, especially because I'm going to be homeschooling the boys.
The boys still want to do their instruments.
Blaine does trumpet and Merrick does violin and they're allowed to keep doing that at
their schools which means that they have to be at school everyday for their band classes.
And Merrick is going to start taking acting classes starting in January and the acting
classes are all the way in Ashland every Friday, so we need a car.
We're looking for an SUV and that is what we're going to find right now.
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Alright, we're gonna test drive this soccer mom van.
What do you think about it?
Ya ya ya ya.
Yea?
Raya likes the van.
Oh, she kicked her shoe off she liked it so much.
Now the reason we're looking at mini vans right now is because our price range is really low.
Like, we just HAVE to have a second car so we don't have a lot of time to save up money
so we don't have a lot of money to spend and our options are limited.
Literally, there's like, just a few cars that we can look at in our price range, so..
We're driving! *gasp*
Yeaaa.
Raya does this thing now where she gasps.
Shes like, "Gasp!*
Where we going?
*gasping and laughing*
I think we're gonna go back and get the first vehicle we looked at because
the van that we just test drove had a weird rattle to it and the lights, when it would
sit in idle, they would kinda flicker and there was just some weird things that we didn't
like about it, so we're gonna go with the SUV.
Plus the SUV was cheaper anyway.
Alright, here it is.
I am driving my new car home.
That feels so weird to say.
It's so weird that we just woke up this morning and went out and bought a vehicle!
Look how beautiful!
The fog and the mountains, I love it.
Here's our new vehicle Mer-bijer.
What do you think of it?
(Blaine: I think it's pretty cool.)
Look,
There's a picnic table in this car.
What?
There's a picnic table in this car.
There?
Nope.
Ta-da!
There is it.
See the legs on it?
Take it out.
(Blaine: Did you get that for free?)
It came with the car.
And this car is an automatic, which is not the best thing in my opinion but it's ok.
It'll take some getting use to.
And it's all wheel drive so we can take it on back roads and, yea it's a honda, and we
can go on some of the tiny roads that we could not take the Fiesta on.
So, we can get to some of the trails that we've always wanted to go hiking on but never
could before.
And the heat and air works in it pretty well.
It was toasty on the way back home.
Here it is.
Kinda boxy.
We were just skyping with my mom and Raya was so cute, she was touching the screen.
She was really confused how we were talking to a screen, I guess.
Is that Nonna?
Na na na na.
"She's saying "na na na na" and pushing, pointing.
I'm about to take Blaine to a friend's house so I'm thinking I'm gonna take Keira with
us because Keira never gets to ride in the car and now that we have that car we can take
her.
Alright Keira, go on.
Keira come here.
Uh!
She doesn't understand.
*Laughing*
What a wussy dog!
What, we gotta get you a ramp? Come on!
I think you'll have to pick her up and toss her in.
Oh, come here.
Oh my gosh, that is so funny.
We're all in the car together for the first time!
Raya's wanting Keira.
Keira!
What's happening?
Raya wants to pet Keira so bad.
Hey boys, how much room do you have back there with the car seat?
A lot more room.
You have a lot more room?
A lot more room than last time.
And this is open so we can actually put stuff right here.
Oh yea, you've got a lot more foot space?
It feels so weird with us all being in the car at the same time, doesn't it boys?
Like, with Keira in the car too.
We can go places now and take Keira with us without having to board her.
So it will actually be cheaper for us to take trips now.
We're taking Blaine to drop him off at a friend's house.
He's gonna stay the night there and his friend has a cool view of Grants Pass, so we're heading
up a hill.
I'll show you the view when we get to the top.
We're putting the new car to the test.
We're going up these hills.
Alright, here is the view.
It's Grants Pass.
It looks a lot cooler at night 'cause you can see all the lights.
Come on Merrick, let's go.
Well, we are at home now.
I wanted to tell you a few reasons that we've decided to do homeschooling.
The biggest reason is our lifestyle because we do not eat animals and public school kind
of pushes animal products onto the kids.
Like, Blaine had a science class where they did an experiment and the kids had to eat
gummies but the gummies had gelatin so he couldn't participate.
So he just had to sit there for an hour not doing the science experiment with the other kids,
And Merrick had a nutrition class that he did not like at all, he came home complaining
about it and we started thinking about homeschooling after that.
But then I was pushed over the edge last week when Merrick received a writing assignment
that was "Imagine you are a turkey the day before Thanksgiving".
So like, how morbid can you get?
Seriously.
Even if you're not a vegetarian or vegan, like how can you write that story without
it being about death or trying to avoid death or killing or death in some way because you're
a turkey before Thanksgiving, so I found it extremely morbid and I told Merrick he did
not have to write that, do that assignment because it was completely against our morals.
Merrick's a really good kid, he can't just not do a writing assignment so he attempted
to write the story.
It was about a turkey who's friends and family were all being shot and killed and the turkey
was hiding and trying to fight his tears and it was just a really really sad and depressing
story.
So he didn't finish writing it and I talked to his teacher and she excused him from the
writing assignment, but after that happened I was just like, you know what? Let go for it.
Lets just jump into it and do this whole homeschool thing because I think it could be beneficial
in a lot of ways.
Not just our lifestyle, but education and learning in general.
Blaine's a really slow learner and he's failing all of his classes and he's been failing all
of his classes for years and he's not learning anything because he's always falling behind
He only gets moved up because of his age and they don't want to hold him back anymore.
If it doesn't work out, like we'll try it for the rest if the year or something and
if it doesn't work out I told them that they can go back to public school.
This was also their choice, not just mine so we're all trying it out to see how it goes,.
And, wish us luck!
Also if you have any advice for us about new homeschoolers starting out, because I know
some of you homeschool also and I am open to advice 'cause I really don't know what
I'm doing at all.
I grew up in public school, my kids have grown up in public schools, I mean up until this
point and I have never saw myself..
I've never even considered homeschooling at all, so this is completely new to me.
Anyway, I am gonna go ahead and end this video.
Thank you for watching.
See ya.
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