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We have now been home schooling for 2 weeks and I think things are going quite well. Serenity is happy and learning constantly. She is also enjoying the ability to stay up later and sleep in late in the morning. I think that is a good thing too. :-)

The local school principal is still a bit unclear on the concept and has been calling both Lora and I on the phone trying to figure out what we are doing. She can't seem to find Serenity School listed on the State of California's web site, well neither can I for that matter. That is not a big surprise though, we are talking about a government agency after all!

So, we are going to send the principal a copy of the Private School Affidavit that Lora filed two weeks ago. That should take care of things I think. If not we have the help of the California Homeschool Network to fall back on. It really is annoying that the state, and those who work for the state, have the idea that all children belong to them and that we need their permission to teach them at home, it's just absurd.

This week Serenity and I went to two different "Park Days" coordinated by Tri-Valley Explorers. On Wednesday we went to the one in Danville, but that one won't really work for us much because I work every other Wednesday, we went just because it was sunny out :-) Then we went to one in Livermore on Thursday that I imagine we will be going to most every week from now on, that one is held indoors on cold wet days and in a nearby park on nice days. Serenity had a good time at both places so we may end up going to Danville on occasion as well as Livermore. At Livermore yesterday Serenity attached herself to the oldest kid there, a 13 year old boy who treated her with care and patient attention, it was amazing ;-)

So, that is our report for the week, we are enjoying this immensely!

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