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love, mom

Do you think they knew it’s my birthday?

No?

Whatever.

I choose to believe that the fact that the new Where the Wild Things Are movie opens on my birthday is a personal present to me.

Because I love that book.

And because I live with wild things.

When it comes to school, I am very fortunate in two ways: 1 – that we live in a state where I can both homeschool and still take my kids to elective classes at the public school, and 2 – that I live in a school district where I’d actually want to take my homeschooled kids to elective classes at the public school. With that in mind, we spend a lot of time working our schedule around the school’s schedule for things like P.E., Art, Band…  not to mention a good chunk of time in the car every day getting to said classes and back.

Which is why Mondays are so special. On Mondays, my youngest does not have any classes at the public school. And because I think there should be some cozy benefits to homeschooling – at least few totally non-academic, kid-pleasing perks that make their public school friends instantly envious when they learn of them – we have decreed that every Monday is Pajama Day.

It works for us.