New things to come in the New Year, 2010. New Phone Consultation scheduling options and Web Based Workshops !

This year I am going to be looking at adding Web based Workshops for my clients, and their referrals. It will allow those of you who are my clients who are miles and miles from my home where I hold my regular workshops to attend the workshops I offer.

There will be unlimited seating for the "Is Sonlight Right for You?" workshop as always. The more the merrier.

There will be LIMITED seating for the "Choosing and Planning" workshop as always. This workshop requires a much deeper thought, and more questions are needed to be answered, and therefore I feel it is a much richer experience for all attending if there are only a maximum of 8, same as the face to face workshop I hold in my home.

The "12 Ways to Get your Year Started Right with Sonlight" workshop. This workshop I am still trying to figure out how to handle. There are typically about 40-50 in attendance and this is a wonderful way to network with other Sonlight parents too, so that element of this workshop will be missed in a web based workshop.

That being said, I may ask someone to come and help me with doing the presentation on the web, as I am hosting the 'live' workshop so that those who are not close enough to attend this workshop in person, will be able to attend it all the same via the web based workshop. So there might be a small fee for those attending this workshop via the web, because I will need to pay the 'monitor' for their time to help me.

There is also another feature that I have already added to my 2010 year! That is the "Book Now" feature that you will find in the upper right corner of this blog site. That is so that you can schedule your phone consultation on your own, without us doing the email tag to figure out when we are each available. Each consultation will schedule for 30 minutes. As always, my preference for the Consultations is 9:00 pm. The reason is that both your family and mine will be in bed so we can each talk without interruptions.

Fall of 2009 - One to remember

It seems, when homeschooling, there will be times that try your patience and your well laid out plans and schedules. We moms need to remember to breathe during those times, and pray. God will bless!

For us the challenge began in September. It started on the 13th of September with me. I got an abscess and also found out that I had a bone infection and was to be on bed rest. It can be challenging to homeschool when the teacher is on bed rest. But it is doable. But may mean getting a bit off schedule.

Then September 19th came. At about 6:15p.m. our son got 'rolled up' in a football tackle after he had just planted his foot and got his tibia broke at the bottom, through the growth plate, in 3 places. Doing school while on pain meds doesn't lead to a great retention of what is read.

He was in pain for a time, and then had surgery to put screws in and then more pain. He was just released yesterday, to jump and run again, AFTER the therapist deems his muscles have regained their strength. It is amazing how much muscle tone and strength is gone in such a relatively short period of time.

Because of the meds with the surgery, his immune system is down and he has been sick twice since. WOW is it hard to get school done with all of this going on.

But still we trudge on. Hoping to get in the information that we need to get in before the end of our school year. Did I add in there that he is 14.... Need I say anymore? Where did his focus go?

Even though these trials have come before us this fall, we still move forward, and lean on God, and give it all up in prayer to God. Still we have bonding with family with homeschool no matter what the trial. We also have the ability to school in between all of the issues, getting more done than we give credit to. We as moms, just need to remember to breathe, and know that even though our best laid out schedules aren't followed to a T, that we are still doing good by our children. We are building positive relationships, and growing children for God. And we are giving them great education.

For all of this that has happened in our lives this fall, I would be lost without Sonlight and the well laid out plans that we have. Without those plans, our fall would have been much different.

If you are struggling in scheduling, research and pulling together homeschool materials for your family please contact me and we can talk about how Sonlight would fit in your family schedule and life. It has helped me in a variety of different life challenges throughout the years, and has helped me be successful in homeschooling and has allowed us to complete the homeschool tasks we have set out to fulfill.

Email me at lwoodley@sonlight.com and we can set up a consultation time.
May God richly bless you.
In Christ, Lynn