Finally able to blog again..............

I have been out of the loop because over Christmas sweet Ben tripped over the laptop and broke it. I finally got it fixed!
What's new? Well, this.....Jeff and I had been talking about whether me home schooling Ben was still what was best for him. I was having a hard time figuring out exactly what to do next with him and he was starting to really cause problems with Aiden and his friends.
Ben was starting fights with Aiden's friends and they were not wanting to stick around to take the abuse. I realized he was jealous because he doesn't have friends of his own. I realized that as much as we do with people outside of our house, none of the people that we spend time with are just Ben's friends.
I made phone calls and found out more about what our neighborhood's school offered Ben considering his age and English capabilities. Soooo...Ben started 1st grade at our public school yesterday. He was on cloud nine last night telling me about 3 boys that he was playing with. One of them read to him in the reading club house in their classroom. He talked more yesterday than he had in weeks. He was so happy. His sweet teacher is a Christian woman who was so thrilled to have him. I am very excited for him. I was worried that he would be giant compared to all of the other kids but fortunately there are a couple that are his size. This is working out better than I could have imagined. So far anyway.
I let Aiden go as well because Ben was so afraid to go alone and Aiden has always wanted to go to Walker Creek with his friends in the neighborhood. At first he said that he did not want to go but I think he realized how scared Ben was to go alone. I was proud of him because he made a choice that was for Ben rather than himself.
Is this my first choice? Not really, not because of anything that anyone at the school has done, they seem great. It's not my first choice because of how fantastic home school was. I loved it and the kids did too. We may go back to home school next year, depending on the boys and how this goes..................