This year my goal is to find McKayla some joy. Just a little bit. I’m happy with a small tiny little corner of joy, really anything. She is so sad and despondent about being homeschooled. Her biggest complaint is the lack of social interaction. She misses her friends. I don’t know how she can possibly miss them when she talks to them all afternoon long and she sees them a couple times a week.
I’m respecting her supposed lonliness. I’m trying hard to help her make connections within the homeschool community and with other kids her age. I signed her up for tennis. We are participating in homeschool softball. She goes to art class. I organized a movie night. I joined a support group. I take her and her friends to youth group. We are dragging her to the Civil Air Patrol. I’m barely leading a girl scout troop. This is a very busy little girl.
Last month one of the mom’s offered a Cake Decorating class. $10 for 4 weeks of cake decorating classes. I signed her up. Who doesn’t like cake? I love cake. Today was the first day of class. We trekked to the lady’s house. I dropped her off and wished her well. They were making a bathtub cake.
McKayla’s didn’t turn out quite so well.
“Well, it’s not like we were going to take pictures and publish it in a magazine. We’re just going to eat it,” McKayla laughed.
It wasn’t a total loss. She did have a great time. She came home with great stories, a couple possible friendships and some interesting tips. Like, if the frosting is the correct consistency you should be able to turn the bowl upside down and the frosting shouldn’t fall out of the bowl. The decorating mom was much braver than I, she had all of the girls try it. They all failed miserably, there was lots of frosting on the floor.
The brightest side: We all had cake for dessert.
The best tasting desserts aren’t usually the pretty ones!
You could always let me teach her some of my more esoteric skillz. ;o)
Four younger brother’s does make for good training to be a heavy fighter. Not sure I’d let her take her practice swords home though…
Wow I wished we lived closer i LOVE cake
Mom