I have so much non-unschooling stuff swirling around in my head these days. It’s been hard to formulate much thought about our day-to-day.
I mean, the day-to-day is here. It’s in our faces. Right now, it happens to be quite stressful as we are getting ready to list our house for sale next week. For anyone who has sold a home, you’ll know that this means deep cleaning, final construction projects that have been put off forever and a day, sorting through old toys to rehome, packing up boxes of extra clutter… the task list seems to go on endlessly. There’s always something more to be done and no time to do it.
I’ve sold 4 homes. This will be my 5th. It feels like a lot. My approach to getting through the coming weeks (maybe even months) is pure disassociation. Make a list, hold your breath, and get shit done. But you can only do that for so long before you burn out.
In the meantime, the rest of life continues. I feel like we’re in a strange limbo-transition period where the kids are still participating in the homeschool community up here: swimming lessons at the local YMCA and D&D at the library, but I’m no longer concerned about forming strong ties or bonds the way that I was before because I know we are leaving.