Clearly deficient!

So it has been almost a year since my last post, so clearly I am deficient in the blog area. It has been a crazy year! I started this blog so that I could remember all of the things about my crazy years, but if I never write them down than this blog won't help a bit. So where to begin.......We decided last year in February that we needed a change for the better in the school department so we put the kid's names on a lottery list at Mountainville Academy. It is a charter school in Alpine. Long story short, they all were accepted. It was a really hard and scary thing to do. Freedom has some really great things about it, but I just felt like we needed something more. Freedom has great scores and Mountainville has received some amazing achievement awards. I know Mountainville's scores are slightly below Freedom's but after all do I care about overall scores or about my children's scores? Well that is what it came down to is, my children's scores. Mountainville practices the 7 habits of highly effective people and I have seen major changes in my children. I guess you never know 100 percent if you have made the right decision, but the kids seems to be growing in more areas than I have seen before!  On a side note the kids have really loved the uniform thing. I thought that would be our biggest problem, but to my surprise it helps them feel normal just like all the other children. I am so proud of my children and their choice to come on this journey with us!