I have so many mixed emotions about his two years at a wonderful little preschool coming to an end, particularly now that we will be homeschooling. What's funny is that overall I still wish we had never sent him, but we did, and now I've become attached to the little community there. I chat with the teachers in the morning for 1/2 hour while ds2 plays. Ds1 loves playing with his friends there, and while I plan to try to continue some of those friendships, it will just be different now that they're not hanging out in a playcenter for 3 hours together. Plus, we are the only ones that live outside of the neighborhood, about 20 mins away, so it's not like they are down the street.

Anyway, I'm feeling sad about losing those connections, freaked about officially being cut loose from the schooling scene, and scared that we won't find a good community of homeschooling parents and kids that both ds and I enjoy. We have been meeting up with two different homeschool groups for a little while now, and while everyone is perfectly nice, there haven't been any real solid connections made. I start panicking thinking I made the wrong decision by keeping ds out of kindergarten where he could play with the same kids on a regular basis.

Did anyone else go through this when you started homeschooling? Please tell me it all turned out okay!:innocent

But you'd probably lose those connections anyway. The kids would be put in different clases over the years. They would be rushing in to class and their parents would be rushing off to wherever. I hope you make some good connections with other hsers, that's what I'm working on too :hug.

I felt the same way when my oldest finished preschool. I felt like all of a sudden, we were on our own path. We weren't doing the 'normal' thing, and I was a little nervous about DS's future and afraid that I may be limiting his opportunities. I also had similar feelings on the day that DS didn't start kindergarden. But now that we've been homeschooling for awhile, our life seems 'normal' and I don't worry about what my kids might be missing out on.

Thanks for your reassurance. It just seems a lot more real now than it did when we initially made the decision several months ago, and I'm kind of freaking out a bit. I've been in a bit of a funk about it for a couple of weeks now. I'm not good with change in general, especially things "ending," but this has been surprisingly hard for me.