It's been a while since I've posted here, and we certainly have not been idle. Our biggest change in the last month has been that we decided to put Buddy into a traditional preschool!!! This may come quite as a surprise especially as one of my most recent posts was entitled " Why I Love Homeschooling ". It's true -- I adore homeschooling. All the things that I wrote in that post are true - not excluding the reasons why I thought that traditional school would be difficult for us. So, why have we made this dramatic change? First - We were having some behavioral issues at home. The crazy thing is that I believe that I've connected this now with the lack of quality time we had been able to spend together. The holidays were very out-of-routine and getting back into that was quite an adjustment. However, I was feeling a bit at the end of my rope with him. I also realized that I was crushing him by the harshness of my speaking to him abou...