Part-time home learning, Part-time brick and mortar school

I created this blog as a place to record the wonderful learning my son does at home.  I did it at a time when I was beginning to realize his dad would likely not let us home school without a fight in court.  Now, my son has been in kindergarten for three months.  In many ways he's enjoyed it.  A nice small school, good teacher, great group of friends, and some new stimulating things to do.  The biggest change for Daniel really has been having so much less time to do the other things he loves at home or out with friends, as well as less time to reconnect with self, mama and his little home daycare sisters and brothers.  Daniel is now very confident socially, but he still needs to recharge in silence, get down time, alone time.   He usually opts to walk the 9 blocks home from school in silence, and this creates some needed quiet transition time.  Often, he retreats to his bedroom once home.  But then once he's ready for more action, interaction with mummy and my home daycare kids (and daddy too, I'd guess.  It seems, there, they tend to watch tv or movies int he evening), it's time for everyone to go home, dinner and bed.  When we plan to skip school, once or twice a week, and choose to stay up a little later, there's so much he wants to do, reading, writing or number practice, creating games, building, crafts...where can we get the time for this, let alone, chatting about all the things he's interested in, wants to know about?  Often, when reading in bed, Daniel will encounter a theme he's interested in and ask me to stop reading and just tell him what I know about it....like just the other day, a story set in Mexico, where the conquering of the Aztecs was mentioned and how many were killed by small pox brought by the Spaniards, Daniel wanted me to retell him how the Spaniards won and what small pox was etc.  He already knows this history, and I guess wanted a review.  Of course, it was late, and soon after I started talking, he drifted off to sleep.  With Daniel's 'introverted' need to recharge and process alone, added to the rushed school day, and his every other day and alternate weekend switch between mum's and dad's house, there's so little time to really settle into himself, settle into  projects, explore learning, and most sadly for me, to have real heart to heart conversations.  Anyway, I guess because of this, I've decided to give Daniel the option to stay home from school once or twice a week.  Full day kindergarten is new in BC, and it's a lot for my guy.  We have done all kinds of different things on these days home.  I want to record all this here, but sadly, I seem to rarely have time to do it.