Pursuing interest-led learning during the unknown

I won’t lie. I’m a bit bummed. I think most of us are quite bummed...bummed at the state the world, and specifically where our country is at  right now. I know the majority of parents out there are bummed their children won’t be going back to traditional schooling and are freaking out over suddenly being thrown into this homeschooling idea, when it never even crossed their mind till about 4mns ago. I on the other hand, I have been dreaming of homeschooling my girls since Big Love began kindergarten, spent a few years deep diving into what this would look like for us, a year convincing my husband of my “crazy plan”, got my mom to accept it, told friends we are doing this, I researched museum days, homeschool farming groups, learned about local nature study days, local homeschool co-op/class options, joined Facebook groups and read posts till my eyes went cross eyed... only to have these loose plans come crashing to a halt. I just read this fabulously inspiring book called, “homeschooling gone wild” by Karla Marie Williams. She does an unschooling/interest-led learning with her 6 kids. She speaks through out the book about encouraging and seeking out ways to continue to dive deeper into the interests of your children... and here I am, wishing, wanting, begging my soul to do these things for them... but just can’t. I just can not expose my most precious people on earth to this virus. I find myself digging in my heels, unlike where I would normally be putting a big pair of wings on my children and watching them soar. I want to let them join their cheer teams, take the dance classes, go back to sewing school, take a knitting class, learn to woodwork, join the farm school, do all the things. But I just can’t. I won’t right now... so instead, I’m attempting to figure out how to combine what they are hinting at wanting with our countries own virus crisis. I’m not an expert at knitting, I don’t know how to woodwork, my kids won’t do zoom classes (I learned that through lockdown) - what do we do... yes, there are books and YouTube videos.. but nothing beats having a real life person guide you... I’d love to know, how are you all finding this new path..? Are you staying home and doing nothing..? Are you becoming the new expert in everything - so you can teach your children and engage with their interests..? Or, are you braving it out there and coming to terms with some of this and finding a way to be ok with it all..?