just when I thought I was getting a handle on things...

For the first two months of this transition in our life, things went something like this:
1.  upheaval - move from US
2.  crankiness - adjustment to time zone and major lifestyle change (going from suburban Minnesota safe neighborhood with large yards and kids running everywhere.... to apartment living, none of our familiar belongings, new foods, new job for Dad, no yard, no friends, no toys!).
3.  stress of finding a permanent "home" in London - searching, thinking, researching, wondering where the best spot for us would be out of limited choices and a limited budget.
4.  emerging from the fog of #1-3 above to actually beginning to establish a routine, beginning to accomplish maybe a couple of hours of school per day.
5.  actually enjoying our place, our location, our life, being able to work well with school schedule each day

THEN we have to move into our "permanent" rental place
1.   Stressful couple of weeks as our lease agreement gets renegotiated because of a couple of problems
2.  upheaval - move to our little house, receipt of our surface shipment!
3.  crankiness - anyone who has moved recently knows it's HARD on a household, and there's so much to do
4.  stress of trying to get connected in the area - looking at schools again, getting the kids into sports/activities, finding a babysitter, learning where to get groceries, etc.
5.  figuring out how to get around - walking and subway had been our only options - until we all got bicycles which was a big job in itself
6.  emerging from the fog of #1-5 to actually beginning to establish a routine, beginning to accomplish a few hours of school per day
7.  learning that our daughter would be able to attend a school just around the corner - for the remainder of the British school year, and realizing that I only truly had a couple of weeks left of "homeschooling all of my children" when I feel like I hardly even got to get my feet on the ground to do a good job at it....  accepting that it was the perfect situation for our family, for this time, for this adjustment.
8.  relief to move on to the next phase of this adjustment to life here

Who ever thought that homeschooling and ex-pat family would go hand in hand?  I've heard of a few other families here in London who have had this experience and turned to homeschooling because of the same underlying problem = there are no schools available.  So I know I'm not alone.  I wonder how others who uproot their families mid-school year and move to the world's most populated cities deal with this issue?