We tried homeschool because of the situation, and found it actually serves my 7 year old better. He went from communicating with a picture book to using his voice. It seems he needs the one on one instruction, and the opportunity to work at his own pace, rather than pushing him ahead when he's not fully grasped something yet.
He was fine tuning in the car yesterday. Mostly, he uses nouns with a verb thrown in here and there. But he was saying "Mom IS old. Mom IS fat."
I've gone back to fish keeping. Also really hard! Best thing I've learned is don't buy fish from general pet stores. Had a friend who keeps complicated fish and thinks she knows everything insist I try a local discount pet store... I did so, not only did all the fish I bought from there die within days, I've been treating the fungus they spread for the last two weeks.