I made a schedule for myself because I like seeing what I am capable of during the day. I also like to blow off schedules and ride free style. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. to see my husband off to work. I had scheduled myself to stay up, read the scriptures, check email, and shower before I had to wake the children up at 6:30. I went back to bed and slept in until 7:30 when the children woke up. I kind of rushed to get dressed and then tried to rush the children to get dressed. What’s the hurry? We had to eat breakfast (cereal) and be out the door at 8:05 a.m. to walk my DS a ½ mile to school. All of us. At 7:45 a.m. my DSIL (sis-in-law) knocks on the front door. Oh, yeah, I am taking her 2 DS to school and watching her younger 2 DS while she goes to the doctor for 2 hours
I looked to the internet as my savior and attempt to print out math review sheets for H, only I found an online math tutoring program. I bought a year subscription on the spot and I assigned her to start reviewing. She didn’t like it and my DH was less than pleased to know I had spent more money on top of the new Saxon math books I had recently purchased, which by the way, were now officially late being shipped by the online distributor. I did manage to find some coloring pages for A to color while I cleaned up potty accidents by E and her boy cousin who is only 9 days older than her.
Alas, at 11 a.m. my DSIL came back from her appointment and we both rushed out the door to meet the bus and pick up our friend’s (Nannette) daughter from preschool and her little 15 month old sister. Since it’s the first day of preschool, we both have to show ourselves to the bus driver. We then walked back to my home for lunch and then I put my friend’s baby and E in bed for naps. Since this was the first day of the baby being at my house, she wouldn’t go to bed without some screaming. After about 10 minutes of protesting she fell asleep at the door of the room and I had an hour of ‘quiet’ time. That is, H only asked me to entertain her every 10 minutes. At exactly 1:00, A and her preschool friend woke up the baby and 5 minutes later, Nannette showed up. Yeah!!!!! Then I realized that I had to start dinner and the house was trashed and W needed to be picked up from school at 3:00. Since it takes 20 minutes to walk to the school, and dinners are not Rachel Ray’s 30 Minute Meals, my free time was virtually nonexistent for the day.
When W came home, it was homework time and then dinner time. DH took 3 children to soccer practice and H and I went to church for her young girls activity night. At 9:00 I returned home to dirty dishes and dinner needing to be put away. DH had just finished putting the younger children to bed. So at 9:30 and after dishes, I put myself to bed and vowed to not to sleep in on a school day.
Homeschool accomplishments: Math, reading.
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