Last Weekend my In-Laws visited. They actually found us restful, which shows how fast paced they live. Actually, we are pretty restful people, we move at the children’s speed but I’d like to sleep more.
In that pursuit, I looked up what IS normal for 3month olds and sleep, and found that we are doing pretty good for an exclusively nursed baby, and felt better. She did 6 hours at a stretch last night too. Not as much fun, I looked into why I couldn’t get both boy’s school in during the morning. I hate those sorts of investigations, I usually turn out to be the culprit. I was the culprit.
So, one hour of chart making and discussing with the boys, we came up with a plan; B must finish breakfast by 8AM (I bought him an alarm clock) I may not turn on the computer until after school. B and M packed a box of things to do together during Mom cleans up any spit up out of her hair time (that sound’s more serious than bath time, but it’s the same deal), M and I do big boy school during B’s toiletries and chores, then B joins me for his school, they have a snack and run around outside until lunch. K does take a morning nap, sometimes two. We fit the 2 handed school in first so we take advantage of her naps.
We’ve transplanted tomatoes, potatoes and brocolli, found a birds nest with hatchlings, all the iris in my garden bloomed this year, and we tried out a new slide with some friends at WWI memorial park.
My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
