We are all healthy. We are back from visiting in NY. So I cracked the whip this morning and got all the teacher intensive stuff in before 11AM so we could go to the park. This afternoon B has been working steadily on his independent work, we were hoping to run out the Staples before supper, but K finally fell asleep and so that won’t be happening today.
Today will be the first day I have on record as fulfilling all of my goals for a school day since late January.
I think I set really high goals last August.
If I ever construct an almanac of our homeschooling year, I need to remind myself that while "school vacation week" in February is a crowded time at museums, it’s still a good idea, because whatever time we gain by not vacationing, we loose in two good sick weeks. The birthday rich month of March is also full of wonderful field trips (I’d rather foot the money for a museum than a birthday party, you don’t have to store all the new toys, usually the fall apart easily kind kids pick out, and I get weekly doses of hosting other people’s excited children at co-op and Lego.) But March is not a month full of crossing out kitchen table school achievements. For one thing, the time change wipes us out around here – we may not go anywhere but church on an outside schedule, but around here, the morning starts with Daddy’s shower shutdown, and he is on a schedule.
Last year I went to China for 2 weeks in October, then had jet lag for two weeks, then had a baby, then the guys had Chicken Pox. We finished school in early July, enough to report that we were done with a good conscience.
I found out yesterday that I need surgery for a bunion. Hopefully we will still finish in good time to file all the papers, pick out new curricula, and make the personal use portfolio.
Maybe I’d better not worry about it; sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof…and the deaconesses at my church make awesome casseroles.