This week was my first week to work really hard at staying on schedule and doing all our subjects on the day we need to do them. Monday we did very well. We even made a trip to the garden to harvest veggies before we started our lessons. We did everything we scheduled for: Bible, History, Typing, Math, and Reading. All went pretty well! After quiet time we took The Boy to his speech eval and that went well too. Now we are waiting on the call of when we get to meet with his therapist and she will tell us details about his phonological disorder and settle on a plan of action. Which reminds me! We were reading Genesis 11 on Monday, The Tower of Babel. After I finished reading The Boy said, "That's what's wrong with me! I speak a different language!" Hey! I was stoked because my 4 year listened and understood the Bible! Ha! Tuesday was much the same! We got all our studies done(Bible, Science, Writing, Math, Reading) and then we babysat a friend's little girl after nap. I started feeling down and like a failure though. Not 100% sure where that came from. It seems like if homeschooling is really hard I feel like a failure because I can't do it right and if it's going well I feel like a failure because if it's going so well then I must be missing something! Grr... Wednesday we had a Back to School party with two other homeschooling families! So we got all our chores done and Bible and History done. Then we had to head to the party! It was loads of fun! We played educational games, the kids won prizes, we ate lunch together and all the kids got "Back to School" pictures done. We also plan on doing regular field trips with these families and we are going to do a group study on Scientific Investigation! That will be in a couple more weeks and our family will be hosting those lessons. Thursday I had a chiropractor appointment in a town 20 minutes away to get to. So I clipped coupons and we set off at 7:30 in the morning to hit Target on the way. After the chiropractor we had to run by Best Buy to return something, then the farm to buy eggs. We got home by lunch time and I was planning on doing our lessons after nap but I slipped down into a funk and was just feeling down. I didn't want to do ANYTHING! Including mother, let alone teach! So I prayed after nap and texted Robert to get encouragement. And eventually decided that I should do what I most don't want to do while joyfully praising God. And until I could do that I was not going to be much of a mom. So the kids got to watch tv for a couple of hours while I cleaned all the bathrooms, vacuumed the stairs and under the couch cushions and cleaned the walls with my headphones in, listening to worship and praying. Blessedly, I came out of my worship session with a better attitude and an empty day of chores for Friday since I did them early! : )
Friday we made up for lost time! I woke after a fitful night of sleep but God's grace is sufficient because I had energy all day! We did Bible, writing, science, Math, and Reading! AND a friend who's husband just deployed brought her boys over for an impromptu play date and lunch! She happens to be awesome about not distracting me from my kids and so she was very helpful and I got to minister to her at this hard time. So there is a our week and I apologize for not taking more pictures! I gotta work on that!
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