I say "okay kiddos tonight is a school night so off the bed" kiddos say "what!?! a school night?" i say "yup you have to get up early in the morning for school so you have to go to bed on time, today was your last day of summer vacation" and then i relish those words for a moment :)
Its been a long time coming, a lot of second guessing myself, some soul searching, researching, friends telling me i am going to screw my kids up, other friends telling me i am doing the best thing for my young ones, family saying I'll lose my mind, husband saying he loves me A LOT!!
Last night i was on cloud 9, i was feeling so confident it was strange!?! I guess two years of telling myself i was going to do it, and it was going to be great, had gotten me to
OMG the mouse!!!!!!!!!
okay where was i... had gotten me to believe it!
This morning the kids woke up (a little later than planned) got dressed brushed their teeth and came down stairs to breakfast, it was quite amazing! we got breakfast done with, had a prayer, and started our scripture study lesson, Purchased from here. The feeling was wonderful, my children listened, participated when asked and were read for their school lessons. At this point there was no more second guessing, this is what we are meant to do! 
The Calvert lessons started off pretty slow, we were trying to coordinate between the Boy's courses and the Girl's courses, and it was a little stressful at first, but then it got moving and worked out in my opinion perfectly!! While the Boy was coloring, i was teaching the Girl, and visa verse! when there was a story or poem for either child we all stopped went to the sofa and read it together! Boys pre k lesson was shorter so when his ended with a game, we all played and then he went an played in the Baby's room! then when it was art time for the Girl, Boy participated. |
| oh how i cant wiat till next year, the Dad said we can change baby room to homeschool room next school year!! |
Art took longer than scheduled because, well who doesn't LOVE art, and we are generally an artsy family! but then it was time for a game to learn propulsion(how to make things go actually, but my word sounds cooler (; hehe) so i set them up with a balloon and some other stuff to blow it around and made lunch!
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| scribble art |
Then we ended with a song: I met a little dusty gnome, who said we need to clean our home, Clean our home, clean our home! we picked up our mess and
read books from the reading list and then ::::here is where it really gets crazy:::: we had quiet time!!
I got this idea from a Calvert webinar, the woman said she gets questions all the time on how she can get all 7 of her children to take naps at the same time, and she said she has quiet time, you don't have to take a nap but you have to be quite and in bed for a set amount of time, i think she said 20 minutes. So we implemented a quite time of 30 minutes... every body was quiet including the Baby!! The kids got up after their 30 minutes, but the baby kept sleeping, so i took this opportunity to write this post!
I think tomorrow we will lengthen quiet time, because the boy may very well have fallen asleep, had it been 5 minuted longer, of course i wont tell them it is longer.
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| she used shades of blue with a contrasting orannge focal point(mommy help decide color scheme, but the Girl did everything else) |
This all sounds like today went off without a hitch... but it didn't, there were many hitches, and its name was the Baby!! he was being... a baby i guess, and needing mommy and that sort of thing!! it was making it really difficult to concentrate and be joyful, but we persevered until snack time, and then after gorging on a bit of cantaloupe he was in a much better mood and played long enough to give me some one on one time with the big kids!
All in all it was a good day, having my day mapped out for me is wonderful, I'm trying to be realistic and know there will be bad days, but as long as they are outnumbered by the good ones we will be okay!!! ~the Mom
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