Day 3

Well today was a very stressful day. First off I had to take my husband to work at 4am and then when I got home I could not fall back to sleep. When I finally did fall back to sleep I had to wake up in an hour. So for starters I was running off of 4 hours of sleep. Then I had MOPS (Mother Of Pre Schoolers) today from 9am to 11:30am. When I was done there I went home only to realize that I had to go half way to the other side of town that I was earlier in the day to get chicken feed because what we had left molded. So again I left and returned home after doing my errand. So then I get home and have to feed everyone lunch and then put the baby down for a nap. So began homeschooling for the day at 1pm. Needless to say we were doing school for a while this evening. We really didn't do any fun projects today but we did learn that we will be starting our MOH (Mystery Of History) timeline tomorrow.

You may all be wondering what is the point in the above story about her day that mostly had nothing to do with homeschooling! Well it was a day of homeschooling because it was a day of "LIFE". You see a lot of the time your children need to see that life does not revolve around schedules and such. Life is just that, life. Sometimes things come up and you have to take care of them then, sometimes you have doctor appointments or someone is sick and it throws your entire day off schedule. Yes even though you are not doing 1-2-3 and a-b-c does not mean that you are not teaching your children valuable life lessons. So today was one of my life lesson days but I learned something. I learned that I have to plan out the kids school for a week and go over what we will be doing first. This way I am not spending 30 minutes for each subject trying to figure out the assignment before I can teach it to my children. So it is now 12:20am, Thursday morning and I am getting ready to go to bed with the knowledge of today's lessons in my head and the fact that I know the next two days will be very easy days because I sat here and planned out the rest of our week.

So I leave you with this. Homeschooling is not always spelling, math, history, or science but in fact it is so much more than that. Homeschooling is life. As always, Happy Homeschooling.