I've been reading a few different homeschooling blogs lately.
Bad idea.
I see how so many moms are doing science experiments everyday and taking their kids to the park and painting and reading Latin and yet, they still find time to finish all their chores and eat 3 nutritious meals. I'm thinking either these people are lying or they are only posting about their good days. REALLY good days.
Don't get me wrong, most days, we get our school done and done early. But some days....well, those are the days that you don't see written about in blog posts. Until now. DUN DUN DUN.....
Now, for your reading pleasure, this has been our day:
7:00 am 14 year old son's alarm starts beeping. And beeping. And beeping. For quite awhile, it keeps beeping. He finally jumps out of bed and shuts it off and promptly jumps back IN to bed and falls asleep. At least this time, he didn't reset it for half an hour later.
7:15 am 10 year old son gets up and goes downstairs. Is he getting a head start on his schoolwork like the studious lad that he is? No. He watches the Three Stooges (thank you Husband for introducing that to the boys) on the Roku.
7:30 am Sick Husband goes downstairs and calls his boss to tell her he won't be coming in today. A rare occasion, you know he's sick when he doesn't go to work. 13 year old Daughter comes downstairs and eats breakfast. 14 Year old son still sleeps. I try to fall back asleep and pray that the babies will sleep a little longer so I can get some sleep.
8:00 am The 2 year old Boy starts making noise. Whining and crying (most of my kids wake up this way, never laughing or talking.) So I take him downstairs. On the way, I tell the 14 year old to get up. He grunts.
From 8:00 am until 9:30 am, we did nothing. By nothing, I mean, we played Wii. Husband slept on the couch, trying to rid himself of the cold. I am thanking God that my husband is NOT the stereotypical big man baby when it comes to colds. He gets sick, sleeps for a whole day and is better. Doesn't whine, doesn't demand, doesn't act like he's dying. He's a good guy. :o)
9:30 am Baby girl wakes up crying. We get her up in all her 17 month old glory, hair a mess and pink jammies covering her from head to toe. 14 year old is up, but in the bathroom. I tell the 10 year old to do his Bible and spelling (at least some learning will take place today!!!)
I'm going to summarize 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. Whine. Eat. Drink. Wii. Clean. Change diapers. Write grocery list. Whine. Temper tantrum (just to be clear, this isn't all me. It is indicative of all 7 of the humans in my house during this time.) Change diapers. Eat again. Watch Max and Ruby. Change diapers AGAIN because, apparently, clean diapers are more fun to poop in. Nap time (YAY!!!!) but only for baby girl. Husband tells me to go to the store with the older two while he stays home with the youngest 3. I'm not going to argue.
3:30 pm and I've already been to three places. Halfway through the grocery list, I need to sit down because I'm winded. No, I don't need to work out more. It turns out that the cold that has hit EVERY person in the family has now finally hit me. So I send out the older two to get a few items on my list while I recover.
4:00 pm. Last store. We need to get home by 4:30 so I can make dinner before Husband goes to school for the night. List is done. Older kids check out and bag groceries for me.
5:00 pm. We eat dinner. 2 year old doesn't want the pizza or ham or cheese that is on his plate so he sticks his finger in them and then shoves the plate to the floor.
5:45 pm. Husband leaves for school. After a few temper tantrums from a little boy who should have napped after all, we have bath time, snack and then bed, at 8:30 pm.
LET THE CLEANING BEGIN!!!!!
Did I forget to mention that I am having my two friends and their kids over tomorrow for lunch? So that means we clean. Since we are all getting over a cold, the cleaning has been slow. It is now after 10 pm as I write this and we still have a lot to do. I just downed a cup of coffee, trying for some energy to finish up tonight.
Hmm....weren't we supposed to have school today? I guess there was some learning going on.
Life experiences. That's what we'll call them.
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