• Aug. 3, 2005 - Tagged by Fly on the Wall

Posted by EmptyNestMom

You have to tell what your day TODAY was like...really! Not what you wish it'd been like or what you'd planned for it to be like, but how it really turned out. Be sure to title it "Fly on the Wall" so we can look for those blogs. Tag about five or so friends and we can all have fun being a fly on the wall of someone else's homeschool for a day.   ***************************************************************   Ok, you asked for it, you got it!!   I hadn't slept real well, it is SO hot here, so I got up a bit late.  My 10yo son was up earlier than usual, and had the table set, cantaloupe cut and was cooking bacon for breakfast!  Talk about a blessing!  While we were there we prayed for a friend who was having surgery today, our Nana who just went home from the hospital yesterday, and several other requests.   So, being that I am really NOT a morning person, I got my cup of poison aka coffee (fresh ground organic even) and grabbed my copy of Educating the Whole Hearted Child (see my earlier blog entry from today.)   While I was getting a recharge outside, my kiddos were inside working diligently at the kitchen table.  This is NOT normal for us, but we are making some changes in the way we approach academics.  My oldest was working with the two youngest, doing math.  My oldest son, the breakfast cook, went out back in our little yard, to fix the "claim shanty" that they built out there several months back.  It was beginning to fall down and they needed a new roof.  (Yesterday they all worked on it.)   So, after I came back in, I got a bit of blogging done, did some paperwork at my desk and then in between checking the kids and occasionally yelling at them (you asked for the real deal) I did laundry, decluttering a bit, sent off some prayer requests, prayed (I honestly did) and then checked to see what the kids were up to. My 7 year old son is learning to write so well, and seems to love math and has a knack for picking it up.  My 8 year old daughter was practicing cursive from the 23 psalm, which I printed out in a beautiful cursive font for her.  My 13 year old was helping everyone else.  She is the real teacher in this family---first born, can master anything she tries.  After they worked, they all went out in the backyard..   Then while they were all working out back, playing pioneer cowboys or something of that sort, I sorted socks.  I turned on Ken Ham's DVD of Dinosaurs, Evolution and the Gospel (I think that is what it is called) and enjoyed watching it all by myself.  That doesn't happen too often, and I realized I had missed a lot of it before!   So then I got the kids to work on their rooms for a few minutes, and then did some more dishes.  Six people sure generate a lot of dishes!  I also listened to some great praise music while doing them.  A dear friend of mine once told me "you don't have to keep your mind on the dishwater" ---she was an older lady who I lived with when I was young and single, and I didn't like dishes then either.  So, if you are in this same boat, put on a tape, sing, prop a book up so you can read, and the dishes will be done lickety split!   Right now, the girls are making dinner, which was going to be  spaghetti, but we are out of tomato sauce, so I think we are having chili, although it is much too hot for it.  I am truly baffled by cooking, and feel it is a necessary evil at best.  I look forward to the day when my kids will have it all covered.  Thank goodness my husband is a good cook or we would all starve.  (Ok, I can cook a bit, just need some motivation at times)   So, I came in here to check email, my escape and mini-support group, and found out I was tagged.  Now I have to think of who to do this dastardly deed to......   CoCandace LouisianaPotter Mamabugs CreativeHSMom CorgiMom   But just a quick addendum---yesterday was similar, although I had a melt down over some things----it happens you know.  Then tomorrow, we have a park day with a group we belong to and we also have to get up early and dress nice for a photographer who is taking our photo for the local paper!  (For my support group involvement here.)  So, you see, every day is different, and every day is an adventure.  Each family is different, and each journey is custom made.  No  homeschooling cookie-cutters allowed!!   Nancy