Silver Moon Learning

Jan. 29, 2009

Today was a nearly perfect homeschool day.

Did you fall out of your chair with that title? I said the homeschool part was perfect, not the rest of it! There was very little arguing, eye rolling and sass. The bigs answered questions like "What's the purpose of government?" and "Why did we rebel against the king?"  They thought about their answers and made good ones. It was warm enough for even desert rats to play outside for a little while Small people that smell like the backyard is one of my favorite things. I got a small scrap of sewing in this morning. The house is relatively clean. The dishes are done. Put away too. We had a pleasant outing to the post office. Spelling Wisdom came in the mail! After looking through it together Joy and I are both pretty excited to dig into it. I think we'll really like it. The baby took two real naps today, and both of them were on the bed (read: not my lap). The mediums ate up their school pages and did amazing in their reading lessons. Honor is over his 13, 14, 15 wall. I taught him to say threeteen, fourteen, and fiveteen about a week ago, suddenly it's clicked and he's not fumbling them now. Otherwise the boy can count to fifty and beyond, lol.  Joy made three minor mistakes on her oral spelling quiz of twenty-one words. Though she was bummed when I told her we'd save Spelling Wisdom for Monday. Justice had a major lightbulb in his fractions work. I piddled around the web looking for president resources for next week and found a few good ones. Barely had any interruptions. Oh yeah! Both bigs said we should do the presidents next since our Declaration of Independence stuff has wrapped up (took us two weeks to use up that rabbit trail..). Did you see that word "both?" They agreed with no prompting. Ok. Now for the not so picturistic stuff. I didn't get nearly as much sewing done as I wanted to. The bathroom didn't get scrubbed. The diapers didn't get washed. The entryway looks like a tornado hit it. I didn't exercise or drink enough water. The good stuff FAR outweighs all the bad stuff. I'm really shocked! Thursdays are well known for being long, tiring, downright icky days at our house. We start out grumpy because we were out late the night before, but get up at the same times anyway. The day drags on forever. The mediums need naps but fight them. The big two are argumentative. The baby doesn't nap well because she's behind on sleep (yeah, figure that one out). Hub doesn't get home until kidlet bedtime. When hub does get home HE'S worn out and just wants food and bed. He gets up extra early on Fridays too, so I go to bed knowing I won't see him again until lunchtime the next day. That's the typical Thursday. This Thursday though? Seems extraordinary.

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