So, today is Monday. The Monday after my husband was home all last week. So, there is some semblance of hope of a return to the normal routine, I guess.
We did manage to get most of our lessons done today. However, M has misplaced her Math book and G, his reading....I often wonder how this happens in the space of 24 hours. Is there a space/time continuum that I am not fully aware of into which lesson books (and answer keys) can just disappear into? What happens that they turn up in random places. Last week, I had the children looking high and low for M's Language Arts teacher guide....only to find it on my keyboard tray (fairly certain is was not there the day before and I know I did not put it there). Certainly not like the child is using it to cheat (my checking of her work reflects that she goes WAY too fast and misses too much in her speed for that to be the case, lol!). So there must be some other valid explanation for this.
I did finish reading the the story of Aladdin to G out of the Blue Fairy Tale books (my favorite series of Fairy Tales stemming back to when I was a girl in Indiana and even in OK). M, who was listening in, commented that this tale certainly was not like the Disney version - I think she might have seen it once in recent years. But, she is right - sure is not like Disney. I suspect it is this violation of books that has curtailed my children's desire to go to Disney World - they suspect that if Disney has screwed up the fairy tales, the odds are good they have messed up the rides as well, lol! However, that does not impede them from wanting to go to Epcot (I suppose they figure Disney cannot mess up the countries as easily?). Anyway, I do have a couple of other read-alouds I want to accomplish tonight, but it won't take very long.
I managed to play with the baby and get him to take 2 decent naps, which allowed me to get a 20 min. recharge in there. I did accomplish getting the dishwasher loaded and running. And maybe, just maybe, I will get a bit of organization to the explosion known as M's room in tonight....it could happen.
Tomorrow, we have the lovely diversion of piano lessons. We enjoy them, but it sucks a full 2 hours out of our day by the time we figure in travel time, etc. Sigh. G is currently whiney about practicing piano, but M was whiney at the same stage and now she loves it!
Anyway, today was Monday - it can only get better from here - right?
Sounds like a lot of homeschool moms days. My biggest one is trying to locate pencils. You would think we would have a ton. We do at the beginning of each day, but half way through the morning they seem to disappear.
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