Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - We Hit The Flooring Running...or Was It Creeping?
Yesterday was our first official day of school. We actually started Monday with our co-op but that was not as hard to start as yesterday was. Monday night, after co-op, I took a long bubble bath so I could do some hard thinking about the rest of our school year. I came out very relaxed and slightly motivated to get going.
As I mentioned in my last entry, I have a scheduling conflict on Tuesday mornings so we didn't get started until after lunch. I was okay with that. In fact, I am not a morning person, so it worked great for me. My kids, who are not morning people either but also don't like change, were not as thrilled. We started at 1:00 and finished a little after 5:00. We got almost everything done and a few new things added as well.
One thing I accomplished yesterday that I never seem to have time to do was teaching my 2 youngest their piano lessons. That always seems to get pushed to the side. I really want to make sure they get regular lessons from now on. They are both ready and willing.
Today, we're going to start at 8:30 (10 minutes from now) and probably finish by lunch. That is, I will finish by lunch. They may have other work to do.
So, we hit the floor creeping yesterday and are revving it up to a solid run this morning.
Eighteen years after sitting my 5 year old down for his first day of school, we're still at it. We've graduated 2 and have one ready to graduate this year. Three more are working slow and steady at learning what they need to know to be the kind of adults God wants them to be.
