• Sep. 4, 2008
Juggling
Well, after officially starting school last month and then taking two weeks and a half weeks off already, We were back at it, just doing basics yesterday... Bible, handwriting, math, grammar, and phonics.
I find myself still struggling with the same problem as every year of homeschooling: how to juggle housework and homeschool. It is actually a little better this year, the kids are older and helping a lot more. Their help does mean lowering my standards a little. Don't get me wrong, I insist on a clean bathroom, bedroom, etc. The rooms just don't get as perfectly clean as I would like them to be.
We have been entertaining more. It seems as if we've been having different families over every Friday night for over a month. I love having people over; I also like to present a perfectly clean house. I'm beginning to realize that while we homeschool that perfectly clean house will only exist in my dreams.
I'm working on putting together a home management binder, which is basically putting everything running through my brain down on paper (freeing up precious and much needed creative brain space). I'm working on one section at a time. As I finish it, I'll have to show you what it looks like. Hopefully, it will help with the juggling act.
I am open to any suggestions anyone might have on this juggling act: homeschool- housework (perfectly clean house).
