It's an attitude that can take over and grow. One needs to be careful and watch for this and put it under foot!
There is a Cherokee proverb that says "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
I like that very much!
It's easy, if we have one bad day, or a couple of bad days in a row, to say, "Why am I even doing this? My homeschool is a failure! We never get anything done."
That, my friend, is letting yesterday take up too much of today! Each day is a day unto itself. It is a clean slate. You may be in a "season" of busy-ness (or craziness in some sense of the word), but there are still little things getting taught and being accomplished that are stepping stones on the way to the big picture.
Enjoy the journey. You will get there, even if by baby steps. Your children will learn just as much from your spirit today as they will ever learn from any textbook.
Lynn