This trusting the process is difficult.  I want so badly to make a checklist for each child stating what worksheets to do today, tomorrow and all week.  I want to say, "Well, did you write your spelling words three times?...No?...Then you cannot be goofing off.  Get to work!"  It doesn't matter that they spent several hours reading good books and did their math, etc. 

I want a checklist.  (read that again imagining a whining, shout...now you understand)

My oldest has decided to do a subject or two per day.  This is a new plan as of this week.  So far so good but then, she did just start this week.   She also has a tendency to come up with new plans for just about every part of her life on pretty much a bi-weekly basis.  Well, I guess it's kind of like our doctor said when she was a baby, "Don't worry if she eats meat for ten days but won't touch veggies.  She'll soon enough eat only veggies and won't touch meat.  Small children have a tendency to eat what they need and they DON'T have to have every vitamin every day."  (that is a quasi-quote--as accurate as I can remember) So far, we have four healthy children raised with that philosophy.  I can see where it would transfer to education...

My son has finally found a book that he reads all the way to the dinner table.  Yessss.  (It's "The Sword in the Tree" by Clyde Bulla if you're wondering.)  Now, I haven't had nearly as hard of a time with him not doing other school stuff because he has his nose in that book.  What do I do when he finishes it tomorrow?

My middle daughter, well, she continues about the same as always.  She would rather read than do anything else.  However, she is continuing through "Life of Fred".  She lamented the other day that she has to go all the way to the calculus level to find out how Fred got his start in life.  If that is what it takes to get her to learn math, then I am thankful for Fred.

So that leaves me with the urge to make a checklist...I'm fighting it...