Life has been busy lately, which makes me feel as if I am behind!  I keep planning to blog daily, but not everything has been good.  First we had to battle head lice.  Mind you not a fun thing to battle.  But I did find some great resources online for it.  I think the best site for that was www.headlice.org.  It gave us a ton of ideas on how to get rid of the buggers and dispelled some myths, like they DON"T jump.  Now that was a few weeks ago, and thank goodness those lil buggers are GONE!!!  My aunt, who was a hairdresser for years gave me the most useful advice, treat her hair, then twenty-four hours later treat it again!  :)  I had to treat it twice in one week and was so shocked to see them back. 

Next came my migraines.  Boy those sure set you back.  One child was sick, then another, then me.  I ended up at the doctor near the end of this.  The appointment was for allergies that had been diagnosed weeks before, and the allergy medicine worked great for allergies, not colds.   :)  At one point my father had a heart catherdization (sp?) and so that day was filled with worry.  He is fine, but they needed clear pictures of his heart, and that is the only way to get them.  My sons also had their joing birthday party last saturday and all the planning that went into that, during the preceeding weeks.....What a busy life it has been!   In the process of all this a most amazing thing was happening.  My daughter started classes for baptizm.  She was baptized last weekend, on Sunday at church.  What a blessing to see your child growing in the Lord!

So in this process we have fallen behind, and in this process my house has been trashed, and in this process, my oldest has lost all motivation to work.  He is just recently 10 (last sunday same day as sis's baptizm) and he has no desire to do anything in a timely manner.  Nothing!  It took him almost two hours to shower, dress, feed his pets, and eat breakfast.  All things that could take 45 mins. to an hour tops.  As for Schoolwork?  Well we always do the math, spelling and language first...hmm...we are not finding time for anything else at all in this process, because  it takes him ALL DAY to do them.  Or he will loose the book he is supposed to read (the one that goes back to the library today....hmm...guess who gets to pay for it)  It is all a discipline thing in my eyes, but how much grounding from this or that can you do? 

Today for the first time in this month, though planned 4 other times, we are meeting a homeschooling family.  They have homeschooled longer than I have.  And I am looking forward to it.  But I am almost scared to go to meet with them.  This 0 year old has me at my wits end.  But in 45 minutes we will be at their home.  :)  Luckily we do have the math, language and spelling done for today....but it is only just now getting finished.  So I guess I am looking to ask, how do you all handle interuptions to the schedules?  How do you re-motivate your children after a hectic month or so of illness, and other things? 

Really in my heart I know the Lord wants me to do this, as each time I start to question myself, I find all the reasons and answers to why this is so important.  I just could use a boost of ideas on how to turn this into a fun and enjoyable learning environment for him, in which he knows his work needs done, and does not procrastinate in doing it.  :)