Nothing went today as I had planned.  Ordinarily that would make me crazy, but today, I was okay with it, and that's a MAJOR accomplishment.  See, flexibility is not my strong point.  Now, 3 or 4 years ago I never would have admitted that.  But since I've been a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom, I continue to learn things about myself I never knew, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

So, as I said, today was an exercise in flexibility.  I was going to serve cold cereal, the kids were in the mood for grilled cheese and chicken nuggets and milk.  So, I helped my 8yo make a grilled cheese sandwhich and made nuggets for the younger 2.  We were supposed to start our solar system notebook pages and mobile after chores.  But the boys seemed so wiggly.  They needed to blow off some energy.  It was 27 degrees today.  So -- we put on the Tae Bo tape and did a short work out.   Then, we went to work on the mobile and I couldn't find the library book with the instructions on how to measure out the planets to scale.  Now I was really ticked!  I searched for that book for 15 minutes when finally my oldest said - "mom, can't we just make it the way we want?"  Hum, what a novel idea! (the perfectionist in me would never think of doing something without directions!).  But my son improvises all the time.  So together with our compass we drew the circles based on the information I found on some of the science websites.  All he cared about was that we started on the project, and that we had fun. 

Well, I ended up changing dinner plans at 5:00 because we were out of bread crumbs, and a few other things required me to be flexible.  Usually I would be exhausted from all the "disruptions" to my plans.  But tonite, I am feeling really good.  Because I am learning not to sweat the small stuff, and how to be flexible. 

I really don't know who will benefit the most from this homeschooling thing, me or my kiddo's.