Ok.  Part of it is just this time of year, part of it is this stage of pregnancy, and part of it is the massive quantity of things that need done in the next 3 weeks.  Here is the run down. 

• Monday for another 2 weeks co-op in town.  ONLY another two weeks.  Hallelujah! Followed by lessons. 
• Tuesdays, lessons in Bridgeport, and yesterday we got everything but Science and History done.  Have I mentioned that I hate science? 
• Wednesdays for the last 3 weeks I had to be in town for either doctor's appointments, Clavinova festival sign up, or a play that I took the kids to. And I have missed the last 3 weeks of our women's bible study.  Followed by lessons.
• Thursday next week is a Dr. appointment.  Followed by lessons.  And then it's Thanksgiving which will require another trip to town to do grocery shopping.
• Fridays are jam packed with everything else that hasn't gotten done all week from the running around. Next week is the Clavinova Festival.(Yet another trip to town)....Followed by lessons.
• Saturdays clean and next week fit the Clavinova festival in (in town, of course.) And if I think I can get my kids to do schoolwork on a Saturday, well, that's just laughable.
• Sundays are my relief.  The cleaning is done, the focus is the important things and I can relax a little.  Except of course the concerts that Steve has coming up for Jazz Band are on Sundays.  Imagine that, another trip to town.

I am supposed to have a baby in the middle of this, and the timing there has to be perfect. My doc is leaving for South Africa the 30th.  If this baby shows up over Thanksgiving, that would be good... a 3 day vacation!  Plus, I have relatives coming, so they will be here and I won't have to figure out what to do with the other kiddos in the middle of the night.  I have in the past lamented that I can't have a home-birth since I get really tired of being in the hospital before they let me go, but this year it might be just fine!  

All I really want is to stay home.  Eliminate 3 trips to town a week, make all of my students come to me, not feel like I need to be there to hear all of my students play their pieces.  Steve still isn't convinced that I have become an introvert over the last 10 years, but I tell ya, I think I have.   Give me a regular schedule, and a couple of weeks where I don't have to leave the house for anything, and I am sure that I will be in better frame of mind! 

We have gotten Math, Latin, and instrument practice in 3 days a week for both the boys.  Hopefully, that will ensure that they don't forget absolutely everything we have done over the last year.  I wouldn't think this makes me an "unschooler" but who knows.