Mar. 31, 2009
My Day - Ramblings
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I've done 4 loads of dishes today. In case you're wondering, when you have a family of seven -- 2 parents and 5 kids -- that homeschool and are at home for 3 meals a day, it is very easy to get behind with the dishes. Thankfully I have a dishwasher and 2 helpers, my 8 and 10 year old daughters. They've each helped to unload the dishes once today. My 8 year old even helped by rinsing the first load of dirty dishes. My daughters both hate loading. It is disgusting since so many of the plates and utensils aren't rinsed although that is the rule. So, needless to say, the crusty food or soggy food is really gross. For some reason I feel guilty assigning them this icky chore. I'm not quite sure why I feel guilty delegating it; I'll try to process that later. I've done several loads of laundry & I'll probably do at least a few more before going to bed at midnight. Loads of towels, comforters, bedroom rugs, kids' clothes, mom's clothes -- again, easy to get behind when you have a large family. Actually, I'm not really behind with laundry. I've been doing well with keeping up with it. Its just when its time to wash all the bedding, it looks like the garage has been taken over by piles of linens. We played outside for about a 1/2 hour today -- the fun was cut short after our neighbor came to the fence to warn us that he had seen a snake coming from our yard earlier. The backyard is is a magnet for local wildlife and along with resident raccoons, skinks, common fence lizards, and frogs, we have already had a few close encounters of the serpent kind. So far we've only seen gopher snakes, but with the weeds knee high in some places, I thought it would be best to play another day after DH goes at it with a weed whacker. We had scrambled eggs, sausage, and oranges for breakfast, chicken sandwiches for lunch, tangerines & chocolate shortbread Barney cookies for a snack and pasta and mini pizza for dinner. I bought the mini pizza crusts at the 99cent only store. 4 ready-made refrigerated pizza crusts for 99 cents was a great deal in my book! Topped with mozzarella cheese & leftover meat sauce from Sunday's spaghetti , it was a quick and frugal alternative to more costly delivery pizza. All I ate today was a bag of Hersey Kissables, 2 Entenman's plain donuts, & 1/2 of a mini-pizza -- still I shudder to count the points on today's menu. I joined Weight Watchers in January, but within the last 2 weeks, I've completely lost my "momentum". I missed last weeks meeting and I've not only fallen off the horse, but my foot is caught in the stirrup and I'm being dragged down the bumpy dirt road! Homeschool went well again today. Although I'm using the same Saxon math book for my 3rd and 4th graders, I have recently begun teaching them separately. I'm working with my 3rd grader first and then giving a more prepared and practiced version of the lesson to my 4th grader. They each learn differently, and I finally figured out that even though we may be studying the same or similar concepts, they learn better when I teach math separately. I'm hoping that if we can keep up the positive, one-on-one math time, that they'll both progress well. For language arts, they each wrote a short story and spent 1/2 and hour on studyisland.com. I worked with my 1st grader Saxon math, but we didn't get to work on phonics today. For science all the kids and I continued to learn about germs. I read aloud from Bill Nye's book, Great Big Book of Tiny Germs. Then we did a simple science experiment. |
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