When I decided to start My journal entries I wanted to do it so that I could share the BAD days not just the good. Well, today is not really a bad day, but Im a bit wary of sharing the beginnings. But I will, cuz that was the point.
12pm - I got up. There I said it. I didnt get up until noon. To be fair I did tell the kids that we could all sleep in today because we all had sleepless nights all weekend, but noon?
And the second thing I dont want to share is that it is now 12:17 pm and I havent gone downstairs yet. I decided that since the house sounds quiet I will check my email before going downstairs. So, the day is getting started WAY lateand thats OK, but I really hate to admit that I slept in so very late. I didnt even need to because I was up at 9 am and just wanted to sleep in because I could. The day will be redeemed and I bet you anything that my teen daughter was up at 7 am doing her Geometry. (We are not done with school yet because we got started late and they all know what they need to do to get done. For teen it is to finish geometry and biology and she is really working overtime. I am so proud of her :) )
12:55 pm I actually didnt go downstairs until this timedarned email ;)
I went downstairs and found teen daughter working on her Geometry (told you so) and other children just puttering around doing nothing. Totally expected that. I got them all moving on something.
2:18 pm This is what Ive accomplished today (so far):
1. Swiffered
2. Got son to start on his math
3. Got small daughters to start on their independent school work
4. Managed to upset teen daughter who was already half done with her school work
5. Ate breakfast
6. Took dog out
7. Got back online because I had a question for friend and needed to ask it asap or I would forget
I think thats it.
The day went pretty well, mainly because I decided to have a good attitude and not let myself feel guilty about sleeping in so long.
I cleaned out my room this is where we piled all the school stuff to clean up for our weekend party. Didnt clean it all out, but got a good start.
Little girls somehow kept managing to drift back to their iPads all day but that was OK (at least I told myself that it was) because most of their school work is done with me and I wasnt doing anything with them. They are essentially done with school anyway, Im just keeping them going until the older kids are done just for the heck of it.
Teen daughter got a bunch of math and science done today. Took a geometry test and received a 100% and received a 96% on a biology test woo hoo!
Son did math all day, at least most of the day. He didnt get up until 12:30pm so I really wasnt doing all that bad with my sleeping in. He has a bunch of math to finish before Ill let him be done with his year and he. is. slow. Not unintelligent, just a slow poke. His brain just goes and goes and goes and it seems not to want to think about math. He did pretty well today though.
5 pm We didnt make any supper but ate leftovers instead. We had more than enough to make everyone happy.
Immediately after supper I started working on more world history worksheets that I want my teen to do. She needs to complete a bunch more before Ill let her be done with history. I totally messed up with history this year but its pulling together.
9 pm Kids went to bed, hubby and I had couch time (will explain that some other day Im tired now) then we watched a video but I cant tell you what it was about because that is a secret. NO! Not anything bad. LOL
9:30 pm I knew that I would be staying up late so I went out for ice cream. I keep thinking about that nummy Edys Maxx Butterfinger ice cream. Oh it is so good. Dont know when Ill ever learn though because I am dairy intolerant. LOL
It is now the next day at 2:17 am. I am on my first day of home school planning for next year. Of all the scenarios I could think of the plan that made the most sense was for me to stay up late and sleep in until I got the school planning done. I dont really think that I thought this through very well though. I cant sleep in tomorrow. Maybe Ill have a truly bad day to write about tomorrow.
I need to be alone in order to think and in order to do my school planning I really need to be able to think. The other options were kick the kids out of the house all day for several days at a time (possibly weeks) or do the planning very slowly whenever my husband could take the kids out. I really need to be home to do this because all our books are here and I want to see what we have and hopefully use some of it rather than buy more materials. I also think better when Im at my own computer, alone.
One year I went to the library to do it but that only lasted one night. I was not alone, I was not at home and some creepy guy kept looking at me. I could not think.
Thats it for the day. Hopefully Ill go to bed soon, but for some reason I am not tired (2:28 am). Couldnt be the Pepsi Max, could it?
P.S. You can subscribe to my posts :)
