It’s been a really long day, at the end of a really long week.<\/p>\n
Life has informed us that for now, our future is in Florida. \u00a0With that fact in hand plus the upcoming arrival of another little one, we have started to feel the push (maybe more of a shove) to find a new home for our growing family. \u00a0The week has been spent visiting possible homes, scouring the internet for available places and sleepless nights contemplating different places and whether or not they could work.<\/p>\n
Add this on top of our usual weekly schedule of classes, meetups and life (you know, eating, sleeping, bathing…) plus\u00a0my killer morning sickness and school has been a challenge this week.<\/p>\n
Despite my best efforts to get the girls doing their work. \u00a0Despite my constant nagging for them to be on task. \u00a0Despite my begging other people to help them complete their assignments while I’ve been away. \u00a0We made it to\u00a0Friday and the girls had only done about 1\/10 of their WEEKLY work.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, it’s not been our best homeschooling day. \u00a0Usually I wouldn’t worry about a day or even a week being a little bit off, but we’ve been off since starting back in January and I can sense I’m losing the routine and the girls’ interest and cooperation. \u00a0After a morning of taking care of other business, we returned home for lunch and got to work.<\/p>\n
But it didn’t go well. \u00a0Constant reminding. \u00a0Yelling. \u00a0And even crying (me and Doodle mostly) we\u00a0nearly<\/em> got our work done. \u00a0And it made me realize something: I’ve not been honest about homeschooling on the blog.<\/p>\n I’ve explained why we made the choice<\/a>;\u00a0how much we love it<\/a> and have achieved in a short time<\/a>; and I’ve even listed 100 reasons homeschool is great<\/a> (because it really is!) \u00a0But it is also really, really hard sometimes.<\/p>\n I’m in this completely on my own. \u00a0I am responsible for researching, planning, implementing, instructing, monitoring, grading, reviewing and assessing. \u00a0And I do it all without planning days (or evenings or weekends), without sick days, without an aide, without a principal or curriculum coordinator, without any help whatsoever. \u00a0And it’s not that I’m not up for the task, it’s just that it’s a lot of work on top of being a stay-at-home mommy to three and pregnant (and attempting to be a moderately legitimate blogger).<\/p>\n When my children act out, I can’t send them to someone else for discipline. \u00a0When they don’t complete their work, I can’t send it home or blame anyone else except them and myself. \u00a0When they’re sick (or I’m sick) I’m still responsible for their care. \u00a0And while we may only do actual school work for 2-3 hours a day, our days are 10 hours long.<\/p>\n