Friday; weekend, finally! Even though I don’t work outside of the home, when weekend comes around, all my burdens lighten a little bit, and I feel like I have a chance to catch up, physically and mentally. This week was especially challenging because of deadlines, our homeschooling argument, lack of motivation, a small bout of food poisoning (me), which made me fall behind on housework, which in turn quickly transformed our house into a disaster area! It’s at times like these it’s nice to hear other homeschoolers point out that they’ve gone through this kind of thing as well, or other mothers admit that their children too, have tantrums. Thank you Kristi, who suggested pie charts to show how our children’s time is spent when homeschooling/going to school. I haven’t needed to produce such visual aid just yet – my arguments were convincing enough (for now) – but I will certainly keep it in mind.
We ended up making this a very slow week with few schoolbooks involved, but lots of reading out loud (August is reading Harry Potter to William, and I’m reading The Story of the World to them, as well as a book on Robespierre), great, big, messy science experiments, and vivid discussions around the dinner table about various subjects. Now the house is clean (or at least not as messy anymore), the boys have a weekend full of social engagements ahead of them, and we will be able to start afresh on Sunday again.
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