It's 5 days until my shoulder surgery, and I have so much to do. I need to come up with some easy to cook and eat meals for at least the first week when my husband will be cooking, cleaning, kid caring, basically everything including keeping me happy and comfortable. Not to mention all the laundry that needs to get done (I'd like him to start with a clean slate as far as laundry) and all the homeschool stuff.
Speaking of homeschooling, we received all of our supplies from Connections Academy on Tuesday night (2 nights ago). So I logged onto my Learning Coach home page that night and found out that they had been assigning stuff to Bella since MONDAY, so we were already like 11 lessons behind, UGH. Since I hate seeing the words "overdue lessons" we have been working hard to get caught up; as of now we only have 4 overdue lessons left, but by tomorrow we will have more since we didn't get to today's lessons. I am determined to get her caught up and even ahead before my surgery on Tuesday since I won't be teaching her on Tuesday or Wednesday, and my husband does't have the patience to teach her. Oh, and the kids are starting soccer next week so the husband will also have to be taking them to soccer practice while I am recovering.
An unexpected benefit of homeschooling has been that I actually have more patience with Bella in general. Seeing how she learns and how she gets frustrated so easily has given me a better appreciation of why she was so stressed in school, and why she needs ME to teach her at this point in time. We are also becoming closer because we spend a lot of time together, which we are both loving! She especially loves to ask me, several times though our the day during various activities, "are you mommy or are you teacher right now?"
Now if I can just get my eating and working out back on track, my life will feel pretty balanced...all in good time, though. I am being gentle with myself with that stuff since I have shoulder surgery and a venous closure coming up soon. The healthy eating will be back on track sooner because the husband and I will be doing Whole30 soon while my shoulder recovers. All I am focused on right now is getting through both procedures, and being 100% physically healthy again.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Homeschool Day 1
I really wanted to come up with a clever title for this, but it's almost 14:00 and I am just now sitting down for lunch because I am exhausted. I love it, though. I feel like quitting my job outside the home was the best decision for us right now, no matter how stressful it is financially.
My goal was always to start homeschooling the day after Labor Day but I'd hoped that I'd have the Connections Academy curriculum by now. Due to paperwork issues, B just got 100% enrolled today, so we don't have the materials yet; so today we were on our own :) Since the kids are very close to the same level academically, today was pretty easy and fun. I had downloaded several educational apps on my Kindle, so we read some online books, did numbers games, and did matching games. Then the kids rode their bikes for 35 minutes while i walked with them. B wasn't too sure about the whole school thing at first (she HATED regular school & was very stressed), but when she realized that it was fun, she was all in! B is also starting soccer tonight, so she will get to meet friends and interact with more kids which makes us both happy.
One of the things that I like about homeschooling is the flexibility, which is about to become very important to me. Our schedule is already going to be busy with homeschool, soccer, play dates (through the local homeschooling group), CrossFit (including my intern duties) and church, and it's only going to get worse when i have shoulder surgery on the 16th of this month. Yes, I am that crazy woman who is homeschooling 2 kids, taking care of 7 pets, and getting shoulder surgery. Yes, my husband will be helping some for the first week, but he also has a job in which he cannot take off a lot of time. Hopefully I will feel okay enough to blog about my shoulder surgery.
Okay, so now I need to get ready to take the kids to the grocery store and shopping for soccer stuff for tonight. I really think I might need a hot bath tonight.
My goal was always to start homeschooling the day after Labor Day but I'd hoped that I'd have the Connections Academy curriculum by now. Due to paperwork issues, B just got 100% enrolled today, so we don't have the materials yet; so today we were on our own :) Since the kids are very close to the same level academically, today was pretty easy and fun. I had downloaded several educational apps on my Kindle, so we read some online books, did numbers games, and did matching games. Then the kids rode their bikes for 35 minutes while i walked with them. B wasn't too sure about the whole school thing at first (she HATED regular school & was very stressed), but when she realized that it was fun, she was all in! B is also starting soccer tonight, so she will get to meet friends and interact with more kids which makes us both happy.
One of the things that I like about homeschooling is the flexibility, which is about to become very important to me. Our schedule is already going to be busy with homeschool, soccer, play dates (through the local homeschooling group), CrossFit (including my intern duties) and church, and it's only going to get worse when i have shoulder surgery on the 16th of this month. Yes, I am that crazy woman who is homeschooling 2 kids, taking care of 7 pets, and getting shoulder surgery. Yes, my husband will be helping some for the first week, but he also has a job in which he cannot take off a lot of time. Hopefully I will feel okay enough to blog about my shoulder surgery.
Okay, so now I need to get ready to take the kids to the grocery store and shopping for soccer stuff for tonight. I really think I might need a hot bath tonight.
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