So. Much. To. Do.

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.