I thought when I started homeschooling the hardest thing I would face would be worrying whether my children were getting all the knowledge they needed. Am I using the right curriculum, teaching the right skills, covering enough material in a year? But, no the hardest thing I have faced while homeschooling is finding time for myself. That time when you unplug from being a mom, daughter and wife. When you can be creative and enjoy just doing something for fun.
As I have noted in other posts I love to scrapbook. I have a cabinet full of fun toys to use to create my ideal scrapbook pages. The hard part is finding the time. I always say that Sunday afternoon is my time to scrap, but it hardly ever seems to happen that way.
To get in the creative mood I like to be alone with my music playing and just enjoy the flow of creating. That is hard to do when there are constant interruptions of children, parents and phone calls. I know, I know it sounds selfish and even childish to complain about this. But every other moment of everyday is taken up with doing for everyone else, and that's okay. After a while though I tend to get resentful because everyone else has that time alone but me. I have thought about doing it after the kids go to bed at night, but by then I am to tired to even think about creating. Something is going to have to give. I know I am heading for a burnout.
So my object this week is to find time to create and have my time alone somewhere in our crazy schedule. I wish I just had the demands of my two youngins on me but there is so much more. At times I feel so overwhelmed I can't breathe. I just need to find that healthy balance. I may need a map for that one;)
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Happy Valentine's Day!
I know its a day early but if tomorrow is as busy as my week has been then I thought I better blog while I have a chance.
My hubby came home tonight and the kids wanted to exchange Valentines, so we did. Poogie got a sweet teddy bear, candy and Madagascar 2 movie. TT got a collectible skateboard, candy, and money. He is saving for a skateboard that he has been eyeing in Nashville. My hubby got some movies, Transporter, Transporter 2, and A Good Year, plus candy. I got the movie RocknRolla, a love teddy bear and candy. So I guess we all did pretty good.
The kids have had a week full of swim team practice, dance, Valentine parties and park day. We didn't even attempt school this week due to TT's earache. He really hurt with it up until yesterday. That said we were still busy even though we missed the YMCA Tuesday for TT.
Tomorrow I plan on hanging out around the house, maybe scrapbooking a little. Hubby will be getting new tires put on my van thank goodness. Then for Valentine's we are going to stay in and cook here, watch some of our movies and just cuddle. We have tired to go out for Valentine's in the past and it is a nightmare. The restaurants are crazy.
Sunday I hope to prepare lessons and the house for our first full week of school with swim lessons too. It should prove to be exciting.
My hubby came home tonight and the kids wanted to exchange Valentines, so we did. Poogie got a sweet teddy bear, candy and Madagascar 2 movie. TT got a collectible skateboard, candy, and money. He is saving for a skateboard that he has been eyeing in Nashville. My hubby got some movies, Transporter, Transporter 2, and A Good Year, plus candy. I got the movie RocknRolla, a love teddy bear and candy. So I guess we all did pretty good.
The kids have had a week full of swim team practice, dance, Valentine parties and park day. We didn't even attempt school this week due to TT's earache. He really hurt with it up until yesterday. That said we were still busy even though we missed the YMCA Tuesday for TT.
Tomorrow I plan on hanging out around the house, maybe scrapbooking a little. Hubby will be getting new tires put on my van thank goodness. Then for Valentine's we are going to stay in and cook here, watch some of our movies and just cuddle. We have tired to go out for Valentine's in the past and it is a nightmare. The restaurants are crazy.
Sunday I hope to prepare lessons and the house for our first full week of school with swim lessons too. It should prove to be exciting.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Our latest adventures...
I can't believe I haven't blogged in so long, but that's what happens when you go on a trip. I finally got to go home to Mid Missouri to visit my family and friends. I was so pumped up about it I could hardly sleep last Thursday night.
This was my first visit in almost 2 years and the first Homecoming I had went to since 1991. Now, when you haven't seen some of your classmates in 18 years it can be quite a shock. Some I wouldn't have recognized if I passed them on the street and others were just the same.
It was very emotional for me watching the boys' basketball game and the homecoming queen and her court. It seems just like yesterday that my niece and I were walking across that gym floor in our gowns, nervous as hell, and waiting to hear the name of the 1990 homecoming queen. It turned out to be her, not me thank goodness. I just wanted to get to the dance and the parties.
Our Junior Varsity won their game but our Varsity lost. Such as the way it goes in our hometown. Our boys always seem to be so small up against the Amazons from the other towns.
Anywho, we ended up staying up way to late every night visiting, and getting up early to go to my nephews basketball games. We got to seem them play 5 games Saturday. 3 for the oldest and 2 for the youngest. Whew, we were on basketball overload. But it was so fun watching the kids of my niece and other classmates play ball.
It was a fun trip and an enlightening one. Up until then I had been thinking that to move up there to my small town would be the answer to my prayers. It is so nice to know everyone you see, and the parents of the kids your child would go to school with. But then I got to thinking and talking with my family on the way home. We come to the conclusion that we liked our life just the way it is. TT wouldn't mind going to school there if he had to, but he is so much happier doing what we are doing. Poogie knew all along she didn't want to go anywhere to school no matter what.
I also found that I do miss my friends from home desperately, but I also missed my friends from here. In the last year we have made some of the best friendships of our lives. I'm just not ready to give that up. I want my kids to enjoy having friends who like them for who they are, not what they wear, where they live or who their parents are. Homeschooling is the right fit for us. No matter how hard it gets at times I know this is where I should be. And that feels pretty good.
This was my first visit in almost 2 years and the first Homecoming I had went to since 1991. Now, when you haven't seen some of your classmates in 18 years it can be quite a shock. Some I wouldn't have recognized if I passed them on the street and others were just the same.
It was very emotional for me watching the boys' basketball game and the homecoming queen and her court. It seems just like yesterday that my niece and I were walking across that gym floor in our gowns, nervous as hell, and waiting to hear the name of the 1990 homecoming queen. It turned out to be her, not me thank goodness. I just wanted to get to the dance and the parties.
Our Junior Varsity won their game but our Varsity lost. Such as the way it goes in our hometown. Our boys always seem to be so small up against the Amazons from the other towns.
Anywho, we ended up staying up way to late every night visiting, and getting up early to go to my nephews basketball games. We got to seem them play 5 games Saturday. 3 for the oldest and 2 for the youngest. Whew, we were on basketball overload. But it was so fun watching the kids of my niece and other classmates play ball.
It was a fun trip and an enlightening one. Up until then I had been thinking that to move up there to my small town would be the answer to my prayers. It is so nice to know everyone you see, and the parents of the kids your child would go to school with. But then I got to thinking and talking with my family on the way home. We come to the conclusion that we liked our life just the way it is. TT wouldn't mind going to school there if he had to, but he is so much happier doing what we are doing. Poogie knew all along she didn't want to go anywhere to school no matter what.
I also found that I do miss my friends from home desperately, but I also missed my friends from here. In the last year we have made some of the best friendships of our lives. I'm just not ready to give that up. I want my kids to enjoy having friends who like them for who they are, not what they wear, where they live or who their parents are. Homeschooling is the right fit for us. No matter how hard it gets at times I know this is where I should be. And that feels pretty good.
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