I've been out of commission for awhile. I've had health issues and a preschooler with mono, a toddler who needed ear tube surgery and I had a home birth two months before my husband came home from deployment. Those are the highlights folks. So I've been away. Sadly, I have to say that with all of that homeschooling fell by the wayside. This year my Preschooler will be in preschool and my toddler and infant will be home. I have tons of things to blog about but homeschooling will be revisited in the future and if I learn something about it I will definitely post. My focus in general will be on balancing wife-hood, motherhood and developing as a person. It's a hard balance and many women (my self at the front of the line) struggle to find time for self. I also find it hard in this season, with three kids four and under, to get daily house hold needs met. My household responsibilities are willie nillie right now. They get done when I can fit them in. I have yet to find a good dinner making schedule, routine, etc. They baby gets demanding in the evenings and my dear husband gets home at wacky hours at times. So we dwell in a nutty house right now. And I am gonna tell you how I am trying to find balance. And you get to laugh and cry at my efforts. I will try to update weekly but given I have three kids that may or may not sleep through the night on any given night I ask for Grace in this effort. We have renovations going on in the house and are planning to move for the military in less than a year to, well, we don't know yet. Please feel free to comment and add suggestions to what ever craziness has comes my way and how to deal with it.
I hope to have a post up next week that has been on my mind for months. I just have to translate it from the million and one thoughts in my head to something readable on screen. Until then God bless.
Love where you are going with this Kathy...Boy you do have little ones and you are a very brave woman. I'm going into my second year of being teacher and mom to my girls. It is of course much more difficult than I expected it to be. We live in a struggling school district (in Orange County CA) and not only are the classrooms overcrowded (my oldest was in a mixed 3/4th grade and a mixed 4th/5th grade class of 40) but they had to move the GATE program to only two schools in the district (neither of which are near us) and the girls were already been moved up a grade level when we moved here from out of state. As they approach middle school (the oldest daughter) it becomes clearer to me that it is challenging on many levels to be the younger girl in a classroom. In your case you are right on sista....you are not in a position this year to start homeschooling.... I know other's will say it's easier then getting them to school and back each day but with children your age you have to do whatever "works" for your sanity and for keeping your head above water. Good luck on your blog and in all of your endeavors. Lisa -aka-Mama Pajauma (yes I know that is the incorrect spelling but it's the phonetic spelling.... kind of...)
ReplyDeleteShould have proofed my comment...please forgive the typos and other errors....
Delete"The girls were already moved up a grade level"... Okay...now back to packing...yuk