I’m so tickled to be right here on the third day in a row simply sharing life. I have to and can get again to some extra curated content- recipes, Friday favorites, and many others, however gosh proper now it feels good to simply present up and chat with you. I’m so inspired by your responses that you simply miss this model of running a blog, too. It’s much less in your face, isn’t it? That’s how I really feel studying my favourite blogs. Like I can simply drop in when it really works in my schedule and test in with a buddy. I hope you are feeling that approach right here.
Sufficient waxing poetic, let’s chat a few much less balanced day 🙂
Thursdays have been our tremendous full days and yesterday was no exception. I wakened (6:15- attempting to slowly transfer again to that 6:00 mark), had espresso, wrote my weblog publish, then realized I had skipped proper over my accessible window to stroll the canine. Sorry, Finley. She received a fast up and down the driveway, then I headed to the kitchen to prep breakfast and pack lunch on the similar time.
Breakfast was Greek yogurt with chia seeds and no grain granola with two fried eggs and my traditional cod liver oil and vitamin D. Whereas I ate that, I prepped some earl Gray tea to go, washed the produce, and threw lunch stuff into our massive cooler. I received dressed and the women and I have been out the door on the way in which to co-op by 8:30 (ish… humorous how that will get later and later as we get nearer to the final co-op day).
Our co-op is tremendous candy and we’ve loved it a lot. We begin with morning time which consists of composer examine, artist examine, and bible examine, then I help in science for the oldest youngsters (we performed with circuits), then I helped with the toddlers, then music with the younger youngsters, then lunch, nature examine (my fav!), and ended with Shakespeare. We stayed afterwards to let the youngsters play within the health club (basketball after which some fierce dodgeball) and the mothers chat. It’s my favourite time of the day!
We’ll miss seeing this candy group weekly after we change co-ops subsequent yr. We’ll be switching to an possibility the place I don’t have to show so I can focus solely on my youngsters’ curriculum and classes, which was a little bit of a battle for me this yr since I’d spend Wednesday prepping and Thursday instructing different youngsters. It felt like we missed two homeschool days and on the ages my women are at, we have to modify.
We left the church simply shy of 4:00, which meant a fast flip round at residence. I threw in freezer meatballs in my trusty Dutch oven gradual cooker, ate a fast snack (cottage cheese and BBQ chips), grabbed and Spindrift, and Okay and I have been again out the door by 4:20 to go to theater rehearsal.
She had rehearsal till 8:00 and whereas she did that I returned telephone calls, swung by Goal to get a child birthday reward and a mud pan, and received gasoline at Costco. We received residence round 9:00 (it’s fairly a drive for us to the theater) the place I inhaled some spaghetti and meatballs, poured myself a magnesium, and chatted with the household earlier than all of us headed to mattress shortly after. It’s bizarre when your bedtime turns into the identical as your youngsters!
Theater runs via this weekend, with three extra performances. I’ve blended emotions on this system we’ve been a part of this spring, as they allowed everybody who auditioned into the present, leading to a ton of tiny components (assume two minutes of stage time for a 80 minute manufacturing). Mix that with a demanding schedule and obligatory volunteer hours on high of the month-to-month price, and it was… rather a lot.
Nevertheless, they’re adjusting issues for the autumn musical theater arrange and now Okay (and perhaps even H!) wish to audition. It has me considering rather a lot about household priorities and find out how to match these up with child actions. I’m an enormous believer in the good thing about free time. It’s one of many causes we homeschool- time to discover private pursuits, play exterior, be bored, and many others. I additionally see the advantages of activities- studying find out how to be a part of a crew, sportsmanship, achieve expertise in performing/chatting with a crowd, and many others.
I’ve mentioned all spring season lengthy, that we’d be signing up for much less within the fall. However determining precisely what that appears like is difficult. H is pretty simple; she desires to do piano and soccer. However now she’s inquisitive about musical theater as properly. Okay desires to do musical theater, soccer, softball, TKD, and voice classes. Clearly we cannot (and don’t wish to) cart her round to all of these. Plus the women will do youth group on the church, which is one evening every week.
Add in appointments (chiropractor, dentist, hair cuts, and all the opposite little issues that pop up) and co-op and we’ll be setting ourselves up for one more drive-happy fall.
All mothers know now we have to begin figuring these things out by summer time as a result of that’s when all of the registration occurs, so I’m curious the way you deal with this. I’ve buddies that do nothing exterior the house and their lives look idyllic- gradual evenings, unrushed mornings, time to make lovely dinners, and youngsters exploring exterior. My coronary heart principally craves that, however but I additionally love cheering on my youngsters from the sidelines and watching them shine up on stage. Is there a stability to be struck or is it merely a season of life that will get just a little crazier and also you simply buckle up and benefit from the experience?
For those who’ve figured it out (or in the event you haven’t), I’d be curious as to find out how to A) plan to deal with it when you have little youngsters B) are dealing with it in the event you’re in the identical season or C) dealt with it when your youngsters have been on this stage and in the event you (in hindsight) would have modified something or have any recommendation.
And in the event you’re simply silent studying out of your telephone in the present day, that’s OK, too. 😉 Thanks for stopping by and I hope you may have a beautiful weekend! Oh, and one final image from our busy day- proof of dinner and loopy youngsters wrestling on the sofa.
