Here I am smack dab between two of the biggest holidays of the year. Christmas is behind us, New Years is ahead. I don’t have a thing scheduled to do and I am taking full advantage of it.
For the first time in our 17 years of home schooling, we took the month of December off. I hadn’t planned it that way, it just kind of happened. I just couldn’t see us really getting anything done. At least, not done well. We were expecting #2 son home from college. I knew once he walked through the door life would not be the same around here. We were busy with holiday festivities and besides all that, I was tired.
Do you ever just get tired of home schooling? I do. I did. In times past, I would just keep on going. Trying to get things done even though my heart wasn’t in to it. I would end up getting frrustrated and so would the kids. I was too tired to deal with a bunch of frustrated kids. So, we took the month off. I’ll let you know come May and probably even June if we’ll ever do that again. The reason I never took December off before is because I knew that once June got here, I wouldn’t want to be doing school anymore. Ever since the kids have gotten in the upper grades and are fully aware of the PS schedule, they don’t want to do school in the summer. I’ve tried doing school through the summer but I didn’t like it either. There was always just too much going on to try and do school. So this time we’ll see if we can get it all done by the end of May or not.
One thing this December break has done for me is to give me a chance to start again come January. We were having a great year. There wasn’t really any problems but now we’ll get to start again and even have a different schedule or change of strategy if necessary.
One thing I plan on changing is another thing I’ve never done before. I’ve been on Weight Watchers since June. It has been very hard for me to keep motivated since school started in September. I was attending meetings on Tuesday mornings during the summer. I really liked going then. The only other time to go in this area is Monday night. Since school started, I had decided to start going on Monday night. That meant I had to stay in town after being there all day with co-op and orchestra activities. Every other week I couldn’t stay for the meeting because I had a ladies’ Bible class. It was hard.
So, my new plan is to go to Weight Watchers on Tuesday morning and start school after lunch. We did it a couple of weeks in November. The boys weren’t too excited about it but I really need to do this for me. I might even try to get the grocery shopping done before I get home. But then, I might not. That would end up taking the whole day and we wouldn’t get school started until 3:00. I don’t think that would work.
My schedule starting January is:
Monday: Co-op Day
10:00 teach Latin
10:30 enjoy the other mom’s company at co-op while kids take classes (or go run some errands)
1:30 teach beginning string orchestra
3:00 teach advanced string orchestra
4:30 go home
Tuesday:
9:00 AM Weight Watchers
10:00 AM Go home?
11:30 AM lunch
12:00 start school
3:00 or 4:00 finish school
Wednesday:
8:30 Start School
12:00 Lunch
3:30 Possibly start 2 new piano students
7:00 Bible class
Thursday
8:30 Start School
12:00 Lunch
1:30 -5:30 Teach Violin lessons
Friday 8:30 Start School
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Friday Fun Activites (if any are schedule)
