Life is flying by in a blur.
I had no idea that having children would make the
hands on a clock spin like my ceiling fan on high!
There is always too much laundry, never enough
hours in the day and as soon as I finish making one meal it's time to start
prepping for another.
Most of the time I don't really mind. Honestly, I'm
pretty much a procrastinator when it comes to cleaning the house so if time
runs out and I haven't had a chance to dust the funiture or scrub the toilets
I'm not overly concerned.
The laundry however is my nemesis.
Seriously...Does the crap breed in the dark on the
floor in the basement?
Even with the best intentions, I can never seem to
get it washed dried and folded fast enough and most times it makes it as far as
the "laundry chair" in the family room. David's clothes are on the
left arm, Daniel's clothes are on the right arm, their dad and I share the top
of the back of the chair and pajamas and underwear are on the end table.
This has been the way I've done it since the kids
were born.
Why screw with a good thing, right?
If you are here visiting and the chair is cleaned
off it just means that I was expecting you.
My previous babysitter stopped over with her mom
one afternoon and, noticing that the "laundry chair" was indeed
living up to it's name, stated that she'd never see the chair without clothes
on it.
Her mother gasped...I laughed.
It was true!
There are things in life that are more important
than whether or not the laundry is put away.
Homeschooling my kids this year would be one of
them.
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If I could
afford it, the kids would be in preschool. Unfortunately, I can't, so they
aren't.
After doing some research, which thanks to Google
is crazy easy, I decided that homeschooling for preschool won't be terribly
hard so I'm trying.
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| David's Solar System |
David is totally into it. He loves learning. He is
my type "A" kid who loves to
figure stuff out and will choose to watch educational shows on his Kindle
Junior. He knows names of dinosaurs that I can neither pronounce nor even knew
about when I was a kid and recently grasped the concept that the sun is the
center of the Solar System.
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| X is for x-ray |
Daniel on the other hand loves to sound out the
letters to make words but hates to do his writing exercises so much that he
discovered that writing Dan is faster than Daniel so all of his stuff has Dan
on it now.
"Dan" isn't the best at following directions and tends to be a
"color wherever the heck he wants to rather than inside the lines"
kind of kid. However, he loves numbers and is going to be an amazing mathematician.
Well, as soon as he figures out that
"eleventeen" is not actually a number.
Our days are crazy, stressful, happy, frustrating
and in general just a bit of a whirlwind. My house is not spotless, but my kids
are happy and smart.
There will be plenty of time when the kids are
older, and don't want anything to do with me, to clean the house.
These years will be over before I know it and life
will take on a different level of crazy. Being present with my kids is so much
more important than whether or not the toilets are clean.
Besides, I can dust tomorrow!
