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Four thirty-eight.

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Week one.

Day one.

I have a pot of emergency chili simmering on the stove.  It's not an emergency, I suppose, but it's a good day for emergency chili anyway.

I have read eleven pages of Winnie-the-Pooh to the younger children.  

I have spent ten minutes drilling phonics with my brand-new kindergartener.  I have assigned a journal entry about our Colorado vacation.  I have administered spelling instruction based on the five misspelled words in said journal entry (our, family, vacation, fountain, too).  I have made the oldest read stories to the youngest while I taught the math lesson to the middlest.  I have listened to recorder practice.  I have gone to the gym and had a yoga class because the pool was closed for maintenance, and did I mention that every homeschooling parent ought to go to a yoga class in the middle of the first day of school?  Highly recommended.

We had tea.  I served packaged cookies and read Tikki-Tikki-Tembo.   I remembered to say grace.

Since we arrived home from Colorado just yesterday afternoon, we've still got some catching up — the grocery shopping has to be done tonight, for instance.   I am tired, tired, tired.  But pleased with how the day went anyway.  Oscar's not quite done with his math, but I am pretty confident he will finish in time to go shopping with his dad and siblings, and leave me to stretch out for a well-deserved nap after dinner.

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4 responses to “Four thirty-eight.”

  1. Kim (in IA) Avatar
    Kim (in IA)

    Go Erin! Yea for yoga.
    We officially started last week by changing our morning routine (get up, get dressed, do a few sit-at-the-table activities). So far, so good. Feel like I’m easing into this with my oldest in Kindergarten.
    I will use you as my inspiration to not let the trips to the gym slip down on my priority list with everything else.

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  2. bearing Avatar
    bearing

    Oh, definitely don’t let it slip! Enlist everyone in the family to make it happen. One thing that other homeschoolers have said to me over and over and over: if it’s going to work out, Mom has to take care of herself. There may not be much time, but whatever the minimum is that keeps you sane and healthy, that has to happen.
    The other thing I have learned is that whatever new and difficult habit you are trying to establish — that one has to have highest priority and maybe happen as soon as it can in the day. I remember when we were beginning with Oscar, with what we called “table time.”

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  3. Alishia Avatar
    Alishia

    I’m just wondering how you make it to the gym in the middle of the day?

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  4. bearing Avatar
    bearing

    In my car.
    No, seriously, this is an established Monday morning routine by now. I live about a mile away from the YMCA where we are members, and where my three children are comfortable in the child care. We have a music class at 9:15 (it hasn’t started yet for the year, so we went to the playground instead) and after that I drive to the Y, sign the children into childcare, and exercise, then shower for the day before picking up the kids. I usually sign them in about 10:30 and sign them out about 11:45. My 4th grader is supposed to do schoolwork, which he brings with him, during that time, but my younger children play. Monday is the only day of the week that I exercise during the school day instead of in the evening.

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