A DAY IN THE LIFE OF………………
Things are always crazy at our house. Here’ s a run down of a typical day in the life of a homeschooling, part-time working, home making mom and wife:6:30am -arise, shower, dress - stumbling over suitcase, mound of dirty laundry, and clutter7:00am -ascend to the attic, pull down Hope’s fall winter box of clothes, have daughter try on8:00am -all fall clothes are either on hangers or in a bag to give away8:05am - begin the daunting task of a week’s worth of laundry8:15 am - proceed to kitchen to make waffles. It’s not too hard because I have the mix made up. Hope can plug in the waffle iron, measure 1 cup of mix, buttermilk, crack and egg and she’s good to go. She wants chocolate chips on hers. She’s in luck, there are a few in the bag!8:30 am - time to start school. This is our first year to try this. Hope has a new Latin program and she LOVES it. She picks Latin to start her week. Also, I have the boys up by now to get an early start on chores and school. This place is a train wreck! Sometime Micah makes his own waffle - with chocolate chips too.9:00 am - Latin, Cursive Without Tears Handwriting, and Spelling are complete. I’ve also taken a couple of work calls and have payroll “issues” to deal with. I set Hope up on www.freerice.com to work on her vocabulary while I deal with payroll.9:30 MATH - not Hope’s Favorite and we eventually have a few tears today. Don’t they make a MATH WITHOUT TEARS program TOO? 9:50 Ethan leaves for work at the local diner. He works a double shift on Mondays. We won’t see him until after 8pm.10:00am Mommy needs a break from Hope’s math as bad as Hope does. I switch out laundry and fold the 3 loads that are in baskets (some laundry was left unfolded from last washing).10:30 I check on Micah who is working on Algebra upstairs. He moans he’s OK. I think some protein and fruit would help his thinking power, so we all have apples and peanut butter for a snack.11:00 After more laundry and loading the dishwasher, Hope and I head back to the desk for more school.11:15 Tuna Fish Salad is on the menu today for lunch so I proceed to kitchen to boil a couple of eggs. Return to help Hope. Micah calls for help on ALGEBRA. He’s frustrated because he can’t tell if his calculator rounds the last digit or not. He’s studying terminating and infinite integers. I don’t remember studying this in school. I have to look up the answers and work backwards to be able to help him. 12:00 I continue reading MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN to Micah and Hope. I am enjoying learning the things I should have learned a long time ago, with my kids.12:15 LUNCH TIME. Hope makes GRAPE KOOLAID, we open some fresh LAYS chips and make our sandwiches. We usually go upstairs and watch a 30 minute program like DICK VAN DYKE, or JOHN and KATE PLUS 8. Today we watch VERMINATORS on DISCOVERY. The feature of the day was a house infested with cockroaches. I don’t know why we are watching this while eating lunch?1:00 More laundry. It’s time to hit the books again. I review the first 2 chapters of American History with Hope. I am pleased with her progress. She is frustrated she can’t remember all the names and places. When I asked her who PONCE DE LEON was - she told me, “Wasn’t he the guy who searched for that POND OF YOUTH?” She cracks me up! Micah is finishing his ALGEBRA and starting SCIENCE.2:00 Sometime I unintentionally fall asleep on my bed, which is where I was reading to Hope. I wake up face down, my left arm and hand are asleep, in a pool of drool. Hope has gone AWOL since I fell asleep. Ethan calls and needs a phone number.3:00 I head to town to check the mail at the office. Then head to the bank to deposit a check for work. I’m back home before 4pm. Of course more laundry is washed and dried so I switch and fold again.5:00 Hope is roaming around bored and telling me there’s NOTHING TO DO. So I get her to help me clean my bathroom. Micah cleans the other one. We are all busy cleaning with the stereo cranked up. Things are looking better.6:15 meatloaf and potatoes go in the oven to bake. Richard is home. Micah mops the kitchen voluntarily - because he’s “tired of stepping on crumbs with his bare feet.” He also says he’d like to know what it’s like to have the whole house cleaned at once. ME TOO!7:15 We toss a salad and burn some toast. We eat dinner and watch an episode of DICK VAN DYKE. 8:00 Richard’s phone alerts an appointment. It says WALK.8:30 Richard Hope and I set out on a walk in the dark. Hope thinks it would be fun to walk in her PJ’s. Micah rides his bike. There is no moon tonight, so it’s pretty dark. Ethan arrives home right before we leave.9:00 pm more laundry, load the dishwasher. Porch swing time with hubby9:45 reading with Hope10:00 Tuck Hope in Bed10:15 Ethan and Micah are doing a Literature Through Movies program this year. They settle down with blankets and THE QUIET MAN with Cary Grant. They will watch a total of 17 classics and write essays on each one. This course is refreshing after so many years of books.Switch out laundry again. Thankfully my sheets are clean and dry just in time for bed. I check on a couple of home school programs in my TOP 100 PICKS book.10:35 Clean sheets are on the bed - Richard and I call it a day.Every day is very different around here. There was nothing spectacular about our day. But I am thankful for our time together. It was a good day, just a long and hard one.
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