Happy Monday! I hope you and yours are well and happy today. We’re hanging in there. Thank you to those who said they were praying for us after my request for prayers last week. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t accomplish anything on my list last week. I was busy all week from sun up to sun down but with other things so my goals (which were honestly more of the “fun” category) were pushed aside. There seems to be so much going on all the time. We live a pretty simple life and with all the other “stuff” going on in the world, it seems to make things much more full than usual.
Is anyone else shocked that it is almost the middle of July? Last year we started homeschooling year around so we should be in the thick of it right now and we’re not. I don’t even want to think about schooling until September, but I know we have to get started. We worked so hard to build momentum last summer and autumn in certain areas and now we’re losing it. I don’t mean to keep harping on this, but we’re weary. I’m simply not sure how to jump start things in a way that will work for all three of us. I’m trying to find the balance between being responsible and being careful with our mental/emotional health.
I’m sure I’m not the only homeschool mom trying to navigate this struggle. Some homeschool moms have said they and their children do better with structure and so they are getting started as soon as possible. We’re the opposite. Doing schoolwork is something we have to work to fit into our life because we all have a million other things that we could be doing. (And would rather be doing. Ahem.)
So my goal for this week is only one thing.
Goal 1 – Figure out our homeschooling for the coming months. A rough plan for the year, including when to actually start. A weekly plan. A daily plan. A curriculum plan. And so on. If I accomplish nothing else this week I will be perfectly happy. This is hanging over my head and it’s exhausting.
What is going on in your world this week? What are you hoping to work on around your home?
Artwork: “Girl with Two Kittens” by Albert Anker
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Hello Sallie;
Thanks for this honest and straight forward post.
The events of the last few months have affected your loved ones and you far more drastically than our home. It’s “squeezing” on your freedom and it will impact one deeply and spiritually.
Our youngest is working on science/math, and some electives through the summer. They have settled on what they’ll complete for home learning high. It’s a relief to know that they made those decisions. Don’t worry Sallie, the time will come when your daughter will probably know what she learns well in and you’ll be watching her lead you in those decisions, hee hee.
Keeping good thoughts and prayers going your way 😎
goal 1 – in His word each day
goal 2 – keep those little cleaning jobs going each day
goal 3 – finish the last mending and start that lovely bear. Just need stuffing and restock of thread. I really enjoyed sewing again after much time away from this.
goal 4 – a few new recipes
goal 5 – music history, hebrew classes
Birdie
My goals this week:
1. Sharpen a couple of tools that I need.
2. Glue broken chair back together, and get it out of the laundry room.
3. Rehang a picture.
4. Quick paint over an old canvas, with a better color.
I was actually sitting down and working on my homeschooling plans for this month and next.
I’m going to start them on chemistry and writing next week…. If you hear great screams of pain coming from Texas, you’ll know why.
As to my goals:
1. Read Peace Talks, I’ve been waiting 5 years for the next Dresden Files book to come out.
2. Plan for homeschooling in August.
3. Hopefully write a first draft of history lesson plans for the school year…
Hi Sallie,
I seem to be posting at the end of the week these days, rather than the beginning, but I do think about it and it’s been helpful to know this comes out for the week:).
My goals are simple and concrete because I find my brain can’t do much thinking ahead right now. I don’t now what will be open and how I’ll feel about any of it in the coming months, so we continue to work on the simple, concrete and cozy here right now and are enjoying it. I am partway through so will keep these for next week anyway.
1. Restaking tomato and cucumber plants that are not being well held by original stakes.
2. Finish some pieces in the basement room I cleared for small art/ maker space area:). Looking forward to this!
3. Continuation of college prep for one of the guys (by this I mean him and I looking at household needs for residence/dorm, unfinished paperwork, budgeting payments, etc -I don’t even know exactly – I just know there are more details to think about as far as payment schedule and budgeting, especially with his summer job having been cancelled. This is really just a matter of me continuing to set time to make sure we’re thinking about it and working together, but these are types of things that I’m finding hard to mentally keep attuned to.)