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Of bad beginnings
And so it begins.We have officially begun our 3rd year of homeschooling.
The girls are studying early American History and Mr. Conductor will be spending these first 9 weeks studying about farm life.
We successfully completed our first day back to school.
I say successfully because yes, we did complete everything for that day.
Other than that it wouldn’t rank real high on the Success-O-Meter.
In fact, we all agreed it was the worst First Day we’d ever had.
Everyone sprang out of bed, got dressed and started school.
Breakfast was behind because the special First Day Coffee Cake was taking extra long to bake. In hindsight I should have offered them a mini-pre-breakfast treat.
The first 2 hours went well. The girls were rolling right along- Sassafras was almost completely done and Maiden had knocked out quite a bit of schooling. Mr. Conductor was, however, deciding that my version of school and his were not compatible and promptly left the table after completing half of what I’d planned for the day. He was disgruntled and let me know it.
Then Sassafras went to get her reading book (that she’d taken off the school shelf last week to get an early start on) and could not find it. We then spent the next 45 minutes tearing apart the bedroom in a desperate and ultimately futile search. Now, the book was found- but not in the bedroom—instead it was found after the room was purged, sitting back on the school shelf with a very nice bookmark proudly saluting me. The book search and subsequent bedroom purging did not improve my mommy temperament- in fact it did quite the opposite. Sass was suppose to have cleaned etc. her room and an initial quick inspection made it look like it was- but then our searching upheaval- which included taking off her mattress and setting her bed on its side, lead to a gi-normous hidden cache of miscellaneous (and some forbidden) stuff. And I use the term stuff lightly. That 45 minute search included 1 large trash bag, 3 boxes for the temporary storing of stuff and the hauling upstairs of the vacuum cleaner for a total clean sweep.
And so- to find the book pristinely sitting on the school shelf after I’d threatened with the Mom Voice demanding repayment and retribution for items found in the cache was completely unnerving and did not bring the sweet relief it would have had it been found sooner. After that harrowing 45 minutes and me sitting there in my dirty, nasty- sweaty disgust, well let’s just say it was a bit hard to get back into “school’ mode.
And yet-
We did finish and I believe we were all relieved.
Very relieved.
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3:13 PM, 2008-Sep-4 .. Posted by AnonymousOK although I could hear the frustration in your voice, I had a good giggle while reading this, ONLY because I can relate!! LOL! Here's hoping tomorrow is more organized for ya! For all of us! LOL!
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7:32 PM, 2008-Sep-4 .. Posted by IsabellaTomorrow is another day. I will say a prayer for the children and their mother. God Bless. I
relate!
9:13 PM, 2008-Sep-4 .. Posted by wstollerI totally relate to this happening here! Maybe not on this setting, but in other settings - similar frustrations and feelings!!
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