Hello Friends and Fellow homeschoolers,
Today is one of my very favorite homeschool blogger-person’s birthdays and I wanted to celebrate her by participating in her annual “Homeschool Day in the Life” series. I didn’t plan this, and this is also the first post I’ve written in a long time, so here goes…
The day started at 6:15am with my alarm clock and I hit snooze at least twice, maybe 3 times as my 1st grader had come into my bed sometime during the night. While I love his snuggles, I don’t sleep the greatest when that happens. I eventually turned on the light and he rolled over for more “good morning” snuggles. Here is the moment I admit to not homeschooling all of my 3 kids anymore. My 1st and 2nd graders started attending a local charter school this year that is only 1.5 miles from home (although traffic makes it seems much longer.) I could go into the details of why, but it was mostly due to my own health struggles in this season. However, I still have my first and oldest student at home. Yes! I am homeschooling a high schooler!
So, I finally get up and trudge downstairs to prep breakfast. I am ever so slightly crunchy, although my non-crunchy friends would say it’s much more than that. I mix them up vitamin C water and skip cooking this morning in favor of Z bars, potato chips (don’t ask) and here’s the crunchy part: Moringa Hot Chocolate with added protein. They are pleased. I usually make my own breakfast smoothie at the same time, but I need a shower and am running behind. I put their water bottles in their school bags, which I packed the night before and run upstairs around 7:15 after taking my own vitamin regimen that you can see here: mysite.plexusworldwide.com/tabithawbishop/home
We make it to school but are 2 minutes late. Fortunately, we are behind the school bus and the boys slide in at 8:02 without me having to park and sign in. Now it’s back home for me. My plan is to make coffee and a smoothie and watch TV while I take my own asthma treatment—oh yeah, the youngest had an asthma treatment while I showered this morning and didn’t finish his breakfast, so I end up drinking his hot chocolate warming it by adding some organic coffee. While I’m doing that,L my own momma calls and we end up chatting while I drink my chocolate and she cleans out her closet. (Did I mention she homeschooled me through high school in the 90’s?)
Then we had contractors at the door to replace our upstairs carpet with LVP which has been a long time coming and I had to get the dog arranged. It started getting really loud, so I texted my daughter, who was still upstairs at 10:15 asking if she wanted to get out of the house. “Yes, please!” She completed her driver’s ed class two weeks ago and I let her drive to the nearby coffee shop for organic coffee and a sourdough cinnamon bun. She brought her most recent favorite YA Fantasy novel and I brought my calendar, journal and laptop to try to work on things here. I guess our schooling for today will equal literature and driver’s education and we will be leaving in at 2pm to meet up with homeschool girlfriends and go see the new movie Cabrini which will involve social science skills, history, and religion. We will wrap the day up with dinner and hope to get back to our traditional studies come Monday… or not. She is planning to take her permit test Monday, so it may end up being a little bit of an unschoolish day as well. In the meantime, I am also checking in on our homeschool calendar to keep track of school days and field trips, wrapping up the year at our homeschool co-operative in two weeks and fitting in parent-teacher conferences for her little brothers. The days are long, but at 12 years into homeschool, I can now agree that the years are short. If you made it this far through my day, thank you for reading and checkout Simple Homeschool and Introverted Mom. These are the only homeschool blogs that have survived multiple inbox purges over the years. I often subscribe and unsubscribe from different resources, but Jamie has been a light in the thick of it for my introverted soul and homeschooling season. Happy Birthday, Jamie!