5:00 am: Up and packing Randy's lunch, making coffee, trying to be quiet. 6:00 Quiet time, then coffee time, answering email, etc.
7:00 Writing for as long as I can before homeschooling begins.
9:00 Official homeschool start. Books open and boys fidgety. Violin for 1/2 hour or so.
10:30 Walk rain or shine (it boosts creativity, don't ya know).
11:30 lunch (love to have a personal chef, then remember I am the personal chef).
12:00 Writing again - bliss! Boys doing schoolwork/chores.
4:00 Dad comes home.
5:00 Time to start supper.
6:00 Supper
7:00 Back to writing, reading, research.
9:00 Bedtime for all.
I know of one writer who homeschools NINE children and writes books! So 2 kids and a tiny house and books are really no problem. Or so I tell myself:) I wouldn't be doing this with any semblance of grace if my boys were still small. That's why I put my writing away for 5 years back then. Writing is expendable. Children are not. Some writer moms might be able to do both well. I could not.
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. -John Whitehead
It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men.
-Frederick Douglass
Boy, noun: a noise with dirt on it. - Not Your Average Dictionary
I have the highest regards for anyone who homeschools! I love my girls to death, but I'm afraid we would have killed each other if I homeschooled. My baby will be a senior this year, so we have college planning on the brain.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy the quotes that you put at the bottom of your posts. Love the one by Frederick Douglass but I have to say my favorite one today would have to be the "boy: noun..." definition. ha ha
ReplyDeleteWhoever came up with that one, definitely has boys!!!
Hi Bobbi, I also think you have a daughter getting married soon, if I read your blog correctly! I do like homeschooling but it's not for everyone. Sometimes it's not for me either:) Hope you have fun college shopping - lots of good KY schools out there!
ReplyDeleteLisa, I actually thought of you when I chose this quote as you have 2 boys like me:) As they get older they get noisier and dirtier, I think! But I sure love them both. I hear girls are very different. Maybe I'll have a girl grandbaby one day. Your girls are sure sweet:)
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