School at Home: Day One

Mimi saying "I've finished my berries, I want YOURS!"

Ernie picking berries

My bucket is on the left, Mimi's is on the right. Baby belly is on the bottom.


I am still trying to decide if this day was a success or not, or if I'm nuts for not sending her to the public school tomorrow morning.

On the plus side:
We had breakfast together, Ernie did all her chores (brush teeth, brush hair, make bed, get dressed) and we cleaned up the kitchen, before we had circle time. Today we sang "I Am A Child of God" for opening song, read stories about beaches and summer holidays, and sang lots of songs from the Children's Songbook about summer. The girls picked blackberries in the backyard, and Ernie helped stir a super quick ice cream on the stove (sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and vanilla, then cream and blackberries added at the end.) Today was Baking Day! I also made soy milk this morning, and bread in the evening, and taught the girls to roll their own loaves. Oh, and I threw together a coconut ice cream in the evening too, we'll have ice cream tomorrow when they've set up.

The girls spent hours outside today, riding bikes, drawing with chalk, eating lunch and snacks, and playing on the swing set. They took great naps, and went to bed happy.

So THAT'S all good, right?

On the down side:
Mimi was up every few hours last night, after nearly a month of sleeping through the night. All she wanted was to be tucked back in, but the three o'clock waking was the final straw and I lay in bed unable to sleep and my mind racing through algebra problem after algebra problem trying to decide if my position in a conversation from the previous day was right or not. (Turns out that IF the information I'd thought was true had actually been true, I would have been right. Small comfort.) Ernie was disappointed because we didn't do any worksheets today or anything having to do with her brand new desk. She was sad school was only an hour and a half long.

I was kind of sort of really short-tempered today. But....that's kind of par for the course right now, and Ernie has stopped taking me seriously when I put on my serious face and say that whatever she just did was pretty much not a good idea. She just agrees, promises not to do it anymore, and runs off to play. Which I guess is a good thing- she knows I love and adore her, I only tell her at least a dozen times a day.

I dozed from 6:30 to 7:30 this morning, and leapt out of bed to throw clothes on before my 8:00 lesson came. Turns out, he wasn't coming anyway. My 3:00 lesson brought the wrong check amount, my 3:30 lesson didn't bring a check at all, my 4:00 lesson didn't show up, and my 4:30 lesson came at 4:50. But, the students I saw did great on their songs. But from an administrative stand point it was a bust. See? It's all in how I look at it I guess :)