If you haven’t already read this, take some time to look at this list of What Non-Homeschoolers May Not Know. If your house isn’t always perfectly immaculate and time seems at a premium, you may feel encouraged by the recognition of just how much you are doing. When I first took a look at the writer’s guidelines for various homeschooling magazines, I recognized a trend in articles the magazines were looking for. “Getting it all done” seemed a common theme for desired articles.
If I ever discover the magic formula, I’ll let y’all know. In the meantime, it is time for me to go to bed. How much of a mess do you think we’ll make tomorrow as we model earthquakes with shoe boxes and bird seed? And how noisy do you think the children will get as we jump up and down, trying to register our own earthquake on our homemade seismograph? Ooh. I have a lot of laundry to do. We can set up our seismograph on the washing machine. Maybe even hope for an unbalanced load to send it wobbling about.
So, I claim number 2 on the list as number one for anyone who EVER walks into my house unannounced. Maybe I’ll post it above my door.
2.1. Unlike homes in which the children are gone for eight straight hours, her home is in a constant state of activity. The children are not only home, they are home making messes. All day long. Their mother doesn’t even have the opportunity to go into their rooms while they are at school and weed out the junk. And if she is like me, you might find odd homeschooly things lying around–like the month we had a dead turtle in the garage fridge.
(Notice that, fellow CCHES list members. I am not that whacked out for looking into ways to obtain a skeleton.)
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This was my house last year. But, we added a life skills class to our homeschool day (Casey Life Skills: Daily Living). So, we start our day by freshening up ~
But there will soon be two toddlers in my home. I think I may cross-stitch this and hang it in my entryway (I don’t really have an entryway as the front door opens into our living space, but a girl can pretend!)
PS (Previously known as Acceptance-with-Joy. I moved most of my blog ~ long story.)
Our house starts out ok and ends ok. It is all the time in between. My baby is an avid reader, but is yet to learn how to put a book back. My son loves his train tracks, and it seems to make sense to let him build his tracks in the front room while we’re doing lessons there. It is amazing how much he picks up, and I can supervise him better.
And then there are just the little things that add up. But then, we are in 900 square feet and what seems like an atrocious mess here just looks “lived in” in my parent’s nice big house!
As some famous person said, “Cleaning up after children is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.” And they weren’t homeschooling! I have learned to accept the fact that my house is not going to be the clean dwelling that it once was. Although, I have had people, (my mother-in-law namely) give me a few looks, when everything was not in its proper place. That would be fine with me if I were not doing the job of an entire small staff!
I enjoyed your blog!