Six weeks in

Here I am at the six week mark of homeschooling! First year Newbie! My son is exclusively home schooled save Mondays when we attend Classical Conversations (and where I also tutor grammar and writing) while my daughter attends a part time University Model school.   Most weeks have been pleasant though absolutely exhausting.  I remember feeling similar when I started my first year teaching fifth grade.  The difference was: I had no children at home and my students went home to their parents!

Homeschool is never ending.  Get up, get kids up, make breakfast, review memory work,  clean up breakfast, start son's Math, take Leah to school, put laundry in, start English, take laundry out, make lunch, read novel to children while eating (that is fun) email, start son on writing assignment, email, Latin, pick up daughter, dishes, pre-football snack, football practice, errands, dinner, clean up, get kids to bed, watch vacantly in the general direction of the T.V. screen until I fall asleep.  Do it all again....

For any of you who are thinking about homeschooling, it is not easy.  I never thought it was going to be a cake-walk but I  never imagined feeling so exhausted.  I thought we would have leisurely conversations about the origins of the universe over a cup of hot chocolate or discuss the Fall of Rome some day while enjoying the weather at the park, but so far, it takes all my energy to keep my son on task so he can get his work done before three o'clock.  The great thing is: we don't have "homework."  This was a problem last year at our private classical school.  I do like it that my son and daughter both can have a life outside of school.  Friends actually drop by from the neighborhood now.  My son can play football this year and not worry about have to do more homework after practice.  But, my free time is definitely limited.

  For now, I am peaceful about our decision and I am enjoying spending time with my son and daughter.  What a special time--they won't be little for long.  Free time will come later and I will morn the fact that I have no one to suck the life out of me any longer....