I am glad that my lad trusts me enough to let me know when he is having a hard time. Sometimes his methodology of doing so stretches me though. Can you tell it was "one of those days"?
A day with ups (with a down thrown in ).
The lad worked hard before expected friends came to get as much schooling done as possible. UberSmart, IXL, Veritas Press done. Our critical thinking started. WOOT WOOT!
Friends came to visit! Toads were released. Fun was had WOOT WOOT.
They enjoyed zucchini bread and grapes.
Life was fun of smiles.
Then the company left. :(
We had a time of being down....
Homeschooling still needed to occur.
Life was sadness.
BUT MOM!!! We are ALWAYS done at 1 p.m. ALWAYS mom.
This isn't fair.
But son we normally don't have friends come to visit in the morning.
BUT MOM!!! THIS ISN'T FAIR. Grumbly, negotiating, setting to. Not happy, but relatively compliant....
And you know what.. it's HARD to make changes and adjustments.
I know it well. And like my son, I fight the unexpected, but then adapt (sometimes with grumbling)
BUT we preservered...
Mapping with art! Now admittedly...this map was HARD to do. The lad made many stumbles and it's hard when you want to do it perfectly to make mistakes. Mom made plenty with her own and it was tough to work through. BUT we have GREECE!
A day with ups (with a down thrown in ).
The lad worked hard before expected friends came to get as much schooling done as possible. UberSmart, IXL, Veritas Press done. Our critical thinking started. WOOT WOOT!
Friends came to visit! Toads were released. Fun was had WOOT WOOT.
They enjoyed zucchini bread and grapes.
Life was fun of smiles.
Then the company left. :(
We had a time of being down....
Homeschooling still needed to occur.
Life was sadness.
BUT MOM!!! We are ALWAYS done at 1 p.m. ALWAYS mom.
This isn't fair.
But son we normally don't have friends come to visit in the morning.
BUT MOM!!! THIS ISN'T FAIR. Grumbly, negotiating, setting to. Not happy, but relatively compliant....
And you know what.. it's HARD to make changes and adjustments.
I know it well. And like my son, I fight the unexpected, but then adapt (sometimes with grumbling)
BUT we preservered...
Mapping with art! Now admittedly...this map was HARD to do. The lad made many stumbles and it's hard when you want to do it perfectly to make mistakes. Mom made plenty with her own and it was tough to work through. BUT we have GREECE!
We also saw our way through doing our bible lesson, reading our missionary story and doing Logic of English. The lad had looked up against doing this until he saw what he had to do. That's it mom? That's ALL I have to do to? I can do that. Happiness! Woot woot!!! In his joy he even showed me how he is able to balance with ONE foot on our balance board now. :)
After doing his mandatory 20 minutes of reading, the lad enjoyed a solid hour of playing minecraft. He's built this amazing house. I wish I could show it to you. :)
And to earn time an eager child cam running out to see me in the backyard (I had cut the lawn, talked with the neighbour to thank him for taking our stuff to the dump, gave the toads a couple of hidey holes, cleaned some garbage up and what not). MOM! What can I do to earn time? Should I rake the leaves?
I asked him if he minded doing a different job... cleaning up the crab apples in the front yard... "Sure" was his happy reply. I finished up cleaning some wood in the backyard and came out to help. He initially turned me down until I explained my intent and then he was all for it. :) Raking the appies into a pile makes the job go MUCH easier. :)
There's enough there he already knows how he can earn more time tomorrow. :) Isn't it grand to have a reason to work? :)
And to earn time an eager child cam running out to see me in the backyard (I had cut the lawn, talked with the neighbour to thank him for taking our stuff to the dump, gave the toads a couple of hidey holes, cleaned some garbage up and what not). MOM! What can I do to earn time? Should I rake the leaves?
I asked him if he minded doing a different job... cleaning up the crab apples in the front yard... "Sure" was his happy reply. I finished up cleaning some wood in the backyard and came out to help. He initially turned me down until I explained my intent and then he was all for it. :) Raking the appies into a pile makes the job go MUCH easier. :)
There's enough there he already knows how he can earn more time tomorrow. :) Isn't it grand to have a reason to work? :)
RSS Feed
