Homeschool Help

One child is in the dining room, one is in the family room and the youngest is in the hall shouting “fire in the hole” as he shoots his toy car off  – they are each doing something different and seem to have to tell me about it all the time or at least making some type of noise to accompany the work.  Add to that the noise from the washer and dryer and my poor husband trying to focus amid the noise and it is almost comical.

This is my day – most every day (except for the laundry, we have that scheduled for Monday and Thursday).  Some people would walk in and consider it chaotic.  My husband, who left a public school position last year, is one of those.  It is hard to see the method for the madness!

If you ask the boys what they are learning, they might say nothing.  Sometimes something will interest them enough that they will share, but usually they just do their work and go on.  But I know they are learning.  I can tell when they use the information from their lessons in ordinary life without realizing it.  Their Sunday school teachers tell me how the boys share information that goes along with the lesson.

The chaos is not always bad.  Most days I can still focus enough to get through a couple of blog posts or articles.  Some days I am just happy to get through.  But I wouldn’t trade it for the world – on those days when I get something done .