As most of you know, we are homeschooling our granddaughter. Haylee is now doing 1st grade.
I keep reading it's pretty typical of most homeschool parents that some days are hair pulling, nerves crunching, fingernail nibbling, neck tightening, wondering what the heck you are doing, kind of days.
Others, you wouldn't trade the world for the moment you are going through right at that instant.
Those are the moments you sooo look forward to and that make it all worthwhile.
The moment you show her a shortcut of stacking two double digit numbers and adding the columns together and she thinks I'm magic and amazing. :D
And at the same time that little light bulb glows very brightly as she totally got what you just did. Woo Hoo!
Other great moments are when she completely amazes Gramps when she explains something new and totally unexpected, and he is completely amazed that she knows and understands and is also able to explain.
Also for the moments that my very patient hubby comes in and yet again, I haven't gotten much of anything accomplished for the day except staying in one room all day long working with lessons, and hair not even finished and not even sure if I have totally dressed for the day.
When I, myself feeling a bit overwhelmed that not much of anything has been accomplished in the household maintenance/care all week, except maybe the minute or two that half of the dishwasher has been unloaded and now can't decide if it's clean or dirty. :P)
Ya know, the kind of days when I have to stop and think if I did or didn't have a shower today.
But on those days I bet I could tell you our layout and order we worked our lesson plan for the day and probably which pages we even read, along with percentages of plans finished and how many to go before the end of the week since I have turned OCD on homeschool routine from household things. :/
Yesterday was one of the wonderful, I was told I was amazing days with DGD, (darlin' granddaughter) and then a change of attitudes that leads to today's hair pulling & graying, neck wrenching, counting to who knows what number while mumbling a quick "more patience please, Lord, kind of day.
Which it was all I could do to keep trying to be as patient as possible just to make it through a few of the lessons and try to re-vamp for the afternoon.
That was during a run to the library for a required book needed yesterday, and run a couple of quick errands including refueling the cow juice. (I swear it would be easier to milk a cow on a daily basis to keep up with the milk usage around here. lol!)
So after reading all of this rambling - my point is, when I ran across this article on Facebook,
after a "challenging" kind of day (my fav word - challenging!), I got a huge kick
out of this.
Although, we only have one to homeschool when others have more than one in more than one grade, I would have even more of the less hair turning gray. (make sense? not sure of that one. lol! it's that kind of day.) And I'm teaching. Bahaha!
Thanks to homeschooldiaries.com for a great and entertaining article.
Definitely the highlight of this
wild
and
crazy kind of day. :)
Here is the article I was originally writing about.
Here are 15 reasons why you should never mess with a homeschool mom:
1. She has a laminator and knows how to use it.
2. She often mumbles to herself, and claims she’s having a parent-teacher conference. Some may perceive this as craziness, to the homeschool mom, it’s normal.
3. She can juggle a meal, fold clothes, and teach a spelling lesson, all while holding a baby on her hip. You may even call her a multi-tasker. {Gasp}
4. She’s protective of her kids, to the point of psychotic. Urban legend claims the termmama-bear originated from the homeschool mom. Research is pending.
5. She’s got moves like Jagger. Runs from room to room, putting out fires, or even starting a few of her own.
6. She’s wise beyond years, constantly studying, researching and growing, to keep ahead of her brood of youngins.
7. She’s not afraid to wear PJs after 10 a.m. or yoga pants ALL. DAY. LONG.
8. She almost never calls in sick.
9. She makes a list and checks it twice, or three and four times depending on how Type Ashe is.
10. She’ll go toe-to-toe with any stranger who questions in the wrong tone or before she’s had a second cup of coffee – “What about socialization?”
11. She stares algebra in the eye and makes y run from x. She will later tell a bad math joke –Dear Algebra, stop asking us to locate your X, she’s never coming back. {Insert evil laugh}
12. She’s been known to cancel school and declare a sun day, instead of a snow day, just because she can.
13. She handles dead animals and bugs with ease, all in the name of science.
14. She’s not afraid to face the Warden of Words (the librarian) to square up on late fees.
15. She won’t claim harassment when the ‘principal‘ pats her on the booty.
Why do you think a homeschool mom is a force to be reckoned with?
Link for this is:
15 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Mess With A Homeschool Mom
