What Week is This?

Our back-to-school routine has not been near as structured & organized as I had planned. I had visions of 4 compliant children every day who would willingly do all their work in the designated amount of time and life would have a peaceful sense of structure.

HA!

Life happens. When you have 1 or 2 children being homeschooled, life is (or was for me) easily manageable. Double your student population and add in dynamics of sensory processing disorder, adoption attachment, etc and life is hardly plan-able! So here we are...somewhere in our third week of the school year but in various days of curriculum depending on the child and subject. We're muddling through, but the freedom of saying "it's okay" if we don't get to science EVERY day with every child has been liberating and has allowed some calm a midst the storm. The kids are enjoying school and ask to get started as soon as they finish breakfast. I hope that never fades!

Today we start into our completely insane fall schedule. Liam still has a month left in his soccer season (2 days/week) and Ivy begins ballet (2 days/week). Next week the younger girls begin dance (3 days/week between them) and I believe Wednesday night programming at church starts up again too. We will have a commitment every day except Friday (if you include worship & small groups on Sunday morning as a commitment).

I am thankful for the opportunities for our children to be involved in activities that interest them and help them to grow into the unique persons God created them to be. I am thankful that we are able to splurge on such endeavors. I am especially thankful that I am able to homeschool them by day so that the running around and busyness of our evenings doesn't take away from quality time as a family! I'm pretty sure if my kids were in a brick-and-mortar school, they would not be in so many activities because we would never be together as a family...and to me, spending time together as a family is the greatest blessing in the world!