The first week is almost over

This is hard. I just want to say that any homeschooling critics out there who say, "Homeschoolers just keep their kids home because they aren't big enough to let their kids go," are SO ignorant! And I don't mean that in a rude way. Maybe some homeschoolers actually do homeschool for that reason. But for those of us who take it seriously, it is hard work! It has only been four days for me and I feel like it's been at least four weeks. I have thought many times in the last four days of what it would be like to send W off to school and let someone else do all the work. I would then get this break and get so much done around the house, (Saturdays are now my cleaning day, where I use to clean every day). Then I thought about how I would have to help him with homework. Homework that I did not decide he should be taught with. Homework that probably would not be up to his level and catered to him individually. Yep... then I knew that what I was doing was good. I know that we will all get use to it. Sometimes I think about adding more children to the mix and I get discouraged, but I tell myself, "One thing at a time, A."

W is such a good boy, and he does love to learn. But the subjects, Science and History, are not easy times for us. He gets so bored. Yesterday R took over History, and W was so much more engaged. R is so much better at that. I'm more of the boring dictator-type teacher that can teach from a work-book. Ha ha. Not really, I can be fun too. It will just take me a while to figure it out. I need to read W's cues. I need to research fun ways to teach a certain subject. But for now, I plan on roping R into teaching History on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

It is Friday today. W is at his Chinese tutoring this morning. We do school after lunch at 1:00. Fridays are a more relaxed day where History and Science are not covered, but Art and Music are! Then we take a trip to the library. I am excited for school today.