kid-speak/my run/school
Yesterday:
We were doing our bible study for school, which we just started back up yesterday after the entire month of December OFF.
Luke (almost 6 years old) said "Mommy, where is your wedding ring?".
Me: On my dresser.
Luke: Oh. You better put it back on, or else Daddy won't know where you are".
Livea asked me to pick her up. She is 22 months, just about. I picked her up and she said "No nursing today Mommy??". I said "Yes, you can nurse today Livea." She said "oh. I can nurse today, Mommy?" I said "yes". And then she said "I want to nurse, Mommy!" And she really does speak that well. It's cute. Sometimes overwhelming, when all four of the kids are blabbing away though.
My run is in two weeks. I am really nervous. I haven't even run in about a week and a half. The kids were all sick, plus Josh, then me. See my name? I am nervous because the route is so hilly, and I really hate hills. I like flat-boring-running. I avoid hills. In fact, if I see a hill I usually turn around. No, not really. But I really hate hills. It hasn't snowed in a few weeks, which I am so thankful for. There isn't any snow (and we were just in Topeka on Sunday and there wasn't snow there either) right now and I am praying that it doesn't snow within the next two weeks, but that is doubtful, really. I love running in the cold weather, but it just gets SO cold here. Brrrrr. I haven't had the motivation to run in the past week, which is horrible because I've had plenty of time. I just plain haven't done it. So now, I am procrastinating more because now I am nervous about how close the race is and how unprepared I feel. Not that I am running to win, of course. But races are just nervewrecking is all. Ugh. I really just want to chicken out. Too cold, too long, too far away (ha), too much work, I'm too lazy, it's too hard, I could go on and on. My husband won't let me chicken-out though. I already tried, and he told me I wasn't allowed. I said "Hey, it only cost $30, just let me chicken-out". Nope. Ugh, again. Josh is on 24-hour shift today, and then tomorrow he has night land-navigation, and won't be home until 11pm or maybe later. So I won't go running until Friday. I think Josh gets to come home in the afternoon on Wednesday, so maybe I will just go running then - before his night land-nav starts. I have to start thinking about it now, otherwise I'll just not go.
We started school again this week. Oh boy. Some days I really wonder if this is easier for other mom's than it is for me. Some days I wonder if they are missing out socially. Some days I wonder if I can take one more day of this. Few and far between, I have days where everything goes smoothly, completely lovely. Luke is so good at math, he makes it a breeze, and it makes me realize that it's not that Jenna and I clash, it's just that she' s just not as speedy at math as Luke is. Jenna is a speed reader, and reads better than I ever did at her age...and beyond her age.... but Luke is still learning to read and will be 6 years old in 9 days. They all have their different levels and that is something that makes me love homeschooling. Luke started Kindergarten this year, but is doing first grade math. Jenna is reading books that are majorly beyond what she would read in the 2nd grade in public school. Of course she could always read those books at home anyway. But it wouldn't be integrated with her history, and grammar.... but would that really matter after all is said and done??
I went to school and it always seemed to me that the kids that did exceptionally well, it wasn't that they were extremely smart, although many were, it was mostly that they had parents that were involved - that wanted and expected them to do well; education was emphasized. I did okay in school. I was smart, but not extremely motivated to do well, even though I was in all the accelerated and advanced classes... I did as well as I had to to pass. Wow, that is what I am doing for Topeka to Auburn too. Ha. I'll finish, but not greatly. Kind of a strange epiphany that I didn't even set out to find. Josh is really smart. He did good in school, was in the top percentage of his class, but his parents were pretty uninvolved and he didn't really care about doing well once he got to high school. Even though he could have been #1 in his class, most likely, or within the top 5, I'm sure.....and gone to college straight out of high school on scholarship.....
Anyway, I don't really care much about the whole "socialization" thing, but I do wonder if our decision to homeschool will someday cause the children to wish they had the experience of being at school, going on field trips, seeing the same friends every day, being bullied, building cliques, getting grades. I wonder if I'll regret not putting them through certain experiences that they're missing out by not going. There are specific things I don't want them to ever go through at school. But there are things I liked about school too - those things, that you can't find in homeschooling, and at this point, I haven't been able to find at homeschool groups either. Being an "Army family", however, really holds me back from just putting the kids in school - because they'll change schools every 2 or 3 years anyway.
On the schedule tonight:
Cooking tortilla soup for dinner now, then to the library on post for books, then Jenna's ballet, then up to have some dinner (soup!) with Josh and the kids - back home, bedtime. Ahhhh. I'm already ready for bed!
We were doing our bible study for school, which we just started back up yesterday after the entire month of December OFF.
Luke (almost 6 years old) said "Mommy, where is your wedding ring?".
Me: On my dresser.
Luke: Oh. You better put it back on, or else Daddy won't know where you are".
Livea asked me to pick her up. She is 22 months, just about. I picked her up and she said "No nursing today Mommy??". I said "Yes, you can nurse today Livea." She said "oh. I can nurse today, Mommy?" I said "yes". And then she said "I want to nurse, Mommy!" And she really does speak that well. It's cute. Sometimes overwhelming, when all four of the kids are blabbing away though.
My run is in two weeks. I am really nervous. I haven't even run in about a week and a half. The kids were all sick, plus Josh, then me. See my name? I am nervous because the route is so hilly, and I really hate hills. I like flat-boring-running. I avoid hills. In fact, if I see a hill I usually turn around. No, not really. But I really hate hills. It hasn't snowed in a few weeks, which I am so thankful for. There isn't any snow (and we were just in Topeka on Sunday and there wasn't snow there either) right now and I am praying that it doesn't snow within the next two weeks, but that is doubtful, really. I love running in the cold weather, but it just gets SO cold here. Brrrrr. I haven't had the motivation to run in the past week, which is horrible because I've had plenty of time. I just plain haven't done it. So now, I am procrastinating more because now I am nervous about how close the race is and how unprepared I feel. Not that I am running to win, of course. But races are just nervewrecking is all. Ugh. I really just want to chicken out. Too cold, too long, too far away (ha), too much work, I'm too lazy, it's too hard, I could go on and on. My husband won't let me chicken-out though. I already tried, and he told me I wasn't allowed. I said "Hey, it only cost $30, just let me chicken-out". Nope. Ugh, again. Josh is on 24-hour shift today, and then tomorrow he has night land-navigation, and won't be home until 11pm or maybe later. So I won't go running until Friday. I think Josh gets to come home in the afternoon on Wednesday, so maybe I will just go running then - before his night land-nav starts. I have to start thinking about it now, otherwise I'll just not go.
We started school again this week. Oh boy. Some days I really wonder if this is easier for other mom's than it is for me. Some days I wonder if they are missing out socially. Some days I wonder if I can take one more day of this. Few and far between, I have days where everything goes smoothly, completely lovely. Luke is so good at math, he makes it a breeze, and it makes me realize that it's not that Jenna and I clash, it's just that she' s just not as speedy at math as Luke is. Jenna is a speed reader, and reads better than I ever did at her age...and beyond her age.... but Luke is still learning to read and will be 6 years old in 9 days. They all have their different levels and that is something that makes me love homeschooling. Luke started Kindergarten this year, but is doing first grade math. Jenna is reading books that are majorly beyond what she would read in the 2nd grade in public school. Of course she could always read those books at home anyway. But it wouldn't be integrated with her history, and grammar.... but would that really matter after all is said and done??
I went to school and it always seemed to me that the kids that did exceptionally well, it wasn't that they were extremely smart, although many were, it was mostly that they had parents that were involved - that wanted and expected them to do well; education was emphasized. I did okay in school. I was smart, but not extremely motivated to do well, even though I was in all the accelerated and advanced classes... I did as well as I had to to pass. Wow, that is what I am doing for Topeka to Auburn too. Ha. I'll finish, but not greatly. Kind of a strange epiphany that I didn't even set out to find. Josh is really smart. He did good in school, was in the top percentage of his class, but his parents were pretty uninvolved and he didn't really care about doing well once he got to high school. Even though he could have been #1 in his class, most likely, or within the top 5, I'm sure.....and gone to college straight out of high school on scholarship.....
Anyway, I don't really care much about the whole "socialization" thing, but I do wonder if our decision to homeschool will someday cause the children to wish they had the experience of being at school, going on field trips, seeing the same friends every day, being bullied, building cliques, getting grades. I wonder if I'll regret not putting them through certain experiences that they're missing out by not going. There are specific things I don't want them to ever go through at school. But there are things I liked about school too - those things, that you can't find in homeschooling, and at this point, I haven't been able to find at homeschool groups either. Being an "Army family", however, really holds me back from just putting the kids in school - because they'll change schools every 2 or 3 years anyway.
On the schedule tonight:
Cooking tortilla soup for dinner now, then to the library on post for books, then Jenna's ballet, then up to have some dinner (soup!) with Josh and the kids - back home, bedtime. Ahhhh. I'm already ready for bed!