Monday, April 27, 2009

the end is in sight....somewhere....

Well, Chatterbox is just about done with her school. She can probably finish up most of it within two weeks. And that feels so good. Junior Squirrel is a completely different story. He's been sitting here working on his math for well over an hour now (again). I'm making him do 2 pages because he needs to get on the ball or he'll be taking his schoolwork to Michigan with him (and I do not want to be teaching in June). It is rather maddening to see the end is here with one but not the other. I feel like he'll never be done. I think I'm going to have to attempt to double up lessons every day but then that makes for some long days. He is so easily distracted. I wish I had somewhere to put him where there were NO distractions but I don't have an option like that. Even if I stuck him in my bedroom he'd be doodling or something. One thing, the weather isn't supposed to be as nice this week so we should get a lot done! Providing that a certain boy actually WORKS that is. He works fine if I sit right there next to him and devote every ounce of my attention to what he is doing but that is impossible. I have three other children to care for, a house to care for and a puppy.

I'd also like to get in the basement and straighten that up sometime. I've got baby clothes to store away and a ton of things to get rid of. It's all made its way into my laundry 'area' and I am crammed in there for space! Well, I better put another load of clothes washing and get ready to run some errands. Looks like the boy will have to take the math with him. And it looks like I'll be doing school with him when we return home as he still has science and reading. I wish it were summer break....I wish I could guarantee that I'd get a summer break...and sometimes I wish I could just throw this kid in public school!!!

3 comments:

I am OK said...

Stay stong - summer is on the way. C is so easily distracted that sometimes we end up doing school at night these days. After dinner he gets my total attention - the dog is sleeping, the phone is quiet, and S is busy with his own school work. But I too long for public school some days LOL - the grass is always greener.

Kim said...

Hang in there. But for some reason, I think all boys are like that with school work, Just the way boys are, girls are more eager to learn than boys. But thats good CB is almost finished. It's so hard to believe my boys only have 1 month of school left .

Amie said...

That's my school day x3. I would LOVE to take the whole summer off, but were going to do school twice a week like we did last summer.