Confessions

Dare I risk all of you out there thinking I am a person of multiple personalities? I just am confessing my feelings and I know that is risky. I guess I will just take the risk and share my thoughts for the day.

Today was rough!! It started with me allowing all 3 girls to watch TV before we started school....I may have said this before...big mistake! Baby girl is sick so she is allowed to be watching TV right now with a little more freedom than normal. The other girls saw this as their opportunity to milk the privilege that was imparted only to their baby sister.

We didn't actually start our school day until around 10. Sporty was doing well until abut 11 and she just wanted to argue over the scripture verse I was asking her to write because she was unable to recall it orally. She tried with all her might to not have to write the verse. After the 3rd failed attempt to recite it she agreed to not argue and write the verse out.

Lovely and Language just are not mixing these days. I have explained to her that what we are covering is going to be a little labor intensive on her part and I need her to cooperate with me. She has the temperament of a 15 year old some days and I am just scared!! I confessed today after going round and round with her over the assignment that I did not and DO not like language either, but we still have to do the assignments. It was in a very tired moment when I felt like saying "let's just skip the whole assignment", but I did not. She is currently working on righting a book report. I can honestly say I think it is a lot of work for 4Th grade, but I am told this is not abnormal. My frustration is simply in Lovely not even trying to paraphrase the information from the encyclopedia. I am only looking for effort at this point and I feel I am not getting it and that is what wears me down.

I told my Honey tonight I am so tired by Friday and I wish we could "skip" school that day. I am going to sit down this weekend and make a greater effort to see if we can condense some of our work and add a little more fun to the upcoming weeks. I feel like the girls need a little more fun in their days. We are going to Disney in 3 weeks and I think we all need the vacation. I try to remind the girls on tough days that we will be gone for 7 school days so we need to do extra work now. I think of all the life lessons I am teaching them and I realize so very often the lesson is just for them...it is for me as well.