We are a bunch of hung-over homeschoolers today. I love holiday weekends. The Monday that follows them? Not so much.
Example #1
Homeschooling Mom tells 7-year-old daughter to write today’s date on her meeting calendar. 7-year-old daughter comes back with a number written in every square through the end of the month.
“It’s the 37th!” she announces.
“Um, no…” Homeschooling Mom takes a deep breath and counts to ten. “Remember the rhyme? ‘30 days hath September, April, June and…?’”
Homeschooling Mom taps the top of the calendar expectantly.
“Tuesday?” comes the response.
Example #2
9-year-old girl wants to know why she has to learn her math facts, since “I’m going to be a nun anyway.”
Homeschooling Mom takes a deep breath and counts to ten. “Okay, let’s say that there are 13 nuns waiting for their tapioca pudding in the dining room. You’re working in the kitchen and have sent out five bowls. How many more bowls do you need?”
9-year-old girl sighs. “Eight,” she murmurs, and bends her head back over her worksheet.
20 seconds later: “Do nuns even eat tapioca pudding?”
The good news is that feeling impatient doesn’t necessarily mean acting impatient.
The bad news is that I’ve counted to ten…many more times than ten.
AMDG,
I am feeling that way a bit myself!
I didn't even want to start school today. I was dying to say, "Hey — you know what? Let's just take today off too." The kids did amazingly well.
So, DO nuns eat tapioca pudding? 😉
I hear you! I asked 9yo girl to please put Daddy's shirts in the washing machine. What I heard from the laundry room sounded a lot like the dryer door. I was right. When do girls get common sense?!
Is it okay to chuckle a "tee he he" here? It does make me smile.
SO glad I'm not alone today! We actually don't usually do lessons on Mondays but after such a long time off we NEEDED to get back to routine. God bless!
Holidays throw us all for a loop…
We actually took off last Monday to clean…and i gave them off on Wed since I went into labor!
It is even tougher whenn I'm more lazy than they are today!
Oh, yes. I know what you mean. I forgot to count to ten when we were taking dh to the airport though. Sigh.
Your children are so cute!
At least you count. I yelled, a lot.
I say we all take Advent off — it's a religious holiday!
Tapioca pudding is extremely sacrificial, so of course they eat it!! They eat more, in fact! Maybe chocolate falls into this category too?
So happy to hear we are not alone! We've been fighting illnesses here for months, and I could tell right off the bat even all the currently healthy kiddos and I would struggle…..So instead we degermed the house…The rest of the week will be a bit chaotic but at least we're off and running with a clean house!!
It's good to hear that your counting is improving. Ha!
Cute kids. Looks like a fun day of shopping at Peapod.
example 2 is hilarious.