First day of school.

Starting with the photo that makes me look like a fantastic homeschooler.

Yesterday I:

• baked raisin bran muffins
• went over to-do lists
• made my bed and put away laundry
• taught a calculus lesson to the 16yo -- really a precalculus review, just graphs and slopes and intercepts
• taught an algebra lesson to the 12yo -- simplifying numerical expressions and evaluating variable expressions
• met the three middle kids to assign Bible reading, find out who was the saint of the day, and introduce the 6yo to his catechism copybook
• went through a math lesson with the 6yo -- comparing two-digit numbers and reviewing how to tell time by the hour
• phonics sheet with the 6yo -- sorting words with "ou" pronounced as in "cousin" from words with "ou" pronounced as in "mouth"
• had 6yo read to me the first few pages of Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea by Cynthia Rylant
• cut up 6 apples out of each of which the toddler had taken 1 bite
• ate leftover lentil vegetable soup and cheese sandwich on sourdough bread, while children ate their favorite brand of frozen pizza and cut-up apples
• messed with FB while the children cleaned up lunch

• put vegetarian taco soup contents into crockpot
• cooked, for the freezer, two chili-pots' worth of ground turkey, onion, and spices
• rested, flung onto made bed, for a little while, while children played video games
• hoisted the toddler on my back in the carrier and walked to the library to find books about geckos
• brought home books about sharks, sea otters, and T. rex instead because gecko books were not located where the library said they would be
• welcomed the 6yo's biweekly playdate, who arrived dressed in a superhero costume with padded muscles
• called 6yos down to read to them from the introduction to Story of the World Vol. 1.  Playdate child said "I'm kind of tired of having people read to me."  I said "Your mother said it would be good if I read history to the two of you while you were here, so you have to."  Read as animatedly as I possibly could, and managed to keep their attention.
• called 10yo back to her math 50,000 times
• showed 10- and 12-yos how to check their own work in the mechanics practice book
• made a salad for my 16yo who had to leave for climbing team tryouts before Mark got home for dinner, and let him get his own soup
• set up dinner for the rest of us buffet-style

  

• had dinner together
• nursed toddler
• took everybody to the Y.  Ran at medium-to-high intensity for 20 minutes.  The hip is getting better.
• picked up 16yo from the climbing gym on the way home
• drank a glass of red wine while messing with Facebook and reading bits out of a French novel
• went downstairs and ate almost all the Goldfish crackers left over from the toddler's bedtime snack
• collapsed into bed.

What, I have to do it again today?

Comments

[Jenny]

Hee hee hee.

I've got twin 5th graders, a 3rd grader, a 1st grader, a 3-year-old boy (all the rest girls) and a 1.5-year-old. I'm DEFINITELY hearing the "and I have to do it again tomorrow?!?" ad infinitum!

(Plus, despite your worries/assurances that winter WILL happen, it's still in the 90s with a million-percent-humidity down here in New Orleans, so add "sweat, sweat, sweat-some-more" to all activities.)