Usually after we take a week off from school work, like for Thanksgiving, the week that we start back up again is a little stint in Homeschooling Hell. Usually.
For whatever reason, this time around, re-entry has gone smoothly. The announcement that it’s time to come to the table and open up some books is met with a sing-songy “Ok-ay…be right there….”
And then, we simply breeze through the work. And my 4-year-old either finds something interesting to play in the living room, or she sits with us in the kitchen, scribbling away in her own little “workbooks” or playing with the math manipulatives just as happy as can be. The only hitch comes right at the end of grammar when my 7-year-old asks: is there any copywork today? and starts to fuss. But it’s a pretty minimal fuss, so I commiserate with her and give her the shortest sentence possible, or tell her gleefully: nope, no copywork today. And then she cheers and runs off to play.
It’s totally freaking me out.
Of course, now that I’ve blogged about it, tomorrow will be Completely Insane.
Other than that, not much to report. Things are good. But busy. I accidentally picked up some freelance web work. Whoops. But the cash might come in handy as Christmas approaches, and also as we get closer to moving into the new house and I find myself drooling in the kitchen appliance aisles at Home Depot. So, posting may be a bit lighter than usual. I’ll be spending some time dusting off my design skills and putting together a website for another homeschooling mama. Ordinarily, I avoid telling people I can design websites, because either one of two things happen:
1) they ask you to teach them DHTML… in like 10 minutes, or
2) they say they also are web designers and then immediately pull out a laptop they’ve got hidden under their denim jumper shirt and show you their one and only website they’ve ever done, and it’s drenched in cheesy animation and rainbow colors and at least 15 different font faces and you’re forced to discuss its merits when all you really want to do is bitch slap them into another profession.
But this mama is a friend, and she really could use the help. And it’s a smallish site with no commerce or databasing required, so it’s not such a big deal. And when I saw the site that’s sitting out there right now (that her brother-in-law did for her, and I’m thinking there’s not a whole lotta love there between the in-laws) I just about cried because really…anything I design will be an improvement. So, I said yes.
We’ll see how it goes.
I haven’t done freelance in almost a year. I’ve enjoyed the break, actually. But maybe it’ll be good for me.
Too funny. Slap them into another profession. But let me just direct you to this site over here. NOT.
Hmmm…if I had a homeschooling day like that I would probably stop, pinch myself hard and BAM wake up with a start, to find that I had fallen asleep on the couch after lunch, it was almost 2 PM and we hadn’t even touched history yet much less handwriting, and my kids were beating each other up in the play room. But it’s comforting to know that someone has those dream school days in real life.
and their website has square buttons with 3D effects, in a grid. And the text is centered. And their contact email ends in aol.com
Rachel! I’m TOTALLY LOL!!!! That is so true!
LJ: That was our day today. Only instead of waking up with a start, all I did was blog about it.
I don’t think we’ve ever had a HS day like that. I wonder every day if I am doing the right thing. I hate that I do. Whatever, we’ll manage. I think it’s great of you to help her out and get paid for it! It’s win-win.
You know what’s funny? My kids are just now getting into wanting to do school and ask for more. We have been schooling since September and here it is almost December and they want to do school. So, now I’m wondering if we should take a 2 week Christmas break for I can get or try to get our house finished or keep on trucking. I guess I’ll see when we get there.
When you said free lancing my 1 st thought was writing. I guess I was wrong. Even thou I’m clueless of what you were talking about I’m glad you can have a little extra money in your pocket.
How does one free lance writing? You may not know, but I have thought of doing it to make a little extra cash.
Good luck!