I think we must be trying to cram in every new challenge into the first week. Last night one of the twins was up twice with sore head, back and tummy. My first real challenge was upon us - how to home school with a sick child. Not being used to broken nights (it's so good to be able to say that!) I lay awake for hours after being up working out in my head how the day ahead was going to work. M was tired not surprisingly when we all got up and I agreed to keep her off. Once the other 2 were out to school it quickly became very evident that M was really fine! Her request for snack at 9:10 am followed by a request for lunch at 10:00 betrayed her wellbeing!! Whilst delighted that we didn't have he onset of some horrible but it made things a lot more tricky to have a tired but well 5 year old competing for my attention with S! How mummies home school with babies or toddlers in tow I have no idea - major respect!
My time with S went really well today on the whole. It's becoming very clear now the tricks used by S to avoid work that he finds difficult. Now I'm beginnning to see a pattern in this I will hopefully become more patient with him and we can take the stress out of things a bit more. Language barriers are massive with a lot of the work and an area that I don't feel I have a huge amount of expertise. Having said that when S has success it is so rewarding! He is loving the reading book and we are having lots of fun discussing what might happen next. I feel like I'm getting a good grasp on simple fractions - hopefully S is too!! We attempted doing some baking today which was not a great success. Although we did produce a final product which was edible I'm not sure that I've got a mini Jamie Oliver in the making! His stamina for seeing it through to the end was very dubious and my patience was running thin by that stage! Again though we persevered! S lost his smiley face (he's given one for every task he completes well. When he reaches 30 he will receive a "reward") which was a huge deal for him but hopefully a lesson learnt!
I am very very tired! We didn't manage to get out today apart from our walk to school. Having M at home complicated it all a bit more. I made it to our Tweenagers (primary school group at church) tonight but feel already like I've been starved of adult company! Tomorrow we are both very excited as we are going to go to Amazonia at Strathclyde Country Park. S's project on frogs is perfect for this trip so we're going to use up a Tesco Days Out token to get us both in for free! I think the change of scenery will do us both good and this is afterall meant to be one of the benefits of home schooling.
Word is definitely getting out about what we are doing. At Tweenagers the kids are beginning to ask what we are doing. The kids are all very positive about it which is lovely. Tonight to be honest I'm not feeling particularly excited about it all - just tired and the responsibility of what we've taken on is really beginning to sink in. With lots of other things going on in our family just now my head feels very very full and I am looking forward to this initial settling in period finishing! Any regrets - none at all!
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