August 17, 2023 - Thursday


Well, only the second day of homeschool and already I'm feeling stressed! Ben decided to take a couple of days off of work because he's been feeling a little crazy lately (so glad that he's doing this!) and we thought it would be really fun to go to COSI this afternoon. I was totally down with the plan, but I haven't quite figured out how to be okay with not doing everything that's on the curriculum for the day. I mean, it's only my second day, but I do have a tendency to stick to schedules whenever possible. That IS what they're there for! It really makes me feel super uncomfortable to not get everything done. SO. I decided to try and condense everything into the morning so that we could leave after lunch. It was not fun! I felt pressured for time, didn't let the kids take a snack break, and continued working well into lunch. Neither Clem or Jonas finished their work by the time we had to leave. The thing is, Ruby's curriculum is quick and easy. 2 hours a day, tops. Jonas and Clemi have about 4 hours a day, easily. It's much more in-depth and difficult than the 2nd grade curriculum (which does make sense), but just takes a long time. 

Anyway, we did stop eventually and then went to COSI for the afternoon. It was a good time, but I think it took me over an hour to calm down from my stressful morning. We did a lot of the exhibits and had a lot of fun. Ben and I were both starving and exhausted so we checked the time, and we'd only been there 2 hours. 😅 We stayed another hour after that, ran to the grocery store for some frozen pizza, then headed home for pizza and a movie night! We bought the new Spiderman movie and watched that, but Ben had to leave early for cell and I needed to get the kids bathed and showered, so it was cut a little short. 

I was honestly just absolutely DONE with today and planned to go to bed early, but then decided to work on a math project for Ollie and spent my night laminating and cutting instead of sleeping. It's ok. I was awake when Ben got home and we got to spend a little time together catching up.





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