It is my birthday, 38th to be exact. We got up in great moods. Did our family tradition of birthday morning breakfast out in our jammies, modified because James has to be at work so early. But we did go through the Mcdonalds' drive-thru and take our breakfast to the church to eat together. That was fun.
It was in the van on the way home that it started to go downhill. "We're not doing school today, right? What?! It is your birthday. We shouldn't have to do school on your birthday. This is the worst day ever..."on and on. Yeah, welcome to the second day of school. We did, in fact start school with much wailing and gnashing of teeth and were making some progress until the Littles tried to join us at the table where they were not well-received by the Bigs. "Go away! You are distracting us. I can't work with you that close to me. Get out of here..."on and on...once again. I had had it at that point. I sent the Bigs to their room for quite a while to get over their stinky attitudes and I put away all of the school materials. I am done for today. This is going to have to be a fresh start kind of thing, because my attitude isn't even where it needs to be in order to get them in line today. I will blow my top and school will be miserable.
I guess I should have predicted it. I mean, when we start the second day of school with McDonalds at the church and try to redirect to school that they already aren't in the habit of, I am kind of setting them and myself up for failure.
Maybe if I would've knocked on wood it would've turned out differently. Doubt it.
Happy Birthday to me anyway.
I bought this gem the other day at the thrift store...It makes me happy. It makes me want to have another baby girl and name her Suzy. And she will love homeschool everyday and be a perfect, darling, pleasant little angel. I will read it and let her take me to my happy place...I might even share it with the Bigs and Littles if they are lucky!
Aren't the illustrations so sweet? And this is only half the book.
