Utter Bliss & Just a Tish

After the long and rainy memorial day weekend with Matt home from work, this has been our first official day of summer (even though we only saw the sun for about 15 seconds this afternoon and it only hit a high of 60-ish).

Making Banana Popsicles

As my alarm went off this morning I woke up with a smile on my face as my first thought drifted into consciousness "I don't have to get the kids ready for school today, or tomorrow, or the day after that, or the day after that. I may never have to get them ready for school again". See, I knew that we wouldn't have to be on anyone's timetable but ours. I knew that I could take my time getting up and moving for the day, something that generally happens about as fast as a turtle trudging through a vat of chunky peanut butter. I knew there would be no "angry Mom" at breakfast this morning because it didn't matter how long it took them to finish. They could laugh and tell stories and joke as much as they wanted. There would be no packing of lunch boxes, or snack bags,

"Mom! It looks like a lunchable!" Mom = 1 Processed lunch crap = 0

no last minute papers to sign because someone forgot to ask me the day before, no frantic searches for misplaced shoes or show and tells, no waiting to exit the driveway as yet another reminder to buckle up is begrudgingly issued, and no more blocking the drop off line for far to long because nothing could possibly matter more than an ice cycle hanging off the wheel well, or the patterns that boots make in the snow, or the bluebells growing along the sidewalk, or catching a rain drop on your tongue (my munchkins do a MUCH better job of enjoying the journey than I do, but I'm learning, or maybe I should say re-learning). Schedules in the early morning have NEVER been my friend. They do NOT jive with how I'm wired, and I knew that today, and many days from here on out, we had nowhere we needed to be, and we had all day to get there. It was complete and utter bliss. Don't get me wrong! I love to get out and do things, and be sociable, very much so, but not if it's anytime before say 10-ish in general. I was having a homeschooling discussion with a friend of mine the other day who also homeschools, and when I answered her "are you a morning person" question with a quick and resounding "NO" she smiled and replied "Stephanie, you're going to LOVE homeschooling." I think she may be very very right.

There's almost nothing you can't find at Savers!

Speaking of homeschooling, I was at my favorite thrift shop this week doing some clothes shopping and thought, "I'll go see if I can find anything we might be able to use. Probably not, but it can't hurt." I was pleasantly surprised and ended up coming home with these, and I didn't pay more than $2 for any of them which fits nicely with our schooling budget. lol I really like all of them, but I'm SUPER excited about the Circle-Time Poetry Science book. It contains 20 original poems AND ideas for pulling science, math, English and art lessons from each one. PLUS as I was going through the pages I kept thinking of things on my Schooling Pintrest board that would tie right in with the themes. So, I pulled out my sticky notes and began adding in ideas! I've been looking at Khan Academy or IXL for math, and possibly Story of the World for history. I'm beginning to feel a tish less panicky about the whole thing. Just a tish.