This week’s been awesome.  yesterday we went to the park.  It was SOOO beautiful outside.  The weather was about 79 or 80.  It’s a nice break from the turtlenecks and sweatshirts.  I was a bit worried about how the pollen might affect Zoe, but I did take a little cover for her carseat so I thought we’d be fine and we were.  It was really nice and fun to run into a co-op classmate of Nyomi’s. Nyomi got an unexpected playdate at the park and I got some mommy time to catch up with another adult.  It was fab.

This week actually started off painfully slow, but has picked up speed. I’d been asking the Lord to “anoint my time” when I read the scripture about “redeeming the time for the days are evil”.  At first it seemed that we never got anything done.  Nyomi would complain at the end of every school day that she didn’t get to play the games she wanted or didn’t get to do something she really wanted to.  I couldn’t udnerstand why — after all, we had all day…or so I thought…until I realized we’d been doing school practically ALL day most days.  I couldn’t understand what was happening to our time.  School seemed to drag out into this long session that never ended and it was frustrating for both of us. Well after getting up extra early this morning I realized the problem was timing and scheduling.

We finished homeschool in 2 hours this morning and covered 4 subjects!  I was pretty impressed.   So was Nyomi.  She loved it because she’d been up since 6:30 AM.  We started school around 7:55 and 9:55 she was done.  She had the whole day to herself and love every single second of it!  Now, that’s what I call a cool school day.

Zoe’s been enjoying her new food.  Rice cereal has been a pleasant beginning for her.  She’ll start on oatmeal cereal tomorrow.

Wow!

Only 13 more days of our school left and we’re officially on vacation.  Then I’m starting year round school with 2 week breaks off and on throughout the school year.

It’s kind of weird because Nyomi is graduating from her kindergarten class at her group co-op next week, but she’s been in 1st grade since January and is half way through her 1st grade curriulum even now.  By September when her co-op starts up again she’ll be doing 2nd grade work.  The beauty of homeschooling is, it’s okay!  I’m okay with that.  We’re still learning our math facts in Math-U-See, but I expect we’ll be at a mastery point with most of our facts by August or September — but no rush.  Math is something I want her to grow to love and never feel pressured about.

Okay, well gotta start an early school day again tomorrow.

I’m loving this schedule so to bed I go…