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October 5, 2006
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Michigan
I'm not blogging much because I'm busy. As I've said before, I hate busy. I know it's only going to get worse. I still hate it.
The kids don't like being out of the house all day, two days a week, either. They like the classes and activities, but they've inherited my dislike of having to be somewhere every week. (Do you begin to see why I hated working?)
Our days at home go like this:
The kids get up around 8, and eat breakfast while listening to the XM Kids morning show. We used to listen to classical. But heck, even I like that morning show.
On a good day we start schoolwork at 9; on other days at 10. We do math first, then Latin. After that Aidan does copywork and piano, and is free. Connor does Classical Writing. This usually takes us until lunchtime.
While they eat I read to them: Monday I read Classical Studies materials, Wednesday I read history. My goal is to read science on Fridays, but that hasn't happened yet. After that we do any maps or projects or activities. I do housework. If it's a good day, we go play somewhere. They read. They play. Connor writes whatever I'm' having him write this week. Sometimes we'll do spelling. Somewhere in there I'll grab Griffin for a math lesson, or a spelling lesson. And then there's more housework.
On our class days, we get up at the same time. We rush through math and Latin, and maybe some CW analysis work. Then we get everyone together and in the car. We come back in the late afternoon, and are too tired to do anything productive. I'd like to still do history on those days, but housework calls. Again.
We're doing all the important things, but even having classes on only two days a week, I feel that too much of the fun stuff is squeezed out. Maybe not for the kids - they love their classes! But for me!
At least one night a week, and most weekends, belongs to Scouts. I'm not complaining about our activities, I just wish I could learn to handle them in a way that doesn't leave me feeling pressured. The classes and activities are good, and worthwhile. But I really treasure, and apparently need, lots and lots of downtime. It must be that introvert thing again.
Posted by lynx at October 5, 2006 7:47 PM
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I'm the same way. I hate having things that I have to do, or places I have to be. I like to couple that with large doses of procrastination, but it does catch up to you eventually.
I feel like I need a lot of downtime too, but it's because there are so many things I want to do, but not enough time in the day to do it all. So I don't get to practice the guitar, or play that video game, or watch that DVD, or blog, etc. Heck it's Friday night and I still haven't watched the Lost premier yet! And even giving up all of those things, what I do takes up so much time that I'm getting less sleep than I really need.
But the strange thing is that when I spend my weekends doing productive things that have to be done, ie. chores and errands, and do less of the leisure activities, it gives me a sense of accomplishment, so that when I go back to work, I feel like I've had a good weekend. Damn my subconscience for making me feel guilty about not getting necessary things done!
Posted by: Brian Medcalf at October 6, 2006 9:13 PM