It's been a busy ten days since my last post! Unfortunately, it's been busy due to a mom-work deadline instead of playing and learning with my little guy. Well, that's not entirely accurate.
There has been some playing and learning, and we almost have our school room set up. I'm not sure it will feel complete to me until we start putting up some artwork but in the meantime, Nicholas loves the room. Yesterday we spread out blocks on the floor and built a town "where boats have to drive through the streets like in Papa Piccolo". The town included Mike Mulligan's house, water bridges, restaurants, police, fire stations, and the best thing is we enjoyed ourselves.
I think he's ready. I, on the other hand, am feeling really overwhelmed by a work deadline that's messing with my head. The deadline is stressful. I'm not starting my mornings off in a positive family way because those few hours are the only ones I have free to work (before DH heads out) and that tone just isn't good for me. I'm stress eating, I'm stress Facebooking, I'm stress parenting (which means I'm letting Netflix parent). In short, I feel like a mess!
My deadline is Monday morning and the project will be out of my hands. That afternoon, we also have Nicholas's physical therapy appointment, and I'd sincerely love to go to the gym in the evening because I've been sitting and eating for almost a week.
But it's Monday, it's August 1, and I feel like we should just get going...but I also don't want to start off on the wrong foot, for the wrong reasons. Plus, I'll have to spend Monday morning finishing up deadline work to turn it in and won't be able to begin our new school morning routine.
I'm just torn, a ball of indecision and second guesses. I'm no longer confident Five in a Row is what I want to do and I've been thinking of A Year of Playing Skillfully (probably because I'm a terrible parent this week; in a more rational moment, I would realize that A Year of Playing Skillfully would completely suck me dry). I looked at Wee Folk Art (very sweet, love the crafts, activities and art study) and that temporarily shook up my confidence in Five in a Row, but then when I started looking more closely at the themes/materials in WFA I realized those books are more like play or enrichment books, so I think I'll take story, the extra activities and the art and make them our art curriculum. But I need to find the Five in a Row love again. I'm also undecided over the co-op I recently joined and right now I feel like I should remain with it so the co-op group can off-set my failings. That's probably not a great reason, is it?
What do they say? Don't make important decisions on your best day or your worst day?
At least I know what we're doing for calendar time and math! Maybe we'll just start with those two things and an easy craft early Monday a.m.
Or maybe I'll put it off til Tuesday! I think procrastination is one of those things I'm going to have to overcome during this school journey...
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