We Start Tomorrow
We start tomorrow. The original plan was to start a few weeks ago, but life happens. I was just about ready to go when we all got sick and then had some things happen financially that really needed to take the priority for a few weeks. We decided to just wait until the Tuesday after Labor Day to start. I’m feeling a little anxious, but don’t know why. This isn’t our first year homeschooling, but I’m a wee apprehensive with a few things that are new. Honestly, I think I’m just worried about getting behind. I wanted us to start earlier in August so it would be easier to take it slow in November when the baby arrives. Preparations just got put on the back burner and with my personality (very type A) I have trouble starting things without being completely unprepared.
It’s funny, I think I have a little OCD in me because I tend to over-organize and that has been my biggest problems with homeschooling - wanting everything to be just right and then having life get in the way of that. ;-P It’s OK now, but it does get to me on some days. And the days it gets to me I just eat chocolate. :lol: Chocolate can solve lots of problems, you know. I love having my children with me here at the house, but I have my days of wanting and needing to get out of the house - alone. It keeps me ’sane’. I greatly miss my Tuesday lunch date with my best friend back in Hattiesburg; that did me a world of good - to get out and breathe the air outside of my house and my own yard, to be around another adult. I like the slow pace of life here in this small town, but I greatly miss having so many things close to me; I don’t like having to travel over 30 miles to get to what I like and like to do and having no one to do it with outside of this house.
But tomorrow we start and life gets hectic until the schedule sinks back in. So, I’m off to do the things I need to do last minute to ‘feel’ ready for tomorrow. Anyway, I’ve got lots to do and to balance for the first day of school and to do my best NOT to create new files within my existing files. Like I said I tend to overdo the organizing. I am still learning when to stop and just let it be. And now I am procrastinating. sigh.
Tootles. (until I need another break) ;-)
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