The End of the Day

Today was filled with piano lessons, lots of reading (Tenley has gotten into a series and I’m reading a dragon book to the little boys), more tennis at actual tennis courts this time, and the boys playing soccer in the backyard. It’s chaotic to have the kids with me all day, but thinking back on the day now, it was perfect. 

Soccer Breaks

The kids have found great ways to entertain themselves when they take breaks from school. They love playing soccer together although last night it didn’t get a bit too competitive. And they also love to have nerf gun wars in the basement. Im glad they’re still enjoying being together!

Creative Dribbling

Our first day of online schooling went ok. The kids had to log on twice each to chat with their classes for a half an hour. We got our work done, practiced piano, and went to the gym to play basketball. I had the kids dribble for five whole minutes and they got pretty creative with their dribbling. They pogo styled it by jumping on one foot. They hard rock styled it by banging their head. It was pretty entertaining.

Brad had a meeting tonight so the kids and I watch Frozen ll after dinner. Hopefully tomorrow goes just as well.

Marble Tracks

Every one of my boys have loved the marble track Heidi gave me as a hand me down when Kade was a toddler. They could all play with it for hours, as long as I will fix it for them every time it breaks. It’s been a great thing to keep Luke busy while we have school. He does join our lessons from time to time though. We learned about galaxies today and he loved seeing the cool video of the different galaxies.

Day 2 of Home School

We survived another day of homeschool. I honestly have to keep telling myself that it’s just for this one school year and that is it, but really who knows what we’ll do next year. I just know that I need to take this one day at a time. And really it’s been pretty great beside not having any time to work on house work or bills. Ryder plays with Luke while I help the older kids and the older kids play with Luke while I help Ryder. Having school downstairs close to the toyroom has kept Luke busy so that has been so nice. Ryder told me that his favorite part of the day was school! And Tenley even said she like it better than public school. The days do seem less stressful with less pick up and drop off, but like I said, it was just day 2 so we will see.