Is It Bedtime Yet?
Or at least time to snuggle up with my honey and watch an episode or two of Scrubs? Seriously, this has been one long day.
First, we get up early again, as Alex has soccer practice today. Steve dropped him off on his way to work. I gathered up all my paperwork and the remaining kids and headed out to the kids' schools to withdrawal them and get their records. I was happy to find out that they mail them to their new school, so I don't have to go back, pick them up and deliver them to the school as I originally thought.
After that, we headed down toward the school. I figured we would walk around the Farmer's Market a bit since we had some time before I had to pick up Alex. It was ridiculously hot. So the kids and I picked out some yummy fruits, fawned over the adorable ducklings for a minute or two and decided we would rather sit in the parking lot of the school in our air conditioned van than walk around in what felt to be 100 temps.
I picked up Alex and Victoria noticed two of her new volleyball teammates. They had been practicing even though there wasn't a scheduled practice today. Victoria went off to talk to them, exchanging phone numbers so next time she won't miss out. I tracked down the principal, since the secretary was nowhere to be found, and gave him the kids' registration papers and the registration fees.
Then I came back here and started scouring the internet for online worksheets to help the kids get up to where they need to be. They are a little behind in some areas. Our public schools don't teach roman numerals (which Steve is a whiz at) or parts of speech and how to diagram sentences (which I love to do!). So the principal just asked us to catch them up on that.
I had my first session about the parts of speech with the 3 youngest kids. I figured even though Ashley is the one that needs it, it wouldn't hurt Sophia to review or Josiah to start learning. We actually had a good time and Ashley can't wait to learn about verbs tomorrow. It almost makes me think I should've homeschooled, but then I realize when the novelty of being homeschooled had worn off, it could have been a disaster.
Now dinner is almost done and it's only a little after 4. It feels like it should be 10 o'clock with all that we have jammed into one day. Steve isn't even home from work yet. Crazy.
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Have a pint of Ben & Jerry's. :) I hope they continue to be cooperative with the worksheets. I'm a little worried about when we transfer our kids because the school I want to send them to teaches Latin. There's no way I could teach them Latin if I had to catch them up on that!
So do you get to relax tomorrow?
The nuns used to make us diagram sentences all the time too --- I used to like it -- as long as the lines made a nice, clean pattern. Yeah, I don't have problemes.
Oh -- and you linked yourself as your honey. Which while self-empowering, probably isn't what you meant...
Hmm, maybe that is why Steve isn't home from work yet. I must have offended him.
That's funny, because I went to a catholic school. My fondest memories were of Mrs. Yates, my 4th grade English teacher, calling me up to the blackboard to diagram sentences. I was really good at it and didn't mind going up to do that kind of work on the board. Now Math, that was a different story!