life of a mom

A stay-at-home-home school Mom to be exact. We are finishing up our 2nd year of home schooling and I have learned quite a bit. Quite a bit indeed!! I have learned that while these are of course at least a wee bit important, I mean, people like clean clothes and all.....at the end of any given day, what is most important is that I have spent quality time with Jason. Our house might not always be cover of Good Housekeeping quality, but it is clean. I have found that I am NOT Wonder Woman. If I have a couple days worth of laundry waiting on me because I chose to simply just enjoy little things with him, then you know what? That is just fine! NOT to mention, more important. I've also learned that if we're doing math say, and he just isn't getting it, or he or I or both of us are in a "not so good" mood, to realize it's okay to skip it and go on to something else. Maybe take a walk. Maybe talk about space. Maybe bake cookies, and well you get the idea. One day of not doing one subject is not going to make a difference in the outcome of his education. Plus, we don't just skip that day's lesson on math, we get back to it the next day. On that rare occasion that we start school and I realize quickly that for whatever reason, it just isn't going to happen, we do something different all together that day. This doesn't mean we do what we want, as in watch cartoons all day! But I find things to do that are educational yet fun. I love teaching him and knowing "hey, I taught him that" when he goes off telling others of things we've done. We're still learning and certainly haven't mastered the home schooling experience, but we're learning and we're having fun and I know he is not only learning the basics, reading, writing etc, but morals and values and right and wrong and that there are consequences to our actions. I am totally looking forward to 4th grade. And for that laundry thing, well, it, a long with the dishes and other duties that come with being a stay at home mom/housewife etc, they get done. They simply get done.