Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Chaos caused by school

Each day Witchlet and Goobie-kins come home with homework .. for Witchlet it is a lot and for Goobie, he just has trouble sitting and focusing once his ADHD meds wear off, which is about the time he leaves school. This means I can be spending even as much as 5 or 6 hours helping kids with homework while trying to get dinner done and take care of Butterfly.

So today I did something that I am sure someone will say is irresponsible .. the kids came home and I asked to see the homework. Then ... I sent them outside to play!!! I decided we will work on homework later. Seriously kids NEED to play. This isn't just a want for them, but it is necessary for good health and in my opinion it makes them more able to learn. If they do not get finished, oh well. It makes very little sense for a child to go to school 6 hours and then do homework for 6 hours.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Week of chaos

This week is total chaos!!! Yesterday Witchlet had a game to cheer at. She really loves cheering, but some of the girls on her squad do not work well in a team. Yesterday however, those girls did not show up, so it was a great game for the 8 girls that did show up.
This evening I have a consultants meeting for my business, which is going rather well for the most part. Tomorrow I also have a training that I have decided to go to. In order to go I have to miss a meeting with my cloth diapering group, but that's ok. I still plan to take Butterfly swimming before the meeting. And after, Witchlet has cheer practice after I get home from the meeting. Somewhere in there I am also supposed to cook dinner! Which reminds me, I need to come up with something quick, easy, and not messy for my kids to eat at my mom's house tonight so the kids can eat there but not make a huge mess.
Wednesday isn't too bad .. just an appointment with my midwife ..but I really have to get my house spic and span clean and get some shopping done for my party on Saturday. Thursday is cheer practice again, more cleaning, more preparing .. same for Friday and early Saturday .. and then Saturday evening is my party! Oh this party, that is a business thing. Basically trying to show some of the fall product line and hopefully get some future bookings and some sales.