Monday Morning Quarterback

Well, it's Monday again.
I have to say, right off the bat, that this Monday
is better than last. By far.
For one thing, I am home all day today as are my
little scholars. We hit the floor running this morning
and things have gone rather well. Compared to last
week, they've gone heavenly. I don't know what it is
that has me feeling like something isn't going right
....or something is missing.
It may be that instead of me having a lesson plan type book
that is like the master plan, this year Lovely K and Big E each
have planners where all that information is for them individually.
Maybe that just makes things
"feel" different for me.
But I don't really think that's it.
I just feel like something is being overlooked.
Maybe it's the fact that we are still waiting on
our Language Arts stuff from ABEKA.
(And all of Sweet T's kindergarten stuff from them.
And I'm still not ready to joke about that.)
Maybe that's it.
So whenever that shipment shows up,
maybe I'll feel like everything is fine
and I'll stop looking over my academic shoulder
wondering what it is that isn't right.

I have friends who are starting home schooling this year,
newbies. It doesn't seem like it was
that long ago that it was me just starting out.
So much water under the bridge since then.
When I think of how things were then,
when Lovely K was starting kindergarten,
it seems like a different life. It was a
much easier life for me back then.
I still feel like the new face at the home schooling party
even though this is our sixth year.

We had some friends over (sort of impromptu) for
lunch yesterday after church. Whenever I am up early
fixing a good meal on Sunday, my family all wants to
know "who can we invite over for lunch?"
When they asked this yesterday, I said we were not
having anyone over. The house was a
wreck and I knew they weren't picking up anything
as they asked who they could invite over.
But then when I was talking to my friend at church,
I could tell she was tired and I just said,
"Hey, I cooked. Why don't ya'll come eat with us?"
And you know how some friends you don't mind so much
about the house being clean. I kind of have that standard
that if somebody is coming over for the first time,
I want the house to be clean.
But if it's an old friend, I'm not so picky.
It ended up being a nice afternoon.

Lovely K and her little friend made some brownies
from scratch yesterday afternoon to take to the
ice cream social after church last night.
They were so proud of themselves.
I let them do it all. I even left the room.
And the brownies turned out very well.

Well, I've got a laundry room FULL of dirty clothes
calling out my name.
I need to go close the door
to muffle the sound.