Spring break is over. It flew by far too quickly. I feel like we only did a couple of the things from the giant list of possibilities I generated on the first day of spring break!
Although in reality our accomplishments for the week included:
- An afternoon wandering downtown Portland with Auntie~taking in the Farmer's Market, animals in the lobby of the history museum, the sculptures in courtyard of the Art Museum, a streetcar ride and Powell's.
- Two gymnastics meets.
- Two gymnastics practices (four hours each!).
- An orchestra rehearsal.
- An afternoon of ice skating.
- A new frozen yogurt shop.
- Dinner with Nana.
- Two nights when friends stayed at our house.
- One night Kayla was at a friend's house.
- One day Owen spent at a friend's house.
- An afternoon at Grandma's house.
- A youth group sleepover.
- An afternoon of" booking"-Borders, the library and the Book Bin.
- Sleeping in.
- Watching Back to the Future.
- Bananagrams.
- Ear infection/antibiotics
- Hanging out doing nothing!
- A rained out attempt to frisbee golf.
- Church
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| So many books, so little time! |
And I find myself in a similar situation with school. There are about 10 weeks left in the school year. Kayla has begun laughing at me as I wail about how much there is that she hasn't learned yet and how we'll never be able to fit it all in. The truth is that we have done a lot and are on track to finish quite a few of our books~Latin, Grammar, Vocabulary, reading list, Spanish, Logic and (shhh, don't tell Kayla, but I found out that lots of homeschoolers who use our Algebra book give their students credit for Algebra I and II when they finish it and we are near the halfway point so even though we won't finish the book I can still feel like we got in a year of Algebra!) Because we aren't using set curricula, science and history could wander on forever. (Although we are in the middle of a World War II project, which I'm pretty sure is more modern history than I ever had in school~including AP History! So that seems like a success too)
But there is sooooo much more we could do! Both academically~Oh no! She hasn't written a research paper! We didn't study Geography! Music History! Home Ec, etc~and enrichment: museums, plays, birdwatching...the list of fabulous things we thought we might do this year takes up several pages.
So my goal for the next ten weeks is to accept the fact that I can't teach her everything~as she keeps reminding me she does have four years of high school and another four or more of college to meet that impossible goal. To find a balance between pushing to finish the books and showing her some new and exciting things that she'll want to continue learning about for the rest of her life. And to enjoy what may be the last ten weeks we get to spent starting our mornings out together with pajamas and books (high school decisions looming on the horizon!)
So she spent a couple hours this afternoon helping our friend teach an elementary art class.
And on Friday we'll be seeing a ballet interpretation of Anne Frank.
There are ten more weeks of fun adventures coming up.
And then summer vacation just might find us dragging Owen and Justin along to work on the lists of things we thought we could do and ran out of time to complete~both during spring break and school!
Patty
