What a night? I think I have been through hurricanes that didn't have that much wind. I ended up spending most of the night on the couch because it is quieter out in the living room. Before we all went to bed it had started snowing and by morning the roads had a dusting with ice underneath.
At 8:00 this morning I received a text message saying that church was cancelled. We normally eat dinner at my mom's house after church so I called my mom and the decision was that we would just stay home and enjoy a quiet day at home.
I didn't wake K up I thought I would let her sleep. She was quite confused when she came downstairs. However, her confusion quickly turned to excitement when she looked outside and saw the snow. She wasn't long heading out the door. She did manage to find a spot with enough snow to make a small snowman.
She was very proud of him with his toothpick arms.
We spent the day just relaxing and watching movies. I did my usual Sunday night routine of getting things ready for the week. The first thing I do is look at the calendar and write down everything that is going on this week and what I have to do for each event.
This week:
Monday - nothing
Tuesday - Valentine's Day - must get something for dh and kids
Wed - Church - have lesson prepared
Thurs - nothing
Fri - Homeschool Group Valentines Party - must have valentines done
Sat - Youth Bowling Trip - send out reminders on Facebook, call bowling alley to confirm and make sure church van has gas.
Of course, as you can see my list just includes outside activities. Homeschool, laundry, packing, going through 15 years of accumulated "stuff" and other household duties are a given and I do not add them to the list.
Also on Sunday, I sit down and work on schooling for the coming week. I write out a very vague lesson plan. I do not like to take the time to write out a detailed lesson plan because something always happens and then we are either behind or K gets the concept quicker than I thought and she gets ahead of what I had planned. If she gets ahead then she thinks that she can skip a day - Wrong. So I write out general tasks for the week and don't let her see it. I use Homeschool Tracker Plus to record all of our work.
On Sunday, I will enter what I want her to get done on Monday. I print out a sheet and that is what is waiting for her in the morning on her desk. It is in the order of her workboxes. On a lot of subjects it is still very general for example it may just say - "Unit 4 Section 3" and not give page numbers. She then knows that she works until I say she is done. I try to make sure that we spend at least 30 minutes a day on the major core subjects - Math, Language Arts, History and Science.
Since we didn't eat dinner at my mom's it was up to me to fix a great Sunday meal. We decided that we would eat a lite lunch and then have an early dinner. I must say it was delicious. We had pork chops, garlic/herb potatoes, stuffing and peas.
It was a very relaxing Sunday. Yes, there were at least twenty things that I should have been doing but sometimes we all need days like this where we can just relax, talk and enjoy being home as a family.
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