Ah, where to begin? Frustrated and flustered is how I am feeling...obviously as my title suggest. The struggles that accompany homeschooling are not what has me flustered lately. Although, they do add to it. =) My flustration comes from feeling like there are never enough hours in the day. I know I'm not alone here. At least, I don't think I am. Help me out here. Tell me you're feeling it too.
Homeschooling clearly takes all of my time during the day so I have to utilize my time before and after school. My 'plan' was to get up around 5:30 so I could exercise, shower, plan the day, and make breakfast before waking the kids up at 7:00. Ahem. This hasn't exactly happened that way, yet. There have been a few days that I am able to get myself out of bed and get a small workout in, but these days have been few and very far between. Oh who am I kidding! Not you, I'm sure. It's only happened a couple of times since we started school.
I do make breakfast nearly every day though. That's something right? When we first moved here (about 9 months ago) I vowed that I was going to make the kids a good breakfast nearly every morning. I still allow them to have cereal maybe once a week. Mostly on Saturday when I have to work in the morning. I have to say that I'm doing fairly well at sticking to it. (I'm grasping at anything I can get to boost my attitude about how out of whack the rest of my life feels right now.)
Part of the problem is that I work a few nights a week. Some nights I don't get home until around 11:00pm. Then it takes a while to actually get to sleep. I just need to get into a better routine during the day so that I am able to get a little done here and there. I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet. With 5 kids needing my attention at different times during the day I don't get anything other than school done.
I have been trying a lot more crock pot recipes so that I can get that ready in the morning and just leave it to cook all day for dinner. This has helped tremendously. Otherwise, we may not ever have a home cooked meal. We'd be eating sandwiches and top ramen. Some days I have to leave for work around 4:30pm so having dinner in the crock pot is the best, and maybe the only way, we would have dinner ready. I hope to buy a deep freezer to put in the garage so I can make freezer meals. Before I had my baby last year I made a bunch of freezer meals and loved having so many meals made. Here's a link to a great blog about freezer meals.
Ok, so I'm feeling totally stretched to my limit with my time. I'm happy that most of my time is spent with my kids though. It would be much worse if they were at school all day and then I had to go to work 3 nights a week. I am grateful for that part of my crazy life. I would rarely see my kids if we weren't doing homeschool. This is not a complaint about being busy. Rather, a release and a beginning of trying to organize my time. If you have any suggestions I would LOVE to hear them. I have tried a few different ideas, but sticking to them has been a bit difficult. I guess the biggest thing is finding a daily schedule that will work for me and my family. I'm open to suggestions. =)
I feel so unorganized in my life that it's making me nuts! I keep telling myself that 'tomorrow I am going to force myself to get up early and get things done!' I'm still waiting for tomorrow. =/
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