If you read my blog regularly, you know that I am not terribly organized, I don’t like to get up early, and I don’t keep up with my duties as a mother, teacher and housekeeper. So no doubt you’re not surprised at all to hear that my efforts at schooling the children are somewhat sporadic. We keep trying to get a regular school schedule going, but it keeps falling by the wayside.

Today I again attempted to turn over a new leaf and get everyone back on the straight and narrow. We’re back on the wagon! (Any more cliches I can use?) I explained to the children that I realize I have not been consistent, and that I might even fail this time again. However, I must continue to try to make progress with schooling.

They were all a good sport about it. They jumped into their academics and did a great job, considering my neglect in this area. It actually went pretty well, despite the fact that I felt overwhelmed by it all and I got rather grumpy before the day was half over.

All’s well that ends well though, and tonight I go to bed optimistically. I took the oldest three kids to the library tonight as a reward for working well. Luke signed up for his own library card and proudly checked out the five items I limit the children to. I turned a blind eye to the pile of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD’s he found and instead took joy in the fact that his stack included a solitary book. I hope he’ll be able to read it to me tomorrow.