You know you have some tweaking to do when your to-do list becomes longer than your weekly grocery list. At least with groceries, one trip to the store and you can normally get everything you need, head to the register and back out the door. Done. Finished.
Why can’t homeschooling, business or both to-do lists be as easy to get a grip on? We have a very well planned out schedule for our days. We have short learning periods with quality topics to cover, or math to learn. Everything is carefully laid out in various places in the dining room/school room area, as well as in my office. This should be a breeze, right?
Wrong. Want to know why it’s wrong? Teenagers! Has anyone but me realized that teenagers can sleep through just about anything? Oh, mention their name while on the phone with your best friend, and they hear it for 3 rooms over with headphones on. Put an alarm clock with the volume at MAX beside their ear, and they don’t even twitch. How can this be? It makes absolutely no sense to me.
But anyhow, between getting up late, getting started late, working through lunch, forgetting to exercise or take something out for supper and BAM! the whole day is off course.
It can’t be my fault, I’m the one who made the pretty schedule all nicely worked out with pretty colors and school work, work work and chores all in the same place. How could it be my fault?
But, inevitably in some way, shape or form I’m apparently the one to blame. I forgot to print a lesson, I didn’t yell loud enough from the top of the stairs or some other off the wall reason, as long as they don’t have to take any responsibility for anything.
I think tomorrow morning when they get up to no breakfast ready, no church clothes ironed and no milk in the pitcher, I’ll show them how it feels…but then again, it will probably backfire on me and end up, one again, being my fault.
