Today was a good day
Today was such a fantastic day. I was awakened by cute kids, hugs, kisses and cuddles. After getting dressed the girls played Wii Music which is one of their favorite games. Shockingly there is quite a bit of musical 
instruction as well as fun. So yay! music class right off the bat. While they did that I made my famous mommy oatmeal because isn’tevery moms oatmeal the best? We eat ours with honey, cinnamon and sausage or as they were know when I was a little girl “bear’s ears.” My Dad can be quite the joker. How do you eat yours?
After breakfast we pulled out all of our printouts and books over to the dining room table and got right to work. I think it took us an hour to cover Math, Language, Reading and Whining. What’s that? Whining is not an official curriculum choice? Hmmm I think someone better tell that to the girls. At this point they started to whine and gripe and huff and puff and I swear there was a little pointyness and fur sprouting on their ears. 
However the only thing that tried to blow the house down was Tropical Storm Hermine and he more tried to flood us out. I realized at this point that a change of tactics was in order and we all moved to the couch for cuddles and story reading. This is when I realized something more was going on. They began to switch from school kids to my kids and started telling me they were feeling sick! They had slight fevers and just felt pitiful and snocky so it was pj’s, robes and soft blankies all around.
We curled up and I started to read them LilMiss’ assigned reading, Children of Odin, so she grabbed her questions and filled them in as I read.
I would like to stop here and tell you that I believe that every homeschooling family needs an E-reader.
There are so many books out there that no longer have a copyright on them and can be downloaded for free. Think all the classics and so many other books that are being lost to time that are amazing. This is one of those books. I will do another post with all of the links I like tomorrow perhaps.
After reading and discussion it was time for lunc
h and naps all around. I find it wonderful that even though they were sick we got in a whole day of work in just a few hours and got in lots of cuddling and bonding as well. When they were feeling yucky like this and had to come home from public school they were missing out on lessons there and were so drained from having to fight and fake it all day they were just a wreck. I like this much better. I am also anticipating that since they were able to rest they will be better quickly and ready to go on our field trip Friday. Even though I missed out on a co-op planning meeting and hanging out with my friends we had a good day.
…on Being Domesticated
Being a Domesticated Woman, much like being a first generation zoo tiger, is hard. You have all these instincts and skills that nature and walking through life have gifted u with and lo and behold you never get to use them. You have to learn to make do with less excitement or at least a much more tame version of what exciting used to mean. In this case instead of fun clothes and parties, meeting new friends and just being out and about, it starts with diapers and no sleep and progresses to worrying about how every single decision you make is going to affect this small person for the rest of its life and how you are going to live with that. But that paralyzing fear is a blog entry for another day. So you get day in and day out not that you mind and not that you don’t love your children and are willing to do anything from boredom to death for them. I know I love mine and happily do for them, giving more time and emotion to them than sometimes I should. Your new excitement is their every achievement from latching on and other physical milestones to every single scribble they ever made on a piece of paper and sometimes a wall or two. If you are very, very lucky you will also find a group of women who share your parenting style at least to a degree that you are not constantly thinking “omg what a horrible mother” every time you see them with their kids. I just so happen to be that lucky to have found the women at SETXPlaygroup and Triangle Homeschool. To find other crunchy moms with such an array of fun, adorable, interesting, small people in their care has been a godsend.
Last night was the first of many “Refuge Nights” that I will be hosting in my home and it was freakin fantastic. It was 9 hours of chatting, tv watching (True Blood mmm), blog writing and diet busting relaxation. No kids No husbands no need to entertain me or me to entertain you we just happen to all be in the same house chillin. It is great to have friends like that and such a welcome break. I know I went to bed tired and smiling and woke up again this morning smiling still. I feel like I have so much more to give to my family and like a little bit of that preDomesticated Woman is still there only now she is settled and happy in her new role as Domestic Goddess.
Todays Thankful Thought
I started writing a thankful thought every day as part a life perception overhaul so to speak. I want to be more mindful of my daily life and especially my life as a parent. That’s a whole other post but I just needed to put that out there. Today has been a simple day. Not much was accomplished if you measure it in “things” but if you measure the way I measure the joys of the day large or small are the true accomplishments. ( I feel like that sentence is in major need of some punctuation but I am still feeling lazy so feel free to correct it in the comments 
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Today I am thankful for good books and a calm morning to spend in bed reading them.
