Well, this year has not turned out how I thought it would. It's only halfway through March and already there's been so many surprises. Over the last few days I've been trying to wrap my head around all the changes. I know that this next month is going to be tough and my anxiety is not making it any easier.
One way my anxiety manifests itself is in the need to have everything planned out as much as possible. I've already scheduled out our day into one hour subject time frames, broken those further into 20 or 30 minute rotations between assignments and activities, set up a kids profile on both computers with easy links to educational websites, compiled a few activities for William to do in lieu of actual schoolwork, withdrawn William from his preschool for the next month, and set up a cleaning schedule. Today I've been setting up Abby's Google Classroom and hopefully I'll have the links for Haley's Google classrooms later today or tomorrow.
This whole situation is tricky for me because, while I am a home body, I have looooved working these past few months! I really hope this all dies down and we can all go back to school in April because I already miss it so much!
And for all of my fellow "newly home-schooling" moms out there, check out some of the activities I have on my TeachersPayTeachers. Everything is $1, and if nothing else, it will keep your kids at least semi-educationally entertained.
