strange week

It's been kind of a strange week.  With the baby sick, and with me not very motivated, we have been doing school "lite."  It's actually been good, though.  We've skipped all phonics and grammar lessons and tea times, and instead are trying to catch up on all those things I've been wanting to do.  Like starting a tree album.  We did some tree identification at a cool new (to us) park, and collected leaves and did wax leaf pressings with them.   And I want to get to some art projects I've been meaning to do.  Fun stuff!

I think part of the problem for me is that we're coming up on week ten of school, and we've been slowly degrading.  I'm not having the kids do their chores the way we started out.  We've been out running around a lot more.  And my school planning isn't really up to par, which means that we don't get done the things I want during school time, and I'm playing catch up all week.  So we're coming up on our first planned break.  We intend to do school all year around, taking 2-3 week breaks every 9-10 weeks.  The breaks coincide with Jomo's braks, when he has them.  I'm looking forward to having two low-key weeks, and a fresh start thereafter.  I'm going to start a new list on my sidebar of my ideas of things to do during our break.  I think it'll be more refreshing if we use this opportunity to do a few things, rather than sit around watching TV all day.  In fact, I'm thinking of keeping the no TV rule (during the week) for our break. Or some version of it.  Ok, that's it.  I'll have some more pics when I find my camera cord thing.