school again

So we started up school again this week.  I'm kind of relieved.  It's nice to have more structure back in our day, and I missed the schoolwork.  The break turned out, well... not as I expected.  I wanted to do more relaxing, have fun with the kids, go to parks, read books, and so on, and yet, the house still needed its normal maintenance and Jomo was still in school.  There just wasn't as much time as I pictured.  

I moved our schedule around a bit, and I think it's going well.   Since the baby's naptime has moved later in the morning (I think she's going to be dropping a nap pretty soon here), I decided to move school a little later to have more time with the kids without the baby.  So we're starting at 10am.  I feel like such a slacker.  But it really works well right now.  There's plenty of time in the morning to do more household chores, which is good since by the afternoon I'm tired and don't want to clean.  And I'm just generally more relaxed starting the day.  I don't feel like I have to rush through everything.  The other thing I changed is that depending on the time, we're doing our history/science reading during lunch.  Then Z can do a notebook page during her rest time.  

As soon as I get motivated to put new batteries in the camera, I'll post some pictures of Z's recent schoolwork that I'm very proud of.