Today was an OK day. Girlie had her volunteer time at a local horse rescue and the boys were with us today. My in-laws usually watch them when she and I are there, but the boys didn't want to go where the in-laws went today, so they came with us.
Girlie loves her volunteer time at the rescue, she gets to shovel out stalls and pick up manure from the pasture for 90 min or so and then she gets to spend some time on light grooming of some of the calmer rescued animals. Today she got to help feed the two goats and one of the horses. She was thrilled. She also got to see the new baby (6 days old) that was born to a rescue mare 48 hours after they picked her up from a slaughter buyer who didn't want to put down a mare with a full term pregnancy. Stories like this are why she wants to have a stable and use rescue horses for her riding lessons.
The boys had fun playing with a metal ring they found somewhere in the house that I believe is the bottom of a lamp shade that has lost it's shade. Oh well.
We stopped at the library on the way home and they all got books. Luckily they are all good readers and love books. I think this is one of my saving graces when it comes to schooling. They love to look at books and explore what they find in them. Red took a couple of weeks last school year and read the G encyclopedia. Not sure why he chose G, but he did. So he probably knows lots of things that start with G.
My depression was pretty good, but then I got a call from my mom. She is coming for Easter Dinner on Sunday and she said that she would feel more comfortable eating at my house if she cleaned the kitchen first. I am not the best housekeeper, but my family doesn't get sick from eating here and we do it all the time. This was not easy to hear, that my mom thinks she will get sick if she eats at my house without cleaning it first. I am not sure what I am feeling about that. It sort of makes me feel like she doesn't think I am a good parent or wife. Or even a good daughter. I have to think more about this. It is a pretty new idea that I have to let percolate for a bit.
I discovered a different website for school and had the kids use it for the first time this week. It is a group of math videos that teaches all levels of math. I have all 3 of the kids starting at the beginning and going from there along with using the Teaching TextBooks that we are using. Girlie is so afraid of math, but she really is pretty good at it. I am trying to get her to see that she can do it and she knows what she is doing, but she has this mindset that math is evil. I know it is from our early days of schooling when I was trying to teach her and she would not understand and I would get up set and my volume would go up and then she would cry and I would be mad and it just made for a very bad experience and I don't know what to do to help her get past it. I keep hoping that something in what she sees will click with her and she will be more comfortable with it, but so far it doesn't seem to be happening.
I am not sure what Red and Babes thought of the video's as I had to take Girlie to get her braces checked and haven't asked them about it yet. It was probably pretty easy for them as they both seem to be less resistant to math than she is.
Well, I must go do some dishes.
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