A Day With Dad

So today, I had to work all day...for real all day...I haven't got up at 5:30am in a year at least. It was a beating!! God Bless my husband for working so hard every day. I put in almost 12 hours and I am beat!

The kids stayed with daddy today. I gave him a run down of school happenings, but as usual, he just went with the "fly by the seat of the pants" curriculum, which I am also schooled on, but doesn't usually meet my every day needs.

Can someone tell me why I spend hours slaving over fun activities and try to be the epitomy of a fun home schooling mom every minute of my life, but a day with dad is my kiddos equivalent to something ranking close to Disneyland? I mean, I am great and all, but the sun rises and falls on their daddy! Probably because in between lessons on Light Saber fighting and watching multiple episodes of "When Bears Attack" on Discovery (which was the day's science lesson) they are in heaven. I of course have to implement the real deal of school every day, so I can sort of see where it is fun to have a day with him. But he does do pretty much all of the disciplining and every so often the spanking, so shouldn't that raise my rankings a bit? ;)

Well, it all ended okay with the exception of two very hyper kids and a pretty messy house. He even took them out to lunch with a meeting with his boss, and all and all I am proud to have him as a schooling partner.

I just want to mention something I had a conversation with a friend about today. We listened to a preacher speak about God "getting you out of your comfort zone." He talked about how God wants to stretch us and encourage us to keep seeking Him in all things, and it made me think of homeschool. I mean, I am a teacher through and through, but until last year I never even thought about it. It is really hard for me-a really teachy teacher-to not force worksheets on every theme and read the exact books that go with each theme I want to make them do activites that correlate and so on, but now I am pursuing a totally different method of education based on what I feel is God's call for me to raise my children up in a way that pleases Him. He has essentially got me out of my comfort zone to a degree and the message excited me to continue to put my whole heart into the ministry of raising my children to be servants for the Lord. Anyways...God Bless and good night! I am going to bed for heavens sake!