Tomorrow is Taylor's 6th birthday! Wow! He is growing up. Since Amanda leaves tomorrow morning, we are celebrating his birthday today. He has been so excited that it is HIS birthday......not MinMin's, not LiAnne's, but HIS. He wanted pancakes for breakfast, and didn't really care about the rest of the day, as long as he had cake. Lancy made him a piñata, so we filled it up with the candy that we have collected from other piñatas from the holidays, and will break that open once LiAnne wakes up from her nap.
So much for our wonderful, sunny weather. Actually, it continues to be sunny, but this morning was only 37. That is quite a change from the upper 50's we've had in the mornings. It is 56 now, so though we can't say we are freezing, it certainly isn't the upper 70's we had all month. No complaints though, we have been enjoying having the fire going today.
It was a bit of a hard day with homeschool today. MinMin has days when she does her math papers with no complaints, and gets done quickly. Then she has days like today when she cannot figure out what 10-9 is.....literally. It is soooo hard to be patient when she is in this mode. She finally got through with math, so I had her working on the names of body parts---arm, leg, fingers, waist, etc. She told me that she knew them all (she has been working on them for a few weeks) so I gave her a blank page with the body outline and told her to fill it in with the parts she had been learning. She got about 1/2 of them, and had a number spelled wrong. I had her write out the ones she missed, then had to ask her to do it over neatly, as it is hard to write neatly when you are mad. Well......you get the idea. She didn't want to do it, I insisted, and erased the messy ones to be done again, and again, and again. She went into her silent, staring off and ignoring me mode, which she does when she has had enough of me. So.......she finally finished school about 4:00 this afternoon, when we usually finish about noon. Now, you may be thinking that I am too hard on her, and should give her a break.....but she has had a couple of months of breaks, and she has to take school seriously if she is ever going to move ahead.
It has been really great having my two big girls home for the holidays. Amanda leaves tomorrow morning to head back to college in Missouri. Lancy leaves Friday morning. I will really miss having them home....
4 comments:
I know that "staring off into space" mode. I call it "the zone" and thankfully we have seen less of it the past few weeks.
My daughter has just now become compliant about working with me - most of the time. She is in public school but I have homeschooled some of my other children. I am not sure I would have the patience to homeschool HT. You are a better woman than I am! Just supplementing HT's education can wear me out. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your honesty - whether you realize it or not, it gives encouragement to all of us with older adopted children. It really is more of an adjustment than I ever imagined. Not for the faint of heart - lol! Even still, when you believe that God directed this path, you just keep plugging along. 2008 is a new year with lots of hope and promise!
Must be hard to be mother and teacher. I couldn't do it. Maybe she realizes your daughter is leaving and is sad. She looks like she really enjoyed her. Keep up the good work. Even my 4 year old is moody. We ache at the thought of what she will be like as a teenager. :)
Jackie
Happy Birthday, Taylor!
(Boy, can I identify with the homeschooling issues. There are good days, and then there are....well.....days, if you know what I mean!)
Lois O'Brien
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