Oh my, its been busy in Mama's House!

Well we've been extremely busy with Brendan beginning ecot at home.

Wow.

Why didn't I expect it to be this time consuming?

We are finally getting into a rhythm, but it's still taking him from sun up to sun down to get everything completed each day. Yesterday was his first day getting all his assignments complete before 5:00 (and he started around 8 in the morning).

I get to teach basic skills of keeping on task and completing things in a timely manner. If not, I'll be bald before Thanksgiving!

What I see is a little fella who's spent the last 3 grades wiggling, complaining, whining and not concentrating on what he's doing. I am so sad for him.

His grades were not terrible from 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade, but homework time was always excruciating. It would take hours and he was so needy and clingy to me for help to understand what I'm sure the teacher had explained throughout the days, but he just never grasped it.

One thing I can say is that this decision to school him from home was the right decision. I can't see how a teacher with 30+ kids, each wiggling, complaining, and whining can possibly succeed with them all.

So we will forge ahead and by the end of the year my hope is that he'll just turn on his computer, read his assignments and complete his work with minimal help from me :-) *am I assuming too much?*

Okay, so my advice to mom's with really young kids is... teach them to pay attention and work independently as soon as you can! I am already scared to think how Makayla will be able to pay attention and work independently as she gets older... but then, she's a whole different ball game altogether so we'll pray that she gets better at it too!!

Oh yeah... while I was at a meeting last night at CSB, I was told that we are being considered for another infant placement. Woo hoo! more babies, yeah!! Soooo if that happens, it'll get even more crazy around here :-)