School's End

  Well this month is flying by!!! I didn't realize how life would change once my children entered school. Oh the innocence of youth...and when in the past June was just another beautiful month full of rain and sun and cold and heat and here we could never quite decide what it is safe to wear...now it is the last month before school is out for two months and that means certain amounts of mayhem.
 
  As a homeschooling mother, and a mother that has a child in traditional school as well, this is maybe a double whammy? I don't know. However I do know that every year in June everything at school gets intense. Stress is so high, all these projects are due, there is also so much excitement as well ~ there is the end of the year concert and awards ceremony and sports day, parties to bring junk food to, and lets not forget some sort of thank you acknowledgement to the teacher (s) who have been raising your child five days a week six hours a day! I think you see my point.
 
 Then there is homeschooling. I am not an organized scheduled person. I vaguely wish to be but even thinking about it makes all my failures blaze red. So with lack of organizing and the type of teacher that I have to report to it means a couple weeks before the end if nigh I get emails about all sorts of things I should be doing or covering or finishing and all sort of questions about PE and Media and Drama which really I have not covered one bit. I mean the kids cut the hole out of the bottom of a bucket, attached it to a piece of wood and their dad mounted it to one of the pillars on the front of our house. They call it basket ball and told me they needed uniforms, water bottles, cleats and other 'gear'....clearly I am not teaching them PE. However I duly reported that to the teacher. My six year old WAS in gymnastics till she fractured her ankle does that count? And as for drama...this house is full of drama. Just the other day my ten year old told me with such look of woe...that he was in A LOT of debt. He then went on to list about four dollars he owed to various family members. And then at about 2am my six year old came into my room last night and told me she just DID NOT know what to do because the kitten was purring in her ear so loudly she had not slept A WINK (and I knew perfectly well she had been asleep for hours). I just told her to put the kitten out of her room and shut the door...that life would be okay. And my two year old I just can't even start on because his second name should have been drama. As for media, well, I don't even have a clue what that is supposed to cover. They can work the TV and cell phone better than I can and use Siri like pros so I am pretty sure they will make it quite far in life.

   All this to say that I just scramble for answers and try to pretend I am not losing it in June. I only hold onto sanity because I am named June and I have to make it through or feel like I have lost all hope. There is only four more days of school for my oldest (thank you Lord) and I figure by the last day of June or maybe the first week of July I should have been able to cover all the demands of homeschooling. I am most looking forward to not having to drive anyone anywhere before 9am.

  I have my worries about this summer. How will I keep them all fed? How can I keep up with even more laundry? My twelve year old wears a uniform every day five days a week..with her actually wearing normal clothes...well, I just can't face that idea today. As for the dishes....and the grocery shopping it will be helpful that my twelve year old can accompany us shopping and help me herd everyone and she might be able to wash dishes now. That has been slow in coming. She figured out real quick if she did a really bad washing job every time then I'd give up and just do them myself. I have smart children.

   Oh it will all be fine and July and August will fly by and it will be grade eight, five and two for us before I know it right?  I wish you all a sane and strength filled last few weeks of June. We will all get through although this year I can't promise the teachers will get anything amazing. They do get payed with money, so that shows some level of appreciation...but I don't...so maybe they should be giving me some sort of encouragement cards huh?