Oh, I love what we're learning this year. The problem is I love it more than my students. I want my enthusiasm to be contagious...and part of me expects my kids to be as excited as me. But another part knows that's impossible. I mean, how capable were YOU of just bursting with excitement about learning about Napoleon when you were 13?

Anyway, I have basically used all my spare time in ways other than on here. I'd like to say I've used it ALL planning school, but although I've been spending MUCH more time on that than I ever have before, the truth is that when I'm not planning school, I'm planning other things...I just feel like I'll never have enough time to accomplish everything I want.

We just completed week number eight of school. There's nine weeks in each quarter and we're having a school Open House after each quarter. I've never done that before. The girls are going to display their lapbooks that they've worked on all quarter, as well as a government display board and six small boards for the 3 composers and 3 artists we've studied. I wanted to have another display where they write a short blurb about each thing we've studied, but I don't think that's going to happen. We're sending invitations to our family and a few families who support what we're doing. Izzi is making the food and they are each going to read something they wrote this quarter. We'll see how it goes.

So far, I have been able to maintain planning the whole week out on the weekend so I am not tempted to skip certain things because I'm tired and don't really have a plan worked up yet, you know? I pray I'll be able to continue that. Although today is Friday and I usually get a jump on the following week Friday afternoon and here I am blogging. I just don't feel like doing it right now which wouldn't be a problem except that tomorrow I'm going out with a friend for a while, and Sunday is big family reunion birthday day. The weather is gorgeous right now but instead of exercising every morning, which is my norm, I just feel like being lazy and staying in. I hope it's just a few days that I feel like this. I'm capable of forcing myself to do these things...but I've gotten used to doing them because I enjoy them, so it's been easy for a while. I guess it can't always be easy, right?