Let's see what we have here....Well, there are the remains of dinner still on the table from the night before...the BBQ sauce. Also the remains of a milk break, my food processor and all it's gear and the manual, a cookbook, a box of plastic cutlery (I have no idea why), the aim 'n' flame (also no clue), a swiss army knife, jewelry making wire, a t-shirt coloring project, masking tape, and a glue gun.
And of course, front and center, my science textbook...mid-chapter. But, pray tell, where are all the children? The arms of one child are clearly seen in the picture, but what of the other three?
Believe it or not, I stopped mid-sentence to take this picture. That's right folks, I was actually reading this chapter to all four of my children when, one by one they drifted away AS I WAS READING until all I had was the chaos that is my kitchen table and one single solitary child.
Now, I will confess, they hadn't drifted far, but they were not sitting bright-eyed and squeaky-clean at the table eager for more nuggets of knowledge to drop from my lips as I read aloud about the human body. Two of them had darted into the hallway to see how many push-ups they could do since I was reading to them about arm muscles, and one had wandered off for some supply needed for her hands-on project she was pursuing at the kitchen counter while I read at the table.
Ah, yes. This is exactly what I thought homeschooling would look like! NOT!
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