I’m up alone this evening, again. The beach house is quiet, and I can hear the faint, moaning sounds of the ocean in the distance. I love the nighttime where I can sit quietly and think. My mind is racing a bit on random thoughts of China’s human trafficking to where to live/retire to owning a business to fields of future study for my children. If I could choose the future, I would choose one where we owned our own business, and the kids would work and grow the business. I guess I’m one of those parents who really enjoys having them around. My kids are like mini-science experiments. You start with some problems, form a few hypotheses, then undergo lots of trials and errors and hope and pray you come out with the right results and conclusion! And really, I think I’d make a pretty good CEO of a big company. I read somewhere that Martha Stewart operates on very little sleep. I already do that, so fatigue wouldn’t be an issue. Yes, maybe I’ll run a large company like Martha one day, only without the jail time:)
I’ve now been through all four children’s curricula and have their plans in place. My next hurdle is how to juggle all of the subjects with the varying grade levels. I’d like to employ my older 2 children to read to the younger children for starters on things such as poetry. Such reading would benefit all involved. Really, though, our academics are so teacher-dependent on me that I have to decide what each child can study independently while I’m one-on-one with their siblings. Of course, free time can beneficial.
Today included more beach time, bikes, and burgers. Tomorrow promises kayaks and fishing, and I may work with each child in short bursts to begin our reentry into academics.