A Homeschooler's Day

Being the start of the new school year, for public schoolers and homeschoolers alike, I thought I would share what a day with us is like. It's amazing anything really gets done.

6:30 Alarm goes off. Curtis hits snooze.
6:40 Snooze
6:50 Snooze
7:00 Snooze. Ammon gets out of his room and just as I start to pick him up and see if he'll lay with me, I discover he is soaked from the waist down.
7:10 Ammon bathed and dressed. Joshua pooped but makes it to the toilet just in the nick of time. Clean him up and get him dressed. Wake everyone else up.
7:15 Scriptures
7:30 Showers
8:00 Curtis to work.
8:10 Kids put to work: unload dishwasher, clean cat box, straighten living room (Yes, it already needs it and we've not even been up for 2 hours), clean bedrooms, get laundry gathered, clean up kitchen floor.
8:45 Breakfast: biscuits, sausage and peaches.
9:00 Insane urge to have to vacuum the entire house.
9:30 School officially starting. Kids seated at their desks. Ammon and Joshua contained to a play room and school room. They would rather climb on the desks than play with all the neatly sorted toys.
10:00 Quick stop for Jesse to bring down the fan because I'm roasting. It falls down the stairs. Ammon poops. More climbing on desks. Isaac looses a pencil and throws a tantrum.
10:30 We've covered 4 types of sentences, elements of fiction, read some books, done some laundry.
10:45 Joshua pees his pants.
11:00 Math
11:08 Joshua figures out how to open the bedroom window, sticks a pony bead in the handle after he unscrews it off the hinge and the cat gets out.
11:15 Joshua escapes outside. Probably to get the cat, but we don't know he's outside.
11:30 Clean up and break for lunch, only I decide it would be better to do two quick errands and then eat lunch. Everyone scrambles for shoes and socks.
11:35 Isaac discovers the window is open and the cat is gone. Hunt begins.
11:45 Cat found. Clothes changed. Shoes carried to car.
11:50 Scrapbook store with 6 kids in tow to get 3 pieces of paper. Joshua plays with the cash register.
12:00 Alco discount store to look for art supplies for crowns and a field trip through the lightbulb aisle. Joshua runs up and down the aisle, Simeon managed to sneak the penguins in with him and does his own shopping trip. Hannah begs for stuff. We can't find anything we need in the craft section, so we go to the school supply section. It's almost desolate. We go to the toy section (*groan*) and find some "stickers" that turned out to be tattoos, a box of gemstones and stuff I thought would work, and glitter glue.
12:41 Back home for lunch. Ammon is alseep by the time we get home. Joshua pees his pants. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.
1:00-3:00 Watched Coraline. Really didn't like the movie. Ammon naps. Joshua pees his pants again, but never takes a nap.
3:00-4:30 Light lesson. Did an experiment in the dark bathroom: make a call, count some change, throw a ball and try to catch it and write their names. It was interesting. Made our crowns. Haven't completed them at the time of this writing.
4:30 Play outside.
5:30 Inside from playing, cooking dinner, talked to friend and sister. Joshua pees his pants again. Well, actually poops. But Curtis is home and cleaned it up for me. (Is it bad that I'm happy about that?)
6:45 Dinner served: cowboy beans on tortillas.
7:30 Father's Blessings for all the kids for the start of school. I always enjoy hearing Isaac's especially.
7:45 Ammon, Joshua and Simeon put to bed. Hannah in shower. I begin to plan for the next day's school.
8:30 Hannah to bed.
9:30 Boys in bed.

And yet, I still find time to facebook, email, blog and chat with friends. I think I'll get off to bed. I'm exhausted!