First Grade is Exhausting

I don't know about the girls, but 1st grade is wiping me out! I get home from work between 6:15 and 6:30. Dinner is usually waiting for me (I feel like a husband in the 50s) and Paul and the girls have usually just finished. Sometimes they wait for me, but that's pretty late for the girls to eat so it doesn't bother me if they eat earlier. After I/we eat I clean up, and by then it's about 7:30.

The next hour is just a whirlwind of getting things ready for the next day and helping the girls with their homework. Sometimes they've already done it by the time I get home, but even then they still have 20 minutes of reading every night and lately it seems there is always some project or another that we have to help them with. I feel like I'M back in school and it's killing me. I long to be able to just come home from work and chill and not have to spend the next 2+ hours cleaning and doing homework. So different from when I was their age. I never had homework until at least 6th grade, and then I did it myself. But the girls had a minimal amount every week in Kindergarten (it was optional but we always did it) and now a slightly less minimal amount in first grade (don't get me wrong--I think it's good for them and I'm all for it). I long for the day that they can just do their homework themselves (and it's not that I mind helping them, I just would rather use that time to make the house look like less of a sty or go to the gym for some much needed exercise). But anyway, after homework and nightly reading it's always a battle to get them to get their pajamas on and brush their teeth and settle down and go to bed. And I'm always just dying to get them to bed because I have a million other things I want to try to do in the next hour or two before I have to go to bed. It's exhausting.

Comments

Luther Burbank Park

Last summer a friend of mine introduced me to this cool park on Mercer Island. When we went, we only played at the swimming beach and never explored the rest of the park or played on the playground. So yesterday, we finally went back with a picnic lunch and checked out some more of the park (there's still another section we didn't get to, so maybe next time). The playground was really cool with all sorts of nooks and cranies, and old-fashioned metal slides and ladders. They girls loved it. View from our picnic spot A pyramid with slides on the other side Lake Washington beyond Chair swings--never seen these before I-90 bridge over Lake Washington Trail along the lake leading to the swimming beach Should have brought swimsuits. They were SO sandy and wet coming home.

First Day of 10th Grade

Today was the first day of 10th grade for the girls. Sophomores. I can't believe we only have two more of these. Not counting college, of course. Kayley Kayley again Olivia It has become my tradition to take the day before and the first day off. Back in the elementary days, the day before the first day was "meet the teacher day", so I would always take them to that, then in middle school we would just go to lunch or get our nails done. Last year was their first day of high school, though, so that day was orientation and that brings us up to this year. The day before the first day is "Wildcat Day", which is mostly a freshman and new student orientation. Olivia is in ASB so she had to go help with that, but Kayley didn't go. Instead, her and I took some of her old clothes to this resale store called Plato's Closet to try and sell them (it's similar to a consignment shop except they just pay you then and there and then resell them, instead of o

A Day in My Life

It's time once again for the Multiples and More Question of the Week: A Day in Your Life. What is your schedule like? Do you work outside the home or stay home with the kids? I am very blessed to be a SAHM. Our schedule looks something like this: The girls get up anywhere between 7:20 and 8:20, but usually around 8:00. Lately I've been letting them watch an episode of Dora so I can get on the computer and check email, Facebook, etc. Otherwise they just play for an hour or so and then we have breakfast. By the time we're done with breakfast (fixing, eating and cleaning up) it's usually between 9:30 and 10:00. We get dressed, and then we go wherever we're going that day (errands, park, playdate, etc.). If it's a stay home day, I'll usually do a DVD workout while they just play upstairs and then we'll go for a walk or play outside after. Lunch is anywhere between 12:00 and 1:00, and nap is 1:30 or 2:00 to 4:00 or 4:30. After their nap

The Nelson Narrative

Search This Blog