Sigh...........................

I guess it was inevitable.  We've had our first rough day of homeschooling.  All three of us were at fault and the craziness just kept spinning until we all became severely overstimulated by it all.  I don't know what to do in such situations.  Do I stop for the day and try again tomorrow?  I mean, they're young enough that a missed day is no problem at all.  However, I didn't want to do this because I'm afraid that the kids will think that if they're having an off day, they can act up and Mommy will call it quits.  I tried to change tactics and went from more formal bookwork to an art project.  Still here, we failed.  The problem was lack of listening and problems following directions.  Logan wants to please so bad and wants to answer questions correctly to the point that I think it stresses him out and he sometimes spits out answers without really listening to the question.  I'm trying to teach him to stop and think before answering.  I think the next few weeks we will work heavily on art projects involving step by step direction following.  Art, because its not scary (as handwriting sometimes is) and my kids love it.  Plus, its an easy way to add to lessons.  Hopefully we won't fail with the art projects, like we did today, if I get them started on it BEFORE we are all already stressed out.  I'm hoping this was just a bad day.  So far, all the other days have been amazing, so we'll cling to that.  We chilled with some library books on birds and nests (our subject for this week) and all calmed down a bit.  Then we all apologized for our wrongs and agreed to put it behind us and move on with our day.  A good weekend to come and a fresh start on Monday sounds pretty great right now.  So does a night of sewing.  Maybe I can fit that in tonight......................................................................(dreaming)....................................