Here you can see how relaxed, calm and beautiful my baby girls are while we sat outside on the grass doing their schoolwork.
This is because all three of us had enough sleep. Woke up without the alarms screaming in our ears and when we were ready we tackled a few of their books (that they chose from the pile).
Once I moved back to my childhood town last year I decided that my girls needed to get involved more socially with kids their ages instead of being around adults 24/7 like I was growing up. So I enrolled them into the best playschool/school I could find in town.
The thing that's just been really getting to me actually since last year already is the fact that my kids are constantly getting snot noses, colds, mood swings etc.. and their focus points are basically non existent now with really bad anger outbursts.
We just enjoyed our LONG 3 week Summer school holidays, this was lovely but,,, with our schools opening this past Monday and we are now only on Wednesday, I already want to pull all of my hair out!
My eldest has this one girl in her class since last year who unfortunately is growing up in a very disrupted family. I have great compassion for this little girl, but I have to think of my own child first. First day back at school this little girl stole my daughter's lunch and threatened her if she dared tell her teacher etc.. now for a 7 yr old child to already be thinking this way is completely wrong in my eyes.. but that's just my 10 cents.
Our weekdays are so busy during school months that my kids are run like little hamsters from 6 am till bedtime Mon-Fri.
I just reached the point where I am just not understanding the point in putting my girls through all of this pressure, stress and drama anymore. I have come to realize that they are only children once in their lives, they deserve the right to ENJOY BEING A KID!
I came up with a brainwave recently where I said to my husband I think it is time for us to "shed" a lot of our costly things in life, like our horses, debts etc.. (the banks are helping us with the debt's anyways cause we lost our main incomes). Ever since we got engaged we always wanted to have our kids, settle down and then when they got to a nice age where they would remember things better that they experienced, we wanted to travel and make documentaries revolving around anything and everything that we find interesting in life.. somehow with modern indoctrinated thinking we totally lost track for a while and became slaves to this modern way of "not living".
So... brainwave moment just set off a spark in our brains. :-D we both suddenly started focusing on what mattered to the two of us as a "couple" and for our kids. One of the biggest side effects we experienced during this "not living" modern methodology is our relationship nearly completely failing on us! Not because there was or is a lack of interest or affection for each other but rather complete shutdown due to being over worked, tired and financially exhausted 24/7. It's easier to walk away than work on things at that point in life I think that's why we see so many divorces lately.
Anyways.. I am very seriously considering homeschooling my girls from 2018! My only concern is truly how to keep their social side alive for them as they are both such little social bodies.. If any of you reading this have a bit of advice in this department please tell me!! ♥♥
