Homeschooling and the 2024 Olympics

What to tell? What to tell? It seems that most days around here nothing extraordinary happens and for that I'm very thankful, but it does leave me at a loss of things to share with you at the end of a day. Lainey and I worked quite a bit on some home school stuff today and, wow, do I have a new respect for kindergarten teachers! My thought while I was working with my one brilliant child was "How do teachers do this with 29 students?" Makes me want to rethink all of these political ads airing right now where they say "So and so voted against reduced class size or against a raise in teachers' pay." She is quite smart and she is learning, but I do have to remind myself that she's only 4 and isn't going to get all of this on the first day! This shall be a challenge for both of us, but it shall be fun as well. The real challenge will be in coming up with something for Sarah Grace and Abby to do while Lainey and I are working. Today I looked over at Sarah Grace and found she was trying to ride the cat. You read that right friends, she was trying to ride the cat-complete with a "Giddy up". Perhaps not the most productive (or healthy for the cat) thing she could be doing. I am all about maintaining a schedule and providing structure in that way so I think we're going to have to find one that works for us and stick with it. I had great plans for a super schedule today, but let's just say Abby had some diaper issues that resulted in a bath and 2 changes of clothes. Impressive.

The girls are really enjoying the Olympics. Sarah Grace especially likes them and asks several times throughout the day if they're on yet. The Canadian channel (yes we live close enough to get that) shows events throughout the day so we watched a bit of diving this morning. Sarah Grace really wanted to see some gymnastics last night but we missed it so she asked this morning if the dancing one was going to be on. Dancing one is code for gymnastics. When they came on tonight, she said, "Look, it's the water cube one!" She does pay attention. She finally saw some women's gymnastics this evening and was quite excited. She stood up in front of the TV and held her arms up and said, "I do what that girl did." Later we saw her kneeling on the floor with her foot up in the air. She also asked Lon if we could get some uneven bars for our backyard! Let's see, you have to be at least 16 during the calendar year of the Olympics in order to participate so it looks like it will be 2024 before she has a chance at the summer games! Maybe she'll be potty trained by then. . .