I am so out of sorts lately. We were doing really well with getting everything done for a while but the last week or so, we have gotten off track. I just can't seem to get everything back together. It started when we had a day where grandpa, grandma, and dh all had the day off during the week. I tried to go ahead with school as usual. The kids were distracted and I felt like I was being judged all day (grandma and grandpa aren't especially supportive of our hs). We got maybe half of our work done before I gave up. It's the same story every time someone else is in the house during the day. Lately, I've just been giving up and putting school stuff away when other people are here. Anyone else have trouble "doing school" when other people are around?
Totally messes it all up! I try to get it done before guests come over but that is not always possible!
ABSOLUTELY!!! My parents stopped by unexpectedly last Friday, and we never did get it back together. Mom use to do that on a fairly regular basis...maybe once every week or two...but then they moved farther away and it doesn't happen often now.
Yes, having people around will mess up our day. Sometimes just DH being home messes up our days. We try really hard to keep up with everything, but sometimes you just have to give in and let it go.
it absolutely does! I knew my MIL was coming for two days last week; the first day we got up earlier so we can do the majority of work until 11am she arrived; and the second day I took my son and we went to our local library for entire 2.5 solid hours of math , reading and grammar done. At the library I also picked up a nice movie about our state, and we watched it with grandma - that was nice
Yeap with us too. It is hard to have somebody else around. I think that you are living with the grandparents right? If you are I thought that maybe you could get them to help you? Like read to one of the the littles or listen to a story or something like that. Then they are busy, and not distracting and the other kids are working too.
Yes! My dh is pretty good- he mostly tries not to interrupt, and will sometimes even add to what I'm teaching dd. But today my b-i-l is here to help dh, and he doesn't get it at ALL. He keeps coming inside and gabbing to me about.. something or other. Right in the middle of our germy potato science experiment.. or right in the middle of writing. Dd is distracted, too, but she's pretty good about it really.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. Dh was off on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. He was gone most of the time, but it still through me off to have him here later in the morning than usual. Then, this morning, my SIL was here picking up her kids until around 8 (they're usually gone before I get up in the morning). She wanted to talk to me the whole time, so I didn't get things prepared for the day like I usually do. I just feel like scrapping everything until after Thanksgiving, but I'm not sure dh would approve. Maybe I will come up with some sort of Thanksgiving Unit study for next week while I regroup and be ready to start our curriculum again once the holiday is over. Aggie-yes, we are living with grandparents still. They're really pretty good about letting us be while we work, but just them being here is a distraction-the tv's on, people are walking by, working in the kitchen, etc. One more blessing of having our new house will definitely be having it to ourselves! I can't wait! Hopefully only another week or so.
If he's sick, he'll spend all day in bed, which isn't a problem. But even then, because he's not getting up and going to work, we sleep in and then get off to a late start. And if we know he's off for any other reason, we don't even try to have school.
We get thrown off by extra people around too. If DH is home, I have him stay in a seperate area so he's not distracting ds. He totaly understands. If anyone else stops by, we stop while they're there and then TRY to get going again after they leave. Doesn't always happen though.
oh yeah, just having DH around results in half of the work as usual! And if the in-laws are around, forget it! I don't need them standing over my shoulder!
I just plan on a day off is DH is off from work. Why bother struggling to get anything done. We just call it a day off and do something fun.
I had a whole thing typed out and then I deleted by mistake! AAAAHHHH!!! YES! Having an extra person here usually throws off our routine, and that is a pain! I almost hate when my husband works from home. Well, of course, his idea of working from home is watching movies all day and keeping up with his work email using his iPad or work laptop...so the TV's on the whole time. It's frustrating to motivate kids to work when there's TV noise. I have a rule that there's no TV until after dinner...and he does not follow that when he's home. Of course, last week, my stepfather was here for 4 days. There was NO WAY I was taking a 4 day break from school, so I enlisted his help! Grandpa read the read alouds AND gave the spelling drills (we use Spelling Power - kinda like Sequential Spelling in that it's a test every day). He also played their geography game with them. YAY! THankfully his morning hygiene routine has him spending about 2 hours in the bathroom and such...so they got quite a bit done before he was even out of the bathroom! LOL Hubby's off all next week, but we have two days to finish up this unit. Hubby said he's going to actually go in the office on Monday instead of taking off. I BEGGED HIM to not turn the TV on on Tuesday....hopefully he'll remember my emphatic plea!!!
Yes!!! In fact, my friend called me last night wanting me to pick her son up today a noon for minimum day and keep him til she got off in the evening. She said I could give him homework while my kids were working. Uuuhhhh, NO! That doesn't work at.all. So no, if someone comes by unexpected or even will be here a few days (like MIL) forget it. Its a vacation day. I don't even try to do school. People don't understand that we are working here, too. I guess that comment is off topic but man, I hate it when people think I'm home anyway, why can't I just do whatever for them.
Depends on the person. LOL We have a classroom, so if I want, we go in there and close the door LOL My mom is always asking if we "really do school?" so one day when she stopped by we kept doing school and I wouldn't let her leave until we finished LOL
My mom is always asking about us "doing school" too. It drives me crazy. She says it so much that my kids worry if we don't do bookwork for a day because they think we didn't "do school." They know she's going to ask "how'd school go today?" when she gets home. If she knows we have something going on during the day, her question is always "well, how are you going to do school today?". grrrr I'm hoping that after she starts to see that they are actually learning, this question will go away...
My mil lives in a detached apartment just next door. She is pretty good about not bugging us, but she does have stuff she needs help with and I pretty much just send the boys over as soon as she asks, because otherwise she will be popping back in again and again to see when they will be ready. I figure this counts as school. If anyone else is here..it is tougher.
yep!! We don't do school when someone comes over. It's useless since the kids are distracted so we just pack it all up and pick up the next day. Or later when they leave
