We really had a slow weekend. Really we did. Saturday, I thought, and thought, and then figured out what I wanted to do with our workboxes. I love them, but I needed to change them. I needed to be able to load all five days on the weekends. Yes, I do. See, I am now working from home a bit, and my time is getting a bit crunched. I had to figure out how to keep the concept, but make it a bit less time consuming during the week. So, in a week or so, I shall share what, and how I did it, assuming it works.
I needed a quiet weekend. Yep, I was feeling a bit emotionally and physically exhausted. We straightened the house on Saturday and played outside. Sunday, I made a big meal, we did family church, and then just hung out playing outside, messing in the garden and just enjoyed being together. And, now it is time, to dive into the role of farm wife, and mom.
We will start swathing hay Monday, yep, so much for seeing my hubby several times through out the day. Another reason I needed to rework the workboxes. When you are a mom to six, and a farm wife, you tend to find ways to streamline when the swather, tractors, combines and such start rolling. You just have to. Being a homeschooling farm wife during the busy season brings on a whole new meaning to multitasking. I need portable school. I never know when I will be needed with just twenty minutes notice. Yep, no staying in my jammies til 11:55 now.
On Saturday, I also got our hotel reservations for the area homeschool convention. Yep, taken care of. It is official, I and three of our children will be there with our steady teen babysitter. She will watch our little handful, known as Hannah—she climbs walls now—as in playpen, and baby beds. She goes up the stairs, and figured out how to open door knobs. Did I mention she is only fifteen months old. Good thing there are almost always six pair of eyes keeping an eye on her, or helping her get into something. I have to say that the two year old and her are a pair. A pair of home wreckers. lol Seriously, love them, but they can trash our home in ten seconds flat. Come on, I know others of you have a pair like this right? You love them to death, but wonder if it is abuse if you would flip the playpen over and stick them under it, while you spend an hour or so cleaning up the last three minutes of their work. Right? Not alone am I?
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I can understand about the “Demo team”! I laughed about your upside down play pin idea 
I can relate!!!
When our #3 boy and #4 girl were both preschoolers, we’d call them the Dual Destruction Team. They gave us some hard years of diligence and persistence in training! However, now they’re 6yo and 8yo and we see that hard work paying off - that stubbornness is a great thing when they are living under the control of the HS. So keep up the good work and training…