Slacker Mom Confessions

It's official. I am a slacker Mom. It just plain fits.

It's not that I don't like organization or schedules. I do. After I get used to them and get into the habit. It's just that it takes so much effort to make the plans and then stick to them. I'd much rather just fluff along.

Not necessarily leading a fluffy life, just be more go with the flow than structure. The kids on the other hand, need structure. They thrive on schedules.

So, I spent part of my morning making a plan for the next half of the school year. I use Managers Of Their Homes. It has great charts. I don't use it as intended though. It's much more of a big daily to do list or a routine reminder. We don't skip over something because the half hour changed or get crazy because we're technically behind whatever is listed on the chart. We use it as a reminder to keep on track and to keep moving on to the next thing.

If I didn't use it this way, it would be way to stressful for me. I'd be constantly feeling pressured to fit it all into the time blocks and guilty when it didn't work.

This is life with kids, folks. And a home school life at that. Learning takes it's own time and fits into no one's preplanned schedule.

As for getting back to school this week, well, that's where the slacker mom in me came out. We haven't done it yet.

Wondering what we have done?

Well, we've played the piano. We've done puzzles, read books and colored pictures. We've played lots of board games and card games. We've gone to the library and Tae Kwon Do. We've built and rebuilt the marble tower. We've tried to nap. We've played outside. We hosted lots of wonderful guests and been to piano lessons. We started basket ball practice.

Seems to me like we're doing ok and are right on track for our sort of life.