So, I think it's safe to say that I'm kind of a terrible blogger. Here I was making blog posts and adding pictures (a big thing, if you happen to have read my incredibly boring family blog) and then radio silence for almost a month! Truth be told, I actually have started writing several posts during "rest time."
Rest time is the largely fictional time of day where Nolan naps (that part is true) and Kaydence lays quietly on the couch to watch a show, or even better plays quietly in her room. Thus giving me a little bit of a break for my sanity. Because seriously I just can't play pretend games all day long. If you have met my daughter you'll know this is the case. When we meet new people she introduces herself as the character she is playing. Sometimes it is so random that the person looks at me with this "What the..." expression on their face and I then have to explain who she is and why she said that. It gets weird sometimes. I digress.
Here is what rest time really looks like at my house:
Kaydence: Hold on Mommy! I have to poop!
(5 minutes later) I have to potty again!
Kaydence: My eyes are burning!
Me: It's because you're tired, close them and they won't burn
Kaydence: I don't want to sleep!
Here is my personal favorite from todays adventures. I was just sitting here eating a banana and Kaydence says, "That banana looks delicious can I have a bite?" I thought to myself, if I let her eat this banana I'm going to ruin all the effort I put into getting her to sit still finally bbbuuuuttt she does want to eat something besides a bagel with cream cheese. So I gave her the banana. She took out a teeny tiny bite and said, "This is disgusting. I'm going to throw it away." At which point I re-claimed my banana and she asked for another bagel.
Sometimes she is quiet and I think to myself, "she's totally sleeping right now" and then I look over. Turns out, she's usually only quiet because she is trying to sneak my diet coke. Mostly she just flops around, moaning, and asking if she can get up yet. and I end up saying, "Seriously, just lay down for 5 minutes!" or "get up one more time and you're going to your room to rest!" Because being in her room playing with toys is apparently the worst punishment ever. I hear other mothers telling me how their kids just go sleep by themselves or other wonderful restful stories and I'm just over here like, "Well, I watched an episode of Dr. Who so I'm calling it a win" (actually today I watched the x-files)
Point being, sometimes I'm trying to actually do stuff during rest time, but I end up trying to convince Kaydence to "rest" for so long that I give up and decide to do it at bedtime. When I then decide that I'd rather just watch Merlin. The real moral of the story is that I've just been really lazy. This seems like a really long story to get that across.
We do have some changes coming up in our household. I'm going to be watching my neighbors daughter over the summer, so I am going to use this as an opportunity to have a slightly more structured day. I would safely define us as "un-schoolers" at this point. I've been calling it interest led learning, but then I was reading about unschooling and I thought, "Oh, that sounds exactly like me." However, I have picked out a curriculum for next year so I'd like to start us getting used to a little bit of structure. Flexible structure. I'll be working out a loose schedule for us next week as well as a weekly theme. We've been doing themes for a while, but I usually let Kaydence pick. I am going to be picking over the summer though. I've also made a book list that we are going to read through this summer. The first week we are doing will be fairy tales. You can expect fairy tale themed posts in a week or so.
