What Else Can One Do?

This past week has been frigged COLD! Our high on Tuesday was 1 degree! So this week I pulled out my scrapbook supplies and began working. I put in Pride & Prejudice and have enjoyed staying in where it is warm.

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

I thought I was until this year. With three girls in fifth grade I have had a double, triple dose of the fifth grade curriculum. I glanced over at the end table in my bedroom, where I was attempting to blog and saw a copy of the kids science packet, How Is Energy Passed Through an Ecosystem? I am a mom who doesn't mind helping my kids with their homework, but after an hour I want to be done. I want my kids to well educated. I want them to know the things they are suppose to know in the grades that they are suppose to know them, but do I really have to learn about energy and the ecosystem again? I was once in fifth grade (28 years ago) . Where I am sure I learned about the ecosystem. I am just having a hard time reading about it again these many years later. I guess what I am trying to say is that I am done doing homework. I am burned out with homework. Sometimes I envy June Cleaver. I want to live my life in a 30 minute episode, come home from school, do homework, fix dinner and enjoy the evening sitting around the table talking, laughing and enjoying each other. That is what I envision. It just seems that homework seems to consume our evenings at times and I just want to be done.

So, to answer my own question...No, I am not smarter than a fifth grader. If I was, I would know the answers to everything they brought home, we would be done with their homework in less than an hour and we would be having dinner on time every night:) Wishful thinking.