Musings....

I keep thinking of things that I feel would be good to write out on this blog, but seem to easily get distracted with life and never end up doing so. Unfortunately, it seems to also be how I deal with everything these days. ;-(

It's hard to teach your kids discipline (i.e. working something through until it's done and accomplishing your goals)- when you don't seem to have any yourself. There are so many things that I wanted to do this past year- both with the boys and personally, but for lack of discipline they haven't gotten done.

I guess it's all about priorities. Choosing what or what not to do- and the appropriateness and timing of each choice. I really want to have more of a daily/weekly plan of attack for this year- markers to gauge our path by. I need to look at my year and what we need to accomplish and figure out the directions to get us from point 'a' to point 'b' by the end of the year. Of course allowing for rabbit trails as the kids' interest leads, but I think goals would be good.

I found last year that keeping track of what we'd done was helpful for seeing the progress that we'd made. This year I need to be proactive in the overall plan for the year. It's like budgeting your money (and sticking to the plan) as opposed to spending at will and then just keeping track of what you've spent in Quicken- just so you can say you know where your money's gone. Helpful, but not very productive for staying/getting out of debt!

This would probably help me be a bit more 'fun' in my teaching approach- something I'm sure the boys would really appreciate. I'm also wanting to create a 'schedule' of sorts to help me get in group teaching time but also one-on-one time with all of the kids (not just the 3 school age ones)- so they rest need to keep each other occupied. Hopefully I can flexibly work something out so that we're a bit more productive with our days and are then able to get to the 'extras' that are fun/cool (which make up for not so fun things like math, etc.).

But it all comes back to priorities- me not wasting time on the computer doing useless things because I'm feeling overwhelmed with life and don't want to face it, and instead- getting our chores done so that I can use my evenings for productive stuff/hobbies.

Speaking of which- need to get to bed, as usual. ;-)