Mid-Year Panic

Just when I think I might have things somewhat under control, I realize that I don't and I begin to panic. Take math for example. We're working on it, but honestly, it's the first thing that doesn't get done when the day is going haywire (which, of course, happens more often than not).

I would like to do it first, but that's when the baby is toddling around and everyone seems to be a bit too wired to sit down and do some math. So then I try to leave it for when the baby goes for her nap- only to have a dozen other things push their way to the top of the list and by the time that's done, the baby's up and I'm hooped for another day!

So now, I sit looking at the math curriculum that I have for my oldest and notice that I've only done about 20 of the 140 lessons in the book. And even if I COULD get math done every (school) day from now till the end of the year, I still wouldn't get it all done.

And I'm panicking. Am I failing my kids in their academic education? How far behind are they in English and Math? How on earth am I ever going to catch up? Am I setting the bar too low of what I expect of them each day? Most of their work seems so high maintenance that I can't figure out how daily, to get everything done with each kid. I'm mean really, I think today was the first day #3 child actually did some formal school work in the past couple of weeks. Granted said child is only in kindergarten and we've already done 80% of the required work- but still.

Need some divine wisdom/intervention on how to figure out managing the 'littles' so that the 'biggies' get their work done. Having said that, guess I should go spend some time trying to get it. ;-)