This week is our annual cleaning at church, where all the women of the church are assigned a task. I was scheduled for cleaning and polishing one section of pews, I wondered how long it would take before Isabella got bored since I had to take her. She picked out a few toys to bring, and for TWO straight hours I didn't even know she was there. She went off by herself, found a place to play, and did just that. I don't think she has ever played for two straight hours by HERSELF. Ahhh, she's getting too old! Of course it did take me two and half hours, and the last half hour I had a little shadow saying, "I want to go home."
In other church related news, when I got home I received a call asking me if I was going to teach CCD again this year. AND I SAID NO!! I can't believe I actually said no, that is so not like me to actually tell someone no. But I'm learning to do it more, and it's kind of freeing - if that's even a word. My experience teaching last year was a BAD one, to say the least. Although I did influence just one boy to start going to church regularly. He and his family never went, and after one of my "talks" with him, his whole family started appearing in Church! Also, teaching those disrespectful, awful kids (I will save you all from the comments one girl made to me that got her kicked out for the rest of the year!) made me seriously consider if we want to put our kids in public school. Please don't harass me public school lovers, I'm most definitely not anti-public school, but I just don't know yet what we want for our kids, and these kids left me with a bad taste in my mouth! I went to a public school, and I turned out just fine (I think), and our kids may very well end up going to public school, I'm just saying, we have a lot to think about, and I'm quite certain that it's not all about school, but rather parenting as well.
And in non-church related news I get to spend an entire day this weekend with a dear friend I haven't seen in YEARS! I'm so excited. Isabella is going to stay with Monte, while I meet my friend about an hour an a half from here for a fun filled day!
4 comments:
Good for Isabella! Wow! And good for you for saying no - was it 6th graders that you had? Mercy. Actually I was reading the long list of grades that need teachers this year at our church and felt a bit of a tug - though I don't have the supportive hubs to watch the kiddo.
Nothing wrong with public school, but yeah, that's part of the reason I really want to homeschool. Couple that with an HOUR bus ride either way (we're ten miles from the town) and yuck.
Have an AWESOME time this weekend!
I am laughing at you and your NO on religion class! Good for you!
And I loved my public school years and got very lucky I think but am almost 100 percent on the homeschool bandwagon. Even though we have very good schools here, there's so much there I can't control or see or legislate:) I turned out fine too. FOr the most part but that was 30 years ago.
Wow good for Isabella and good for you for saying NO :)
Ugggg SCHOOL!!! What a decision!! I have a great Catholic school that we could go to.... but I'm OPEN to homeschooling if God wants me to. There are definitely good things about both.
Oh yes. The schooling dilemma. I'm in the midst of that as well. I still have a year to decide (because we've decided for sure not to have her go to preschool), but it's on my mind every single day.
We are leaning more and more towards homeschooling and it makes me nervous because I have no idea how to even go about it. It doesn't help when I ask Madison if she'd like Mommy to be her teacher and just have school at home, and her response is, "No thanks. I want to go to REAL school."
I agree that yes, we turned out just fine going to public school, but I also remember some of the bad things that went on and hearing that nowdays, those same bad things (and worse) are happening at MUCH younger ages! Plus, there's the whole issue of deciding what you really want your children learning with our very liberal world these days.
Sorry to drone on, but these are things that have been continuing to dominate my thoughts lately! :-)
Way to go on saying NO!
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