the best thing about homeschooling so far is...

being able to wear a hat and have a puppet and your sock monkey, jacoby, in your school pictures. 

no, seriously. so far homeschooling...kind of stinks. i realize it has only been one day and technically we are ahead of everyone else because they don't start until tomorrow, but i am feeling a little overwhelmed and impatient. haye is also feeling a little impatient. maybe we both expected a little too much as far as how amazingly fun and easy it would be. maybe i set him up for a bit of disappointment because i painted homeschool in a fantastic light compared to how kindergarten in private school was. not that kindergarten was all that bad or anything. 

we woke up and ate breakfast and prayed about school and went to the park to take photos and play on the playground. a friend came over to play just as we were entering our yard to start school, so i told haye he could play for 10 minutes longer. he told his friend all about how excited he was to homeschool because we could work for half the time as kids in school could and how we could go to lots of field trips and eat during school and listen to music etc etc. his friend is starting grade 4 and was extremely jealous. he countered with "well we get to have a party!". haye looked at me and i shrugged and said "we can have a party too!" haye smiled at his friend and said "can we make CAKE?!" i said sure. around 11:30 we came home and trudged through a couple pages of handwriting without tears. and that's exactly where the fun stopped. 

every few minutes haye would dramatically lay on the table and sigh loudly. or he'd say things like "I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN! THIS IS NOT FUN AT ALL! WHEN DO WE GET TO GO ON A FIELD TRIP?!?" or "i'm HUNGRY! i'm STARVING! i am SOOOOO THIRSTY!!!" also, i'm fairly sure he dropped his pencil 8000000 times and i had to sharpen it 6 times because he kept breaking the lead. finally, after a banana and some cold water, we finished those sheets and moved onto phonics. psh. easy peasy. haye might have even enjoyed his worksheets. he worked on partner letters (Aa Bb Cc...).

and then the fun stopped again when i pulled out the spelling and he had to write a list of words twice. after tons of complaining, disobeying, waking up zao and just (well, honestly) ticking me off, i sent him to his room for some quiet time. did i mention he had only written "an" out of that entire list? =___= derek came home and took us out for coffee and to the dollar store to buy mechanical pencils. when we got home he did spelling with haye and i went upstairs to sew. 

so yeah. it's 4:25 pm and we've done language arts. i think we'll probably just work on science and math and go play at the park after dinner before bed. uh...it gets easier, right? !