Plan Fail
So as the title of this post suggests, my perfectly laid out plans for the day, failed.
Let’s begin with now, at 11:44 p.m. I should have started my 7 hours of blissful, uninterrupted sleep, two hours ago. But instead, I am sitting next to Jeremy, watching him pretend to be Wolverine, and blogging. Plans for a good night’s rest… fail.
Or how about at 8:30, after tucking the kids in bed, I had wanted to finish a dress for Charissa that’s been sitting on my sewing table 80% completed for a month now… and make a few cute bibs for Stephen who is sprouting his very first tooth… and make a mini “backpack” for the kid’s Leapster… and upcycle some old shirts… and work on perhaps resurrecting my Etsy shop by putting together some dress kits for sale… Instead, I chose this:
Yeah. Terminator Salvation. I’m a sucker for brainless, action-packed movies. Free time plans… fail.
Then there was dinner, which was supposed to be dumplings, but sort of morphed into steak and roasted brussel sprouts because I was too tired just thinking about wrapping the little suckers… because this morning, my kids decided to get sick. Hence, no school and no exercising or finishing projects around the house. Plans for the day… all fail.
But that’s okay.
We’re flexible, right?! 
The kids weren’t that sick (everything normal except for the occasional attempt to hack out a lung), so I decided to dabble in a bit of homeschooling to hopefully make up for some lost educational stimulation.
First, we got happy about our marigolds that were starting to show some life:
Then we did a “spring inspired” numbers activity (Calvin had to find and place the numbers 1 to 30 in order; Charissa did 1 to 10):
And worked on addition with Calvin:
The addition activity involved having Calvin place the correct number of cubes in each cup, and then dumping them into the third cup to count altogether. I got this idea from the My Montessori Journey blog. A great idea since the act of pouring the cubes from the two cups helps reinforce the concept of adding. (And I got to use up some old business cards from my days at Wells Fargo.)
Then we played, ate lunch, took a nap, and went to the grocery store. Plans for spending quality time with my children… WIN! (By the way, if you haven’t already, you really should check out the fail blog.)
I should get to bed now. It’s 12:20, and yes, it took me 36 minutes to write one little post…
Tags: Education, Kids, Montessori
