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Okay, about the Jesse Tree. I hemmed and hawed because I couldn't decide which approach I wanted to do. When Michele posted hers, I decided to bite the bullet. I made mine in a day.
But we still don't "do" the Jesse Tree as a family. This is one of my "strewing" for Advent. It's all set up so my son can add them to the tree. He adds them and he looks up the readings on his own in his Bible.
It's all a bonus if he does this activity. I want to make sure I have a minimal list for Advent that we get done, and the rest is gravy.
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We don't do a Jesse Tree, either. I think we did one year, at least five years ago . . . but I'm not sure we did the whole thing. We do have Advent traditions in our family, and we love them, but beautiful as that one is, it's not one we've ever been able to make happen.
Overall, I think my main shattered ideal is that I don't have it all sorted out with my younger kids. I did not, in fact, learn every life lesson that my older kids had to offer, or even if I did, it turns out that in just about every way, my younger children live in a totally different reality. Turns out that having homeschooled their whole lives, instead of having transitioned from school-school to homeschool, has not made *them* easier, or their learning paths easier, or me smarter or calmer or more together, or anything. I beat my head against the wall a lot when my oldest child was this age; now I'm beating my head against the wall over the fact that I'm still beating my head against the wall, instead of having it all figured out. And I'm deciding that the reason that God sent me early menopause was to put to rest my conviction that if I just had another round of kids, *then* I'd get it right. "Nope," God said. "You have these kids, and they have you. Have fun."
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For a little levity, I thought I would share my most recent "shattered ideal." That is probably a bit extreme. An "adjustment" of ideals is probably more accurate than the word "shattered." But I think that this picture of the corner in our dining room speaks for itself 
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SallyT wrote:
... now I'm beating my head against the wall over the fact that I'm still beating my head against the wall, instead of having it all figured out.
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 Loved this! I have the same reaction as I'm going through the SAME round of battles with different kids. You'd think I'd know better by now!
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Another shattered ideal (I seem to have so many  )...
My kids are not likely to take to the Catholic planners I bought for them this year. Since neither ever touches them, or wonders where his/hers is, or even remembers he/she has one, I think it's safe to say at this point to say they are a bust.
For awhile I was writing their daily assignments in them, but that got old for me since no one looked at them, and I was using time to copy out lessons from my own planner.
But the good news is that *I* love them and have taken over one completely. They are so bright and cheerful and full of useful info.
Next year I will just buy one for myself and call it good.
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That may be something they grow into as well Melinda.. especially as they see you using it 
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Lindsay! What -- is every dining room's primary function not supposed to be as a fully functional office and schoolroom?? Well, my dining room is *still* the schoolroom and office even though we have a separate office space *and* I'm not homeschooling anymore. 
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SeaStar wrote:
Another shattered ideal (I seem to have so many )...
My kids are not likely to take to the Catholic planners I bought for them this year. Since neither ever touches them, or wonders where his/hers is, or even remembers he/she has one, I think it's safe to say at this point to say they are a bust. |
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Funny - it's the exact opposite here! *MY* ideal was that homeschooling didn't NEED planners ... I just wanted everything to be an organic, learn from whatever you are reading, whatever is happening kind of life. My kids on the other hand, can't do that and I can't seem to support it either. If it isn't in their planner, they don't know how to do it. Even if I say "we do one lesson of math every day" for years on end, if I don't get to their planner by Monday morning they just wander around lost until I do. 
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Um. Am I the only Mom who gets asked EVERY SINGLE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY....
"Is it a school day?"
I have a calendar up on the wall with our days, we school everyday Monday through Friday and everyday we do at least Morning basket and some seat work. Why does it surprise them????????
I completely understand from my 4 and 6 year olds, they are still dealing with which day is which but from my 12 and 10 year old?????? My shattered ideal: that someone will actually pick up their school books and start working without me reminding them that it is a school day!
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cathhomeschool wrote:
| Lindsay! What -- is every dining room's primary function not supposed to be as a fully functional office and schoolroom?? Well, my dining room is *still* the schoolroom and office even though we have a separate office space *and* I'm not homeschooling anymore. |
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I did resist making the dining room the school space. I moved those desks all over the living room for months before I conceded that they really fit best there. But I DID think I could make it pretty, and of course my boys took my "pretty" and decided to improve upon it by adding their army tank, airplane, and battleship pictures. There's are actually more there now than we're there when I took that picture.
I even put up two of those wire hangers with clips from Ikea along the long wall in the playroom to keep the main living spaces tidier, but they haven't added to or changed the pictures there since I first out it up. And yet they continue to plaster their pictures all ore the downstairs area
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Lindsay. The boys think they're doing you a favor! My kids don't appreciate my decorating efforts either. My oldest has gone as far as to say that he can't wait to move out because he'll be able to decorate the living areas according to his tastes, not mine. (These comments usually come right after I've rearranged furniture or hung something on a wall.)
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