Sunday -OFF
Monday – OFF
Tuesday – 3 miles
Wednesday -OFF
The longer my mileage gets the less I want to press play on any kind of strength training. I need to start finding shorter strength workouts as my mileage increases. I can go back to 30 minutes strength workouts after the marathon.
Thursday – 3 miles
Friday – 2 miles – these were hot miles right in the middle of the day while I got the kids tonight from the stroller.
Saturday -10 miles
Sunday -OFF
Monday – OFF
Tuesday – OFF am Dr appt for my son
Wednesday – 2 miles
Thursday – strength training
Friday – 3 miles
Saturday – 6 miles
Total miles- 11
Sunday – OFF
Monday- OFF
Tuesday – OFF
Wednesday – OFF fighting a summer cold 😢 resting now it hopes to kick it quick
Thursday – OFF I made sure I took plenty of time off so my cold wouldn’t come back
Friday – 3 miles
Saturday – 6 miles
We took a quick overnight trip to the coast to spend some time with friends and see the kite festival. This was my first time going to the kite festival…….and will probably be my last hahahaha. The kites were cool but I found it pretty lackluster as far as a festival goes.
It will go down as a good memory and I’m glad we did it but it was absolutely not our best executed trip hahaha. We had a fair few tantrums.
We played on the beach until we had access to the AirBnB we were going to share with friends
The house was right on the beach and had a great view
We can’t go anywhere without injuries hahahaha
After an early afternoon of playing on the beach and walking around we played on the rental houses deck and ordered a pizza
Little man slept in a big boy bunk bed!!!
Sleeping was absolutely terrible. The room was facing west so we had the sunset which in Oregon is not until 9:30 with full darkness, not until about 10: 30pm and while he doesn’t sleep in a completely dark room, it’s a pretty dark room so it took him forever to fall asleep. He did not go to sleep until about 10: 15 p.m.
Then the casino about a mile and a half away had fireworks and some drunken neighbors decided to sing along to them, thankfully this did not wake either kid up. Then at 11:45 p.m. drunken people on the beach set off a huge fireworks that lit up the entire room for about 30 minutes which woke the baby up.
The next morning was a slow leisurely morning (I ordered Starbucks through door dash because I could not keep my eyes open). Little man woke us all up at 5:30am We had breakfast with the whole house then played on the very windy beach.
My friend and her family were in the house with us too. The babies played together a bit
Then it was time for us to pack up and head home!
It was an absolutely exhausting trip and I’m still exhausted today even after going to sleep an hour early, but I’m glad we did it. I’m going to try and go to sleep early again tonight
I skipped through a lot of this book. Just sort of reading some of the section headings and a few sentences here and there. I thought it was pretty dry. But that could be because a lot of the information I feel like I already read in “There’s no such thing as bad weather”.
But there was a lot of good information and some very interesting things. I found it really interesting where they talked about how many teachers now have to tell kids no to so many things on the playground that they can’t do anything during recess. There was a teacher in New Zealand who decided to get rid of all the rules for recess and just let the kids go wild like they used to and they saw a bullying go down, concentration go up, etc
Another thing that was really interesting and I saw translated to our real life is talking about how kids used to play in the early 1900s and even late 90s and how strong the kids were because they weren’t restricted to what they could do on playgrounds or at recess and they were climbing on top of things, around things, swinging, and going crazy. I actually had a mom in my son’s gymnastics class, be somewhat amazed at how strong my son is. And how his gross motor skills are so well developed for a two and a half year old. And I think that’s because we don’t restrict his play. We let him climb on things we let him run around. We let him be crazy. We try and do it as safely as possible but we do not restrict or overly helicopter parent.
I do see how in America we have become more and more restrictive on what we deem safe for our children. And as a mom, I absolutely understand that it’s a balance between raining in my own fear and keeping them safe. We’ve also become a very litigious society which makes it so difficult for caregivers to give children that freedom to be children and run around and climb and jump and bounce and be crazy.
It’s overall I found it to be a very dry book and I skipped and jumped through a lot of it. But I think it’s definitely worth parents taking a peek at it and maybe doing the same kind of skipping, jumping, and stopping and reading where you are interested and skipping the parts that you find boring or redundant.
Wednesday –
AM – 3 worksheets done and 1 book read
Then gymnastics and the library
Thursday – AM
Two worksheets and 1 spread in ‘things to spot’ as he ran around the house hahaha
Then into the stroller the kids went for a 2 mile run. Then some time to run around the backyard.
Back inside we ‘worked’ on a puzzle, which means I put the pieces in place and he stomped them down hahaha. But I do try and get him to point out 1 or 2 things to me each time and I name the continents and oceans.
We also played with the bunny boo game. It works on spacial awareness and directionality
PM – I read to them for 15 min
Friday AM – 3 worksheets
Saturday – OFF
Sunday – OFF some Sundays we will do a little bit but today we went to visit the grandparents
Monday AM
After this he had a lovely toddler meltdown compete with ear splitting screaming.
After he calmed down I loaded the kids in the stroller and went for a 3 mile run then we did some exploring and gardening in the backyard.
Tuesday – AM
And that is a wrap! That is a week of homeschooling with us. Some weeks we get more done and some less. This month we are really busy with swim lessons so each week we have 1 gymnastics class and 2 swim lessons. Since we are so busy I am pushing school a little less.
Because it is preschool level and he is only 2.5 I try and keep it light and not make him do things he isn’t feeling that day or time, I want to foster a love for learning not destroy it.
Thanks for joining us!!!
Sunday – OFF
Monday – 2 miles
Tuesday – full body strength (I also took over an hour nap while holding the baby for her nap hahahaha.)
Wednesday – Core and more workout
Thursday – 2 miles
Friday – 2 miles
Saturday – 3 miles
Total Miles – 9.15 miles
Homeschooling a 2.5 yr old can be challenging, very trying on my patience, frustrating and so very rewarding. Watching him progress and take leaps and bounds forward is wonderful.
The nice thing about homeschooling is that I can tailor our days to the kids. On days he is having a hard time we can do no schooling or just 1 or 2 things. On days he is doing well we can bust the work out.
This morning was sort of a good morning. The baby woke up early (not the good part hahahaha) and my husband got up with her after I fed her. I stayed in bed but realized I wasn’t going to fall back asleep easily and figured 30 extra min of sleep would probably end up making me more tired so I got up and went for a run.
We then had a slow morning of watching some cartoons and relaxing. After breakfast we busted the work out cause he was focused.
I also read aloud to them for 10min from a magic treehouse book.
Every day is different, what we do and what we get done is different.
The next day was a good morning and we busted it out again. He had some excess energy to burn so he would run a lap around the house and I’d stop him to answer a school question then he’d take another lap. We got through 4 workbook pages and a spread in our things to spot book this way and he laughed the whole time.
This is actually a few days worth of photos and happenings because my husband was gone for a week and my mom was here for a week and it was baby girls birthday party.
My baby slept through the night which was amazing. Toddler woke up at 545am looking for his moose. Got that for him and he dozed again for about an hour.
Baby got up at 615am. Fed her and she played a bit.
Toddler up just after 7am.
1130-1145am ish we sit down for lunch
After lunch is nap time. This goes from 1230ish until 230-330 depending on when the kids wake up.
After nap time we try for a little more school
After school we play outside more until dinner
Family dinner around 530pm then bath time!
The kids get to run around a bit then Ella goes to bed around 7pm, Robert runs around a bit longer than my husband puts him to bed around 8pm.
I clean up the kitchen then read until I go to bed around 10pm……. Though I should go to sleep around 9-930pm.
That is the basic layout of our day.
Trailing the blonde 