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The following post is from Jen from Forever, For Always, No Matter What:
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When I first imagined homeschooling my children, I imagined neat little desks, filled with neat little children, sitting quietly and hanging on my every word.
Each child would have his or her supplies stored neatly in said desk, appropriate books would be lined up ready to go, and each child would have a pencil in hand.
A sharpened pencil.
With an eraser.
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Enter real life.
Books are misplaced, covers ripped off, the kitchen table stands in for the desks, and we often have days when nobody listens. Â To anything. Â Not a single word.
And, there are no pencils. Ever.
Despite the fact that I regularly buy out the pencil supply at the local office supply store, give pencils as stocking stuffers at Christmas and as birthday gifts throughout the year, we never have pencils.
Ever.
I remember back in elementary school getting stuck sitting next to messy boys. Â Crumpled papers and books and who knows what else jammed into their desks, the contents spilling out on the floor every time they needed to look for something. Â Their desks were routinely covered in scribbles and doodles. Â Their pencils? If they could find them, they were tiny nubs with no erasers. Â But usually they couldn’t find a pencil.
Ever.
Now those boys (and girls!) fill my home. Â How did that happen?
The truth is homeschooling hasn’t gone the way I imagined at all. Â Most days I’m okay with that, some days, I think I’m going to end up in the looney bin. Â Usually over the pencils.
It always comes down to the pencils.
What’s your breaking point?
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Jen is a homeschooling mom to 6 children and is not content with the ordinary. Life is an adventure with much to be explored. Stop by Forever, For Always, No Matter What as she navigates life in a large, slightly unconventional, always-striving-to-be-a-faith-filled family. She can also be found on Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ |
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Lol. Oh boy can I sympathize, yes…it’s the pencils. What does happen to the erasers, do you have any idea? :/
The erasers?? They get eaten, of course, by the little two year old brother!! At least that’s what happens in my house!!
I was nodding my head all the way through your post, yep, yep, yep, and gosh darn where DO the pencils go?
I always marvel at the ladies who resell pristine curriculum, ours our jam covered and most of the books are marked in some way or another. Our mornings are often spent locating reading glasses and MUS blocks. And yes, some-days, everyone just says no to learning. But I love it anyway:)
This made me laugh. Our house is the same, never a pencil in sight. And erasers. Don’t even start with me. Is it too much to ask that everyone have a pencil AND and eraser??? Glad we’re not the only ones!
Yes, what is up with the pencils! They always disappear. If we find one, the eraser is gone! We have this problem with pens too, especially my the nice ones that are my favorite!
I can relate. But I can find plenty of dirty socks and shoes lying all around!
Unless you are LOOKING for said socks and shoes. Then they can’t be found either.
That’s weird–I just wrote a post last night on pencils. Last year it was PENS (working pens, mind you) that we could never find! And what is it with boys competing to see who can do their work with a straight face with the shortest pencil stub ever?! 🙂
http://www.montessorimessy.com/2014/06/works-all-around-us.html
Your post made me laugh! And when we find a pencil, why is it that the end is broken off?! 🙂
When I started, I envisioned my kids sitting outside on a blanket or in a tree, reading the afternoon away. He he. I’m pretty sure that has never happened.
We’re out of pencils too. I can’t wait for back to school sales!!
I. Can. So. Relate. There are never any pencils at my house despite the fact that I buy tons of them every year and we have a cute little pencil jar right on the table. I theorize that they are with all the missing socks that don’t make it out of the dryer.
We usually do pretty well with not losing our pencils…but the pencil sharpener is never to be found.
I think it ran away with the erasers! 😉