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Page not found – Old Time Summer https://blog.oldtimesummer.com A Frustrated Mama family blog Thu, 07 May 2009 19:58:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.19 https://i2.wp.com/blog.oldtimesummer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cropped-5348684355_cc5175cd86_o.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Page not found – Old Time Summer https://blog.oldtimesummer.com 32 32 7657767 Getting things in order https://blog.oldtimesummer.com/2009/05/07/getting-things-in-order/ Thu, 07 May 2009 19:58:25 +0000 http://blog.oldtimesummer.com/?p=13 Continue reading "Getting things in order"]]> Our living area (room) is small and the only place I have our true schooling things, but many things have been in totes for months and months … or longer. Having a baby puts many things on hold, and some are reticent to come back online, even almost two years later, …

So now I stand here trying to type about this and Baby Q is pulling on me “c’mon, c’mon!” tying to pull me away and get me to go outside with him. It’s his new thing, since Spring has begun in earnest. His toddler self opening up and 80% if waking time is trying to get outside.

I’m trying to get the oldest two children to empty a partially loaded bookcase in the basement so that I can move it up here to the living room in front of the fireplace for spring/summer to get more schooling stuff out again. Having things out on the shelves get me more involved with integrating good things into our daily lives.

So now that Baby Q knows fully that I’m not going outside he’s gone into the kitchen, pulled a heavy chair up to the sink, and is playing with whatever is in there. Sigh.

We’ll get something done today. Cleaning up has been better lately, the past few days at least. I’ve gotten some new idea sheets created on my computer and printed some out for binder use (the children and me) but I wanted to do more than that and getting the bookcase up and re-loaded.

Bad habits are hard to break, the children are used to carving out their own time with me busy with baby, and try as I may it’s hard for them to stay with what I’ve asked nowadays. I’m buckling up, or meaning to be doing so. Trying is hard for me too …

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