Today I woke up ready to tackle the mess that our homeschool cabinet has become. It's really hard to have a successful homeschool day when you are afraid of opening your cabinet! Yikes!!!
I decided the best way to clean something out when it seems a little bigger than your ambition is to start at the top and work your way down. As I started cleaning out the top shelf the rediscovered treasures that we had forgotten about. I dumped out some pattern blocks for the babies so they would stay close to me and out of trouble.
The big kids watched some educational movies while they snuggled with each other and their animals.
I did have to stop a few times to look for a busy boy who was a getting a little silly!
But for the most part I was doing well...on the first shelf. Hudsy started getting bored of the movie, she is not much of a TV person. She wanted to play in the water with her tea-cups. Since I couldn't be in the bathroom upstairs watching her and the dining room downstairs cleaning out the school cabinet that plan was shot down. Her Daddy thought she might like a sensory bin to play in instead. We put some oats in a bowl, and later a bin and she was thrilled to play with her tea cups in there for quite some time, as was Maezy!!!
We were all enjoying some no-bake cookies that Kait made last night!
Then Kait started feeling yucky...
At 10:30am and just two shelves in I realized that my organizing day was over. Kait was in so much pain that we had to take a trip to the ER. Thankfully my step-mom works there and was (as always) wonderful to us. It made a crazy situation so much better. While we were waiting on a room (they were packed) Kait snuggled in Miss. Carlyn's office. She got her a pillow, warm blanket and a heating pad. :) Seriously...so thankful. Just as we were getting a room Kait started feeling better. Lovely. Needless to say, they couldn't find anything wrong with her. I was just happy she was better and it was nothing serious.
I was so happy to grab some dinner and come home to my family! My hubby was so sweet to keep the babies up past their bedtime so I could spend a little bit of time with them before they went to bed for the night. So I will wake up in the morning, thank the Lord for new beginnings and (hopefully) clean out the rest of the school cabinet. Even though it wasn't how I saw my day going it was how God saw it going and that's good enough for me!!!
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