School has been a struggle for one of my small people. Struggling with being told what to do and so much screaming and yelling and name calling. Mama is done.
We did go see some goats and played at the park a bit this week. They have fallen for goats. There was a request for there to be “more goats in our life” Which is the goal one day our own place with room to have things like goats and chickens.
We got out to our favorite arboretum and took some “school” pictures
someone was not a fan of picture taking but the light was so lovely and I love the way this barn looks as a backdrop.
We saw this amazing dragonfly before an emo melt down in which we had to abandon our plans and leave.
Today we tried again it went slightly better. Only slightly. We managed to walk and look at some leave and bark. We touched all the types of pine trees and tried to figure out which ones would make the best bed like the children in Boxcar children book. They talked about needle shape, how they were clustered together, how pointy they were.
Then we stopped at the pond had a snack read poems about fall and harvest and a bit of Zen Shorts. I thought that it was so great and lovely then the meltdown queen decided she hated everything and everyone. So all plans of sketching and writing our own poems got abandoned.
I’m honestly not sure what to do with her. More structure more rewards more OT added into the day. It is overwhelming and yet I guess I’m glad that we are homeschooling where its OK that things are chaos and we haven’t found the best way we can keep trying and adjusting. It gets to be all about meeting them where they are just takes a whole lot more research for me to figure out how to do that.
Ramble and Bloom 