“I’m Bored!”

No, that is not my son’s whiney voice coming through in the title. It’s mine!

I’ve reached that end of the school year wall. I’m sooooo ready to be done. I can just hear homeschooling mom’s gasping and thinking. ‘I can’t believe she’s telling the world the truth.’
But it is the truth. I realize that home school is THE fastest growing form of education in this country. I realize it’s becioming the norm and that it’s kinda an IN thing right now, but the reality is…. It’s NOT a glamorous job by any stretch of the imagination. It is a hard and stressful work. There are days when a mom feels completely isolated and alone. There are days when it’s like you are torturing your child just because you ask them to write one complete sentence. There are days when they are working so well on their own, but still need you beside them that you just completely check out mentally. That’s when boredom can set in.

I Know! GASP! It’s just aweful!

I’m tired of the pre-planning weekly lessons. I’m tired of the current setup of the classroom realize that changing at the very last of the year would be silly. I’m tired of the messiness of the class room also. I rearrange and cleanup and organize over the summer so in the Fall we have a fresh environment to start with. Throughout the year I try to maintain order but I must admit that near March I begin to get lacksadaisical about order and by May it’s just a mess. I really did just hear your collective gasp that I admitted that one. I’m tired of having to have a verbal wrestling match every day with an 8 year old about school being a higher priority than playtime.  He’s like me ready to be done.

He’s so bored that He is drawing faces on his math.

I’m ready to order a brand new curricula with all the bells and whistles and the lessons planned out just for me. Oh wait, I didn’t quite find that at convention so I guess I’m not really ready for that.

I have visions of summer in my head of sitting on the deck with another mom friend drinking coffee and chatting leisurly about life while watching our boys playing peacefully together. Or organizing the classroom that has a fresh coat of paint and loving placing every last thing in it’s new home. I’ve seen some fabulous ideas for classroom space over on Pinterest, click my link if you want to see some of them, and I can’t wait to try them out! I look forward to some getaway time with my family. Just the 3 of us off somewhere other than home setting at a table playing Monopoly. Oh the visions! I’m quite sure the reality will live up… (sarcasm).

Now that I’ve had my whine let me conclude by saying…”I love home educating my son.” Without a doubt I know it is the right choice for him. Without reservation I will continue on because I believe God has called my husband and I to ‘train up’ this child and that that responsibility should not be given over to intstitutions. But for now, just these last few weeks know that I am bored.

How about you? What do you do to avoid the end of the year burnout?