Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

I rarely have one of THOSE days, but today was one and the stress hit me full force. First I wasn’t really ready for school to start up after my little weekend away at the SO Conference. Second, as I approached my desk, as my kids call the table in the school room, all the crap on it pushed me over the edge; reminded me of the time and effort it took to get through all it when we returned from our 6-1/2 week west trip. It was really getting to me though how ‘everyone’ in this home thinks the table in the front room is a dumping ground for every piece of junk known to this family! So I went wading through all the papers and mail, thinking I was through it all but do you know that in my house folks bring the mail in and drop it in one of a dozen different places for me to then find and go through? So, just when I thought I was through it all, I discovered more mail for me to go through.

Being in this sour, stressed mood I also found myself lacking tolerance for all the dirt tracked into said home by the male occupants over the weekend. Guess no one had the ability or inclination to remove their dirty shoes–muddy, dirty type shoes—when they came in from working on the garage while I was away. Nothing like an hour of vacuuming during the school day to mess with a school day schedule, but I needed to clean up the mess to help my mind get de-stressed, KWIM.

Then the Naysayer—remember my post about him a few months back? — came by today too. What great timing! Won’t even bother to share his naysaying comments today. They were icing on the cake to an otherwise ‘One of Those Days’ day.

ScienceKid spent the morning going through his Classical Music Experience book and reading The Annotated MonaLisa — he has discovered, much to his surprise, that he is after all enjoying these books I forced into his schedule. Amazing how he keeps discovering that he enjoys what I place on his educational plate

Then I learned that ScienceKid did not do the Biology Labs assigned to him last week! UGH!! Of course, in his mind his Mom has no idea why he should bother doing labs when he already knows what will happen. My response was that he is to do them since I spent tons of time pulling together all sorts of really cool labs for him and he just might learn something. He continued to claim that he didn’t want to do labs cause they are all so dumb! At around this point I just wanted to scream. ScienceKid was quite shocked though when I pulled one chemical after another called for in his lab, and it did turn out to be a really cool lab for him to do. It was about fats, starches, sugars and proteins—food science stuff and watching how different enzymes reacted or didn’t react with the proteins, starches, and sugars. Cool colors; nice lab, and ScienceKid learned a bit about lab procedures too.

Ahh, finally school was over and it was only 6pm. No kidding. We called it a day finally at 6pm. Pat made it home from work at 7:15pm so it was a late dinner tonight. I threw a load of laundry in while the boys cleaned up the dishes and as Pat and I read digital camera reviews it hit me—-where’s my cell phone? did I leave it on my jeans? Yep, there it is, in the wash! Yep it has been

ONE OF THOSE DAYS!!

ScienceKid and I laughed this evening about the kind of day it was, and I remarked that I should have stayed in bed but that tomorrow surely has got to be better. He doesn’t think so and suggested that I stay in bed tomorrow too. No, it has got to be better. Besides, I go in for my yearly check-up and I do not need to continue to have “ONE OF THOSE DAYS” tomorrow.