A Day in the Life of Sparks Classical Academy

A typical day
Someone was curious about everyone's day with highschoolers and since I have 3 (two 10th graders and one 9th grader) I thought I would share. But becuase I tend to be long winded I thought I would add it to my blog, so my bloggy friends could see. Ohhh and please keep in mind I am do have sleep issues, so if you see me getting up before 8am I am lying LOL.


9:30 ish wake up and normally at least one of my kids is also

10:40ish kids start their morning chores

11:00 start school normally I start with the Queen to be's math (alg 1) so while I work with her, wacky prince and chef to be work on their assigment sheets. About this time is when sleepless wonder arrives and normally finishes eating he brunch-ish meal.

12:00 I finish math with queen and we normally eat lunch and I start with sleepless and give him is daily sheet and he starts to work away

12:30 Prince to be time for math help with queen moves onto do her indepenedent stuff
chef is normally by this time working on science and doing a project of some sort

1:00 ish I finally decide I am hungry and eat something and start to read for co-op literature class

finish up lunch about 1:30 and I work with Chef to be on his english and the others normally have finished their math and have corrected their worok

normally this continues until about 4 when most are done. I am around to answer questions or help with issues.

when sleepless wonder has finished up for the day (which is anywhere between 4:30 and 5 and if he is not I normally stop him by then) we all go up and play Brawl on the wii... we normally play that for about 30 min. If I am real tired normally I nap

Most of the time by 7 Sleepless has been picked up and dinner is almost ready

my kids play or Queen to be normally work on spanish for our co-op and watches TV (spanish for some reason monopolizes a bunch of time for her). We all kind of hang out for the rest of the day. My kids are told to read at 10pm and lights out at 11pm. We are a very late night family.

Wordless Wednesday

The joy of homeschool teens... ohhh and just so you know my youngest one is on the other side of THAT DOOR wanting to be let out :) of course he was rolling on the ground laughing while asking to be let out.

Thoughts

You know you never know what God is going to call you do, and you never know when he will call you to do what you would view as the craziest thing. Our journey with the Sleepless Wonder (his bloggy name) began many years ago, 4 I believe. And never would I imagine what a difference this kids would make in my life in such a short time. You see Sleepless one is part of our homeschool and clearly that is where I thought the it would start and end. But wait I am getting too far ahead of myself.

And how did I get into that one?? Well good question! My daughter was good friends with him for 4 years and a couple year after we meet him, his parents stopped homeschooling him and enrolled him in a private school and we all thought that was the end of the Sleepless one for us. But ever now and then we would hear from him and lost touch with him a couple of times, until this summer. My daughter had been going through some hard times and out of the blue she asked if she could call Sleepless, and I said sure, even though truth be told she was only allowed to call one other person. And that is how it all started!

The hung out for months this summer and it was getting close to "school time" and Sleepless, and now just his father, decided that they would go back to homeschooling. Well Sleepless is in the same grade as Queen to Be and I offered to his dad to help if it is needed, that even though Sleepless is very smart and ahead of my Queen that I would love to help with this. After countless calls and many hours of talking we settled into a "plan," now the funny thing is that plan does not at all look like our "homeschool" today. But anyway off we started and I found that Sleepless is quite different from my kids but hmmm who isn't? But I truly enjoy being around this kid as much as I enjoy my own kid and he truly he has a good and what seems like a "he has always been here" fit.

Now looking at the journey we have been on for several months, God put him into our lives to help heal me and more important to heal him. After a tough year were I questioned just about everything I had ever done, he came and helped me to put faith back into my mothering, schooling and family. How did he do it? By just being there and by just being the one who needed me more than I needed to keep reflecting on my past and its mistakes. I am truly in awe of what and how God did this! And I am proud to say that I now have 4 kids, thank you God for putting this family into our lives. And thank you for allowing him to put faith back into my journey! And thank you most of all for allowing me to be his "mom!"