Does the above picture look chaotic to you? I could lie and say that it is actually a part of some great system I have developed, but in reality, it is chaos and is about how I am feeling right now at the beginning of this journey of planning a year's worth of school by the time summer is over. I am overwhelmed, scared, worried, and giddy with excitement.
Last week, I bit my nails as I ordered the last of my son's curriculum for his 2nd grade year. It is scary doing everything on the internet without having it in hand, but I researched until my brain was numb and carefully chose these particular programs and now that they are in hand, I must make sense of what I chose.
It is a bit overwhelming. Some of the curriculum is fairly straightforward and is curriculum that I have used in the past...Singapore Math. It is what we used for 1st grade and I am confident in what needs to be done there. But, making sense of his new language arts program is a bit, well, overwhelming. It's hard to know how much time we will need on each subject and how much he can do in a given time. To do science once a week or twice? Factoring in the weekly issues we are faced with (park day with one homeschool group and an art class for my daughter held outside the home).
This chaos in this picture is a small fraction of the chaos I feel going on in my brain. I can tend to thrive in organization and want to go in a corner and suck my thumb in chaos. Oh, it'll get done. There is no doubt about it. I just need a system...a way to cut through the confusion and see what needs to be done and how.
And, while I crave organization and despise chaos, I also thrive at conquering chaos and persevering to victory. So, wish me luck as I dive into the task at hand. I may throw things once in a while...I may rip out my hair....
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