Homeschooling is a lot like farming. You never can tell how long it is going to take. The job that took 5 minutes last week might take 5 hours the next. The kids that did all their school perfectly without any need for input yesterday might not be able to manage 2+2 without asking for help today.
When homeschooling at the farm, which we do most Tuesdays, you would think that we would get a lot of farm work done, because we are at the farm all day. Some days that is the case. Other days, it is best to stay close to the kids, which means most of the work waiting to get done doesn’t get done, because very little of it is in the shop, where the kids are doing school.
So we find little odd jobs to do. In this case we pulled the last of the stable pads that we inherited with the property out from under the snowball bush, pulled out a pile of himalayan blackberry, and set down the mats outside the shop. This should help to keep weeds and mud more under control in the high traffic area outside the big door, and it kept Daddy available for answering math questions and posing Latin questions.
Important stuff, you know.
Little Farm in the Big City 