Having 4 kids means
Having 4 kids means a pleathora of things. They can make me crazy to the brink of questioning my existence and then shift fast enough to induce whiplash and melt my heart at the deepest core. They are all that I am, all that God gave me and the essence of what is ahead.
* teaching them about housework via chores WILL make you want to run far far away, either that or make them all disappear, it will NOT actually get ANY part of the house clean and will require a level of patience you didn't even know was possible
*Unless they are asleep, quiet is a nonexistant words. 4 children cannot ever, no matter what you do speak softly in a group conversation
*will not sleep through the night at the same time until the youngest is at least 2 maybe even 3. At that point it will still randomly be interrupted
*When any of them who are boys/disorganized girls become school age and near/in middle school you will TRULY lose your hair (what doesn't begin falling out) from the organization lessons and the never ending monitoring of homework, school supplies and schedules
*after school schedule will be nothing like you ever could think or imagine EVEN limiting them to one activity each. Instead your nights will now look like dinner on the run, homework anywhere you can find a flat surface, and multitasking addition/subtraction facts, southern and northern hemisphere map work, practicing ABC's, identifying simple subject and simple predicate, making a personal timeline including pictures, AND classification of animal categories you only see on the info sheet at the zoo.
*You will not have dinner together at a table where you don't get up more times than minutes you get to take bites consecutively. Not only that but the days a week when this actually ever happens is rare.
*at any moment a show could begin and you will be expected to be the best audience member ever. This show may involve one or more children who may or may not have even practiced at all. One day magician's the next day, dancers, another day actor/actress.
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* teaching them about housework via chores WILL make you want to run far far away, either that or make them all disappear, it will NOT actually get ANY part of the house clean and will require a level of patience you didn't even know was possible
*Unless they are asleep, quiet is a nonexistant words. 4 children cannot ever, no matter what you do speak softly in a group conversation
*will not sleep through the night at the same time until the youngest is at least 2 maybe even 3. At that point it will still randomly be interrupted
*When any of them who are boys/disorganized girls become school age and near/in middle school you will TRULY lose your hair (what doesn't begin falling out) from the organization lessons and the never ending monitoring of homework, school supplies and schedules
*after school schedule will be nothing like you ever could think or imagine EVEN limiting them to one activity each. Instead your nights will now look like dinner on the run, homework anywhere you can find a flat surface, and multitasking addition/subtraction facts, southern and northern hemisphere map work, practicing ABC's, identifying simple subject and simple predicate, making a personal timeline including pictures, AND classification of animal categories you only see on the info sheet at the zoo.
*You will not have dinner together at a table where you don't get up more times than minutes you get to take bites consecutively. Not only that but the days a week when this actually ever happens is rare.
*at any moment a show could begin and you will be expected to be the best audience member ever. This show may involve one or more children who may or may not have even practiced at all. One day magician's the next day, dancers, another day actor/actress.
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