Losing steam

I'll admit it. As headmaster of the School of Mommy, I'm losing steam. It's too beautiful outside, and crafting the lowercase letters of the alphabet just isn't as appealing in the warmth of spring as it was in the dead of winter.

So this week, we took it easy. We read. A lot. We got back into our ABC Bible verse book, and had some great discussion about how living out the verse "Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right" isn't always that simple. We talked about how Abby and Caleb need Jesus in order to obey Mommy and Daddy, and how even Mommy and Daddy have to obey God. This seemed to pique their interest. We talked about obeying Right Away, All the Way, and With a Happy Heart. (Special thanks to Marissa for planting little nugget of parenting wisdom in my brain almost four years ago.) All this discussion took place as Abby perused her new highly organized bookshelves for some reading material that focused on something other than obedience.

We repeated a craft (gasp!) because I was out of ideas, and because the last time we turned the letter C into a caterpillar, it was a huge hit. Also, the last time we turned the letter C into a caterpillar was about a week after Abby turned 2, so I was hoping she wouldn't remember. She did. I explained that our last letter C caterpillar was uppercase, and this one was lowercase.

"I guess that's okay then, Mommy," she replied.

Thanks Abby.

And to further drive home the point that I was preschooled-out this week, we wrapped up the School of Mommy by acting out things that begin with C. We clucked like chickens. We acted clumsy. We clapped. And much to Caleb's chagrin, we all jumped into Abby's bed and cuddled.

I predict our quality of preschool education is going to continue to drop off for as long as the temperatures continue to rise.