Once in a while routine gets boring and home gets hectic. Homework is sometimes a struggle, times runs out, chicken fingers out of a bag for dinner gets old. And especially for you moms like me, who work from home, sometimes ya just gotta BOUNCE.
I feel bad sometimes doing homework at home with Deondre because there's a million and one things pulling my attention away. I'm an incessant multitasker. I'm never walking one way to do only ONE thing. It's gotta be 2 or 3. And it's not fair to D to try to squeeze in a load of laundry (or ONE more email or cat litter scooping) in the midst of a word problem.
Every now and then I grab him from school and we go off on a homework adventure. It's unexpected and fun for him and a break for me. Yesterday we shot over to Barnes & Noble, got a couple overpriced snacky snacks, a chai and a tall vanilla bean frappuccino no (!) whip and headed to the kids section. (Deondre used to be SUCH a cheap date until he discovered the vanilla bean frappuccino. Seriously).
We both put our undivided attention on 2 pages of homework and were done in record time. I really got to see that he was making crazy good strides in his reading. He had one sheet that was similar to his 2nd grade homework (he's now in 3rd) and he said something to the effect of "hey, mom - remember when I used to get sheets like this in 2nd grade and I sucked at this?" Self deprication runs in our family. I convinced him he never actually sucked... he was just struggling on his way to being awesome.
Grab a #2 pencil and get out of the house, moms. Because trust me, Barnes & Noble on a cold winter's afternoon with overpriced beverages and mini tables and benches that you can barely fit in, is wicked cool.
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