Falling to pieces , by fractions.
This morning we woke up late - never good on a Monday morning since that is the 1 day of the week we have the most school work to cover. We also forgot morning prayers together. I said mine quickly in my head as I made breakfast and then jumped into Math which was just stupid on my behalf.
We are struggling with 6th grade math. Fractions, oh fractions. How we loathe fractions. We spent the entire morning on fractions alone! There were tears, arguments and one broken wipe board, which I should add, was broken by me, not Abi. Apparently if you point (poke) really hard at it, it just breaks. Who knew?!
Aaron, the peacekeeper, piped up shortly after the board broke and reminded us that we hadn't done our morning prayers! Yes! That's it, that is what we need to do I thought! Then Abi informed me that she had, "done hers". Hmmm, if she had done them anything like she had done her fractions I thought, that's not good. Aaron and I said a couple of prayers together at that point but, because we were late starting our day, we didn't do our usual time of the daily reading of the scripture....another mistake and Abi didn't join us for morning prayers together since she'd, "done hers"- perhaps she should have.
The day seemed to go on forever. We battled and we struggled and we plodded on through Spelling, Composition, Lit, Greek History, English & Latin but didn't finish until very late.
I got some time with Justin for lunch. Justin has offered to help Abi with her Math! It won't be easy because of his schedule but as and when he can, he will, even if that is evenings. Whew, I am so glad that is settled.
I also got a bit more prayer time on my own. I am now quite certain that God doesn't want us to be miserable over fractions. He certainly cannot want for us to forgo prayers & scripture for fractions. In our hurry, somehow, we deemed math more important today! It's much more important to have a happy home, happy kids and happy school day than stressing the stupid fractions.
Lessons learned...
- DON'T forget morning prayers
- IF we forget morning prayers, everyone stops what they are doing and does them together!
- Always ask God for help on fractions!!!
- Thank God for his providence in a hubby who can do math:)
- Thank God we have scrap paper for when wipe boards break!
