::: frustrated :::

Today, I'm feeling frustrated. Nothing has worked out for me on the educational level today. My plan: get the children started on their Switched On Schoolhouse subjects, do a reading lesson with Sweetheart, have Bard and Edison make banana muffins, and finish the laundry. I don't think those are very lofty goals, but none of them have worked. First, I can't get Switched On Schoolhouse installed on either of the older kids' computers. Their systems are apparently too old. Secondly, Sweetheart is in a silly mood and doesn't want to do her reading lessons. Since I've been reading a discussion on coercion and how it "damages" children's reading, I've been thinking about how this philosophy works with producing children who are not completely and totally self-absorbed. Finally, I had Bard look up a recipe for banana sour cream bread to make with all of our very ripe bananas. One little problem. No eggs. This is frustrating, because we have a TON of chickens and have been feeding them a TON of chicken feed! But they apparently either haven't been laying, or someone else has been taking our eggs. :-/ So, no sour cream banana bread until I get to the store.

Some days, I feel like I spend just about the entire day running around. For example, I need to go to the store today because we're out of salt, mayonnaise, and now, apparently, I need eggs. I also need milk from Ralph's, which means I have to drive out of my way to get the milk. It's not that far from the store, and I should be very glad to be able to have access to raw milk, but I still feel like I'm running more than necessary.

And even though I've made smoothies, prepared the ingredients for banana sour cream bread, AND filled the crock pot with veggie soup, I feel like I haven't accomplished anything, and I have eaten nothing more than a S'mores Luna Bar!

Sigh.

Some days are just like this.