Unresolved

Today is the first business day of the New Year. Here at home, we find ourselves doing what much of the rest of the country is doing today: burning up on re-entry to the realm of the daily grind.

It has become very trendy to not make New Year's resolutions. While I don't make a list of resolutions per say, I do enjoy starting a fresh new year with a clean slate and at least a mental list of goals to work towards. Besides gaining health, wealth, and wisdom (like most everyone else) I am working hard at making better use of time. Here are some of my children this morning, trying to undo my resolve before breakfast is even over. During the course of our two-week vacation from routine, they have completely forgotten how to do every single thing they ever did in a normal morning, including: getting out of bed, getting dressed, showing up for breakfast, eating in a reasonable amount of time, tidying their rooms, and staring their school work.
Here is Elena not eating her oatmeal, which she will continue to not eat for the next three hours, thus sucking away a large chunk of my daily allotment of patience. Consequently, instead of getting actual work done, I've spent most of the morning re-training the children in the basics of how a normal day runs. Not the best way to start our first day back.
We're getting there, though. On a normal day, I like to be done with our studies by three o'clock or so. It should only take one day of working til 6 p.m. for the kids to get back on track.
Even Fly is beginning to repent a little. She added to the morning's fracas by stealing shoes and gloves making a general nuisance of herself. I hope your first day back is going well!