{"id":127,"date":"2008-04-28T21:49:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T20:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=127"},"modified":"2008-04-28T21:49:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T20:49:52","slug":"the-end-of-my-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"The end of my holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

My three weeks of holiday end tomorrow.\u00a0 Little Miss and Big Mister will be back and we’ll be back to full-time homeschooling!\u00a0 I thought I would take stock of what I did and didn’t do for the last three weeks.\u00a0 Did I claw my way back into a healthy, normal adult life?<\/p>\n

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  1. I did meaningful work other than parenting and educating a child.\u00a0 Paid, too…<\/li>\n
  2. I spent an average of 15 minutes a day on housework and errands instead of well over an hour.<\/li>\n
  3. I stopped reading books as a kind of mental pacifier and began reading them for interesting content again.<\/li>\n
  4. I got to the gym for an average of 1.5 hours every day.\u00a0 The part I needed most was the stretching.\u00a0 I seize up completely if I don’t stretch.<\/li>\n
  5. I got to hang out with some friends as an individual instead of one of the family group.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On the other hand….<\/p>\n

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    1. I did not really recover anything resembling a sense of self.\u00a0 This is bad news, as I’d always manged to do this on my little holidays before.\u00a0 On the other hand, I did stop feeling completely obliterated.<\/li>\n
    2. I did not become wildly enthusiastic about any new projects, or even about the various events that are already scheduled in my next few months.\u00a0 That’s also bad news, and I always had before.\u00a0 Yesterday, I toyed with the idea of beginning to investigate ways in which I could pursue my art history research interests at some time in the future… right!\u00a0 Beginning to investigate future pursuits is an activity I know I’ll be giving up starting tomorrow.<\/li>\n
    3. I totally failed to make headway on any significant tasks other than the paid work project.<\/li>\n
    4. Not only did I leave my existent bad habits right where they were, I even gravitated to my natural student-like lifestyle again, which in my case means dining on pizza while watching Red Dwarf at 3am, then getting up at about 11am.\u00a0 Actually, I might transfer that to the positive side of this little assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I’m not sure if I’m quite breaking even, but what can I do?\u00a0 I’m looking forward to seeing my two kids again, anyway.\u00a0 Three weeks is a long time without them.\u00a0 I just wish they were a bit more autonomous.\u00a0 And I do mean both of them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      My three weeks of holiday end tomorrow.\u00a0 Little Miss and Big Mister will be back and we’ll be back to full-time homeschooling!\u00a0 I thought I would take stock of what I did and didn’t do for the last three weeks.\u00a0 Did I claw my way back into a healthy, normal adult life? I did meaningful … Continue reading The end of my holiday<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}