Is it summer yet?

So we've made it to April.  We took a couple of weeks off in March, and are getting back on track this week.  Every year, school starts out the same way.  In August, I'm all pumped up and excited about the new school year.  By Christmas, we enjoy a nice break, by February I'm done, and by April, I'm soooooo over school!!! So how do I keep up the momentum when I've lost all desire for school?  If we just take it one day at a time, we may finish by the middle of May.  That's only a month away!!!!  So do I need to buckle down at this point, or take it easy because we are near the end? 

I wonder if my kids are really learning anything at all?!  We only do a 4 day school week, because on Friday we go to Co-op classes with other homeschoolers.  So if I only have to be a teacher for 4 days a week, you'd think it was easy. 

Sometimes I daydream about the big yellow bus coming to pick up my kids and whisk them away to a fun-filled day of learning and friends.  But that's not reality.  Reality is that if that bus did come get my kids. It would be something like this:

6am..wake up
6:15...have a pop tart
6:30...get on the bus
7:15...get to school
7:45....start school
11:00...Lunch time
2:00..school dismisses
3:30..the big yellow bus comes to drop the kids off.
3:30-5:30..would be homework
6:00..dinner
7:00..clean up/shower
8:00..crashing in bed


That does NOT in anyway sound exciting to me!  We usually roll out of bed between 7:30 and 8:00.  The kids pick out what they would like for breakfast, and the short order cook (aka..mommy) fixes it.  They get dressed, brush teeth, watch a little cartoons, and about 9:00 we start school. At noon we break for lunch, and finish up anything left after.  That's it!  Nothing else!  We are free to play or visit with friends, or take naps......or whatever we want to do!  Much more exciting huh? 

I have to say, being burned out with school, compared to the alternative is one of Gods greatest blessings!  I'm lovin every day of it!