Home School Curriculum Experts

….a long winter’s nap. Ahhhhhh, just the sound of those words is warm and comforting, especially in my part of the country which is currently in a deep freeze with temperatures dropping into the single digits. Somehow, cold lends itself to sleep, hibernating, low energy, staying at home, even getting up late. Who wants to face the agony of getting out from under warm covers and having your feet hit the cold floor (even if it’s carpeted, it’s cold right now). It’s ironic that the coldest weather of the year also hits right about the time of my New Year’s resolution to exercise more. If I am not going to go for a walk when it’s 70 degrees outside, I am for sure not going for a walk when it is 10. The one thing that goes better around our house when it is cold is our homeschooling. Whether it is the complete lack of temptation to go outside, or the fact that we stay warmer all bundled up in the same room with the fireplace, we get on a steady pattern of working that usually hangs around until the first of March. I count on getting some good solid work in during January and February to shore us up for April and May, when neither Mom nor kids want to be inside hitting the books. We even have fewer errands to run (or should I say, we run fewer errands). The errand list is probably the same, but it seems like I can do without groceries a whole lot longer if it means an icy trip to the store to get them :) In addition, only one of our kids has winter sports practice, so we don’t have to shiver our way to (and through) the number of practices we do in the spring. All in all, although it feels like we have only 6 hours of daylight each day, and we will probably have an electricity bill to rival the national debt, I suppose winter is not so bad....
What about you? What does winter do to your routine (and energy)? Anyone want to join me in a long winter’s nap? :)