I don't wanna plan next year (whine)

[MEmama]

Usually by April I'm excitedly finalising my plans for the next school year. This year...I'm dragging my feet. Next year will be DS's last year at home before heading off to high school and I just don't want to deal with it.

 

Anyone else?

[Shelly in IL]

I have my final child going into his junior year. I'm happily putting him into community college classes for his last two years - no work for mom!

[AK_Mom4]

I always put off planning until I can sit in my chair in the sunshine watching baseball/softball games.

 

So that's late May here. It's easier to get interested again after we've been Done for a month!

 

ETA we made that last year before High school to be the Fun Year. I knew we were going to change directions for high school for history and science so 8th grade was all the fun topics revisited. Egyptian mummies, plant experiments, ate and museum trips. It was a great wrap up before HS work!

Edited April 4, 2016 by AK_Mom4

[DawnM]

Here is my planning for next year:

 

Oldest and middle:  Off to Community College

Youngest:  Off to the local middle school

 

Technically, according to the state, I will still be homeschooling the middle child as you can't do the Dual Enrollment if you are not HSing, but I will NOT be doing any planning at all.

 

And for this year?  Middle is in a charter school and youngest is on his own.....here are your books and your TT CDs.....go for it.  I am DONE.

[lmrich]

I love planning. I can plan and plan and plan and plan in my head all day long.

[Guest]

I adored the planning. The execution was what killed me. Lol

[Cinder]

When my boys were young I looked forward to the planning and schooling. Not so much anymore. Ds1 and ds2 will be in college next year; dd will be in 6th. Plans for her included signing up for 3 classes at private school next year. I should plan some extracurriculars for her. Should. I'm fairly good at the planning but, like Patty Joanna, not so much on execution. *sigh*

[catz]

I plan in like August.  LOL. 

[Garga]

Last year, just before my son entered 8th, I was the same way. Usually, I would have been done my planning by now and ready to buy my stuff at the local curriculum fair.

 

Instead I did all of my planning in the summer. It was just too much to plan while doing school. In the summer, I sent the boys to friends' houses to hang out for 5 mornings in a row and did my planning when I was home alone. I had to pay shipping and handling (which I wouldn't have done at the curriclum fair), but I didn't even care.

[JudoMom]

This is my 12th official year and I've lost my enthusiasm.  I pretty much know what we're doing for all our courses and have most of the books we'll need.   
 

I usually lay out our year over the summer, but I really, really, really want a summer off without having school things to be done hanging over my head.  Of course, that means I need to do the planning before the end of May.  I've got my oldest registered for the 2 classes he's taking at the CC in the fall (this was all new, so it took a lot of figuring out and paperwork), and I'm on the last step of getting ds15 registered to play football at one of the private schools (again, all new, lots of paperwork).  Now I'm hoping I can rustle up the discipline to get the planning done for everything else.  

[Garga]

I'm this way again this year--same as last year. Just last night, I scheduled time on my calendar to work on planning. I put when I'll research the curric for next year's work, and when I'll plan lessons for it, and when I'll work on the stupid portfolio that the state requires, etc. There are about 4 weekends now all set aside for this stuff.

 

Now that I know when I'll work on it, I'm not dreading it as much. And I've found that when I put when I'll work on this stuff on the calendar, that I manage to get it done without fussing too much internally. It's when I know it has to be done "sometime" that I dread it. Now that it's on the calendar, I'll forget about it until the date on the calendar rolls around. And since it's on the calendar, nothing else will be scheduled those days and I'll have the time I need to work on it.

[BooksandBoys]

I don't want to plan either.

 

We're moving across the country. Again. To an area where I've never lived and have no family or friends. Again.

 

I had most of my plans developed for third, kinder, and a three year old, but the move means I'm losing the curriculum I borrow for free from our charter, I'm losing the one day a week my kids attend the charter, I'm losing my amazing library system, and I'm losing my homeschool group and awesome friends.

 

Ok, that was depressing. I'm also gaining a great increase in income, probably enough land for chickens, bunnies, and other small animals, as well as for a huge garden, so I can can and freeze food again! I'm gaining the opportunity to crush our debt. I'm gaining small town/country living (I'm a country girl living in a huge city).

 

So, it's good. But I don't want to redo all my homeschool plans. Wah!

[lexi]

I adored the planning. The execution was what killed me. Lol

This! Very much this.

I've planned quite a bit for next year. Looking back over my plans I'm totally overwhelmed! It's going to be a busy year!

[mamiof5]

I don't want to plan either.

 

We're moving across the country. Again. To an area where I've never lived and have no family or friends. Again.

 

I had most of my plans developed for third, kinder, and a three year old, but the move means I'm losing the curriculum I borrow for free from our charter, I'm losing the one day a week my kids attend the charter, I'm losing my amazing library system, and I'm losing my homeschool group and awesome friends.

 

Ok, that was depressing. I'm also gaining a great increase in income, probably enough land for chickens, bunnies, and other small animals, as well as for a huge garden, so I can can and freeze food again! I'm gaining the opportunity to crush our debt. I'm gaining small town/country living (I'm a country girl living in a huge city).

 

So, it's good. But I don't want to redo all my homeschool plans. Wah!

Yikes! That sounds hard. Hope your move goes well, and adjusting to the new home also goes well.

[mamiof5]

I looooooooove planning! But yeah, I'm not very realistic and execution doesn't go as well :P